The Little World

Is it getting tougher to find a new kit in your preferred scale on the hobby shop shelves? Here are some reasons why:

a. The various wars around the world are interfering with trade enough to keep the plastic warships and planes away from us.

b. The hobby shops are running lean in their buying. Economic times is hard and other lines may pay better.

c. The factories think they are scrapping for prototypes that haven’t been kitted. Every builder knows that there are gaps in the collection shelf, but head office sometimes never sees past the Mustspitschmitt.

d. The Accountancy Department operates like.a Hollywood studio – it always wants to repeat a moneymaker and rarely wants to risk something new.

e. You may well have built all the models in your scale that are made…this is good news as it has given you enough skills to start a scratch-building phase. The world is your bivalve.