Tag: old stock

• Seeing The Remnants All In One Place

  

  Is good for the mind and bad for the soul. Or the other way round… The big boxes full of little boxes – in their turn full of unbuilt plastic kits saved from the wreck of a Perth hobby shop – that greeted me at my hobby club were an amazing sight. Part of the…

  Dick Stein

  July 10, 2026

  Hobby Shops, Model building club, Modelling materials, prototypes, Scale Models, Secondhand, Uncategorized, Utility Models

  leftovers, old stock, stashes

• The Barnacle

  

  AKA the shelf queen. The styrene albatross. The kit that has sat on the hobby shop shelf ever since the place opened. The Unsold Undead… It may be worse than this. There are items in stock in many retailers that have been delivered from other shops that have previously failed; I saw it several times…

  Dick Stein

  November 2, 2022

  1:72 scale, finances, Hobby Shops, Miniature Philosophy, Uncategorized, Utility Models

  old stock, retailers, sales mistakes