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Posted: Tuesday, April 24, 2018 - 11:02 PM UTC
Also the prices seem little wacky. You can buy a 1/72 Linberg tank for $22.99 but the Lindberg B17 1/72 scale is $14.99?



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Posted: Tuesday, April 24, 2018 - 11:17 PM UTC

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That's a price tag switch if I ever saw one. I don't think it's even from the right department.



Its actually inline with what they have done in the past price wise. 25% of the retail. as with this past Tiger I bought there.

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Posted: Tuesday, April 24, 2018 - 11:51 PM UTC
Well their Tamiya Easy 8 from Europe is 49.95$ but Scale hobbies has it for 35.79$. Not so impressed.
Mrclark7
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Posted: Wednesday, April 25, 2018 - 12:01 AM UTC

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Well their Tamiya Easy 8 from Europe is 49.95$ but Scale hobbies has it for 35.79$. Not so impressed.


yes, but you can get all HB's stuff at 40 % off everyday.

sooo not so impressive becomes impressive? maybe
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Posted: Wednesday, April 25, 2018 - 12:48 AM UTC

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That's a price tag switch if I ever saw one. I don't think it's even from the right department.



Its actually inline with what they have done in the past price wise. 25% of the retail. as with this past Tiger I bought there.



That's a close-out sticker meaning they aren't planning to restock that kit. And it is obviously different than the sticker on the other kit.
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Posted: Wednesday, April 25, 2018 - 02:02 AM UTC
yes, but you wouldnt use a closeout sticker for an item thats staying in stock. so what would you like them to use when they re shrink but discount an item?
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Posted: Wednesday, April 25, 2018 - 03:48 AM UTC
I'm just saying when my local HL puts that yellow sticker on something, it ends up on the back wall for a few weeks and then they all disappear. They did that with the Space:1999 Eagle models and I waited to long to go back and grab one so now I have to pay regular price at HobbyTown or get one off ebay.
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Posted: Wednesday, April 25, 2018 - 02:18 PM UTC
The photo Kelly posted looks like an escapee from Burning Man.
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Posted: Wednesday, April 25, 2018 - 04:32 PM UTC

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Also the prices seem little wacky. You can buy a 1/72 Linberg tank for $22.99 but the Lindberg B17 1/72 scale is $14.99?





The Panther also includes the Lindberg Sdkfz 222 kit, so it's a double kit. In case it matters the Panther is actually from the Hasegawa 1/72 molds which Lindberg made copies of decades ago.

The B-17 was one of the better ones back in the early 1970s, (better than the original Airfix and Revell things but they were all CRUDE) but it was 1/64th scale to go with S-gauge American Flyer trains. Lindberg did a pile of 1/64 scale cars and trucks and tanks once upon a time. I had a AMC Gremlin and the Tiger tank.

I built that B-17 while in bed with a fever when I was 10 or 11. For $14.99 minus 40% it'd be worth the trip down memory lane.
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Posted: Thursday, April 26, 2018 - 06:01 AM UTC

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Also the prices seem little wacky. You can buy a 1/72 Linberg tank for $22.99 but the Lindberg B17 1/72 scale is $14.99?





The Panther also includes the Lindberg Sdkfz 222 kit, so it's a double kit. In case it matters the Panther is actually from the Hasegawa 1/72 molds which Lindberg made copies of decades ago.

The B-17 was one of the better ones back in the early 1970s, (better than the original Airfix and Revell things but they were all CRUDE) but it was 1/64th scale to go with S-gauge American Flyer trains. Lindberg did a pile of 1/64 scale cars and trucks and tanks once upon a time. I had a AMC Gremlin and the Tiger tank.

I built that B-17 while in bed with a fever when I was 10 or 11. For $14.99 minus 40% it'd be worth the trip down memory lane.



Thanks for the info on that. I think I will pass on them then.
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Posted: Thursday, April 26, 2018 - 08:25 AM UTC

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I like what this guy did with the Sherman:





My oldest brother would have loved this.Thanks to these little "cartoon models" can help attract a new generation of modelers.
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Posted: Wednesday, May 02, 2018 - 01:37 AM UTC
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5683963/Hobby-Lobby-forced-return-3-8000-ancient-Iraqi-artifacts.html

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Posted: Wednesday, May 02, 2018 - 04:00 AM UTC
I was just about to make a similar comment when I read the above. That's very appropriately the "Steal of the Day"! Shame on Hobby Lobby!
Mrclark7
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Posted: Friday, May 04, 2018 - 03:26 AM UTC
must have been ment for personal collection, right?
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Posted: Friday, May 04, 2018 - 05:25 AM UTC

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must have been ment for personal collection, right?


Somewhat, Hobby Lobby's owners run this bible museum thing and they wanted to display the artifacts there IIRC. The artifacts were probably ISIS loot before they bought them, so there's that as well.
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