The Little World

Nothing new, nothing exciting, nothing doing.

The saddest aisle in the hobby shop – yet you had so many good times here before. How can it be so dreary?

Well, you’ve built most of the kits on the shelves, and it will be a few months before the next order from the wholesaler hits the shop. The leftovers have been picked over and you’ve rejected them many times before. Your judgement might have been flawed the first few times, but by now you have decided that whatever is there, you really don’t want. What to do?

Walk to the open end of the aisle and either turn right or left. It makes no difference which direction. The main thing is you go round into the next aisle; a place in which you are a stranger.

All the kits are different – because they are another form of vehicle or structure. The scale is different. The makers have strange names. The prototypes are things you have never heard of.

All you need to do is reach out and grab one with a price that you can afford. Take it to the till and pay for it, then haul it home. Once there, open it up and gaze at a new world.

It was like this for Columbus.