The Little World

But always in the catalogue.

Sitting there on-line, sneering at you…the kit you want but will never be able to buy. You have no way of knowing whether it is only gone for a week, a month, or a millennium. And you have no indication whether its absence stems from the factory, the wholesaler, the retail shop, or just the guy making the web pages.

It is even more infuriating when you can find it in Scalemates, Modelling Madness, and the IPSM sites as well as the US shop that refuses to send things to Australia. If they danced around in a ring taunting you with their bare arses it could not be worse.

Of course the stoic reply is to make do with what you can get locally, pay whatever the price, and be happy that you can build anything at all. There are places in Australia that cannot get kits. They have to make do with wood and a whittling knife. You are far better off.

Actually, you are far better off if you stop away from the websites. Whether it is bait and switch or bait and deny, you just end up with acid reflux.