So my local hobby shop is mocking me.. the other day I took a trip out to my local brick front hobby shop it's roughly 40 mins away give or take with traffic. This isn't horrible it's just the route to get there from my location isn't exactly a pleasent drive. Anyways while I was there I asked one of the employees about the USS Kearsarge kit seeing how they had a slightly above average selection of paint and model kits with a few higher end ship kits ranging in size from waterline to 1/350, I figured there would be a chance they could source my kit. The employee found my kit and said they could order it and the cost would be 68 dollars. Now I'm the kinda guy who will spend my money on something more easily but only if it's right there right then so I get that instant satisfaction if taking the item home with me, unfortunately 68 dollars was about 30 dollars higher then what I've found online and I'd be paying up front and waiting for delivery with the issue of having to take a trip back to pick it up to boot. So I choose to pass on this and said I would think on it, that night I decided If I was gonna wait I'll buy the kit for 43 bucks online and have it shipped to my house.
So what's the issue? Well the damn seller is in china which I'm sure is a nice country but anything I've ever ordered from there is a mystery on arrival time and at one point my delivery date was October! What am I gonna do with my self till then?? So I wrote the seller asking them to give me an idea of when this kit would actually be at my door so if needed I could cancel before they ship it but no response.. trying to keep cool I figured I'd prep my supplies and get my kit in order for the arrival of the box.
I took a trip out to the hobby shop for acrylic paint taking your advice to make the switch an boom right on the shelf in front of me not 2 days from the first visit was the USS Kearsarge kit .... Wtf is it a sign