honestly? I am very much anti-common thought, I started with nail clippers as A kid 30 yrs ago & still use them today, only using nippers on really wierd oddball gates
You guys should take on a challenge of coming to Serbia and finding ANY kind of hobby shops here. PlaMo nippers? We sell small wire cutters that double as hobby nippers. You buy one two and get two for the price of one. A wire mini cutter and a PlaMo nipper! As for the actual choice of PlaMo or anything other from this kind of hobby for that…[Read more]
Having stuff shipped straight to your door does help a bit for not having that much stuff at stores. I was amazed when I saw a photo on this blog of somekne doing shopping. Pair of slippers, shorts and one HG Banshee Destroy… Oh well…
‘least you see stuff like that in shops, here only the FEW real ‘hobby’ shops aka non chains, carry anything. only one shop in town carries gunplay, but i’m not dropping 80$ on an HG 1/100 wing kit (aka prices are insane or read why all his gunpla has 12′ of dust on it
80$ for a HG?! That’s just… WOW! 😐 It’s a price you should pay for an MG. It’s a price MG’s go for in stores. Damn, a guy that sells them here, ordering them from a dealer, with customs tax and other crap like those, his interest etc etc would sell you a Sinanju Stein for that price. Maybe 5$ more. And I consider them expensive and go straight…[Read more]
I guess it’s the same thing all over the world. If you want to cut costs, order your own stuff. Having to go to the customs office every time they “can’t read something” is another pain I feel whenever ordering anything from China, sometimes even HLJ stuff. It’s not that they can’t read, it’s that they’re lazy and don’t want to do so.
$20 + another 15 to get them shipped to me. If it is a highly recommended item I guess it’s worth having them. My old cutter’s going pretty dull and it ain’t going to get any better.
You’re as much of a money stealer as HLJ is! 😀 I’ve added it to my “to buy” list. About that Peak we’ve talked about, I’ve browsed what HLJ had in store and found the last HP-CS they had which surprisingly enough came out some 20€ – 27-8$ cheaper than the cheapest ebay Eclipse. It is more or less the same as that C3 but I went for it just b…[Read more]
I started with cheap nail clippers that I just had lying around as a part of a set that I never got to use. But they went pretty quick. Weak in nature and generaly not made to cut through plastuc they went dull and stopped closing propperly in a matter of 2-3 months. After that I had a pair of mini wire cutters that worked pretty well but they’re…[Read more]
Hey all I’m not expecting my first hlj till late august (RX78 3.0)! But I was wondering what shipping u guys/and girls use? And if u think the different ways to ship matter
So far i have only used the SAL method, purely as its cheaper and tend to buy one kit at a time so far. Though i think if i was to do more than one i would go for recorded for peace of mind and possibly saving on handerling fees from the post office.
Lately I’ve been using EMS since HLJ now has Private Warehouse.
EMS is only 3 days to Aus, not 3 business days.
Once HLJ ship on Friday, I got it on Tue the following week and it is trackable too.
SAL takes about 10 -14 days to Aus.
I’m not sure how long it takes to ship to US for EMS, but I reckon it is about 5 days.
I suggest use EMS if you…[Read more]
I use EMS cos SAL can take more than a month to reach me and I tend to worry that my package is lost. Sometimes with a few items to ship, it sometime is cheaper than SAL. And anyway I always send too much stuff to qualify for SAL.
Though it is slower and as Phillip said, sometimes it takes longer than usual (if everything goes as planned it’s here in like 14 days) and I always worry if my stuff got lost or is it just late. However, I’ve been ordering from HLJ for almost two years now, once or twice per month and no item was lost, ever. So SAL works for me, like a charm!
better EMS cos ur items is insured plus u can track than rather than SAL..but if u order more than one kit than SAL would be more expensive than EMS. Go for EMS
Who’s pre ordered the extra weapons for the rx78 3.0 and where have u ordered? I got cash for bday and ready to preorder and not sure where to trust my money.
I think these should and need to be released WITH the actual kit. Extra weapons, half of those will be somewhere parked anyway as it can’t hold all of them. One set of weapons is more than enough. But waterslides should be in the original kit. I’d gladly pay 200 yen extra to get waterslides with the kit. But paying half of the kits price just to…[Read more]
Think this may be my next wip. I’ve got a lot of hg wing kits from when I was a kid that now that I’m a adult I want to really do. what do u all think?? Like I said got like all wing kits do u have a favorite?