I also picked up a few items from Hobby Lobby and Michael's that I will post tomorrow after I go back and get some pictures of other items for my wish list. I must say I am so glad that we got a new Hobby store, considering all the one's we had when I was little had shuttered their doors once Michael;s came to town. I had thought all of them were gone the first which carried Trains was in the 1st shopping center are town had that was anchored by Roses. It soon closed after Roses and other business moved to the same street as the new and only Mall.
In that mall another Hobby Shop opened up I would spend hours in there as my mom shopped.
Then it was gone, forever I thought....apparently NOT after moving back do to my cancer and autoimmune disease I was waiting from the Pharmacy to fill my prescriptions so I hoped back in my car and decided to check out what business had closed and what was new on that part of Western Blvd.
I saw the Hobby Express sign, this isn't like any chain store you will every see, it is run by an immigrant from Asia not sure what country. It is basically a home town store stuffed full, beyond full over flowing with items for all types of hobbies, remote control cars, airplanes, and any and every part to build cars from scratch if one so desired, model trains, paints galore, all kinds of models planes, tanks, boats rockets, and then there is the Warcraft and just about any RPG type game, the figures, dice, buildings, figures, landscaping, then the mother load of Sixth Scale Action Figures, Military, Superheros, vehicles, weapons. It also has the tables for the Marines to play different RPG different days and times are set for each type of game. The owner is cool, knowledgeable shop keeper that will order what you need, allow extended layaway etc.
I also found 2 stores run by Asian women who had married American GI's one store I am pretty sure is Korean and the other Japanese. Both have knowledgeable shopkeepers who love interacting with shoppers and helping when ever possible. They will also get stuff you want from the Asian Market I have meant to ask about the Rement products, hopefully I can get one of them to order some when ever I have any extra money that isn't paying medical bills which are out of this world. Working with miniatures, taking pictures and working on my family tree on ancestry.com is the only things preventing me from flipping out or exploding like Mt. Everest. I hope to start constructing a dual project with my sister in the woods next to our house, we plan on integrating the barbie structures I want to build with a Put Put course my sister will design. So the next generation of kids will have a fun activity to do. Play put put and then dolls or both at the same time.
