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July 22 2008 at 8:24 AM		Tom Booth  (Login bookmark460)
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Response to 1/43
Still a few 43rd kits around. Mostly European. Italy, France and the UK mostly. Nothing like the good old days of the 80s but there are still many nice kits being released yearly. Tameo, BBR, Marsh, Meri, and many others, both old and new, producing new kits.

Most kits are now in the $80-100+ US range tho!

Ready-builts/diecasts, royalty/licensing greed, along w/ hyper cheap PRC slave labor, have all helped to 'kill' the good old days of 30-40 new resin/metal kits a month.

I still manage to buy 1-2 new kits monthly from GPM and still more old kits via eBay. Lots of baby boomers selling off their massive collections of unbuilts before they drop. Wives/girlfriends will just dump them for pennies on the dollar afterwards.

Purchases w/ GPM take 4-5 days via very fair airmail s/h rates to the US West Coast. Many items are backordered but they always come through. Pound/buck rates kinda stink tho nowadays.

 
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