Scott Smith

Good to hear he came through!

Here you go…. https://www.wconline.com/infographics/history-of-adhesive#:~:text=The formula now of Elmer's,have the environment friendly nature. Looks like it’s been an ever changing formula. No more animal byproducts and now using nanotechnology. Sometimes these changes are made for a world wide market too.

It actually started right after the Christmas rush. Several weeks before the new administration. It was like when everyone came back to work on Jan 2, everything must be delivered 2-7 days late. I noticed it immediately. About the only thing on time is Amazon deliveries. Contract specifies Amazon shipments get loaded first, anything else is space available. (Postal employee posted this on another forum I’m on) That’s why I always try to ship things in used Amazon boxes.

Oh, well that changes some things. It’s between a 1/32 Revell F-4E and a Trumpeter A-10. I think one kit that was hanging around the longest was the old Hasegawa F-16A first production aircraft. But I finally built it last year.

My oldest two I can think of is my Aurora C-141 from 1969 and the Otaki C-5A from 1971.

Speaking of brownish…. When I started spraying this one with MRP Have Glass paint set, it literally looked brown until I built up enough coats and it dried. Reminded me of some home latex paints my wife painted the house with. Came out of the van and on the wall the wrong color, but dried the right color.

I bought a 1/32 F-16D from a seller in China 5 or 6 years ago. It got delayed a real long time after the seller said it would be there. I requested a refund and got it. It arrived the next day. 😐 Sent the seller another message telling him to PayPal invoice me again since it arrived. He was ecstatic at my honesty. Right now I’m waiting on a package from Super Hobby in Poland. It disappeared somewhere between the USPS or Customs on Feb 13th. I sent them one email over a month ago asking if they could assist some how. Nothing they could do. I’m giving it another week then

My go-to is actually RC 56 or Evergreen Canopy glue. It’s mostly for the RC airplane hobby, but works great for our applications as well. Evergreen is stocked at Hobby Lobby.

I just ordered an RC airplane engine from Australia. No sales tax was added.

I put a drop on the bottom of a bottle and let it sit for a while so it will start to evaporate and dry a little for it to thicken up.

Just don’t try to buy NGK spark plugs on eBay or Amazon. 99% guaranteed you’ll get a fake. Yes, even a $7 to $9 spark plugs is faked these days. EBay is pushing all kinds of TV ads about authenticity. Report him.

BTW, prices are not set in stone!

Reality has set in. I will never build all of the kits I have collected over the past 30 years. I’ve picked through the stash and decided it’s time to move a few dozen kits. I have two I still need to get boxes for, but fairly small kits so easy to find a box. I did an eBay COMPLETED auctions search for what these kits are actually selling for, not listed for. No trades at this time. The plan is to reduce the stash, not acquire more I want. 🤪 All prices are not including shipping. I just set up a Pirate Ship account and prefer to ship UPS because USPS is a nightmare right now wi

Looks great. I searched for one of these kits for years. It was a bench clearer when it showed up finally. Here’s my build.

Nice!