Affiliate disclosure

As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

Each price button goes directly to Amazon, and our affiliate tag travels in the address.

What happens when the button is pressed

Every "Check price on Amazon" button carries an affiliate tag. Follow one, buy the kit or the bag of bases at the end of it, and a share of that sale comes back to us. Amazon charges you its own price: arriving through this site adds nothing to it and takes nothing off it.

Each price button goes directly to Amazon, and our affiliate tag travels in the address. Every one of those links carries rel="nofollow sponsored", and the reason is plain enough: a link that can earn money is advertising, and it should say so to whatever reads the page after you have.

Which way this money pulls

Commission is a percentage of a sale, so one compressor is worth a great many pots of paint. That pull is real and is better named than denied. Three arrangements hold against it, and each can be checked against the pages instead of taken on trust:

• What a product pays has no bearing on where it lands on a shelf. No rate is consulted while a shelf is being ordered, and no family has been reshuffled afterwards because an entry turned out to earn more. When the right answer is the cheapest item on the page — or nothing at all, as when a blunt cutter is what is spoiling the parts rather than the kit being wrong — the page says so.
• Several of this site's firmest recommendations cost almost nothing. A liter of isopropyl alcohol that makes a cyanoacrylate joint hold, a sheet of mounting rings that seats a 3 mm (0.12 in) LED square in its hole, a goat-hair brush bought in order to be destroyed by dry-brushing: none of them earns much, and each changes more about an evening at the bench than a costlier purchase would. Price does not decide, and neither does commission.
• When a reference has no confirmed offer in the Amazon store this site links to — and carriage makes a 71 cm (28 in) battleship hull stocked very unevenly from one market to the next — the button runs a search there rather than opening a listing that may have gone. It earns us less; it costs you nothing.

What no amount of money buys here

Neither a rank, nor a paragraph, nor a gentler adjective. No page here is sponsored, and no verdict moves because a model goes out of stock or because a rival would pay more — nothing in the way these pages are put together can so much as react to what a product earns.

About the figure fetched beside each product

That figure is Amazon's own recorded price for your market, held briefly and then fetched again. This shelf moves on a season, and the shape of it is stated here only as far as it is known: model building is an indoor hobby, its demand gathers in autumn and winter and around the end-of-year gift, and no rank history has been measured on this catalog yet — so no ratio is printed. A kit can hold one price through the spring and then move once the evenings draw in. Treat any band written into a review as the bracket it is, and treat the number Amazon shows at the moment you order as the only one that settles anything.