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wish my dang Kemler had the under-wing stripes. You ever see those stickers loose, you let me know, hear? =)
Posted by: Coreborealis | November 23, 2009 at 07:50 AM
There's actually a version without the stripes -- perhaps that's the one you own? They're factory applied on the ones that have them.
Posted by: MattAlt | November 23, 2009 at 08:46 AM
I've always wondered about that - the powers that be (wrong?) always told me I'd been graced with an incomplete. Glad to know that's not the case!
Posted by: Coreborealis | November 23, 2009 at 03:07 PM
There's pics of both in the good ol' ToyboxDX Marushin Datafile:
http://www.toyboxdx.com/datafiles/data/marushin/
Posted by: MattAlt | November 24, 2009 at 09:23 AM
heh - I took those pics for ver. 2 ... =)
Posted by: Coreborealis | November 26, 2009 at 10:53 PM