robertw

Way too neat, but I'm envious anyways.

I love the LHS, any LHS! When I go to a new city the first thing I check is the phone book looking for what shops may exist there, whether they be mom & pop style or big box Hobby Lobby style. If I meet staff who are friendly and plastic knowledgeable that is just icing on the cake and a guarantee that I'll walk out with stuff that I might otherwise not purchased. As the old idea of hardware or hunting/fishing stores being a place for men to just wander around in, so a hobby shop is like catnip to me.

One of my favorite shops has recently been going through changes, reduced selection of kits, the departure of the plastic guy from the staff and new staff who are more interested in r/c, correspondingly my interest in visiting it is decreasing slightly.

While I certainly buy on the internet to get a lot of the stuff that local shops won't carry, p/e, decals etc. or rare or unusual kits the LHS will remain my favorite place to look for the stuff of our hobby and since it is the smaller shops that will usually have employees that have an interest in the customer I guess it will be the mom & pop style shops that I like to visit the most even if the prices are a little higher.

If Magnum had driven this 308 the show wouldn't have lasted the first year.

HOMER MAD!!!!!!!!

I scratchbuilt one of these for my weird car collection before Xmas and the kit is out so soon that no one is going to believe that I built my own.

The multi piece bodies just require a little extra time and care during the initial assembly and then they're usually no different then a one piece body. I've built the 59/60 Corvette and the Revell Futura, just finished an old Pyro 1/32 scale Ford as a WWII US Army staff car and have the Revell Healey on the go. By investing a little extra time in these old kits you can often have some fairly unique models to set on your display shelves