Category: Secondhand

• When All Else Fails, Cheap Out.

  

  We all cruise the aisle of the hobby shop, hardware store, craft shop, or toy store looking for the Great Bargain. The Score. The Once-In-A-Lifetime chance to buy a $5000 model for 50¢. It never eventuates, of course, and we can become bitter and twisted. The thing we all need to do is realise that…

  Dick Stein

  July 14, 2018

  Acrylic, Enamel, Hobby Shops, Miniature Philosophy, Model Airplane, Modelling materials, Modelling Supplies, Painting, Scale Models, Secondhand, Uncategorized, Workshop

  cheap models, cheap paint, cheap paper, cheap wood, frugality

• ” Modeller In Aisle Number Four. Call Security “

  

  As scale modellers we are especial creatures – half way between stuffed Winnie The Pooh figures and blood-crazed werewolves. The staff in many stores recognise this and probably have contingent plans ready in case the moon is full. I know I have found myself staring lustfully at items in shops that would seem to have…

  Dick Stein

  July 12, 2018

  Collecting, Miniature Philosophy, Model Airplane, Model cars, Model trains, Modelling materials, Modelling Supplies, Scale Models, Secondhand, Uncategorized

  Hobby Shops, purchasing power, Shopping, shops

• When Is Old Junk…Old Junk?

  

  And when is it Invaluable Historic Resource? This thought was forced upon me as I sifted through the secondhand dealer’s goods at the Model Railway Exhibition this year. There were at least three dealers specifically dedicated to secondhand – perhaps there were more that I did not see. Their stock ranged from quite professional goods…

  Dick Stein

  July 9, 2018

  Hobby Shops, Miniature Philosophy, Model trains, Modelling Supplies, Scale Models, Secondhand, Uncategorized

  junk pile, parts bin, retail opportunity, rubbish, scrap, Secondhand