Tag: Hobby Shops
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When The Shopkeeper Gets Coy
When they run the product in the shelf so that you cannot see the price tag… When they put a “ Special “ sticker on something that has been there longer than you have been shaving… When they use that same “ Special “ sticker on something that has only just been shelved… You know…
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Do Other Hobbies Suffer From Being At The End Of The World?
Or is it just scale kit building? We all go regularly to the hobby shops or websites looking for novelties. We regularly come back disappointed. Meanwhile the net and the magazines show a wonderful variety of goods available to people in Europe, Asia, and North America. We are left outside on the footpath with our…
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A Kit Too Far
If you are observant at stash sales you can tell which models will be coming onto the table at a good price. Not initially, perhaps – we have all seen the ambitious price tag on a scale box. Sometimes it is high enough to over-run new kits currently available in the shops. This can be…
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Do You Trust Your Dealer?
No, I’m not referring to the one with the ziplock bags of powder… I mean the one with the cardboard boxes of styrene kits. You should get some help… Your hobby dealer is your friend, if you will be his. You both have a vested interest in seeing the other happy and successful. All it…
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The Best Kits Are The Surprise Ones
Either the ones that are given to you on birthdays and holidays or the acquisitions from abandoned stashes. The fact that they are an uncontrolled occurrence doesn’t lessen their value; it actually enhances it. There is a sense of surprise that you don’t get wandering the shelves of your usual hobby shop. Come to that,…
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Promoting A Hobby Shop
I visit two hobby shops regularly – another two every six months – and a couple more not at all. The chosen ones are close at hand when I am at home or coming from my weekly club meeting. The occasional ones are out of the way but rewarding for small items. The rejects are…
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Selling The Unsaleable
The heart of a hobby shop owner must be made of leather and whipcord. Or marzipan. Either way, it needs to be tough and resilient. The ultimate test of this comes at the end of the day when the last customer leaves and the till is totalled up. If the last customer is the only…
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Fun For The Whole Family
A scale modeller who runs out of kits need never be dismayed – as long as they have their family. a. The family are a soft touch. All you need to do is mope about the house complaining that you don’t have anything to do. After a day of this they will empty their purses…
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Will We Run Out Of Prototypes?
I asked myself this one day as I idly scrolled through the catalogues of Hasegawa, RS, and Special Hobby. I was trolling for 1:72 aircraft that I had not built yet. For a time there it was looking a bit bleak. The Hasegawa people are deriving a lot of their income from kits of Gundam,…
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Build Your Own Desires
Not those of others. You’re on this earth for a limited amount of time, and if you are reading this, you’ve used up a lot of it. Strive to make the most of the rest by doing what you want to do, in your own way. As long as it is legal and moral –…
The Little World 