Tintin in the Congo

Greg Baker
Uh... you know I'm in for this one...

Torsten
Count me in 👍

Donald Dickson II
I automatically thought this was Greg's build. LOL

Uwe Kaeding
Thanks - might be a while before it gets started though, got a few other projects to finish first.

Greg Baker
I need to hear the story of how you laid hands on this kit...

Uwe Kaeding
Nothing super interesting - I have a number of saved searches on E-bay for stuff I'd like but haven't found anywhere. One of them was for "udet flamingo model kit". I woke up one morning and had an e-mail saying there was a hit on that search, clicked on the link and there was the kit, being sold by someone in France, and it had a "Buy Now" price that seemed reasonable to me. I basically bought it on the spot! Looks a nice kit but it has clearly been in storage somewhere for a while given what looks like mould spots on the top of the box (which you can see on the scan of the box top I used to add the kit to the database).

I highly recommend the saved search function on E-bay - I've found a few things that way. Once its in there and someone adds an item that fits the search criteria you get a notification. I generally set the Item Location function to Worldwide rather than Australia Only to get a wider search.