recently I went into several Hobby shops looking for some of the traditional balsa airplane/boat kits to teach my grandkids some useful skills. You missed WALT'S (near Central express and Fairoaks) in Sunnyvale and SHELDON'S (originally on) on Alum Rock in San Jose. (yeah, a boat.but it looks GREAT behind my F100!) I still do model cars, Control Line planes, (scratch build now, but I'm old) H-O trains, real hot rods, my Gasser, Galaxie, F-100, F-1, and I just got a '66 Dorsett Runabout.

We found Kiddie World to have the best prices for model cars AND model airplane parts. When AMT came out with the big (1/25 scale) '39 Ford sedan, then the '40 Coupe, we were in Model Heaven! Then the '32 roadster. Highway Pioneers kits were 1/32 scale, I built about 20 of the 'Hot Rod', the '32 roadster. Lasted until 1983, I bought much of Larry's leftover stock then, as we were flying again.

Houston's moved from their #2 location in Town & Country village in the '70s, and re-opened on Winchester Blvd in Campbell. We got into Control Line airplane building/flying in 1955, and frequented all the hobby shops in the area, all of which were mentioned here. (before the councilmen Kielys leveled the downtown area.) ($10.00 value) Choose USA or CANADA.Click to expand.Boy, do I! Lived in Santa Clara, bought model cars at the Sportster hobby shop right on Franklin St., when Santa Clara had a real town. NOTE: If you are registered on both HobbyTalk and Mister Coney.ģ) Get a FREE Mister Coney goes over Niagara Falls in a Barrel Jigsaw Puzzle with your paid admission.

If anyone from HobbyTalk knows someone willing to set up a slot car racing track, please contact me. Special door prizes for moms, wives and girl friends!

Mister Coney ColorMe™ contests for children of all ages. We are planning on setting up small working atlas & tjet slot car tracks.ĭoor prizes for everyone that walks through the door and one lucky person will walk away with over $200.00 worth of door prizes after 12 noon! There will be all kinds of ho and 1:64 scale slot cars and parts including 440's, afx, atlas, bachman, hp2, hp7, jl, lionel, bachman, tjets, tyco pro, tyco s, vibes, etc. We have some vendors traveling as far away as Cleveland, Hamilton, Rochester, Syracuse and Toledo as well as locals from Alden, Buffalo, North Tonawanda, etc. The 1st Buffalo NY Slot Car Show & Swap Meet is four (4) days away and almost sold out!

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