Greetings from the PNW

[Kellner]

Where did you live in Illinois? I live about 50 miles out of Chicago in Marengo.

 

[Modelstation]

That’s what I thought. That has been what I have found so far.

Times have changed. When I was a teenager living in Brooklyn Ny, we had several local hobby shops.

I worked in one of them after school. We had all sorts of great hobby stuff ranging from wooden model railroad kits like Ambroid, Walthers, FloQuil paints, full lines of strip wood, etc. I bought my first ship model kit there a Billings boat kit which I was actually able to inspect before I bought it and asked intelligent questions to the sales person.

I got a lot of my hobby stuff in exchange for my working there as a Lionel train repair man.

That’s the way it was in Boston. I don’t really know how much interest there is in our area. Besides that, with online shopping, brick and mortar stores are fading away. I bought my first wooden ship, the Dumas American Beauty in 1974, at the original Hobbytown in Lincoln, Nebraska, my hometown. I got to know the owner, Chic Bartlett and he displayed some of the models I built in his front window.

 

[Magic Mike]

I don't know your name but welcome to the forums and greetings from Texas (where the Lexington is moored. Magic Mike

 

[Modelstation]

Where did you live in Illinois? I live about 50 miles out of Chicago in Marengo.

Ottawa and Lasalle

 

[Kellner]

Nice model. My name is Mike also.

 

[Bobby K.]

Hello Mike, Welcome to SOS
Bobbyk

 

[Dry-Dock Models & Parts]

Welcome aboard!

 

[rtwpsom2]

Kitsap County, Olalla. If you haven’t heard of it, it’s between Gig Harbor and Port Orchard.

I'm just west of you near Carney Lake. Welcome aboard.

I am new to the PNW. Does anyone know of a good hobby shop in the area that has supplies, kits etc. which would be useful for our hobby?

Skyway Model Shop is the best damn hobby shop in the PNW, but their focus is more on plastic kits than wooden ones.