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Arrivals For the Week Ending April 12,  2025 –

April 7, 2025

TBD-1 Devastator

by Shane Trosclair

I built this 1/48 Monogram TBD-1 Devastator from VT-2 which was based on the Lexington.

I made the flight deck out of corrugated cardboard and used Tamiya spray paints: Silver Leaf, Chrome Yellow, and Italian Red.

March 31, 2025

Port Hudson Louisiana

by Jeff Junker

About 30 or so years ago, a guy from Baton Rouge came into the hobby shop and said he was building an American Civil War diorama for a museum outside of Baton Rouge and needed the smallest old time passenger car I had. He wound up with a Model Power N-scale Overton Coach. He also bought some Atlas flex track and some Woodland Scenics products.

And I never saw him again or thought about the diorama he said he was going to build.

Until this past Spring when I visited the Port Hudson State Historic Site. On display in a glass case is his diorama measuring about 8 feet long and 2 feet wide.

There is a button you press that starts a narration of what happened during the 48 day siege and the Fort’s surrender after the fall of Vicksburg.

Little lights light up highlighting the area which is being talked about. And sitting atop the bluff is the Overton Coach that came from Hub Hobby.

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