Tag: Hobby Shops
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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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Full Moon Is the Worst Time
That’s when the special modellers shop. The hobby shop staff know what’s coming; they brace themselves. The cowards call in sick, but the old hands just stand to the till and face the storm. ” Do you have this in 1/296th? Why not? “. ” I want the best kit. I’ve got $ 12. Hit…
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The Dead Ghost Of Habit
How many of the daily routines that fence your life are done out of necessity? How many out of enthusiasm? And how many are pure habit? All the way from eating and sleeping through cleanliness and exercise, we can have good habits or bad ones. In many cases we cannot tell the one from the…
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AI And The Scale Modeller – Part Three – The Supervisor
If AI can think for itself, can it think for you? If you are unaccustomed to the task, there may be an opening… You generally decide to buy a kit by walking down the aisle of Hobbyhell and letting your imagination loose. As there are other enthusiasts in there with you it starts to take…
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Who Decided My Childhood?
No, I don’t mean my parents or the school teachers or the rock and roll industry – I mean who decided which prototypes to make into the plastic models that I built? Bear in mind it was a childhood in a part of North America that was under both American and British influence. Airfix, FROG,…
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” I Want To Return This Kit “
And I want a full refund for it. a. It is the wrong kit. I wanted the right kit. Okay, I brought it from the shelf to the till myself and paid for it, but it was the wrong kit when I got it home and the wife found out how much it cost. b.…
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Politically Incorrect Modelling
Model kit building can be a harmless hobby or a fiendish socio-political plot. It all depends on who is telling the story. In Australia we are currently out of favour with Communist China, and seem set to be castigated further as a pact between the UK, US, and Australia is established. As a side-show, the…
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Smorgasbuilding
One of those, and one of those, and one of those… And you won’t build that sort again, because they’re icky. And there you are, in the aisle of the local HobbyHell Supastore looking for a small bottle of paint – or a large box of tank. And you see a rack full of packets…
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You Get What They Got
Or you just git. The internet is a wonderful place to see hobby kits and supplies that you cannot obtain. It is not the fault of the hobby shops – they would sell you scale kits of your grandparents if they were obtainable. They are in the unenviable position of not being able to get…
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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…
The Little World 