Best place to buy Tamiya 1/35 scale WWII tank models?

[John P]

Where's a good place to buy models these days? I haven't built one in 20+ years and the local hobby shop prices are outrageous. Now my son is interested in model building so I need to update/refresh my model building supplies a bit 🙂

Any other advice on the best glue, paints, any good model building web pages, etc... would be appreciated.

TIA

 

[grrl]

I'd suggest Squadron. They started out doing mail order, so have been around a long time.

If you are lucky, you can sometimes get a kit cheap on eBay, but many of the regular sellers are overpriced.

For sites, start with:

Scale Model Index

Some other ones are:

Track-link - this has model photos, kit reviews, etc.
Kit Parade - more of the same
ww2modelmaker
Lone Senty - this is mostly military photos, not about modeling

 

[funboy6942]

I buy 99% of my stuff from here when I got extra flow.

 

[mooncancook]

www.hlj.com ships directly from Japan. I used to order from them when their shipping cost was reasonable. Haven't ordered from them since shipping cost went up so I'm not sure what the shipping cost is now.

 

[John P]

grrl, great links, thanks a lot!

Bump for the day crowd....