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Mossie

#15
July 27, 2007, 02:35:51 AM
There's some lovely old stuff there!  The missus wants a holiday very soon, I wonder if she fancies Berkeley!  How many kits do you think I could get in a suit case?

I'm not a collector, but even I've spotted a few rare kits there that would make big money on e-bay.  There are two Airfix Bassets which go for silly money in the UK & original Dogfight Doubles will buy their weight in gold too!

Mr Hannant eat your heart out!!!
I don't think it's nice, you laughin'. You see, my mule don't like people laughin'. He gets the crazy idea you're laughin' at him. Now if you apologize, like I know you're going to, I might convince him that you really didn't mean it.

lancer

#16
July 27, 2007, 01:47:46 PM
YAHOOOO!!!!!!! I've found my new home and it's already so tastefully decorated. Everything anyone could ever need... :P  :P  :P  :P  :P  
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dragon

#17
July 27, 2007, 02:04:04 PM
QuoteThere's some lovely old stuff there!  The missus wants a holiday very soon, I wonder if she fancies Berkeley!
Your excuse could be to visit San Francisco and Napa Valley, maybe to check out the USS Hornet in Oakland.  They are all within easy driving distance of each other. B)  :cheers:  
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elmayerle

#18
July 27, 2007, 10:53:47 PM
OMG!!!  That's an outstanding place!!!  Do you have the contact info for them?  I do have to agree though, such itmes available in Berkeley?  The mind boggles.
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JC Carbonel

#19
July 28, 2007, 06:13:26 AM
very surprising !!! I am really surprised such a shop could still exist...and in the US of A !

Italaeri changed its name to Italeri in 1979 , the Dogfight doubles are all pre-1975 , Tomy was Airfix'friend in Japan around 1976!!!
That's for an average datation of the stuff ...surprising there is no Aurora or Frog stuff around ....

JCC

RotorheadTX

#20
July 28, 2007, 06:42:59 AM Last Edit: July 28, 2007, 06:53:43 AM by RotorheadTX
Contact info:

Berkeley Ace Hardware
2145 University Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94704
(510) 845-0410

Unfortunately, they don't have a web-shop..... <_<

They did indeed have some FROG stuff, but I didn't get photos. There was no Aurora that I recall seeing, but they did have some Lindberg stuff (1/48th Sabre Dog and F-94 come immediately to mind.) Here's some more pics:





cthulhu77

#21
July 28, 2007, 06:57:08 AM
Whoa!  time to grow out my hair, and head out west, where I belong!

biscuit

#22
July 29, 2007, 04:23:34 AM
Man i was over there last year...love to get my hands on those dogfight doubles


mick  :cheers:  

Martin H

#23
July 29, 2007, 05:17:46 AM
Now thats what a model shop should look like, the perfect place to cause serious damage to your bank ballance.
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Unfortunately,
experience has taught me to expect the worst.

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dragon

#24
July 29, 2007, 12:51:32 PM
One more thing.  On the side not photographed is a respectable selection of electric trains and an aisle full of anime related stuff.   B)  
"As long as people are going to call you a lunatic anyway, why not get the benefits of it?  It liberates you from convention."- from the novel WICKED by Gregory Maguire.
  
"I must really be crazy to be in a looney bin like this" - Jack Nicholson in the movie ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST

Mossie

#25
July 31, 2007, 07:17:12 AM
QuoteNow thats what a model shop should look like, the perfect place to cause serious damage to your bank ballance.
Yeah, the type of place that has plastic, paint & balsa piled so heavilly in the aisles that you don't have a chance in hell of getting out if someone drops a cigarette!!!

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There's some lovely old stuff there! The missus wants a holiday very soon, I wonder if she fancies Berkeley!
Your excuse could be to visit San Francisco and Napa Valley, maybe to check out the USS Hornet in Oakland. They are all within easy driving distance of each other.
I mentioned this to her yesterday as a joke, never thinking she'd go for it.  "Where's Berkley" she asked?  "Somewhere near San Francisco" I said.  She checked it up on the net & found it it was very close.  "Great, we can do a two stop in San Francisco & Vegas" she said.  I was amazed!  She's quite happy for me to go to this shop & pick up some old kits if I can sell them for a few more quid.  Yeah, no problem I said, thinking of just adding them to the stash!

Might be heading to Berkley November time then..... :huh:  :unsure:  :)  
I don't think it's nice, you laughin'. You see, my mule don't like people laughin'. He gets the crazy idea you're laughin' at him. Now if you apologize, like I know you're going to, I might convince him that you really didn't mean it.

Supertom

#26
July 31, 2007, 09:21:23 AM
DAAAAAAMMMMMMNNNNN!!!!  Any chance someone could do some shopping for us?  I'd sure like to get my hands on a Hawk 200!
"We can resolve this over tea and fisticuffs!!!"

Archibald

#27
July 31, 2007, 09:54:30 AM
QuoteDAAAAAAMMMMMMNNNNN!!!!  Any chance someone could do some shopping for us?  I'd sure like to get my hands on a Hawk 200!
Me too... nice little machine... if only we had shop like this in France!!!!!!!!  :rolleyes:  
King Arthur: Can we come up and have a look?
French Soldier: Of course not. You're English types.
King Arthur: What are you then?
French Soldier: I'm French. Why do you think I have this outrageous accent, you silly king?

Well regardless I would rather take my chance out there on the ocean, that to stay here and die on this poo-hole island spending the rest of my life talking to a gosh darn VOLLEYBALL.

Shasper

#28
July 31, 2007, 09:55:46 AM
Word!

Shas B)
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ysi_maniac

#29
July 31, 2007, 10:47:31 AM
QuoteDAAAAAAMMMMMMNNNNN!!!!  Any chance someone could do some shopping for us?  I'd sure like to get my hands on a Hawk 200!
If you speak about Matchbox 1/72. It is easy to get chinese copies in eBay. B)  
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