Did it come in the mail?
I really really want one of those Hobbyboss T-26s.
A few weeks back I purchased a Miniart GAZ-AAA. It looks fabulous in the box.
Years ago, I acquired books on the DUKW and Israeli Shermans but never got around to purchasing the actual models. 
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Not exactly. Those people from Seattle made the arrangements for the delivery.
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Not sure where your located but
https://www.scalehobbyist.com/catagories/browse.php?pg=1&ppp=48&sb=stocknumber_a&so=d&kw=T26&man=HBB
Scale Hobbiest has become my go to model shop. Most of my Vallejo paints, all my recent track set purchases, and about half of my recent model acquisitions came from there. I’ve had that exact T-26 variant in my shopping cart for about two weeks. The problem is, I’ve finished exactly zero models since returning to the hobby 7 weeks ago, spent about $400, and acquired maybe 8 models in that time. I figure I better finish some stuff before a camera crew from Extreme Hoarders shows up at my house.
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to only have those low numbers again. I have finished one kit this year and probably had your stash show up this month alone. Think of it as future fun like concert tickets that just went on sale, maybe you break the streak with the T-26.
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Hahahahhahahaha
I’m gonna wait another week of two. It’s just too easy to buy this stuff. Maybe I can hire a team of leprechauns to paint the stuff I build. That would be awesome.
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I’ve been doing this for decades, and still struggle to finish anything! (My record so far is a build I finished 20 years after it started…) It’s the journey, not the destination.
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We one had a guy in our club who was considering buying that enormous rail gun kit and floated the idea of sub contracting out work on the sub assemblies to the rest of the club, sort of his own nightshift leprechaun crew.
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DUKW Wheel Skirts;
I thought I might leave one off as possible damage from hard use.
I think these were made from 1/16" square Evergreen stick and some thin Evergreen sheet.
It is easy to lay the DUKW body on it’s side on a piece of the plastic sheeting and trace a cutting pattern into the plastic with a sharp pointed pencil.
I extended the rear Italeri leaf springs to accommodate the rear wheel spacing required by the new larger resin tires. I had already built the boat chassis and had no idea the resin tires would be so much bigger. (at least not until they arrived)
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They look great, I will need to do this for my build!!
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That’s a great work around. As I recall some boxings did include the skirts.
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Close enough 
As long as you didn’t visit the point of sale personally 
It belongs here.
Nice job Mike! What are you doing for wheels? Bear in mind Italeri fluffed the spacing of the rear axles so full-sized wheels will look a tad bunched-up…
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I don’t know if clearing out the parents house counts but I found some more kits, about 40 years old. Putting them all together it looks like I this thinking as an early teenager of a 1/72nd Dieppe diorama! Oh well, might buy some of the 1/35 equivalents instead 
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If you have no interest in those models, I suggest getting them into the hands of an interested child and acting as a mentor to that person. It is a sacred duty of older men to teach children the importance of construction skills and history.
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My latest mail order arrived today, just putting it in the stash.
Got the credit card bill today also.
Applies to model kits too 
So true, never enough space!
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As to the DUKW boxing: yes some boxings DID include the wheel skits. As I recall the cover art showed the vehicle with some form of brownish camo and as transporting a 105 to the beach. It may have represented a DUKW in British or Ausi service???
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More DUKW talk:
I had already built the stock suspension before my resin wheels arrived. (I thought I was just buying wheels!) So if you look real close you may notice the rear most axle leaf springs have been extended to allow for the new larger tires.
I have never as yet finished this model, as shortly after these photos were taken I encountered a minor disaster using Tamiya’s white primer ~ which is why today I recommend NEVER using the white stuff for anything! Though I still highly recommend using both Tamiya’s fine surface Gray and Red Oxide primers.*
*It may have been some fluke of mold parting compound and/or body oils still left on the model but the primer both bubbled off the surface and also cracked in a number of places.
I will never use that particular product again!
Yikes. Twenty years. I think my oldest closet derelict is 14 or maybe 15 years old. 
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This is the last of the stuff I ordered over the previous 6 weeks.
No more excuses. With mineral spirits in hand, I can use oil paints again and finish stuff.
The nurse will go with a Miniart GAZ-AAA I purchased a few weeks back. Or not. The smarmy guy behind the nurse will probably get his brain sucked out by a space alien.
The helicopter is borderline for an armor forum but they were supposedly used for artillery spotting. I thought I could put it in a scene with a Hummel. It seemed like a good idea at the time.
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