Friday, January 31, 2014

Jeffy Jeep's Space X Falcon on EBAY

Jeffy Jeep also sells finished models on EBAY.
He and his wife do great work! My favorites are the variations on the Estes Spaceman clones.
His finished model output is fast! Sometimes there are four models up for bid at the same time.

I found it very interesting he had the same observations about the pre-installed body wrap on the Space X Falcon model:

From his recent EBAY listing:
"SINCE THIS IS THE SECOND GENERATION OF THE SCALE MODEL KIT, THE BODY TUBE CAME PREPRINTED INSTEAD OF HAVING A PRINTED ADHESIVE WRAP THAT THE ASSEMBLER HAS TO ALIGN AND MOUNT.  BECAUSE THE BODY TUBE CAME PREPRINTED, THE FINISH IS NOT AS PERFECT AS I WOULD HAVE MADE IT AND NOT AS PERFECT AS I WOULD WANT IT TO BE (SEE PHOTOS.)  THIS SLIGHT PUCKERING OF THE PAPER WRAP IN A FEW PLACES CAN BE SEEN ONLY UNDER CLOSE INSPECTION AND SHOULD IN NO WAY AFFECT THE MODEL'S PERFORMANCE."

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