Falling value of the dollar

Sprue-ce Goose

Looks like the "Jimmy" days of the 1970s have returned....

Anyone want some Billy Beer?

Wouldn't that be "Bama Beer"?

Or would it be an Irish red ale--'O'Bama's"?  Or "Hussein's Hefeweizen"

Sprue-ce Goose

 

Shellback:

 

 

Sprue-ce Goose:

 

Looks like the "Jimmy" days of the 1970s have returned....

Anyone want some Billy Beer?

 

 

Ishould of kept the six pac i had then , just for collecrtors sake , but i drank it , and it was BADDDDDDDDDDDDDD !!!!!

 

 

Unfortunate.

Some folks collect beer cans.

I should of but never have .

Shellback

 

Sprue-ce Goose:

 

Looks like the "Jimmy" days of the 1970s have returned....

Anyone want some Billy Beer?

 

 

Ishould of kept the six pac i had then , just for collecrtors sake , but i drank it , and it was BADDDDDDDDDDDDDD !!!!!

Unfortunate.

Some folks collect beer cans.

Sprue-ce Goose

Looks like the "Jimmy" days of the 1970s have returned....

Anyone want some Billy Beer?

Ishould of kept the six pac i had then , just for collecrtors sake , but i drank it , and it was BADDDDDDDDDDDDDD !!!!!

Looks like the "Jimmy" days of the 1970s have returned....

Anyone want some Billy Beer?

echolmberg

Hi guys,

Just a thought that's been rattling around in my head....Has anyone been buying up kits and supplies in anticipation of the falling value of the U.S. dollar?  With the way things have been going in the stock market, I was just wondering if it has influence anyone's purchasing habits.  Yes, I know that the $18 Monogram kit won't suddenly become a $48 kit overnight.  But still, all this turmoil has got me to wondering.

Eric

I haven't been stockpiling, I already have a pretty good supply.  But the falling value of the dollar was a big factor in deciding not to travel to Germany for the toy soldier/tin figure show in Kulmbach last weekend.  I figured that by the time I bought the ticket and a room, I'd have no money left for food, let alone to visit the show.

AT6

Speaking of 49 cent paint and plastic bottles, I'm still using 35 cent paint and have dozens of those old Pactra plastic bottles that I using even now. As far as rising kit prices, all we have to do to bring them down is refuse to pay those prices. If we don't buy they don't sell. The high cost of things our own fault for accepting the abuse by manufacturers and suppliers.

That's what we have ebay and shows for. We are taking advantage of another's misery.

Man, I remember when those Testors bottles still had red caps and you could get them at Hobby Horse,  two for fifteen cents on sale.  Ouch!

                                                                                           Pat.

Speaking of 49 cent paint and plastic bottles, I'm still using 35 cent paint and have dozens of those old Pactra plastic bottles that I using even now. As far as rising kit prices, all we have to do to bring them down is refuse to pay those prices. If we don't buy they don't sell. The high cost of things our own fault for accepting the abuse by manufacturers and suppliers.

echolmberg

I suddenly had a flashback to when I could buy Testor enamels in those little square bottles for 49 cents.  Does anyone else remember when those bottles were briefly made of plastic???

Eric

Reminds me of the old Pactra bottles that I used to paint with when I first started.

carsanab

 

Manstein's revenge:

 

 

echolmberg:

I suddenly had a flashback to when I could buy Testor enamels in those little square bottles for 49 cents.  Does anyone else remember when those bottles were briefly made of plastic???

Eric

Yes...

 

 

 

actually....I still have a couple in my tool/paint box

When did you last check to see if the paint hardened /  dried out?

I don't think I've seen those since the very late '80s!

Eric

Manstein's revenge

echolmberg:

I suddenly had a flashback to when I could buy Testor enamels in those little square bottles for 49 cents.  Does anyone else remember when those bottles were briefly made of plastic???

Eric

 

Yes...

actually....I still have a couple in my tool/paint box

echolmberg

I suddenly had a flashback to when I could buy Testor enamels in those little square bottles for 49 cents.  Does anyone else remember when those bottles were briefly made of plastic???

Eric

I suddenly had a flashback to when I could buy Testor enamels in those little square bottles for 49 cents.  Does anyone else remember when those bottles were briefly made of plastic???

Eric

Hans von Hammer

 

the doog:

 

I'm actually far more worried about getting the darned supplies just to finish the models I have. Cripes, the prices of everything needed just to finish a model is up every week, it seems. I'm saving money just to buy paints. Haven't bought a full-priced model at the LHS in almost a year.

And now with Tamiya paint and primer being unavailable because of the stupid labeling crap that California is making Tamiya adhere to--Tamiya paint may go the way of Gunze Sangyo in the US, as in "unavailable".

 

 

Arts & Crafts acryilc paints are just as good, plus you get far more in the bottle for less than half the price of "Hobby" brands... Ya just gotta get past those stupid names they give 'em... "Mushroom"? Bull.. It's Light Khaki...

 

And they're nowhere near as durable as Tamiya for weathering purposes, etc.

Sprue-ce Goose

Manstein's revenge:

Sprue-ce Goose:

I wonder if the Chinese will loan us more money so we can continue buying from them.....

Yes...

....figured so..........they want more aircraft carriers..........

Yes, but they want to be paid in pesos.

the doog

I'm actually far more worried about getting the darned supplies just to finish the models I have. Cripes, the prices of everything needed just to finish a model is up every week, it seems. I'm saving money just to buy paints. Haven't bought a full-priced model at the LHS in almost a year.

And now with Tamiya paint and primer being unavailable because of the stupid labeling crap that California is making Tamiya adhere to--Tamiya paint may go the way of Gunze Sangyo in the US, as in "unavailable".

Arts & Crafts acryilc paints are just as good, plus you get far more in the bottle for less than half the price of "Hobby" brands... Ya just gotta get past those stupid names they give 'em... "Mushroom"? Bull.. It's Light Khaki...

Manstein's revenge

Sprue-ce Goose:

I wonder if the Chinese will loan us more money so we can continue buying from them.....

Yes...

....figured so..........they want more aircraft carriers..........

Sprue-ce Goose

I wonder if the Chinese will loan us more money so we can continue buying from them.....

I'm actually far more worried about getting the darned supplies just to finish the models I have. Cripes, the prices of everything needed just to finish a model is up every week, it seems. I'm saving money just to buy paints. Haven't bought a full-priced model at the LHS in almost a year.

And now with Tamiya paint and primer being unavailable because of the stupid labeling crap that California is making Tamiya adhere to--Tamiya paint may go the way of Gunze Sangyo in the US, as in "unavailable".

To TomZ2: and only to TomZ2:

You must have started building Airfix late in the 1960s

I paid 29 cents for the fighter aircraft kits such as the Fokker Dr-1.

To Sprue-ce Goose: and anybody else reading this:

Actually, I forgot the 29 cent price! I STILL have a 49 cent-er in my stash (from a swap meet), and that’s what I was remembering. I started butchering PLASTIC (make of that qualifier what you will) in 1954. My second was an Airfix Beachcraft.

Manstein's revenge

VanceCrozier:

Manstein's revenge:

 

echolmberg:

 

I wonder if I should invest in gold. 

Yes...

 

 

I'm considering adding "makers of British rubber bullets" to my portfolio....

 

My futures in Tear Gas are doing rather well...

Been waiting for my armor piercing portfolio to take off but so far no luck.  Here's hoping the Brits will get past the "less intrusive" forms of crowd control.........................

                                                                                                              Pat.

Sprue-ce Goose

I wonder if the Chinese will loan us more money so we can continue buying from them.....

Bwahahaha. 

You could buy our debt.....almost the only thing created over here.

Falling value of the Dollar?

Mhhh, that means that US stuff gets (relatively) cheaper over here... if only they made something over there which I would want to buy.....but that can not be, since the Chinese make everything!

carsanab

Theres no future in tear gas................

Does Manny use Future?

Theres no future in tear gas................