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tbh if I was looking at spending well over £300 for a compressor, I'd spend the extra £50 or so and choose a tanked Sil-Air 15A over the smart jet pro. For sub £100 compressors I don't think you can beat the AS186.

It's far worse for cheaper items. The flat rate is a 75p then 4% on top, effectively this means a £100 items has a 4.75% price increase but a £5 item has a 19% increase. Bear in mind this is per item not per purchase, so if you buy multiple cheap items from the same seller at the same time (e.g. 10 different model paints) you're hit with multiple flat rate charges.

To make it worse, the fee is in the form of a flat rate plus a percentage of the selling price so impacting low price items to a far greater degree.

By far the best storage solution I found for Humbrol/Revell tinlets are these Really Useful boxes and trays. Each tray has 15 compartments perfectly sized to hold 4 tinlets, and I do mean perfectly, if the tinlets were 2mm wider or 5mm taller they wouldn't fit. Two trays to a box will store 240 tinlets. https://www.reallyusefulstorageboxes.co.uk/4-litre-really-useful-clear-box-with-2-hobby-trays-c2x14265345

I find that hard to believe, I suspect it's an urban myth which made it's way into print as a 'fact'. A practical skill as basic as understanding the £ s d system would surely be covered as part of the training for any axis spies operating in Britain. It seems weird to someone who's only ever used decimal currency (like me) but it's really not difficult to learn.

Agreed. I don't mind when it's something like "new 1/48 aircraft released - full announcement in 3 days time", but I've no time for the ones where they drip feed information over a few weeks. The best release strategies for me are ones like Airfix's Me.410 last year which came as a complete surprise to pretty much everyone.

In London, definitely visit Greenwich (or even stay there and use it as your base when visiting the central London attractions), far less crowded than central London but plenty to see (maritime museum, Cutty Sark and the Observatory being the highlights) and some nice pubs, restaurants and shops. You can get the river bus or the DLR from there to central London. If there's clear weather and you have the time, head a little further east to take the cable car across the Thames, it was a bit of a white elephant as neither end is much of a visitor draw but it does gives a brilliant view down the Thames to central London.

Good to know I'm not the only one who only averages a couple of kits a year. Since I returned to the hobby in 2016, I've completed 20 kits, one more which just needs decals plus another which I started but haven't touched for a couple of years. First time around as kid in the 80s, I'd guess 15 kits spread over 4 or 5 years.

Indeed, but it is eBay's default overseas shipping option, inexperienced or occasional eBay sellers may not even be aware it's not the only option.

That's largely down to the introduction of the eBay global shipping programme a few years where the amount charged is way higher than the true postage cost. My wife's an occasional seller on eBay, mainly cross stitch kits which tend to attract interest from across the world, in a lot of cases the GSP price is more than double regular international shipping.

Exactly this. Switching them around is as jarring as someone saying they put vinegar and salt on their chips or they like to watch old white and black films.

Love the Tiger, never thought I'd ever see Front 242 referenced on here 😁

That's a new one on me, I've genuinely never heard the word until this thread.

A few minutes is pushing it but when working with Tamiya or Hasegawa transfers decals I always get much better results when using hot (as opposed to merely warm) water. Maybe those 50s decals transfers are closer to modern Japanese ones that European made ones.