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Wow !
Duncan - URGENT PM inbound
Ian
Hobbycraft has a sale on again at the moment. It seems a little confused: some items are "clearance" on yellow tickets and some are "blue cross" and are supposed to be 30% off, but the maths doesn't always add up. It's by no means everything in the shop, but it's definately worth a look anyway.
Notables include:
various £8.00 Airfix kits for £5.00
£35 Tamiya tanks at £20-odd
Tamiya Raptors (dinosaurs) at half price (£7.00 instead of £14-odd) - be quick: I got the last one in the Stockport branch
Tamiya German 37mm AT gun & crew for £4.00
Various other Tamiya dinosaurs
Revell new-tool Gannet for £7.00
Lots of others: that's just what I can remember.
Somebody needs to tell my local Hobbycraft then. I was in there today and saw no sign of any sales at all.
It's on their website. The Clearance Sale page doesn't list the kits, but the actual kit pages show the discounts.
It all seems a bit disorganised. For instance, the website shows the Airfix Nimrod at £10 off but the Stirling at full price, however Stockport Hobbycraft are discounting the Stirling but charging full whack for the Nimrod. There's also clearance stuff not on the website that probably varies from store to store.
http://direct.hobbycraft.co.uk/productlist.asp?a=resetsearch&catid=146&RootCatID=146
Maybe it is at managers discretion then? :tank:
All
Could be a combination of factors, overstock of certain kits which don't sell or are too highly priced, our one in Aberdeen has seen a reduction of overall kits volume carried this year en masse except when it opened before xmas it was stowed out. Some kits did seem to be overstocked, which to me were not front line sellers.
I think a recce mission is called for ASAP, without the Mem Sahib knowing............................lol
Cheers
Sandy
Well, the Peterborough store has the Tamiya stuff on offer, along with a stack of Airfix, and some railway wagons + acc...
Havn't got a branch near me :banghead: Altough Croydon finally gets a branch on 31/07, so maybe they'll have some opening offers. Whatever it will be nice to finally get to see what they are like ;D
They didn't have anything at my local Hobbycraft on Friday. I'll be at the retail park tonight for something else, it'd be rude not to have another look!
All
Just checked the Aberdeen store, the few that stood out were as per the website. Revell Gannet for one, Airfix Fulmar, Sea Fury etc and a few other, but didn't see any major bargains as such so I would reckon there may be isolated bargains out there on a shop to shop basis but these may be kits which are overstocked or just not selling.
Cheers
Sandy
picked up a Tamiya 1/35 Leopard MBT the other day for the pricley sum of £6.99 :thumbsup:
I popped in earlier in the week & it wasn't particularly impressive, a handfull of stuff was in the sale, the only kit being a single Tamiya Panzer III.
Just been in Stockport Hobbycraft again, and they have new stuff in the sale, specifically Revellobox 1/76th armour:
Comet
Sherman Firefly
T34-76
Chaffee
Jagdpanther
LRDG Chevy truck & jeep
All £3.99 each, which is pretty good. :thumbsup:
Update from Stockport Modelzone:
All Revell kits at 20% off
Buy any Airfix kit and get upto five Humbrol enamel tinlets at half price
Some of them seem to be discounts on top of other discounts too. For instance, I just got 2 x Revell 1/72nd EE Lightning F.6s for £3.99 each (last ones on the shelf - sorry). Can't recall many other specifics, but I do recall that the 1/48th Typhoon was about £10.
The Cheap Revell 1/76th armour is back in too:
At £3.99:
Comet
Sherman Firefly
T34-76
Chaffee
Jagdpanther
At £4.50 (I think...):
M16 halftrack (4x .50 cal AAA)
Panzer II
Well.....trip to Crawley branch tomorrow with junior then.....!!!
Hobbycraft's sale is worth checking up on again. Few points:
There seem to be two levels of sale:
1. On the website and on the regular shop shelves,
2. Not on the website and in bins/clearance shelves. These are probably unique to each branch. Stockport branch has an Italeri 1/35th DUKW going for £9 (RRP = £25, but check ebay) and three packs of Tamiya 1/48th Afrika Korps for £4 each. Also lots of Airfix Romans and Ancient Britains, but I didn't look too closely...)
I bought some odds and sods today and got given a voucher for £5 off my next £25 purchase (web or shop) if I sign up to their e-mail newsletter.
Regular sale stuff is available through the website (not always in every shop though) and you get free postage for an order over £30.
Some highlights (All Airfix and 1/72nd or 1/76th unles sstated otherwise):
1/24th Mosquito: £99.99 (£30 discount!)
Sunderland: £12.99
Horsa: £9.99
Strikemaster: £4.99
Various armour down from £5 to £4
Scalextric pit crew (10 figures in firesuits and helmets): £4.99 (RRP = £13.49!)
Go look: http://direct.hobbycraft.co.uk/shop/special-offers_models-special-offers/viewall/
I thought the Revell Gannet was just the old Frog one? Or have I missed something along the way?
Quote from: rickshaw on January 24, 2011, 09:03:07 PM
I thought the Revell Gannet was just the old Frog one? Or have I missed something along the way?
There are two Revell Gannets. The old one is indeed the Frog one, but the new one is a complete new tool, and very nice by all accounts.
Review: http://www.hyperscale.com/2008/reviews/kits/revell04397reviewgp_1.htm
They're long gone from the Hobbycraft sale though, unless there's the odd one left in a particular store.
Thanks. There I was thinking it strange that Revell would continue with a 50 year old Frog mould...
Just popped into Stockport Hobbycraft for the first time in a while. Notable stuff on the clearance shelves, which means it may not be in every store or on the website:
1/48th Italeri BAE Hawks
1/48th Italeri Tornado IDS
Various packs of 1/72nd infantry
Main thing: A3 sheets of foamboard at half price: £2.50 instead of £5-odd. This is the stuff that PW uses for his wargames buildings. The only reason I didn't buy any was because I was on the bike and couldn't carry it, but I'm going back in the car tomorrow..... :wacko:
CORRECTION: the sheets that are on sale at £2.50 are A1 size, not A3, i.e. roughly 3' by 2' (I just bought 10 :thumbsup:)
Model Zone Leeds has1/48th Academy Buchons at £6;99 and 1/72nd KC-97's and C-97's at £17;99 plus a lot of other stuff cheap.
Quote from: Geoff on August 21, 2011, 03:41:30 AM
Model Zone Leeds has1/48th Academy Buchons at £6;99 and 1/72nd KC-97's and C-97's at £17;99 plus a lot of other stuff cheap.
No offence, but wouldn't that be better posted on the Modelzone sale thread (this is the Hobbycraft one) here:
http://www.whatifmodelers.com/index.php/topic,29684.0/highlight,modelzone.html
Quote from: Weaver on August 21, 2011, 10:10:11 AM
Quote from: Geoff on August 21, 2011, 03:41:30 AM
Model Zone Leeds has1/48th Academy Buchons at £6;99 and 1/72nd KC-97's and C-97's at £17;99 plus a lot of other stuff cheap.
No offence, but wouldn't that be better posted on the Modelzone sale thread (this is the Hobbycraft one) here:
http://www.whatifmodelers.com/index.php/topic,29684.0/highlight,modelzone.html
Yep probably!
Was in the Hull Hobbycraft on Friday, they had the Italeri Skyfall Merlin at a tenner, about half price. The diecasts were cheap too, but didn't pay too much attention.