Aaron Brooks Wolters
Brigadier General
I have always much preferred the Hamilton Standard tot he Curtiss Electric. Just looks more the part on the P-47.
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Darned good value for money in your case then, Aaron.
I bought a couple of resin Hamilton Standard props for Pp-47s, from Ultracast in Canada. With the cost of the props, and the Import Duty, the total wasn't that far off what you paid for the entire kit !
After that, needing a third HS prop, I made my own from a kit hub and Mosquito 'paddle blades' !!!
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Didn't even get to that point. The roundels were so far off register that they were unusable.
That's a heck of a lot of detail in such a small model. Last time I built a small-scale ship was back in the 1960's, with the Airfix HMS Cossack, which was crude compared to that !!
I used to do some of the water line ships, 1/700. but I just can't seem to get past the price they are asking these days for them.
Nice Wayne, looking forward to seeing your added details on the 1/3000 kit.
This one is Kure Naval Port, went here on my trip to visit the Yamato Museum, it was this port where yamato was built and it is in the kit, will post some images of the components, have Yokosuka and Sasebo Ports as well.
Geo
Good Lord Wayne, you're giving Jan a run for the money!
Now you can have all those naval battles in the front room. Boom, Boom. How do you display them when done? Glass top?
Nice stuff Wayne.
Two questions - is that last kit for the ships, the docks, or both ?
And do you have to pay Import Duty when buying kits from Japan ?
I've sometimes thought of getting stuff from Hobbylink, but in the UK, on imports outside of the EU, there's normally a 20% tax on the value of the parcel contents and the postage costs, plus a £8 Royal Mail 'handling fee', although stuff from China has arrived without these charges !