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  • Member since
    January 2013
Online Hobby Shops
Posted by eagle_fixer on Thursday, April 4, 2013 10:26 AM

Guys...I'm looking at a project for myself and I need to know who you guys buy from online.  I'm a retired USAF aircraft mechanic and I'm looking at doing a kit of every aircraft that I have worked on, 15 in all.  So I am going to need a lot of kits and a whole lot of extra decal sheets!!!  So, who are the trusted online sites that you guys buy from?  I live in central La and I don't have much in the way of hobby shops around here to choose from other then Hobby Lobby.  First kit up is a C-130H...will prob need decal kits to make it a Dyess AFB aircraft!!!  Thanks for your help guys...Keith.

On the bench:  Italeri 1:72 C-130H...Marking for 463rd TAW...774th TAS...Dyess A.F.B., TX

Up next:  Hasegawa 1:72 F-15C...Marking for 18th TFW...67th TFS, Okinawa AB., Japan

  • Member since
    December 2002
  • From: Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England
Posted by Bish on Thursday, April 4, 2013 10:49 AM

Sounds like a nice project. The shop i usually use is Hannants, but thats in the UK. There is one in the US i have used a few times, Sprue Brothers. I find there service is great and good prices.

http://www.spruebrothers.com/

I am a Norfolk man and i glory in being so

 

On the bench: Airfix 1/72nd Harrier GR.3/Fujimi 1/72nd Ju 87D-3

  • Member since
    March 2003
  • From: Western North Carolina
Posted by Tojo72 on Thursday, April 4, 2013 11:46 AM

I use

www.Spruebrothers.com

www.freetimehobbies.com

www.Scalehobbyist.com

www.Luckymodel.com

also try to search your item on ebay,sometimes there are bargains to be had

  • Member since
    April 2009
  • From: Longmont, Colorado
Posted by Cadet Chuck on Thursday, April 4, 2013 12:16 PM

Another good one is http://www.squadron.com/

 

 

Gimme a pigfoot, and a bottle of beer...

  • Member since
    September 2003
  • From: AandF in the Badger State
Posted by checkmateking02 on Thursday, April 4, 2013 12:53 PM

Also good, quick, reliable:

http://www.towerhobbies.com/

 

 

 

 

G-J
  • Member since
    July 2012
Posted by G-J on Thursday, April 4, 2013 8:43 PM

I second (or third?) SprueBrothers and ScaleHobbiest.

On the bench:  Tamyia Mosquito Mk. VI for the '44 group build.  Yes, still.

On deck: 

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