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USA shops online?
Posted by GlennH on Thursday, January 12, 2023 6:21 PM

Folks I have bought almost everything from HobbyLink and Scalehobbyist. I have zero complaints with anything including follow up service. The thing is on that Modeling News site I see product after product announcement coming out yet when I look at these places new items are often do not see them. I'm interested mostly in US gound force military.

 

Are there any sites I am missing that carry a larger selection maybe? Truthfully many of these kits are made by companies I have never built a kit from but that's another question for the future.

A number Army Viet Nam scans from hundreds yet to be done:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/southwestdreams/albums/72157621855914355

Have had the great fortune to be on every side of the howitzers.

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Posted by laskdjn on Thursday, January 12, 2023 6:29 PM

you could check out sprue brothers, megahobby, or free time hobbies.  if you wanna go international,  there's 1999.co.jp

 

also,  umm-usa and micromark for tools

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Posted by Eaglecash867 on Thursday, January 12, 2023 6:36 PM

"You can have my illegal fireworks when you pry them from my cold, dead fingers...which are...over there somewhere."

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Posted by jeffpez on Friday, January 13, 2023 6:56 AM

What you see on the Modeling News are announcements of new products, in other words, items that will be available at some point in the future but not yet.

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Posted by missileman2000 on Friday, January 13, 2023 7:28 AM

I have had good luck with Kitlinx.

 

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Posted by GlennH on Friday, January 13, 2023 10:03 AM

Thanks guys.

A number Army Viet Nam scans from hundreds yet to be done:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/southwestdreams/albums/72157621855914355

Have had the great fortune to be on every side of the howitzers.

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  • From: Bethlehem PA
Posted by the Baron on Friday, January 13, 2023 11:43 AM

Second SprueBros, Freetime Hobbies, MegaHobby (if you live in the Mid-Atlantic area, specifically the Philadelphia area, you can visit MegaHobby's bricks & mortar location, AAA Hobbies in Magnolia, NJ)

I order from HobbyLink Japan, too.

The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen.

 

 

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Posted by Rob Gronovius on Friday, January 13, 2023 7:57 PM

I'll third Sprue Bros. They have some sort of sale going on right now.

https://spruebrothers.com/babibi-model/?_bc_fsnf=1&in_stock=1&mc_cid=ce8a00cac2&mc_eid=b83d8b1333

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Posted by Gamera on Friday, January 13, 2023 8:51 PM

I use Sprue Brothers for pretty much everything. 

HobbyLink Japan does have a lot of weird stuff you don't see anywhere else (I think Hobby Search 1999 has a lot of same but I'm just used to using HLJ) but their shipping and handling outside Japan is pretty expensive. I normally only put in one or two big orders with them a year. 

"I dream in fire but work in clay." -Arthur Machen

 

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Posted by missileman2000 on Saturday, January 14, 2023 9:21 AM

I have had good luck with Spruebrothers Squadron and Kitlinx

 

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Posted by GlennH on Saturday, January 14, 2023 9:45 AM

I keep thinking there are two Hobbylinks. This is the one I have used often.

https://www.hobbylinc.com/italeri-bell-ab212:uh1n-plastic-model-helicopter-kit-1:48-scale-552692

A number Army Viet Nam scans from hundreds yet to be done:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/southwestdreams/albums/72157621855914355

Have had the great fortune to be on every side of the howitzers.

  • Member since
    December 2002
  • From: Fort Knox
Posted by Rob Gronovius on Monday, January 16, 2023 1:42 PM

I will post a word of warning; often times I buy a hot new kit and it comes in the mail. Then I forget about it. Later, I see the formerly hot new kit for sale at a discount. I buy the sale kit and then see I already have said kit on my shelf. Ugh!

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