Quaralane: Alrighty, thanks for the info!

Jmac: Thanks, though the video doesn't do the kit justice and I'm debating doing a retake so the detail can be better seen.

Ace: Thanks buddy! I appreciate it!

I don't know about king sized patience...  :

Yeah, the 1729 parts is an insane number count - but there's a bunch more models at a higher piece count. When one gets up into the higher quality kits, like Halinski, (picture of Halinski kits below), parts count become just a number. (Take Halinski's T-34 for example, over 7000 parts   and I'm pretty sure their Sherman Firefly has even more than that).

Cost isn't steep, in fact, I guess you could call it a steal!  ;D It cost me $27 exactly, and that includes shipping/handling. I forgot to mention that paper models are cheaper than most plastic models. To give you an idea, the usual top end paper model kit is anywhere from $10-30 or up and other publishing companies less. Digitally formatted kits are even cheaper and of course can be built many, many times, but the cost of ink and paper sort of go with that package.

Halinski (Top of the line publisher, the "Tamiya" equivalent in paper modeling.)

WAK (I want to call them new to the publishing stuff, but I'm probably wrong. Really promising models though!)

Modelik (These are good kits too, and the great part is their new kits look like they're approaching "near to Halinski" quality.

In all, the grand total for these 17 kits cost me a little over $100 - and that included shipping too! Scales on these go - 1:200 for the ships (HUGE), 1:33 for the aircraft (HUGE), 1:25 for armor (HUGE). The published kits tend to have (HUGE) scales, but these are very common card scales.

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In F-15 news, I experienced a rather splitting headache for a good part of the day, so no real progress and nothing to really log about. Tomorrow for sure though!