What I thought was a Tamiya P-51

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I’ve heard stories at Hobby Lobby of finding “sealed” kits having missing parts. What they do is cut along the box bottom edges, open it, get what they want/need and close it back up, put it back on the shelf. This is mostly with car kits.
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jeaton01 wrote: ↑Fri Jan 13, 2023 12:35 pm The problem is models have a half-life, Tamiya degrades to Hasegawa, until all down the line you look in that box and find a Starfix kit! You have to open the kits every so often and look at them to keep that from happening.
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Re: What I thought was a Tamiya P-51

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mostrich wrote: ↑Mon Jan 16, 2023 2:32 am
jeaton01 wrote: ↑Fri Jan 13, 2023 12:35 pm The problem is models have a half-life, Tamiya degrades to Hasegawa, until all down the line you look in that box and find a Starfix kit! You have to open the kits every so often and look at them to keep that from happening.
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I was gonna say something about that too Torben. That's frickin'' FUNNY right there!!! :giggles:
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