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Ad Lav wrote:Richard, I completely agree.

I would rather go in a shop and buy my kits but when the price difference I so huge we all go online.

My local (45 mile trip) hobby shop does stock them, similar prices.

https://www.sussex-model-centre.co.uk/t ... option-kit

FWIW - Axels is a proper brick and mortar model shop, his prices are very keen.

...And Axel's is where I bought my Tiger 1, It was a shade over 500 Euros when I bought it (ca £440), and that's way cheaper than any UK outlet- discounted or not.

It's still at a reasonable price (postage is no great deterrent either):
https://www.axels-modellbau-shop.de/kat ... n-kit.html
For Russkie fans, there's a Tamiya KV-1 on offer there for 499.95Euros (circa £420)
https://www.axels-modellbau-shop.de/kat ... cessories/
I might as well mention that someone is breaking a Tamiya Tiger 1 on Ebay.co.uk for parts. There's a full set of wheels, sprockets, and idlers and more besides.
I spent hours staring into Model Shop displays as a kid; but my pockets were always way too short of the required pennies for the Frog, Airfix, and other kits in there. Even the humble Swoppet toy. :
Still, It would be a tragedy if these shops full of kids' and grownup kids' daydreams ever vanished from the High Street.

Unfortunately the way of brick and mortar stores is dwindling... The cost of overhead is the reason.

Tamiya's are GD expensive to start with... (I remember 1/35th Tamiya's going for $25 CDN for an Abrams, and now the prices are nearly $100 CDN. That was a shock after nearly 20 years of being out of modelling).

Plus people are cheap and want to get everything for nothing. (I'm trying to sell a 1/16 Tamiya Tiger myself, and people just want to lowball, to which I ignore them)...