Tag: Hobby shop

• When You See That Magic Lamp

  

  We all succumb to the lure of the magic lamp occasionally. That moment when you see something exotic in the swirling waters at your feet and reach down and pick it up… The lucky ones drop it but the unfortunate ones rub and the genii comes out. Well, I avoided rubbing when I visited a…

  Dick Stein

  June 30, 2018

  Acrylic, Colour Schemes, Enamel, Model Airplane, Model cars, Modelling materials, Painting, Uncategorized

  Hobby shop, new materials, paint, temptation

• Lockheed P-38 – Part Two – The Hobby Shop

  

  Well, you get to see a new thing every day – it is just a matter of keeping your eyes open. The purchase of the Hobby Boss Lockheed P-38 brought me two remarkable experiences. I visited a hobby shop here in Perth that I rarely call at. It is some distance from my house and…

  Dick Stein

  May 22, 2018

  1:72 scale, American aircraft, Chinese models, Hobby Shops, Uncategorized

  Customer service, Hobby shop, security system

• Stacking The Shelves

  

  Let me preface this post by saying that I spent 40 years being professionally fussy and organised for myself and my patients and then 8 years trying to cope with someone else’s retail stock chaos after that – 48 years of honourable organisation without tipping over into clinical OCD. It was good preparation for my…

  Dick Stein

  March 8, 2018

  Hobby Shops, Organisation, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  Hobby shop, Shelves, Shopping, Stock management