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Hobby Craft HMMWV models
Smoke86
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Posted: Monday, February 23, 2004 - 06:38 AM UTC
I've been poking around E-bay and have noticed a few of the Hobbycraft HMMWV kits floating around (Libertaor and a few others) that look like reboxed Academy kits. Has anyone built Hobbycraft kits before? If so how is thier quality?

Also I noticed on Military Hobbies that they have the academy HMMWV kits for the M996,M0125 and M997 ambulance in stock; I though these were OOP? Or President Bush's foriegn policy really hurt us were it counts-international model kit trading?

Just curious

matt
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Posted: Monday, February 23, 2004 - 06:45 AM UTC
They're just HTF in the States!!!!!!
Sabot
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Posted: Monday, February 23, 2004 - 07:09 AM UTC
I believe the HobbyCraft HMMWVs are reboxes of the motorized CC Lee HMMWVs. The Academy HMMWVs are still on the catalogs in other countries, but just not in the US. I do not know why since just about any other Academy kit can be had.
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