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Change is bad
Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2020 9:58 am
by ochoin
Actually, I generally embrace change, welcoming the challenge. But there are limits!
The LHS (once brilliant but nearly useless, now; however, still stocking a lot of terrain items such as scatter, sand etc & paint) are phasing out their extensive range of Vallejo paint for the Army Painter brand.
I just don't really like the AP runny paints. And the names of the colours betray a fantasy bent that beings me no comfort.
I guess I'll be ordering from Hearns in Melbourne. The difference in cost from mail order to the exorbitant off-the-shelf prices is minor but it was convenient to drop by (8 minutes down the road) & pick up a couple of bottles.
Change: bah! Humbug!!
donald
Re: Change is bad
Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2020 10:08 am
by grizzlymc
There is an LHS 12km away which I first patronised in 1972. On Wednesday, I phoned them up to order three tins of humbrol paint, some clump foliage and some varnish. Arrived on Friday. Change? Why bother?
Re: Change is bad
Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2020 10:56 am
by Etranger
If you can't get it from Hearns; Military Hobbies, down the road from me, carries Vallejo and a lot of other brands. They'll be happy to do mail order too.
https://militaryhobbies.com.au/
Re: Change is bad
Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2020 12:45 pm
by ochoin
Local Hobby Shop.
Acronyms can be alienating: apologies.
donald
Re: Change is bad
Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2020 1:27 pm
by grizzlymc
ACBA, TNTUT, ICP.
Re: Change is bad
Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2020 2:41 pm
by Shahbahraz
Try working in Aviation. MTTYCPSA*
*More TLA** Than You Can Poke a Stick At
** Three Letter Acronym.
Re: Change is bad
Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2020 3:40 pm
by Buff Orpington
Us old sweats on the Buccaneer force reckoned that the longest part of the Tornado maintenance course was teaching people the acronyms.
Re: Change is bad
Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2020 5:01 pm
by BaronVonWreckedoften
Etranger wrote: ↑Sat Nov 07, 2020 10:56 am
If you can't get it from Hearns; Military Hobbies, down the road from me, carries Vallejo and a lot of other brands. They'll be happy to do mail order too.
https://militaryhobbies.com.au/
Are there not the same issues Royal Mail now has about posting more than three bottles (I think) in a package?
Re: Change is bad
Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2020 5:50 pm
by RMD
ochoin wrote: ↑Sat Nov 07, 2020 12:45 pm
Local Hobby Shop.
Acronyms can be alienating: apologies.
donald
I was wondering why you were buying paint at La Haie Sainte...
Re: Change is bad
Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2020 6:54 pm
by valleyboy
RMD wrote: ↑Sat Nov 07, 2020 5:50 pm
ochoin wrote: ↑Sat Nov 07, 2020 12:45 pm
Local Hobby Shop.
Acronyms can be alienating: apologies.
donald
I was wondering why you were buying paint at La Haie Sainte...
Yeah me too, there is only one LHS