DrKerry Posted July 3, 2014 Posted July 3, 2014 milwaukee area has....... Greenfield News and Hobby in Greenfield Wisconsin 6815 W. Layton Avenue Greenfield, WI. 53220 Ph: 414 - 281-1800 Fax: 414 - 281-1440 http://www.greenfieldhobby.com/ Model Empire is in West Allis 7116 W Greenfield Ave, Milwaukee, WI 53214 (414) 453-4610 http://modelempireusa.com/
crazyjim Posted July 3, 2014 Posted July 3, 2014 Model Empire would be worth the trip. I think he carries every MCG part there is. Good selection of kits too.
DrKerry Posted July 3, 2014 Posted July 3, 2014 Model Empire also has older discontinued kits on the back wall. Worth the stop if your close!!!
Mike 1017 Posted July 4, 2014 Posted July 4, 2014 Americas Best Train and Hobby Shop is in Itasca IL 10 minutes from Elk Grove http://americasbesttrain.com/images/logo.jpg Berwyn Trains,Toys and Models is a hour away http://www.berwynstoytrains.com/image/btt%20circle%20neon.png
ferrarijoe Posted August 2, 2014 Posted August 2, 2014 Don't know if you already hit up chicago. But you have to go to Forever timeless hobby shop. They have more kits then I've ever seen in one shop. Stacked to the ceiling. And strada motorsport is outside St.louis if you email him he will let you come by. Last I checked he didn't have store front.
High octane Posted August 2, 2014 Posted August 2, 2014 I was just at Greenfield News & Hobby today, but I haven't been to Forever Timeless in a few years now.
MADDOG Posted August 2, 2014 Posted August 2, 2014 I used to go to school right down the street from Forever timeless. I think I am going to have to try and make a trip out and see what they have.
Harry P. Posted August 2, 2014 Posted August 2, 2014 Americas Best Train and Hobby Shop is in Itasca IL 10 minutes from Elk Grove http://americasbesttrain.com/images/logo.jpg Their website lists two automotive model kits. Not exactly a huge selection.
Lownslow Posted August 2, 2014 Posted August 2, 2014 Their website lists two automotive model kits. Not exactly a huge selection. oh its a whole row of model kits lots of uncommon kits too, scored a tamiya prelude there and a Bugatti EB110
ferrarijoe Posted August 2, 2014 Posted August 2, 2014 Don't go by what website says. This place is awesome. Does look like much from street. Just a door that they have to push a buzzer for you to get in. Like its some secret club. You go down a hallway, then you enter a big ass room. There is 3 or 4 rows of shelves about 30 plus foot long 8 foot plus tall. All models alot of hard to find things. Plan on being there a while.they have autos planes military and diecast. Some detail thimgs. They had a bunch of the old chrome 1/24 engine kits. Can't remember who made them.
Harry P. Posted August 2, 2014 Posted August 2, 2014 Don't go by what website says. This place is awesome. Does look like much from street. Just a door that they have to push a buzzer for you to get in. Like its some secret club. You go down a hallway, then you enter a big ass room. There is 3 or 4 rows of shelves about 30 plus foot long 8 foot plus tall. All models alot of hard to find things. Plan on being there a while.they have autos planes military and diecast. Some detail thimgs. They had a bunch of the old chrome 1/24 engine kits. Can't remember who made them. I was curious, so I stopped in earlier today. The store is in an industrial park, not your typical suburban strip mall. It's hard to miss the place... all sorts of signs and a bunch of red, white, and blue balloons all over the front of the store. No need to buzz the door to be let in. The door is unlocked, like any store. There is no hallway to go down, you enter the store and it goes off to the left and right side... the door is right in the middle of the store. There was one aisle of model kits, the place is mostly a model train shop. The model aisle was automotive, bikes, and armor on one side, airplanes and rockets on the other side. The aisle is about 15-20 feet long. The store looks like a typical hobby shop from the '60s-'70s... like time has stood still. Cramped and cluttered, with very narrow aisles. It does not look like a Hobby Lobby or Hobbytown USA. I saw a good selection of the basics... paints, tools, etc... your typical hobby shop stuff. The kit selection was a little "different"... not so much new releases as old, eclectic stuff you probably haven't seen in years. I saw a lot of kits that I didn't even know existed! A lot of really old stuff, too. Worth the trip if you live within, say, twenty miles or so... but not worth any special trip from a long way away, IMO. I found this there, though... what I think is an original issue from the '60s, for $25.
ferrarijoe Posted August 2, 2014 Posted August 2, 2014 4438 w bellmont ave chicago 60641 that's what I'm talking about forever timless hobby shop. Go to Google Earth and you can even walk the store cool as hell you can walk the store look at the selves.
Harry P. Posted August 2, 2014 Posted August 2, 2014 4438 w bellmont ave chicago 60641 that's what I'm talking about forever timless hobby shop. Go to Google Earth and you can even walk the store cool as hell you can walk the store look at the selves. I was talking about America's Best Train and Hobby... that their website listed only two kits. You said don't go by their website, the place is awesome. And now you say you're talking about a different place. Kind of hard to keep up with you and your ever-changing posts...
Harry P. Posted August 2, 2014 Posted August 2, 2014 4438 w bellmont ave chicago 60641 that's what I'm talking about forever timless hobby shop. Go to Google Earth and you can even walk the store cool as hell you can walk the store look at the selves. Just checked it out. Yeah, that place looks great. I like that "walk through" feature. Looks like they have a nice selection.
iBorg Posted August 2, 2014 Posted August 2, 2014 Would love to get google earth to let me walk the aisles.....cool feature. Keeps crashing on me.
MADDOG Posted August 2, 2014 Posted August 2, 2014 I just did the walk thru.... I will be making a trip out to F.T. sometime in the future.
Harry P. Posted August 2, 2014 Posted August 2, 2014 I just did the walk thru.... I will be making a trip out to F.T. sometime in the future. Same here. Looks like a cool place.
MADDOG Posted August 3, 2014 Posted August 3, 2014 O.k Harry....you drive and I will buy lunch and we take a ride out there when I get my hobby cash stash refilled?? LOL!!!
jaydar Posted August 3, 2014 Posted August 3, 2014 Des Plaines Hobby and La Grange (my walk to shop) are both excellent. joe.
ferrarijoe Posted August 3, 2014 Posted August 3, 2014 I live in k.c. so only get out there 1 or 2 times a year. I usually go to Forever and a shop in joillet next to the mall don't know the name. But I am going to hit up Des Plaines and LA Grange next time. We don't have anything good for models here. So most of mine are Internet buys now. Which i hate just something about actually going in a store i love.
MADDOG Posted August 3, 2014 Posted August 3, 2014 just something about actually going in a store i love. I agree. The way I felt when I was kid kid looking at everything...the way it smells... I instantly go back in time when I walk in to a hobby shop. My Father took me to many hobby shops all over Chicago when I was a kid while he looked for the models he wanted.
jefropas Posted August 4, 2014 Posted August 4, 2014 America's Best, they have a ton of old stuff, its about the best one going around here anymore.... Jeff
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