Tag: Hobby Shops

• ” 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

• The Seven Circles Of Modeller’s Inferno

  

  Dante was not the only person who made a journey to the lowest depths of Hell and wrote about it. I’ve been to the hobby shows myself. Apart from a little more sulphurous smell and uglier demons, they are remarkably like the underworld. And just as Dante found, there are distinct levels of the place,…

  Dick Stein

  June 27, 2018

  Collecting, Hobby Shops, Military models, Miniature Philosophy, Model Airplane, Model cars, Model trains, Modelling Supplies, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  finishing systems, Hell, Hobby Shops, old kits, prototypes