Bill Cross

Troy is good people and the products he's selling are aces.

And here is my review.

I don't think we are ever going to be of one mind about pricing for OOP kits. But please realize I scored on my last two WNW kits, but have a number of armor models that are effectively OOP, yet fetch half of what they originally sold for. So for every WNW goldmine, there are literally scores of old kits begging for buyers (I can sell them at fire-sale prices if I choose). We don't even know if BNA got them from JetMads. They would not be the first retailer to buy up a lot or lots of kits and resell. I have a modeling friend who does just that. Says his business rests on the the "three Ds: debt, divorce or death."

Can that kit be "backdated" to a US version? UPDATE: doesn't matter, the discount is no longer available.

While the resin canopy is desirable, it's possible to build the thing without it if you can't find one:

Do we know how capitalism works? Do we? It seems someone is always bellyaching about price gouging for one thing or another. Then when a manufacturer or retailer goes out of business, we shed tears. If you had the spare cash to invest in 5 kits and did so, then I would not object to you selling them for whatever the market would bear. But you might buy five kits and find no takers at that price. Not every sold-out kit is a windfall. In the interest of full disclosure, I sold my last two WNW's kits for much more than I paid for them. Good for me. Others are doing the same. Good for them. That may offend you, but no one here owes anyone else a discounted price because we hang out on the Internet. I apologize if that sounds harsh, but what you're saying seems naive.

I'm interested in the F-15 burner can. Please relist your website so I can look at price and availability. Thanks.

Supply and demand for a sold-out run. Tell it to Uber.

Revell 100%.

Just got my review copy today!

It's in the works from what I have heard. Ordered. Now I can build the thing, though Screaming Toad Models is apparently doing a full cockpit upgrade....

Woke up this AM to find out those clever bastards at Ukraine's Reskit have launched new goodies like a replacement nose cone for the Trumpy Thud, a new rotor for the ICM Tarhe (folded or open), and MJ-1A/B/C Jammers for loading ordnance. https://reskit-models.com/scale-plastic-model-kits/new-releases

I need a C for Vietnam. What is the "new version"?

On backorder. And shipping is $55.

The same actually here in the Colonies: it just showed up one day with no real notice. Sometimes that's the nicest thing in a day.

Thanks, that's a better price, but the $20 shipping puts it right back to Sprue Bros. prices (with free shipping over $200 which it would be with AM). But thanks for the information, I REALLY do appreciate your taking the time.

There isn't a resin cockpit, but the AM stuff still totals almost $200. It would be an expensive hanker to give into.

Hankering after a VN War F-104C, but the Italeri kit, hardly a revelation these days, is over $150 at Sprue Bros. I realize SB aren't the be all, end all in kit purchasing, but still.... The G and TF-105G are both decent (I built the two-seater and gave up on the G when the Aeres resin upgrades didn't fit the kit). Did I miss the memo where Italeri kits are suddenly in scorching hot demand?

I am always looking for Vietnam War (especially 1965-1969). I would certainly be interested.

What would have been different from 1965-1969?

Having sunk over $600 into two Jetmads offerings, I have passed the point of rationality in modeling. The Fort is simply THE most-iconic plane for me, I asked for and got two Memphis Belles for Christmas when I was 12. Sometimes in business ya get lucky, and if MOTA is half as successful as BoB, then it should excite American and maybe British modelers. Far more important, I think, is whether this release can improve on the HK Models try. If so, I would be sorely tempted.

Tack, tack! (that's about the extent of my Swedish beyond "Happy Birthday" and "Merry Christmas"). Regarding shipping updates: I got incomplete shipper updates from the website supplied by Jetmads, and I knew very little until the package was in the States. Then it just appeared with no "out for delivery" or other announcements. My advice is be patient. I was NOT, but all's well that ends well.

Guess what was waiting on my front porch when I cam back from breakfast? And it looks WONDERFUL. This one's for my mormor, Tack för allt du gjort för familjen i Amerika och i Sverige. My grandmother came here all by herself in 1904, and her story is sad and inspiring both.

I would bet serious money the folks at Border Models have ZERO idea that "Masters of the Air" is out and would not base their business decisions on a fleeting Hollywood crumpet. As someone else pointed out, this design has been in the works for months, and production would be impossible to tie-in with an Apple TV launch. It's why conspiracy theories are so compelling: no one would ever believe a sociopathic loner with a mail-order shitty copy of a German mauser would be able to shoot the president of the United States from a window in the building where he just happened to work. Too fantastical. A movie plot like that would be laughed out of the pitch meetings in Hollywood. There HAS to be a logical answer....

I been tellin' y'all for months now: 1/35th is cool because of all the figures and vehicles you can add to your builds. If you just do the prop version of "tank on a plank" (bird on a beam?), then it doesn't matter. But given all the great dios and vignettes I have seen over the years (especially in photos of European model shows), the possibilities are HUGE: 1. Hobby Boss makes a decent CCKW fuel truck 2. Trumpeter makes all kinds of Russian and Chinese-copy trucks 3. There are too many Kubelwagens, Jeeps, Opel Blitzes, and other vehicles to list 4. Plus figures up the wazoo.