Aussie Modellers

to our little patch of Aus outback and celestialsphere!! I expect to see you both over at the Aussie Group Build so that you can join in the fun there.

celestialsphere, I'm from Melbourne and the main hobby shops I go to are:

Hearns Hobbies 295 Flinders St Melbourne
Victorian Hobby Center 1st Floor 21a Swanston St Melbourne
Hobby Place 280- 282 Lonsdale St Melbourne

I work in town so it helps

Cheers
Darren

QUOTE: Originally posted by outback Hi All, Long time lurker now I'm out of the closet so to speak. Names Shane currently living in Adelaide. My main interest is 1:35 Military ground based vehicles and I'm in my modern period at the moment but anything will do. I have dabbled in sci-fi and built some planes but the planes were about 30 years ago oh and one motor bike (that was 20 years ago). I did a truck once. Built it that is . Cheers

Shane to the FSM Forums, and the Aussie Modellers thread, nice to see you come out of the closet, it gets very dark in there. What part of Adelaide are you from.

QUOTE: Originally posted by darson to our little patch of Aus outback and celestialsphere!! I expect to see you both over at the Aussie Group Build so that you can join in the fun there. celestialsphere, I'm from Melbourne and the main hobby shops I go to are: Hearns Hobbies 295 Flinders St Melbourne Victorian Hobby Center 1st Floor 21a Swanston St Melbourne Hobby Place 280- 282 Lonsdale St Melbourne I work in town so it helps Cheers Darren

Darren, you answered a question before I had a chance to ask it: as I am going to be in Melbourne this weekend I was going to ask about the shops you mentioned to confirm that they where still open.

QUOTE: Originally posted by celestialsphere Alright all you Melbourne Chappies! You're all under ARREST until you tell me where the Hobby Shops of Melbourne lurk..... Well... I'm waiting! :) Thanks Dudes! Celestialsphere (Your newest Melburnian)!

Hehehe I think i usurped your title Celestialsphere!!!
Here's a list of the larger ones:

Hearn's Hobbies: 295 Flinders Street (under the Flinders Street Station, oppostie Elizabeth Street)
Victorian Hobby Centre: 1st Floor, 21A Swanston Street, also near the station.
Metropolitan Model & Hobby Centre: 424 Station Street, Box Hill
Hobby Place, City: 280-282 Lonsdale Street (opposite Myer)

I suggest VHC, they're a lot cheaper than Hearn's when it comes to their products. I have been buying from them for a few years now and must say I'm quite happy with the results. Also, they have a great stock of conversion kits & decals to build Aussie models.
Cheers,
John (the REAL newest Melbournian)

BTW I'm John, i live in Melbourne's western 'burbs. I'm into Warhammer 40K, 1/35 Aussie Army vehicles (incl APCs, Tanks & Helos), 1/35 WWII German amour, 1/72 modern day fighters (esp Aussie and Russian). I also do a bit of HO gauge railroad modelling and some 1/350 ships.

Thanks for the Hobby shop info guys!

I visited the February meeting of the Eastern Suburbs Scale Modelling Club last night.
They were very welcoming and there was a good selection of models on display.
Thanks for a great night if any of the guys are on the thread.

Celestialsphere
AKA Andrew Riddle
New to Melbourne
Aircraft 1/144th and 1/72, Modified 1/24th scale cars, occasional small scale AFV's, Scratchbuilt sci-fi, very rarely Warhammer 40K figures.
Current projects 1/44th Revell Boeing 737 (with winglets!), Italeri 1/72nd Israeli Merkava MBT.

and (he forgets) ex PDMC member...

hope you are settling in ok, Andrew!!

cheers

Mike

John to FSM and welcome to the Aussie Modelers thread. I totally agree with you on Vic Hobby Centre, they have the best prices by far and if you're a model club member you get a further 10% discount.
I use Hearns mainly to by paint and bits as I pretty much only use MM Enamels and they have a good range of those.
Hobby Place is OK and has an excellent range of Tamegawa kits, but I don't find the service to be all that great.

Cheers
Darren

Folks - I've set myself up on Fotki and am in the process of migrating my aircraft pics across there over the next week. This setup gives me unlimitied disk space [:0] so I don't have to scale down the pics. To date I've done the AWM & the Aus. Aviation Museum at Bankstown.
http://bandhaboy.fotki.com

Heh heh, 55MB on the Mirage alone.

Shane to the FSM Forums, and the Aussie Modellers thread, nice to see you come out of the closet, it gets very dark in there. What part of Adelaide are you from.