The more I study WWII

The more I learn.

A worthy cause

If you have some spare change, can you send a bit to help save this museum ship (USS The Sullivans)?

Are Russian weapons really crappy?

Yes, but why?  Read here.

Upsides of Bandai’s Gray Market Crackdown

As always, Mr. Lee has some well expressed thoughts, this time on one of my favorite subjects, the business side of the hobby.

Sprue Pie With Frets

A month or so ago, the online Gundam modeling community buzzed about Bandai’s distribution policies, which apparently changed in recent months to curtail sales to international buyers of kits intended for the Japanese domestic market.

Here are two threads from Facebook on the topic: (Warning: lots of hot takes! Also, must be a Facebook user)

And here’s a thread on Reddit: (immediately viewable, Reddit account not necessary, but still lots of hot takes)

Apparently Bandai has requested to all Japanese stores to stop selling internationally. from Gunpla

The TL;DR is that Bandai is cracking down on gray market sales of their kits outside of the domestic Japanese market. Bandai is attempting to channel sales in regions outside of its principal Japan market through its designated, official regional distributors. Apparently, our model building brothers and sisters in Japan are finding Bandai kits in short supply, because Japanese hobby shops are directly…

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A Mike Grant masterpiece

He does such beautiful models.

BTW, join 72nd scale aircraft forum.

Elon making it look easy

Crew-4 ready to launch on Sunday not a few short weeks after the SpaceX/Axios private mission to the ISS.  Musk is making it look like he is running an airline. (Which is what he wants and what we need)(Post in memory of Mike Nofsinger)

Don’t panic, all is well

Could things get any worse for Putin?

 

 

Where have all the children gone?

A really interesting read.  I predict when the sex robots arrive, the birth rates are going to make today look like boom times.

Weird things I find interesting

Bees can’t fly over mirrors or calm water.

Feel good story of the day (Ukraine edition)

BREAKING:

Prague has given the final green light for Ukrainian tanks to be repaired in Czechia.

Defense Minister Jana Černochová confirmed today that it will be done at the Czechoslovak Group plant.

T-64 tanks are first out, but the program will expand to T-72s & APCs as well. pic.twitter.com/MBB4fWBDis

— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) April 19, 2022