Tag: Shopping
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Sopwith Camel – Part Three – Decision Time

Decision time comes at many stages of a build – Shop, Shelf, Box, and Bench. For the desperadoes amongst us we can add the Screen. a. Shop. Which one to go to? The closest one? The one with the biggest range? The one who gets the newest kits in? The one with the best prices?…
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Good Morning Walter – Part Eleven – Playing Shops

Walter, if you’re anything like me, you enjoy going to the shops. Sometimes it may seem a little boring to go to department stores with your Mum to buy things like drapes or towels ( and in the 50’s all department stores were painted beige and they were deserts of boredom…) but if you endure…
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” 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…
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Stacking The Shelves

Let me preface this post by saying that I spent 40 years being professionally fussy and organised for myself and my patients and then 8 years trying to cope with someone else’s retail stock chaos after that – 48 years of honourable organisation without tipping over into clinical OCD. It was good preparation for my…
