I remember going into Woolworth’s and Sears and wandering around in the model kit aisles as a kid, just mentally drooling at the boxes and their seductive colorful artwork, trying to find THE model kit to buy and build with what little money I had on me. I miss having a real hobby shop to go through, now that it’s a desert out here on Oa…
I remember going into Woolworth’s and Sears and wandering around in the model kit aisles as a kid, just mentally drooling at the boxes and their seductive colorful artwork, trying to find THE model kit to buy and build with what little money I had on me. I miss having a real hobby shop to go through, now that it’s a desert out here on Oahu for us model kit bashers and kids that refused “to grow up” from stuff we used to do “when I was a kid!” (The reason that I always hear from the general public whenever I’m at one of our IPMS club displays…) Internet shopping and mail order are what feeds my addiction today and Burbank House of Hobbies is one of my go to places on eBay. But nothing can replace walking into a real hobby shop and scanning the kits, paints, books, and accessories to find the latest fix for my bad habit…damn, I envy you guys who can actually go into a real hobby shop…
I remember going into Woolworth’s and Sears and wandering around in the model kit aisles as a kid, just mentally drooling at the boxes and their seductive colorful artwork, trying to find THE model kit to buy and build with what little money I had on me. I miss having a real hobby shop to go through, now that it’s a desert out here on Oahu for us model kit bashers and kids that refused “to grow up” from stuff we used to do “when I was a kid!” (The reason that I always hear from the general public whenever I’m at one of our IPMS club displays…) Internet shopping and mail order are what feeds my addiction today and Burbank House of Hobbies is one of my go to places on eBay. But nothing can replace walking into a real hobby shop and scanning the kits, paints, books, and accessories to find the latest fix for my bad habit…damn, I envy you guys who can actually go into a real hobby shop…