Dave Van

You communicate better than I......I have dealt with Kalmvach since 1972.......and I was mad because it's like a good friend screwing you over for a few bucks......bad taste is right. Thanks

The buck stops at Kalmbach....the end. 3rd party...4th or 5th......I don't care. Kalmbach is ultimately responsible. Why would I have inside info??? The only connection to Kalmbach other than a few magazine subscriptions was a review of my resin Merkur kit by Terry Jessie years ago. Plus if I'm an insider I sure would not hand them money the day before they shut!!!

I've written it 3 times....and I know it's in Hill Billy....BUT....SA(E) was a shadow of the Schimt era. So not a huge loss. I WAS MAD THAT HEY TAKE MONEY FROM ME THE DAY BEFORE THEY SHUT.......KNOWING THEY ARE DOING SO....AND 3-4 weeks to get my money??? READ my hill billy typing.....I've said it as clear as I can. thx

CORRECT...I still have a few from Woolco!

AHM, best known for their model trains in O, HO and N scales, also re-boxed Revell kits at times. I have a Revell Meter Cheater in a AHM box I bought at Woolco for 99 cents.

Oh....I got a old of them. Being a retired bank analyst...in the end I'd get my money not matter what. How about this. I could just call my CC company and instant I get the charge removed. But I gave Kalmbach a chance before I go nuclear. They say a CC refund will be processed later this month and then show up a few weeks later on my account. OK....I'll try this way. But in the end I get my way. If a bank took 3-4 week to clear your pay check....you might not be happy either. With no magazine....all they have i service and it's just OK.....not great.

I was mad at Kalmbach, SA(E) owners, when they allowed me to renew the day before they shut the doors. I looked at my payment and it was to 'Magazine Agents Inc' so it was not Kalmbach directly....they were evidently using a vendor to handle this info. HOWEVER in the end Kalmbach should have let this company know a day or two early. You do not shut a magazine overnight....Kalmbach knew it was coming for a while. PS: There is hope for a new magazine.......just wait.....

Disagree....... 'MY' independent hobby shop has 2 Hobby Lobby within 10 miles. He has great service and much better selection on CRAFT items. None of the wall art or 'decor' that HL has......but that matters little to my wife or me.....a great store for both of us. Also...do not dismiss the 95% of the rest of Hobby Lobby. I buy matt board, wood, craft paints, glues and things like white and red pencils I use for dash gauges. And in the jewelry dept I have found some cool little detail items. My Hobby Lobby is 1.25 hour drive, Hobby shop almost 3. I go to the hobby shop when I can but that is a all day trip.....HL I can run to. This COVID BLAH_BLAH_BLAH_BLAH has been much harder on my hobby shop than HL is. Thanks

If R2 got ten cents a pound over scrap value....they made a GREAT deal!!!!! And right now scrap is nothing.

Don't forget his band and recording career!!!!

My post above explains Varney model train stuff.

Glenco had many of the Adams tools Life Like had. They issued some of the 1/48 horse wagons recently. Life Like also got the tooling for the Varney rail kits. They were in production up to about 2 years ago......Mantua had them last.......maybe MRC now. Goes to show well made tooling from the 50's 60's has a long life!!

Tom is a little older than I so he earned it. He did say on his forum he has a BIG stash of vintage kits he will be selling on ebay. So he changing his biz as much as anything. He has a number of cool collector cars too....which hopefully we can start showing again soon!

The RR kits were on ebay about the same price....I picked up another as we may never see it again.....odd kit for a German company to produce!

Spotlight Hobbies will continue now run by employees that bought the biz.

The Varney and Adams tooling is interesting. Yes....it ain't what we may have hoped for....but for those of us that LIKE old odd kits.....maybe good thing! Don't be such negative Nancy. Atlantis is selling a lot of kits through Hobby Lobby and getting folks that may not see kits anywhere else. THAT is a good thing.

I was at my HL yesterday and shelves were almost empty. But at the end of the isle was 9 boxes of models. Lots of re-stock...I didn't see new stuff.....but I didn't go through every box. Good to see stuff selling!!! I got a Revell Rubicon Jeep and sanding film.

All were announced last year, Been out. Atlantis has a 'casual' way of doing things.......we have to be on their schedule.

WOW!!!! all I can say!

How I am not sure......but my years in the IT field I hear others with the same story. My guess is a defect in the disk that surfaces after years. There are a number of sites and even Youtube videos on how to fix corrupted DVD....but none worked. I also have a DVD copy of the Japanese release of the 1982 Blade Runner, rare film. it stopped working a few years after I bought it. Played maybe 3 times.....very well cared for. Things happen.

I did that for the original Car Model magazine of the 60's-70's. It was great and well worth it.....until it got corrupted. Not a scratch....the data would not read any longer. I contacted publisher.....their solution....buy another DVD......

A guy who does 'man on the street' show did one about July 4th. Two people he stopped to interview said they were elementary school teachers, the host laughed and said 'you'll be the first today to get all my questions right' First question was 'What is the year of Independence?' Both said they didn't know but it was '17 something'. Enough said.....

The NASCAR model forum crashed and we lost the data base. With the crash went posts from people that worked in NASCAR in the 1960's 70's and are now gone.....and so is all the first hand info they had given us.

I remember your stuff......that era of the magazine was great!

I just sent a note to White River productions about SAE. They publish rail themed magazines right now but they have saved a number of magazines from closure. I sent a note asking if they might be interested in SAE as there is now a market with no viable print magazine. Maybe if we let them know we want a good magazine.....we can try. The magazines they did save are now 100% better than they were in their last incarnation. e-mail them....... info@whiteriverproductions.com