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Arrivals For the Week Ending September 13,  2025 –

September 15,2025

Photo Recon Spitfire

by Vic Esposito

This kit is the Hasegawa 1/48 Photo Recon Spitfire Mk IXC. It was based in Normandy after D-Day and flew low altitude photo missions at dawn and dusk.

It was painted in PRU Pink to blend in the early morning and twilight skies.

The camera was located just forward of the roundel.

August 19, 2025

Henry Morgan Pirate Ship

by Shane Trosclair

The Sir Henry Morgan Pirate Ship is the Lindberg 1/160 scale kit. I painted the mast gloss brown, the deck is tan over black, and the hull is military brown.

Below the waterline was painted with Testors model masters intermediate blue. The rat lines are flat black.

I left the sails as they were, using a brown sharpie pen for the lines. The lantern is done in Testors gloss red, Model masters blue angel blue and Model masters gold.

Rosebud

Hub Hobby’s original building on Broad St in New Orleans has been demolished. Word of it being torn down spread like wildfire.

One of our customers, Jim Letten, was emailed by his friend Martin about the demolition of their childhood hang-out.

The subject line was: ROSEBUD

“Rosebud” was the dying word spoken by Orson Welles in the movie Citizen Kane: a reference to his childhood sled – the symbol of memories of youthful innocence.

Read it here