Tag: old ideas

• The Search For New Plastic

  

  Are you at an impasse? Have you built yourself out of a hobby? Are you standing in the hobby shop but not feeling the buzz? Relax – it happens to all of us one time or another. The people who have a lot of spare hobby money to burn have it happen a lot more…

  Dick Stein

  April 2, 2026

  damage control, Hobby Shops, Miniature Philosophy, Modelling Supplies, Scale Models, Self Reliance, Uncategorized

  change, new things, old ideas

• It Is Hard To Sell A Poisoned Chalice

  

  Especially if you have been killing off people’s enthusiasm with it for years. This sentiment applies to a lot of things; hobby publications, exhibition organisation, and box-scale kits come to mind. The magazines we loved to buy are slowly giving way to YouTube presentations that take up hours of our time for minutes of information.…

  Dick Stein

  February 8, 2026

  box scale, Collecting, damage control, design, History, Hobby Shops, Miniature Philosophy, Modelling exhibitions, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  old ideas, old models, old prices