Folks I have bought almost everything from HobbyLink and Scalehobbyist. I have zero complaints with anything including follow up service. The thing is on that Modeling News site I see product after product announcement coming out yet when I look at these places new items are often do not see them. I’m interested mostly in US gound force military.
Are there any sites I am missing that carry a larger selection maybe? Truthfully many of these kits are made by companies I have never built a kit from but that’s another question for the future.
What you see on the Modeling News are announcements of new products, in other words, items that will be available at some point in the future but not yet.
Second SprueBros, Freetime Hobbies, MegaHobby (if you live in the Mid-Atlantic area, specifically the Philadelphia area, you can visit MegaHobby’s bricks & mortar location, AAA Hobbies in Magnolia, NJ)
HobbyLink Japan does have a lot of weird stuff you don’t see anywhere else (I think Hobby Search 1999 has a lot of same but I’m just used to using HLJ) but their shipping and handling outside Japan is pretty expensive. I normally only put in one or two big orders with them a year.
I will post a word of warning; often times I buy a hot new kit and it comes in the mail. Then I forget about it. Later, I see the formerly hot new kit for sale at a discount. I buy the sale kit and then see I already have said kit on my shelf. Ugh!
I have by far ordered the most from Spruebrothers. They have weekly and daily sales. The lightning sales that Spruebrothers have are super good, some are up to 50% off. Squadron is also great but I don’t have much experience ordering from them.
Unfortunately, MegaHobby is no more. The parent company, Stevens International, is closing and its owners retiring. They have been running a retirement closeout sale from their bricks-and-mortar location in Magnolia, NJ, since the beginning of the year. They finally announced that June 30 is their absolute last day.