T&A Hobby Lobby's Month-Long Farewell!

The southeast vestibule features some unusual 3D Classics, including a Concorde SST in prototype markings. Unknown if these are for sale, so inquire of Tony when you drop by.

A better view of the crowd activity during the day. The store experienced two lulls during the day, one in the middle that didn't last long, and at the end of the day near the 5 O'Clock closing.

A Classic Piston Motor display molded in plastic and presenting a Phantom Piston engine, similar to the types that powered the North American AT-6 Texans or Stearman Biplanes.

Focus on a 3D Wedell-Williams Racer. Note the full fuselage Fokker DVII, Curtis P-40, and other racer types based on Goodyear Midget designs.

Half the fun of T&A is rummaging through what's there...you really have to search but there's treasures hidden beneath the "Sands of Time..."

Inner workings of the Uncompleted Classic Vought F4U Corsair. This view shows the center wing box and its mechanisms for RC flight.

A view of the fuselage workings of the Vought F4U Uncompleted Classic. A 12 ox. water bottle to the left gives you scale. The kit appears to be @ six to eight inches in width at the mount for the engine.

A selection of kits and one of the new breed electric flyers for starter pilots in RC flying. Believe it or not, the buyer did not acquire the ME262A or ME109 kits, which are Classics from @ the late 1970 and 1980s. Some collect the classics and never build them, preferring to keep them contained within their original box arts, another collectable commodity.

A pretty little plastic Citabria slow flyer for RC training. The aircraft is electric powered.

Tony wipes his brow in the midst of the early morning rush. The owners of other hobby shops, all friends of Tony's, even came by to add to their Classic Collections.

Tony at work in the middle of a veritable Hobbyist's Treasure Chest collecting in payments for items purchased at heavy discount.

One collector scored heavily, and will again today, in his purchase of the old Aurora Classic Airliner kits, such as this McDonnell Douglas DC-9, one of their finest kits produced. This model is a completed desk display featuring the reissue and the colors of Hughes Air West, which flew in the 1970s. The same collector is waiting on delivery of a PSA 737 by the same company.

A soft photo for the time being of Classic racer drawings. These were subsequently donated by Tony to The Home Pylon here at ILIPS Group, and will be featured online as part of the Air Racing Extravaganza of 2006...which is slowly getting underway, but getting underway none the less...

Professionally (Museum Quality and Diecast) kits that will shortly be museum bound. One or two may be available...check with Tony for said availability.