Ron Tamburrini
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1963 Glasgow model dockyard
A few dubious raincoats there 
A few dubious raincoats there 
This is where it started for Glasgow modellers
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Mat Lambert
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Wow what a fantastic shop. I know Edinburgh still has a great triple fronted store at Wonderland models too - lucky. Every town in the UK used to have somewhere special like this (maybe not quite as impressive) but look at the high streets now and it's all homogenous brand stores - utterly tragic. Seems other people don't 'do' anything with their free time anymore other than shop for clothes?
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Mat
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Indeed Mat, no matter where you go it's all Primark, Betfred, Starbucks, Clintons, charity shops, mobile phone shops and the same old boutiques. Seen one town centre, you've pretty much seen 'em all. Certainly in terms of the retail outlets.
We still have Antics in Sheffield, but with its limited stock and half of its floor & shelf space given over to model railways & die-cast cars, it can't hold a candle to a traditional LHS run by an owner who really knew his stuff. Antics, Waterstones, WH Smiths (for my modelling mags) and M&S (to blitz the food hall) are about the only stores I ever cross the threshold of now in Sheffield - on the increasingly rare occasions I go into town.
- Steve
We still have Antics in Sheffield, but with its limited stock and half of its floor & shelf space given over to model railways & die-cast cars, it can't hold a candle to a traditional LHS run by an owner who really knew his stuff. Antics, Waterstones, WH Smiths (for my modelling mags) and M&S (to blitz the food hall) are about the only stores I ever cross the threshold of now in Sheffield - on the increasingly rare occasions I go into town.
- Steve
Ron Tamburrini
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Quite some time ago Steve maybe two decades or more like three ,its a high class jewellers now , the shop is actually in the argyle arcade which is a victorian affair and almost all jewellers bar none I think .
friday night pocket money used to burn a hole in the pocket till me and my pal got into town the next morning , buying Arfix ,Frogg ,Revell kits .
planes ,ships tanks trains and my very first historex kit you couldn't get near the counter on a Saturday.
friday night pocket money used to burn a hole in the pocket till me and my pal got into town the next morning , buying Arfix ,Frogg ,Revell kits .
planes ,ships tanks trains and my very first historex kit
you couldn't get near the counter on a Saturday.
DEL
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Do you get a sense of Deja Vu often? See posts 7 and 9 and then your doctor
http://www.planetfigure.com/threads/how-the-hobby-has-moved-on.72495/page-2#post-751431
Tubby-Nuts2
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Hmm, 3 men! long 'Mack's', and one carrying a brown parcel? ... Was this shop next to 'Glasgow's' first, 'Sex-Shop'! A fantastic pitch!
In jest,
Mark.
In jest,
Mark.
ghamilt1
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I remember coming across a tiny model shop in the Merchant City area of Glasgow while my wife was looking through the German Christmas market. It was just a small shop but full of the sort of models and accessories I remember from shops from my youth. I had to buy something and when I went to pay, the proprietor gave a £1 note for change instead of the £1 coins I had become accustomed to getting. I wanted to know if it was still common place to receive paper notes in the £1 denomination, and that's when the fellow sitting with the owner piped up with "see you pal, that's legal tender", and he meant it! Best day ever! I wonder if that shop is still there? Does anyone know the name of it?
Ron Tamburrini
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Its gone like all the rest
Paul Kernan
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My first kit (Frog Albatross) was bought at the local John Menzies store in Bishopbiggs.
Glenn:
Are you talking about Jamesons in the Saltmarket? I dropped by when I was in Glasgow this past April. Still the store I remembered as a kid but not a figure in sight.
Ron:
Probably aging myself but do you remember a hobby store (poss trains) back in the 1970's under the bridge at Central Station? There was also a store just off Springburn Road back then, where I would get the old Aurora monster kits. Ah those were the days
Glenn:
Are you talking about Jamesons in the Saltmarket? I dropped by when I was in Glasgow this past April. Still the store I remembered as a kid but not a figure in sight.
Ron:
Probably aging myself but do you remember a hobby store (poss trains) back in the 1970's under the bridge at Central Station? There was also a store just off Springburn Road back then, where I would get the old Aurora monster kits. Ah those were the days
smudger1960
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My model shop is still there and it must be over 50yrs in its present location,it is a family business now run by the son of the late owner,incredible achievement considering the type of shops you get now.
I could'nt remember what my first Airfix kit was but what I do remember is buying loads of the Airfix ho/oo figures,I still have some of them boxed in my attic,even today when I see these at car boot sales or markets,even on eBay it brings back fantastic memories for me,I just loved these
I could'nt remember what my first Airfix kit was but what I do remember is buying loads of the Airfix ho/oo figures,I still have some of them boxed in my attic,even today when I see these at car boot sales or markets,even on eBay it brings back fantastic memories for me,I just loved these
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billyturnip
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Reading this reminded me of a model shop that was in Kirkgate, Ripon in the 70's so I did a search to see there was any photo's of it online and look what showed up!!!! 
http://veteranus.co.uk/pages/the-ripon-shop
No figures by the look of it but as I've recently started building afv's at work I'll be paying a visit.
I suppose I should thank Ron.
http://veteranus.co.uk/pages/the-ripon-shop
No figures by the look of it but as I've recently started building afv's at work I'll be paying a visit.
I suppose I should thank Ron.
Hi all we used to have a great model shop in Leeds city center it closed back in the late 70's it's now a Santander bank. used to be their every Saturday with the pocket money. the only model shop I know of is in Cross Gates in Leeds and is a Radio control models and some plastic kits, we did have a Model Zone and a Betties all gone now sad but that's life now a days.
The first Kit I every got was a ME109 by Airfix my Mum Got me it I was six she helped me put it together bless her. covered in glue but I loved it. and it set me on this road.
I too still have some of the 1/72 scale figures I loved them always building forts and having big battles in my room. we just never grow up do we lol.
ian
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The first Kit I every got was a ME109 by Airfix my Mum Got me it I was six she helped me put it together bless her. covered in glue but I loved it. and it set me on this road.
I too still have some of the 1/72 scale figures I loved them always building forts and having big battles in my room. we just never grow up do we lol.
ian
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billyturnip
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smudger1960
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I don't want to grow up Ian,I'm a very nostalgic person and I always think of my youth and particularly the 70s,it's Modeling and having a great love for 70s music that makes me happy remembering those great years,what an era that was
Blind Pew
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Manchester Model Shop on Deansgate was my pilrimmage, there and Beatties. Last time I went it had gone right downhill though, selling loads of toys basically. Shame
Some great memories.
Some great memories.
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And when one of the names that your team Arsenal was known by was "London Irish" because of all the players in the squad who came from the Emerald isle! I agree Brian, a wonderful bygone era of model shops in every town, when football was still a sport rather than an industry, when fish & chips were still served in proper newspaper, and before the great clunking fist of political correctness had come crashing down. Them woz the days old son!
When I was a kid, me and a lad called Keith who was my best mate at school used to set up those Airfix 1/32 plastic figures in forts and behind barricades, then blast the crap out of them with elastic band guns. If the defences proved too difficult to breach by rubber-band power alone, I would call up reinforcements in the shape of my Johnny Seven "One Man Army" gun (which now sell for daft money on eBay), but that was really the "nuclear option" as we preferred to hone our "sniping" skills with our Britains' Bandettas. We used to spend hours every week doing that at each other's houses after school, interrupted only when our mums called us down for the essential fishfingers & chips tea that went with it.
Then one day many years later when I was over from Germany, I met up with Keith for a quick sherbert down the local and we ended up going back to his gaff to sample his home brew. Amid much reminiscing, he ended up in his loft and came down with an old fort, several boxes of Airfix "military-sized soldiers" (as we used to call them when we were nippers), two rubber band guns complete with "ammo" - and we were up all night blasting away at these plastic troops while listening to Urian Heep, Black Sabbath and Deep Purple and steadily supping our way through his home brew. We were both as pissed as newts by breakfast time. A great and memorable night! I think we must have been age 30-ish at the time!!
I still see Keith maybe once a year for a drink, and we keep saying we really must do that again some time. Haven't done yet though, and God knows what our respective ball & chains would make of it.
- Steve
