Tag: surprises

• The Best Kits Are The Surprise Ones

  

  Either the ones that are given to you on birthdays and holidays or the acquisitions from abandoned stashes. The fact that they are an uncontrolled occurrence doesn’t lessen their value; it actually enhances it. There is a sense of surprise that you don’t get wandering the shelves of your usual hobby shop. Come to that,…

  Dick Stein

  April 3, 2026

  Collecting, frugality, Hobby Shops, Miniature Philosophy, Model building club, Uncategorized

  birthdays, Hobby Shops, stash sales, surprises

• Christmas And Birthday All Year Round

  

  Remember Christmas as a kid? Remember your birthday? Remember the present in the wrapping paper that looked suspiciously like a model kit – and the final minutes of anticipation before you got to it and unwrapped it? Be honest with yourself…if it WAS a model kit when the paper came off, you were thrilled. It…

  Dick Stein

  November 15, 2022

  1:72 scale, Collecting, finances, Miniature Philosophy, Model Airplane, Modelling Supplies, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  barter, kits, surprises

• Scale Model Kit Building Is Craft Beer In Styrene

  

  Here’s two parallel experiences; buying a plastic model kit in a hobby shop and buying a six-pack of craft beer at the local Dan Murphy’s. In both cases you are basically paying out for a pig in a poke. The externals are generally confusing…the plastic model kit has either great box art or horrible writing,…

  Dick Stein

  May 6, 2019

  1:72 scale, Box Art, Canadian aircraft, finances, Hobby Shops, Miniature Philosophy, Model Airplane, Modelling Supplies, Scale Models, Secondhand, Uncategorized

  sealed boxes, speculative purchasing, surprises