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  • 26 July 2015 at 15:32 #59403
    David Marks 2
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      I recently used a company called Models for Sale based in Northamptonshire. In the main I purchased a model lorry kit (for the winter when its too cold to build model boats in my workshop) and also some Humbrol items. Order place at about 10 PM Tuesday evening and was delivered about 36 hours later. When selecting from their web-site it actually defines the number of items in stock, unlike a certain supplier where you can "load your cart" and release money via your credit card only to find that the chosen items are not in stock and probably never will be…….but that is a different story. As far as "Models for Sale are concerned…I found their service to be very good.

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        26 July 2015 at 19:53 #59407
        Paul Freshney
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          The Model Dockyard also has a 'live' stock level for each product it lists and if you order on one day, the goods invariably come the next.

          On another matter, getting paints by mail order is becoming increasingly difficult as one is often charged for a courier rather than by the PO.

          Hornby, who are Humbrol in the UK, will sell direct online and £30 of their enamel paints is carriage free. Bear in mind the 14ml tinlets are £1.70, so yes you have to buy 18 of them, but with careful planning for current projects and perhaps a future one, then you are assured of fresh paint with a Union Jack logo. More to the point, if you want 6 of each of say 3 colours, then they send a box of 6 of each, so they are of the same batch.

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          27 July 2015 at 22:02 #59434
          David Marks 2
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            Just to add to my previous post. I visited my local Hobbycraft store a couple of weeks ago and ended up purchasing two packs of paint brushes at £1 per pack, with each pack containing 5 brushes of different sizes. Someone had dropped a pack on the floor and left it for some silly old sod i.e. me, to pick up. Or thinking about it could be some new marketing ploy. So this afternoon I masked off and then varnished some computer generated decals that I fitted to my latest boat a few days ago. Did all the hairs fall out you may ask and the answer is a resounding NO. So at 20p per brush, I thought that was a good purchase. Particularly after brush painting the deck of the boat a few weeks ago with a new Revel brush, and spending a good deal of time retrieving brush hairs from the wet paint.

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