Category: Hobby Shops
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The Torture Rack
No, this isn’t a Hammer film. I’m talking about the paint racks down at the hobby shop. Horror in 10 ml bottles. The covid year and the shutdown of paint manufacture and shipping has certainly thinned out the racks. I hope it has not been too hard on the finances of the shopkeepers, and that…
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You Get What They Got
Or you just git. The internet is a wonderful place to see hobby kits and supplies that you cannot obtain. It is not the fault of the hobby shops – they would sell you scale kits of your grandparents if they were obtainable. They are in the unenviable position of not being able to get…
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MiG 17 – Part One – I Buy By Price
And I buy cheap. My trip to the hobby shop was for paint – of course I detoured into the kit aisle, and of course I looked over all the 1:72 offerings there. The shop is one that I rarely get to, so it may contain things not seen before. This was so, but while…
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Petlyakov Pe-2 – Part One – Father’s Day Last Year
Make no mistake about it. When a gift-giving date approaches I do not hesitate to go down to the hobby shop and either reserve a kit or buy one outright. Then the gift-givers can go and pay for it or refund me. Charity begins at home and I know where I live. The Pe-2 is a Mister…
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The Trade Stand
Many exhibitions and fairs have trade stands as a major feature of their days…and the WASMEX held recently was no exception. I counted half a dozen or so of various sorts in the main display hall. Most of them were old acquaintances and in one case I got to meet an old friend as well.…
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The Newbie – Part Three – There Is No Such Thing
There is no such thing as: a. A completely accurate model. Do it never so well, there will always be a detractor who will pull up an MAP plan from 1959 to prove that you’ve made a mistake. Don’t try to argue the case as their criticism is not intended to make the model look…
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The Newbie – Part Two – All The Choices!
Discovering a new hobby shop makes you feel like Christopher Columbus. Every aisle is a new land to discover. There are wonders to see. And savage natives. Just kidding – when you have money to spend, the proprietors of the hobby shops are far from savage. They may seem grumpy but if you make the…
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The Newbie – Part One – What Do You Want?
The question of what you want is one that bedevils us all at some stage of the modelling game. It can be as simple as thinking what sort of model – boat, train, car, figure, etc you are attracted to. It can become as complex as a major research project into some specific mark of…
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Colour Choice In A Paint-Starved World
The racks in my favoured place of worship are looking bare. Time to put some more heretics to the question… Calm, down Torquemada – we’re talking about the paint racks at the local hobby shop. The Tamiya and Gunze sections are getting sparse as shipments are delayed around the world. Other sections are full –…
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Stash And Stashette
No, it isn’t a new take on Mozart’s Magic Flute characters – I am trying to quantify the pile of unbuilt kits that every modeller seems to have. If one kit is…one kit…when does a number of kits become a stashette and when does it graduated to being a full-fledged stash? I could have answered…
The Little World 