Hello Everyone,

Nostalgia got the best of me last week and I grabbed a Sig Kavalier kit off the shelf of my LHS. The Kav was my second plane and I never really got to know it very well--the dumb pilot made a stupid mistake. It had a mere thirty flights on it when its time came.

Anyway the point of this post is to say that I thanked the hobby shop owner for supporting us kit builders in this time of the dreaded ARF. He has about thirty five to forty kits to choose from--some old and some new. Things like the Top Flite warbirds, selections from Balsa USA, Sig, and Great Planes, even discontinued items like the Kougar and the original Patriot. He said he does quite well with the sale of kits--that there are a lot of builders remaining who come to his shop. Probably contributing to his perception is the fact that just about all other hobby shops in town (Denver area) have discontinued selling kits other than special orders and his shop is the only place where one can find a selection of kits on the wall thus, the builders are funneled to his shop because there is nowhere else to go.

I just wanted to relate my positive experience with this hobby shop. Thompson's Hobbies has been around for a long time and hasn't changed since the first day I walked in as a college student in 1982.

Thank you Thompson's Hobbies!

If anyone has stories about their favorite hobby shops please share them in this thread!