Tag: packaging

• Convair 440 – Part Two – How Much For That Busted Box?

  

  When I was engaged in retail trade in cameras and photographic goods we would occasionally receive a shipment of equipment that had a tough passage. External cardboard cartons might have been roughly handled by the shippers and ended up dented or breached. We rarely had evidence of tampering or pilfering, but it was possible. Trucks…

  Dick Stein

  September 28, 2018

  1:72 scale, American aircraft, Hobby Shops, Miniature Philosophy, Model Airplane, Scale Models

  breakages, discounts, packaging, retailing

• Packaging Part Two – The Quality Of The Box

  

  I’ve been buying model kits since Eisenhower was President and Louis St. Laurent was Prime Minister and I think I’ve seen them offered in every form of packaging save a lard barrel; cardboard boxes, plastic packets, plastic bags, sleeves, and even one memorable lot in paper envelopes. As I sit at my desk typing I…

  Dick Stein

  June 27, 2018

  1:72 scale, Box Art, Czech models, Hobby Shops, Model Airplane, Model cars, Model trains, Modelling materials, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  Aurora, box art model kits Airfix, boxes, Lindberg, Monogram, packaging, Revell