Oh wow! I wasn’t aware of wildfires there. I’m so sad that I haven’t visited there before the fires started.
Be thankful you can go to a real hobby store. My options are
Hobby lobby, Michael’s, hobbytown/s an I have to drive an hour or more to those options. The closest hobbytown to me is focused on RC cars which I could care less about.
The last couple hobby stores here were bought out by hobbytown , closed up and moved farther away.
You are lucky
D&J and San Antonio were awesome. That’s the kind of shops missing from the Sacramento area. It sucks ordering online, but I’m in a desert out here.
Yeah, I think the whole Bay Area is a desert where hobby shops are concerned. Lots of Gaming shops so paint is in abundance (if you are willing to convert RLM numbers to “eye” identification)
My issue with online buying is the shipping costs. Now I’m limited to online shops within the US as I recently received an unexpected $75 customs tax on a $70 purchase from Poland.
Cheers,
C.
It could sound very surprinsing for a capital city, but here, in Paris, France, my only real solution is online shopping. The only serious ( and, IIRC, big ) local store that we had closed at the start of the COVID pandemic, and by then it had already fallen on hard times.
The only stores left aren’t fully dedicated to the hobby, or pretty small, or not very well stocked !
Even then it’s complicated to find some products, and I have to cycle between three or four online shops, including Amazon. Sad!
Ouch! I’m going to have to be careful to avoid overseas purchases in the future. I agree that the cost of shipping is brutal. I never seem to find everything I need at one online retailer. An item here and an item there runs up shipping costs quickly. Another knock on online buying: I lose the instant gratification I so desperately crave!
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