Category: Hobby Shops
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Covid Painting
The year-long Covid pandemic has been so tragic for so many that it seems nearly a sacrilege to mention it in connection with a hobby – but it has led to a drought in the paint aisles of many hobby shops. Oh, there’s paint still, as not all the makers have ceased sending out their…
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When To Close The Doors Of The Hobby Shop
A. Never. Hobbies can occupy 25 hours per day and enthusiasts need things ASAP. This means selling paint at 3:00AM. Use cheap staff and chain them to the till. b. At the end of the day. 5:00 is the accepted end of the day unless you want to go to 6:00 in case there might…
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Every Shop’s A Hobby Shop
And so are a good many unattended rubbish piles as well…wherever a modeller casts an eye there are modelling materials in abundance. Unless you work exclusively in Argyle diamonds and platinum bars, you can find what you need frugally. Note: This does not apply to modelling fairs or specialty shops. The price of the aftermarket…
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Don’t Tell Anyone…
In my other three weblog columns I used the lockdown earlier in the year to write about the business of social distancing, working from home, getting supplies, and being brave and stouthearted. I didn’t give it a tinkle here in the Little World – and it wasn’t until I watched the Flory Vlog that I…
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I like Being An Escaped Idiot
It lowers people’s expectations and allows me to wear comfortable clothes. No-one asks me to pay for the next round of drinks and I can say pretty nearly anything I like. Occasionally the canvas waistcoat chafes at the back, but. I am a little dismayed when it overlaps into my hobby time – when folly…
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The Kiss Of Death
If you would like to destroy a commercial firm – to lay waste to its factories and plunge its former employees into miserable poverty, you must follow this simple procedure: Buy one of the products that they make. Try it and find that it is excellent. Become proficient in its use. Expect that you’ll be…
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Target Tug Cat – Part One – Sunday Browse
A Sunday browse in a strange hobby shop brought me up short this week – I found four items which I had coveted for months and which I had despaired of ever seeing. These are the occasions for which the credit card is made, and I have been abstemious of late. I was able to…
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Cheap and Cheerful
One of my friends has posted a picture on Facebook of an Airfix De Havilland Tiger Moth kit he’s building. He’s selected the RAF version in A/B camouflage and from the picture it looks delightful. He noted that it cost him $ 11 – and mentioned me as a cheap and cheerful modeller. Oh, if…
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The Home-Made Decals – Part Two
It is the Ancient Modeller who stoppeth one of three ” Take heed, Sirrah, to what I say Or suffer along with me…” The experiment went ahead as planned with the porous paper, the Golden Syrup ( Australian version of Karo ) and the warm oven: a. Syrup brushed on paper. Soaked right in. Paper…
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Brewster Buccaneer – Part One – ” On The Sides Of Our Buccin’ Heads…”
The classic answer to the question of where are our Buccaneers… Now that we have that out of the way decorum can return. The Special Hobby 1:72 Brewster Buccaneer was the result of doing what I told myself I would not do; go to the Post -Christmas sales. To be fair, the sales came to…
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