I just found out that Smokestack Hobbies in Lancaster Ohio, just southeast of Columbus, is going out of business. The owner wants to retire after 35yrs, so everything must go. If you bring cash he will dicker with the final price. Discounts vary according to what the item is.
Store hours are M-F till 7pm, till 6pm on Sat. and until 5pm for the next two Sundays. This store carried a lot of merchandise so first come first served.
Frank
I, too, recently visited Smoke Stack Hobbies, BEFORE I saw the above notice and was
sorry to see they were going out of business. Stock does look considerably depleted,
so the word must have gotten out. By coincidence, I just managed to buy a couple
of the kits they once offered, for a couple of railroad bridges, passing up one, an under track truss, off eBay. I have long looked for a covered bridge kit they offered for the Black Mill Bridge near Lancaster, and understand they offered some other railroad related kits, too. Don't know if they offered a kit for the Black Mill building itself, which is now under restoration and much improved over what it was when I first visited it, and their shop, in the late 1970's. This area, Fairfield County, has a lot of covered bridges, and Black Mill Bridge, before it was fairly recently closed to traffic, was a "kissing bridge", that I've seen couples slow their cars to kiss while driving through it, and is a picturesque bridge over a falls and deep gorge, and with the mill, makes a park like setting.
I hate to see these local shops go...while you can find more on the internet, you have
to buy a lot of it to make sense, due to shipping costs. And you can't just drive over
and run in for a tube of glue and some styrene. Takes a while for it to float in, if they
get the order right.....had errors lately.
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