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Arrivals For the Week Ending March 22,  2025 –

March 13, 2025

Space Marine

Ruben Chicas painted this 28mm Games Workshop figure of Infernus Marine.

Paints used were Games Workshop blue, Golden Acrylics green blue, and red, Dspaie gold marker, and Abt 502 oil green tint.

February 20, 2025

Pontiac Grand Prix NASCAR

By Alan Gomez

This 1/24 Revell Pontiac Grand Prix NASCAR was built straight out of the box. I didn’t do any scratch building as I usually do.

I used Testor red enamel sprayed over the Tamiya red oxide primer as the base color.

The wheels came chromed, but I stripped and repainted them. Goodyear was painted with a toothpick using a white gel pen. A Molotov Chrome marker was used on the lug nuts and bolt heads.

Engine and the bottom of the chassis are race weathered using the Tamiya wreathing compounds. I hand painted the window trim black from inside. The kit came as a “lift off” hood as it didn’t have hinges like more recent kits.

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