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In luck here in Estes Park, Colorado. From my cabin bordering Rocky Mountain
National Park, it is down 3,000 feet of twisty river canyon highway for 35 minutes, mostly through Roosevelt National Forest, and right there, when you bottom out in the prairie flatlands, is the Loveland Hobby Lobby. If they fail, there is another 10 minutes further in Longmont.. Also within an hour,
Fort Collins, Arvada, Broomfield and Denver. Hobby Lobby loves Colorado as a place to site it's stores..
Got a Michaels Art Supply in Fort Collins too .... Closest serious hobby store is a one hour drive in Greeley, at Don's Hobbies. If they don't got it, you don't need it ..... LOL. Don;s is really good for old dusty kits that go back 20 years
Colpar (Aurora) and Caboose Hobbies (Denver) are 1 1/2 hours for the serious stuff like resin and PE aftermarket and say, White Ensign enamels or
Liveries Unlimited decals.
Only problem, it is hot down there. 82 degrees here means 100 down there.
Plus Estes Park has no mosquitos, thus no West Nile Disease. By going to
Loveland, I run the guantlet of virus carrying mosquitos, now at it's peak and hitting Colorado hard.
Which reminds me, I haven't yet built that $60 Academy 1/32nd F-18 from the last 1/2 price Hobby Lobby sale. ....... or the $50 Trumpeter 1/24th P-51 .... These sales are great, but they are adding to my stash in the closet ..... Hmmmmm .... think I might get out that F-18 tonite ....
Sadly, my other current interest, cardstock models, requires mail order from
Prague, Czech Republic and/or Hamburg, Germany. Can't drive there for the
1/2 price sales ..... but with these models downloading over the Internet is the coming thing.
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