Dave Williams

Hence this thread. There are other, less pricy options including shops in Europe and eBay.

Out now. Instructions here. https://icm.com.ua/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/48363_instr_web.pdf

Well, I looked up prices at a few places in Europe, and they seem to be close to the earlier MH-60L release. In the U.S., Sprue Brothers seems to be the only one that has the GS kit and a price, so there’s nothing to compare it to over here. But it’s clear that in Europe, it isn’t twice the price of the older kit.

You can look at the instructions from the link on ICM’s product page. https://icm.com.ua/aviation/black-hawk-down/ Other than the decals, there are only two new small sprues. One with a plain non-radar nose and plain tail edge, and the other with a cabin fuel tank. I assume this is somehow tariff related, although I’m not aware that the tariff on items from Ukraine went up by 100%. I ordered one from Artscale for 51€ plus 17€ shipping, about $78 total shipped. Super Hobby is about $71, but with cheaper shipping, and is about the same.

My take on it is that the reason for the $200 shipping charge on eBay from Chinese sellers is not because of tariffs, but because of the end of the de minimus exemption on parcels from goods made in China and HK. Before May 2, packages valued at under $800 were duty free. As of last Friday, packages containing goods made in HK or China are subject to a $100 fee per package PLUS 120% of the value of the goods. According to the EOs, the fee gets charged to the shipping carrier. That’s why the shipping cost went up, because the shipping company has to pay the exorbitant fees, which means they

I think making it two words defeats the filter.

I’ve ordered a number of kits over the years for Chinese eBay sellers. Usually I go with the popular ones with a lot of good feedback like mentioned above. Never had a problem. Mostly order 1/35 armor.

The Italeri kits are different from the Minicraft/Academy kits. I believe the Revell kit is a rebox of the Academy/Minicraft kit.

Not mention the Hasegawa kit has a completely empty cabin interior while the Airfix kit has a full interior.

MMD is probably Military Model Distributors, the distribution arm of Squadron that sells to shops. It’s interesting that Squadron doesn’t even seem to be listing the kit any more.

The Kinetic kit sprues contain both seats, both wheels, and both MLG doors, so it doesn’t matter. The “wrong” parts for the version you’re building are simply unused.

Just got the new kit. As far as I know this is the first injection molded kit of the earlier glass nose Hind in this scale, with both Zvezda and Hasegawa having previously done 1/72 kits. First impression is that it looks pretty good. The cockpit has good detail and the weapons look decent. This is the “late” early Mi-24 with the tail rotor on the port side, like the subsequent models. Some minor nits like the lack of the pilot’s collective lever (even the 1/72 kits had it), no seatbelts, and like almost all other Mi-24 kits, no fuselage twist (none of the Trumpeter Hind kits in any scale have

The problem is there’s no one behind the scenes anymore to “fix” things since the site owner has basically abandoned the forums. There are one or two people with mod powers that can delete spam posts, and do some other things, but can’t do anything like fix it so you don’t need a third party host. The reason it was changed in the first place was because long ago, someone uploaded malware in an attachment that took the forums down for a few days. Since then, the attachment feature has been defeated. Aside from needing someone with the admin rights to make those kind of changes, y

I think the SNW kit is based on the kit Polar Lights released from the Discovery TV series (sometimes known as the Discoprise). In theory, it’s supposed to be the same ship, but there are a couple of minor differences. Both are very different than the TOS Enterprise. It’s the same general shape, but the surface details are quite different, and you can’t get there by adding a few new parts to a TOS kit.

How are you trying to post them? You have to use direct link, not BB code.