Category: Hobby Shops
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De Havilland 60 G – Part One – Too Long On The Shelf
Actually, too long on several shelves… This model was purchased at my favourite local hobby shop to rescue it from obscurity on the back shelf. It had lain there – along with a number of obscure Soviet experimental and propaganda ships – for as long as I had been going to the place. Finally they…
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Grown People
What on earth would induce grown people to spend an entire weekend standing around a hall at the dog race track looking at plastic models? Are they mad? Hopefully, yes. This thought is held sacred by a number of hobby retailers who also stand round…round the back of the tills. The more madness and money…
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Have You Ever Been Tempted…
To chime in at the local hobby shop when you hear someone ask a question of a salesperson? Well, stifle that impulse…unless you are asked a direct question by the staff member, your input is not helpful. You may know the answer, but consider that the answer you know may be one of many. The…
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Can You Instruct The World?
With your hobby? Will John Q. and Mary B. Public learn a valuable lesson observing your model airplane, toy train, or doll house?No, they will not. No matter how attractive your stand is nor how authentic your presentation, they will leave about as dumb as when they arrived. The best you can hope for is…
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Pride Is A Cheap Emotion
Well it is, if you do it right. Scale modelling can be done with pretty nearly any purse…though the hobby shops would like you to browse on the expensive shelves. The prices can rise to pretty nearly any level that you could name. People who purchase and build the expensive kits can generally be assured…
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The Aisle Of Nothing
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…
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The Profiteer’s Stash
The very word ” profiteer ” is a red rag for certain political minds, and has been used to justify no end of malice in the past. It has been heard to crop up in the scale model world, as well. Yet, every one who buys and builds kits has to recognise that there is…
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Pigs To The Wrong Market
Will never make bacon. My tour down the airplane aisle of my local hobby shop showed very little new but I noticed that they have ordered and arranged the kits according to manufacturer again. And yet again the section of eastern European ex-soviet unaccountables is fully stocked. I do not think they’ve had a fresh…
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Out Of Stock
So why in website? To make us think you are a bigger retailer than you really are? To get us revved up? To taunt us? Or is your website the equivalent of a dusty cupboard? Unable to keep it clean, do you exhibit the whole as an artefact? So why do you not list all…
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