Scale Model Soup

What do you do with the loose change in your pocket at the end of the day? You probably put it into a jar where it accumulates month after m...

I recently wrote about the demise of hobby shops and wondered if that’s really a bad thing. We talk a lot about the challenges that hobby sh...

Every couple of months there’s a post to one of the big forums about another hobby shop closing. We lament the closure, talk about how grea...

Another Squadron Black Friday sale has come and gone, but the echo of complaints will echo well into the week. I thought it might be useful ...

I recently wrote about my first hobby shop , Carl’s Hobbies in tiny Inverness, Florida. As I was thinking back to those days enjoying the sh...

Unlike, say, Florida, it’s always tourist season in New York City. I’ve had the pleasure of working in Midtown Manhattan for almost 15 years...

Do you remember your first hobby shop? I do. The year was 1982, a small Florida town about an hour north of Tampa. I was 14 years old. I h...

“Maybe you had to leave in order to miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was.”  That is Jo...