With love from France.
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Needed for my DAF YA-66 in Koninklijke Marechaussee guise as part of my Dutch MBT-70 project.
An excellent service from Dinnissen Modelbouw.
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So… my relationship with Luckymodel is most definitely at an end. I started using luckymodel in 2008. I had always been very satisfied with the price, shipping and customer service. Not anymore. I know they have had a bad reputation recently and it’s warranted. I picked up these today from my local post office after a 17 month wait/battle. Ordered late November of 2024. When I put the order in they both showed as in stock. Both went fairly quickly to showing as qued for shipping then nothing. I enquired about a week later as to the status and was told that they were ready to ship. With Christmas and New Years happening little was done but in early January 2025 I enquired again and was told that the warehouse was being moved from Hong Kong and things were behind schedule. Then in February I was told that they were misplaced in moving and were being searched for. Naturally by this time both were out of stock. The next year was a constant flow of replies to my enquiries that said nothing and were sometimes insulting. I would have said screw this in early 2025 and got a refund but I had ordered both when they were on sale for 19.99usd so I was determined that these idiots were going to ship me what I had paid for. Finally in January they said that they had found my order and had shipped it. It still took 4.5 more months to arrive, I am not happy but maybe satisfied.
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Wow! Same old same old.
Glad you actually got them.
—mike 
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Paul, any chance that you could get your kits online in Canada? I for one, would never get the idea to buy a kit in China, or elsewhere outside Europe. Support your local dealer.
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Glad it had a happy ending eventually! But that T34/122 has to be the ugliest thing I’ve seen in a long time…
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I have 3-4 shops I use which are based in Canada. Unfortunately my local store closed almost 15 yrs ago now and the closest physical hobby shop is over an hour drive so I do rely on mail order a lot. The biggest reason these were purchased from Luckymodel was the price. It was less than half of what I could get them for in North America and RFM kits were not widely available from a lot of Canadian shops at that time. I had heard the talk about Luckymodel going south but figured I had always been happy with them in the past. Obviously their management has changed at some point.
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Haha it’s definitely not the most aesthetically pleasing tank but I like it 
As a matter of fact the other kit is going to be converted to the Egyptian T-34/100 with an Accurate Armour conversion
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Aesthetically, on a par with the Charioteer I should think.
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Hmm … The T-34/100 has a really ugly,very big turret on a fairly streamlined hull. The Charioteer has a less ugly, less big turret on a square hull. Shirley we can make one’s aesthetics better and the other’s worse by swapping the turrets.
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Hmmm. Always interesting how tastes vary. Based only on the box art, I really like the look of that Egyptian T-34/122 and decided to do some research. Not many were built and it did not accomplish much, but that is what happens when the enemy gets into your back field and sacks the quarterback. Anyway, the T-34/122 is like an evolutionary spur between the KV-2 and modern, self propelled, full track artillery pieces with gigantic turrets. I like that look a lot and added the T-34/122 to my Want List.
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It’s a nice looking kit and from all I have seen goes together like a Tamiya kit.
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I’ve had a few things come in since my last update here…
Some uncuffed props for my Monogram B-29. There are a very old injection molded styrene short production run item from pre resin days
I also picked up a set of AM decals for my Sdkfz 251/9 project.
Not sure when I’ll get around to my B-29, but I’ll be using the 251 decals in a couple of weeks…
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A speedy delivery from Wildcats Models - who really do provide an excellent service:
Only 20 quid - which I can live with. I’m thinking that with a change of heads, such as these:
we have a US Tank Crew from the 70s/80s. A pretty good fix I think!
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