That looks like a nice, little museum. The hobby shop is better than 90% of what is left in the sad world of 2024. Congratulations on scoring the Hasegawa F-111. It's a great kit.
Ive got probably 40 1/48 aircraft My favorite that I never built would have to be the Hasegawa A-7D Havent seen a true hobby shop in years, Hobby Lobby is as close as it gets anymore
@@99cobra2881 What I don't like about the 1:48 scale is there no large aircraft (Bombers, Space Shuttle ect.) available. 1:72 is a real b!tch on the smaller fighters but I love the challenge!
I was just there two days ago. When all other hobby shops are reducing in size or closing altogether, this one keeps getting more every time I visit. They have kits that just hit the market 1-2 months ago as well as vintage. Prices are great and staff are super. And if you're like me and don't have time to put kits together they have some great items that other modellers have put together. I usually leave with a couple of new kits to add to my, whenever I get the time pile, and a great built kit to enjoy looking at right away. Great video.
I love this place! I’m about a half hour away and love going. Edit- if you’re ever back in Nova Scotia, head on down to Shearwater to see their museum! It’s an amazing collection of aircraft, especially helicopters and naval aircraft. There’s also a spectacular model of the HMCS Bonaventure on display!
This is a great museum and shop. They sure have expanded the stock of models! I was last there over six years ago and picked up a couple of rare old kits from Frog and Williams Bros and some out-of-print aviation books. The staff had checked the pre owned kits to ensure they were complete (if a part was missing it was noted on the box) and they were a very fair price. Proceeds to the museum! Unfortunately, I was limited to what I could carry in my luggage for a flight home. Next year I will be back with my car! I am also probably going to donate some of my duplicate kits and books to them.
I visited this museum in 2022 and was gobsmacked by the unexpected presence of such a well stocked hobby store. Walked away with 5 kits which jump started me back into model building after a 45+ year hiatus. Now my stash is 120+ and I've built 7 in 2 years. Not sure how that ratio stacks up?! If you need an excuse to visit Halifax, this Hobby store with an attached museum is it!
Such awesome content! I gave up model building when the flying lessons began 41 years ago, and I've been fortunate enough to fly some of the real versions of kits I built as a kid. But I remember clearly walking through Hobbyland at the graceland shopping center. All the guys working there in the seventies were avid builders and their works hung everywhere from the ceiling. The only thing more exciting than those Revell, Monogram and Hasegawa kits were the real thing.
@@tb7771 Yes Verlinden , in the 80's i was just starting to build my first models , almost 40 years later i started again but what a difference now and back then. I am retired now so time enough , thake care. Regards Frank
Enjoyed the video on your visit, thanks for the posting. When you flipped the B-25 over and revealed the Squadron Signal publishers that brought back some memories. During college I worked at 52 W.Jericho Turnpike, Syosset, NY for 4-5 years…The Squadron Shop. Terry Mulqueen hired me. When he left the company, Jim Katona took over. Did a lot of dusting off all the models boxes along the wall. I still have my airbrush and compressor, but haven’t modeled anything in 44 years. Still quite a lot of MICROSCALE DECAL and SQUADRON/LETRASET model decals. I understand the company closed all the stores, went to mail order only and folded after a few more years. Terry had a local , Alan, who would conduct airbrushing demonstrations. Alan was also given the new release, build them first for the display case prior to us getting our shipments. He did the 1/48th scale B-17G and B-29A as well as others.
Excellent video! The outstanding model hobby shop seems to be ideally located as an addition to the excellent aviation museum, & I think both the hobby shop & museum compliment each other very well! I have visited the naval aviation museum in Pensacola, Florida several times, & it is a very large & outstanding museum, with some aircraft displayed indoors & others displayed outside. The museum has (or had) a respectable model hobby shop, from which I have purchased a few model kits during past visits. But I don't recall the Pensacola naval aviation museum's hobby shop as large & with as a complete & comprehensive selection of plastic model kits as is shown in the model hobby shop of this Canadian aviation museum!
This is the "Meka" of aviation model makers world over!!Well done !!!, wish I could visit in a near future!!Greetings from an Argentinian model maker!!😊😊😊😊❤❤
Hi, I saw your video and thought I've been to this museum!! The wife and I and her parents went on a cruse down the coast from Quebec in September 2018, and on 28th the cruse ship stopped in Nova Scotia. It was raining, What to do? I love all things aviation and found the museum. You are right. In side the first thing you see is the green F-104! It is a wonderfull place to send the day. My wife and her mother and dad were finished looking at the air planes in a half hour. Not me, I thought I had died and gone to heaven I just loved it.I have photos of me right up next to the F-104 and the F5, when they went back up stairs and no one was looking. I bought a book The Jolly Rogers (VF-17) for 6.00 dollars US .We are from New Mexico USA and may never get back there again. It was It was a great visit. I had to pull out the photos, and enjoy my visit all over again.
About the only museum in Atlantic Canada that has thermonuclear weapon training dummies. I am glad you enjoyed your rainy day visit to my humble village.
Brings back happy memories of long gone hobby shops in my hometown, miss them so much. If I walked into that one I'd be a kid all over again, thanks for posting! 😊👍
That hobby shop literally gave me chills There was a hobby shop a few miles out the front gate at LRAFB circa 2000s sadly its been lost like so many I used to love looking to see what was new and old in that place Built all 1/4 scale, started when I was a teen waiting to enlist so as my friday and saturday evening would be consumed with something other than having to make a phone call Monday morning to my recruiter about the trouble I had gotten into over the weekend Great memories assembling F-15Cs, F-16C, AV-8Bs, and monograms iron curtain series of Soviet aircraft
My spouse's family is from Halifax -- you've just given us another reason to go back for a visit! Thanks for a great little tour of the museum and hobby store!
Thank you for posting this, I live in Halifax but have never been to this or the Shearwater museum, something I am going to remedy asap! I just got back into kits after a 30 year break and have already built a 1/144 VF-114 Tomcat. Eyeing that VF-32 F-14A kit in your video now though. Good luck with the 'Vark kit, late Cold War kid me dug that UH tailcode image you had on screen for a sec but it will be fun to see how an earlier F-111 looks too!
Thanks for pointing this out. I live less than an hour away from the museum but had no idea they carry so many kits. It's so much better to support brick and mortar stores that carry models so I'll definitely stop in soon.
Wow! Just Wow! It reminds me of the hobby shop I visited 55-60 years ago. It would have taken me about four hours, or more to go through this fantastic hobby shop, and museum. Thanks for taking us along.
Wow that model inventory grew many fold since I visited 9 years ago. They have an awesome selection of fighter jet books - recognized many I had as a kid. I bought a few books when I visited.
If you ever make it to Ohio, the National Museum of the United States Air Force it has a good shop too but about 10-15 minutes away is the largest diecast and hobby shop in the US, it’s called MTS Aviation Models, they also have a website I’d suggest checking out
I was there twice over the last few year while on vacation. The first time, the hallway along the wall to the main hanger was not marked at all and kind of dark and I completely missed the the hanger. Found out when I got home looking at pictures of it online that there was a hanger full of planes. I sent them a message about it, I wonder who else missed it. Anyway, the next time I went there was sign saying to hanger, or whatever it says, I forget. Nova Scotia is known for bad signage on the highways too. They put a do not enter sign at least a half mile away from the intersection of a twinned highway. The road signs to get into the museum are also horrible. They are put on the wrong side of the intersection over the highway. I missed it and was sent down back on the highway three times. Go past the turn at the top of the bridge to the T intersection at the bottom of the hill then turn left. There's also a lot of bush hiding it from the road. I did finally get into it properly the last time I was there and did see the whole collection. It is very nice and very well done. I couldn't believe the built models were cheaper than the same kits unbuilt and they were nicely done. I know it's a weird thing in the model world. It's like a Cadillac, buy it new and drive it straight to the crusher. Can't fit built models into my suitcase and sure won't send them on ups. I carried three unbuilts on my lap in the plane.
The Hobby House price sticker brings back memories for me. I worked for Denis at the original location on Montreal Road a year or two out of high-school, had a great summer there.
I remember the Avengers at Abbottsford airport in the 60s-70s and the Monogram 1/48 kit is one of my favorites. The Sabre in Golden Hawks livery is very cool. My dad and I worked in Kelowna tower with Ken Shepardson, who was a Golden Hawk pilot, and rumored to have flown his F 86 under the lift span of the floating bridge on Okanagan lake. Must get out to this museum soon!
Looks like a great place to visit! First model airplanes I ever built were bought at the US Air Force museum at Wright Patterson AFB. in Dayton ,Ohio. I think it was the late 70's early 80's. An He-111 and a B-25 Mitchell.
Really nice I'll have to head north to see this one. If you ever get to the USA stop by the New England Air Museum in Windsor Locks, CT. Its a real beauty too.
Ngl, more museums should probably make their souvenir shops like this. The only other museum I've seen that sells model kits is the Yushukan War Museum in Tokyo, which only sells IJN and IJA models, for obvious reasons.
The Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum not only has a great collection of aircraft, but also a well stocked hobby store. I think any museum of worth has a well stocked hobby shop specifically featuring the museum aircraft.
If you're traveling on I-75 stop at Warner Robins, GA, there is a great aviation museum next to Robins AFB.....same for Ft Walton Beach , FL, Eglin AFB also has a great aviation museum....
@@martkbanjoboy8853 the Hamilton Museum is one of the best!! Shearwater is all volunteer with some DND and Municipal funding but not as much as it really needs. The Fairly Firefly will never fly again. Sadly, the fabric is old and weak. The displays are all craft that have been used by the Air Force to support the Navy.
Thanks for this! I will be in Halifax in a couple of weeks, but since it is a business trip I doubt I will have time to check it out. I am embarrassed to say that while I have long been familiar with the Shearwater museum (and really need to get there sometime), I was not familiar with this one. I was just at the Museum of Flight in Seattle, and while it is a fantastic museum with an amazing collection, I do not recall seeing any kits in the gift shop which seems like a real shame and an opportunity missed.
All can say this is the best Aviation museum Model shop ive ever seen. Although I'll never get to see it personally its two entities featuring each other. You can't get better than that except of course other Aviation museums and other model hobby shops.👍🇭🇲🦘🐨✌️
PS. Thanks for sharing that visual tour for me. I would have loved to visit that place but not in a position to. Great video tour. From down under Melbourne Victoria Australia 👍🇭🇲🇭🇲🐨✌️
Very impressive; looks like I need to go there some day. I thought the Airfix 1/72 kit of the F-111 was pretty good when I made it years ago. I also made Monogram's 1/72 kit of the A-26 Invader. ICM seems to have good selection of aircraft from many different nations.
Nice video. I've seen footage from that museum before as well as their Facebook content but this was more information than before and the only footage I've seen from the actual store. All this peeks my radar since I've been increasing my interest in vintage RCAF planes of late and now have a few in the stash (but some without Canadian decals).
Hobby shops in both the Canadian Aviation & Canadian War museums in Ottawa have a reasonable model shop but agree the on in NS shown here is one heck of a shop.
That’s a wonderful museum. I visited many times on my trips to Halifax and PEI. If you’re still there (in N.S. that is) and you have the time, please also be sure and visit the Shearwater Aviation Museum over in Dartmouth. There’s also an excellent museum that covers the Atlantic Naval war at Admiralty House on the Naval base in downtown Halifax. Other attractions include some excellent bookstores, like Doull’s in Dartmouth, which has always had an excellent selection of aviation and military titles, Schooner Books and The Dust Jacket in downtown Halifax. Be sure and drop in at Maritime Hobbies near Dalhousie U, open since 1947! And if you haven;t already then you need to take a tour of the HMC Sackville, and stop by the excellent Maritime Museum on the Harbour. You can polish off the evening with an excellent dinner at McKelvey‘s across the street. Did I mention the Citadel? Halifax is a wonderful city with an interesting past, full of history, and a wonderful place to visit. Thank you for the video. It was very nostalgic! I haven;t been up to NS since the pandemic nonsense, but next year for sure.
York Redoubt National Historic Site is worth visiting. I would visit during Spring, Summer, or Fall. There is no Winter maintenance and the paths road in and etc. can ice up badly.
@@davepowell3293 Arrrrgggh! That's really bad news. I just looked at their web site after reading your post and saw the closure news for myself. It was a great shop. I'm saddened to hear this. Very saddened indeed. I spent many happy hours there during my summer visits to Halifax.
Imagine entering a room with close to 100 aircraft hanging from the rafters ranging from a ME-262 to a B-52 high and mighty carrying an X-15 all at 1:72! Still working on the complete Space shuttle with tank and rocket boosters!
I like to build a lot of ICM kits just to support Ukraine during their struggle. They put out some nice kits that build up well. I couldn't tell from your video, but for that to be a proper hobby shop, they would need to sell all the glue, paints, sandpaper, hobby tools, oil washes, filler, thinner, lacquer, etc....But yeah, what a gem that business is. If I'm ever in Halifax, I'll definitely drop in.
That museum is over the top. My husband has thousands of model airplanes never open still in the box I’d love to get rid of them. He also has remote control airplanes when he used to fly them some brand new still in the box I just donated several thousand dollars of airplane pictures from World War II to the museum in Savannah Georgia. I live in South Carolina. If you know of anyone that would be interested in buying them I sure would like to know.
Most of the hobby shops that are left in California, have gone over to Gundam, Gunpla, and RC garbage. There is very little left in the way of plastic scale model kits. Amazon, E-Bay and other online retailers are where we model makers have to go now for kits.
That looks like a nice, little museum. The hobby shop is better than 90% of what is left in the sad world of 2024.
Congratulations on scoring the Hasegawa F-111. It's a great kit.
Facts 🗿
Ive got probably 40 1/48 aircraft
My favorite that I never built would have to be the Hasegawa A-7D
Havent seen a true hobby shop in years, Hobby Lobby is as close as it gets anymore
@@99cobra2881 What I don't like about the 1:48 scale is there no large aircraft (Bombers, Space Shuttle ect.) available. 1:72 is a real b!tch on the smaller fighters but I love the challenge!
OMG!!! It's just heaven!!! Buy your model, take pics of the prototype, and build!!!! I want to go now!!!
That's one of those "Is it this, or is it that?" questions where the correct answer is, "YES!!!" 🤔😁
10 minutes from my house! It’s my happy place!! 🎉🎉
Kindly share the name of city and complete address of this hobby shop thanks.
Hobby House has been a part of my life for 50 years if it ever closes I will cry like a baby
I was just there two days ago. When all other hobby shops are reducing in size or closing altogether, this one keeps getting more every time I visit. They have kits that just hit the market 1-2 months ago as well as vintage. Prices are great and staff are super. And if you're like me and don't have time to put kits together they have some great items that other modellers have put together. I usually leave with a couple of new kits to add to my, whenever I get the time pile, and a great built kit to enjoy looking at right away.
Great video.
I love this place! I’m about a half hour away and love going.
Edit- if you’re ever back in Nova Scotia, head on down to Shearwater to see their museum! It’s an amazing collection of aircraft, especially helicopters and naval aircraft. There’s also a spectacular model of the HMCS Bonaventure on display!
To a aviation nerd and modeler, thats heaven on earth! 😊
Thank you a real dream place for aiplane fans and model builders!
Yes lndeed Sir!!, Greetings from a model maker in Argentina😊😊😊😊😊❤❤
This is a great museum and shop. They sure have expanded the stock of models!
I was last there over six years ago and picked up a couple of rare old kits from Frog and Williams Bros and some out-of-print aviation books. The staff had checked the pre owned kits to ensure they were complete (if a part was missing it was noted on the box) and they were a very fair price. Proceeds to the museum!
Unfortunately, I was limited to what I could carry in my luggage for a flight home. Next year I will be back with my car! I am also probably going to donate some of my duplicate kits and books to them.
I visited this museum in 2022 and was gobsmacked by the unexpected presence of such a well stocked hobby store. Walked away with 5 kits which jump started me back into model building after a 45+ year hiatus. Now my stash is 120+ and I've built 7 in 2 years. Not sure how that ratio stacks up?! If you need an excuse to visit Halifax, this Hobby store with an attached museum is it!
Once I seen the Thumbnail I was like “Wow, a video on my local aviation museum?!”
Such awesome content! I gave up model building when the flying lessons began 41 years ago, and I've been fortunate enough to fly some of the real versions of kits I built as a kid. But I remember clearly walking through Hobbyland at the graceland shopping center. All the guys working there in the seventies were avid builders and their works hung everywhere from the ceiling. The only thing more exciting than those Revell, Monogram and Hasegawa kits were the real thing.
That's what i call a modelshop , omg fantastic (63 years young man from Belgium 😁 )
Home country of my favorite models in the 80's, Verlinden.
@@tb7771 Yes Verlinden , in the 80's i was just starting to build my first models , almost 40 years later i started again but what a difference now and back then. I am retired now so time enough , thake care. Regards Frank
@@FrankMeyfroot Kind regards to you as well. I need to get back into model building.
Enjoyed the video on your visit, thanks for the posting.
When you flipped the B-25 over and revealed the Squadron Signal publishers that brought back some memories. During college I worked at 52 W.Jericho Turnpike, Syosset, NY for 4-5 years…The Squadron Shop. Terry Mulqueen hired me. When he left the company, Jim Katona took over. Did a lot of dusting off all the models boxes along the wall. I still have my airbrush and compressor, but haven’t modeled anything in 44 years. Still quite a lot of MICROSCALE DECAL and SQUADRON/LETRASET model decals. I understand the company closed all the stores, went to mail order only and folded after a few more years. Terry had a local , Alan, who would conduct airbrushing demonstrations. Alan was also given the new release, build them first for the display case prior to us getting our shipments. He did the 1/48th scale B-17G and B-29A as well as others.
Sort of an Aladdin's cave of modeling! You never know when you are going to stumble across a treasure like this in the most unexpected places!
Just added Atlantic Canada Aviation Museum to my bucket list. Thanks for a short, wonderful video.
Excellent video!
The outstanding model hobby shop seems to be ideally located as an addition to the excellent aviation museum, & I think both the hobby shop & museum compliment each other very well!
I have visited the naval aviation museum in Pensacola, Florida several times, & it is a very large & outstanding museum, with some aircraft displayed indoors & others displayed outside. The museum has (or had) a respectable model hobby shop, from which I have purchased a few model kits during past visits. But I don't recall the Pensacola naval aviation museum's hobby shop as large & with as a complete & comprehensive selection of plastic model kits as is shown in the model hobby shop of this Canadian aviation museum!
This is the "Meka" of aviation model makers world over!!Well done !!!, wish I could visit in a near future!!Greetings from an Argentinian model maker!!😊😊😊😊❤❤
Hi, I saw your video and thought I've been to this museum!! The wife and I and her parents went on a cruse down the coast from Quebec in September 2018, and on 28th the cruse ship stopped in Nova Scotia. It was raining, What to do? I love all things aviation and found the museum. You are right. In side the first thing you see is the green F-104! It is a wonderfull place to send the day. My wife and her mother and dad were finished looking at the air planes in a half hour. Not me, I thought I had died and gone to heaven I just loved it.I have photos of me right up next to the F-104 and the F5, when they went back up stairs and no one was looking. I bought a book The Jolly Rogers (VF-17) for 6.00 dollars US .We are from New Mexico USA and may never get back there again. It was It was a great visit. I had to pull out the photos, and enjoy my visit all over again.
About the only museum in Atlantic Canada that has thermonuclear weapon training dummies. I am glad you enjoyed your rainy day visit to my humble village.
I was there on the 16th and bought that Lockheed F-104C star fighter that was on the top shelf when you walk to the checkout.
Good video and nice tour of the museum.
Finally went there after living here for 40 years! Got an amazing Guillows Stuka! So stoked to see the place, and will now go regularly!
I was there last summer and I was pleasantly surprised. Saw whole bunch of rare model kits...a must visit for any aviation enthusiasts.
Brings back happy memories of long gone hobby shops in my hometown, miss them so much. If I walked into that one I'd be a kid all over again, thanks for posting! 😊👍
OMG!!! Im in model kit heaven!!! I say it is Both a hobby shop and museum!!
That is awesome! I wish we had something like that in my part of California.
That hobby shop literally gave me chills
There was a hobby shop a few miles out the front gate at LRAFB circa 2000s sadly its been lost like so many
I used to love looking to see what was new and old in that place
Built all 1/4 scale, started when I was a teen waiting to enlist so as my friday and saturday evening would be consumed with something other than having to make a phone call Monday morning to my recruiter about the trouble I had gotten into over the weekend
Great memories assembling F-15Cs, F-16C, AV-8Bs, and monograms iron curtain series of Soviet aircraft
good video,,,great hobbyshop ;im 76 now this brought back memories of my youth
My spouse's family is from Halifax -- you've just given us another reason to go back for a visit! Thanks for a great little tour of the museum and hobby store!
I went to this place a bit ago and it was awesome! Nice planes and a cool hobby shop!
That is amazing!! As a modeler it like heaven. And that ship.
Nova Scotia is beautiful, great choice to travel there!
Thank you for posting this, I live in Halifax but have never been to this or the Shearwater museum, something I am going to remedy asap! I just got back into kits after a 30 year break and have already built a 1/144 VF-114 Tomcat. Eyeing that VF-32 F-14A kit in your video now though. Good luck with the 'Vark kit, late Cold War kid me dug that UH tailcode image you had on screen for a sec but it will be fun to see how an earlier F-111 looks too!
Thanks for pointing this out. I live less than an hour away from the museum but had no idea they carry so many kits. It's so much better to support brick and mortar stores that carry models so I'll definitely stop in soon.
What a cool Air Museum, and with an amazing Hobby Shop to boot! I Comes from Away... One Sunny Day. THANKS!!!
What a Place!!! Great Video! Haven for Us....with Wings and Modelling Kits in Our Minds Thanks!
Wow! Just Wow! It reminds me of the hobby shop I visited 55-60 years ago. It would have taken me about four hours, or more to go through this fantastic hobby shop, and museum. Thanks for taking us along.
My wife and I visited this pre-pandemic. :-)
Wow that model inventory grew many fold since I visited 9 years ago. They have an awesome selection of fighter jet books - recognized many I had as a kid. I bought a few books when I visited.
If you ever make it to Ohio, the National Museum of the United States Air Force it has a good shop too but about 10-15 minutes away is the largest diecast and hobby shop in the US, it’s called MTS Aviation Models, they also have a website I’d suggest checking out
He mentions in the video that he had already gone to NMUSAF in Dayton.
Awesome museum, awesome shop!
I was there twice over the last few year while on vacation. The first time, the hallway along the wall to the main hanger was not marked at all and kind of dark and I completely missed the the hanger. Found out when I got home looking at pictures of it online that there was a hanger full of planes. I sent them a message about it, I wonder who else missed it. Anyway, the next time I went there was sign saying to hanger, or whatever it says, I forget. Nova Scotia is known for bad signage on the highways too. They put a do not enter sign at least a half mile away from the intersection of a twinned highway. The road signs to get into the museum are also horrible. They are put on the wrong side of the intersection over the highway. I missed it and was sent down back on the highway three times. Go past the turn at the top of the bridge to the T intersection at the bottom of the hill then turn left. There's also a lot of bush hiding it from the road. I did finally get into it properly the last time I was there and did see the whole collection. It is very nice and very well done. I couldn't believe the built models were cheaper than the same kits unbuilt and they were nicely done. I know it's a weird thing in the model world. It's like a Cadillac, buy it new and drive it straight to the crusher. Can't fit built models into my suitcase and sure won't send them on ups. I carried three unbuilts on my lap in the plane.
The Hobby House price sticker brings back memories for me. I worked for Denis at the original location on Montreal Road a year or two out of high-school, had a great summer there.
Used to take my kids there at least once a year. Great museum.
I love that museum thank you for showcasing it. I’m glad you had a chance to visit that gem of a place!
In the U.K. we have the RAF museum in Hendon and just around the corner is Hannants,one of the few,proper,model shops,left in London.
I remember the Avengers at Abbottsford airport in the 60s-70s and the Monogram 1/48 kit is one of my favorites. The Sabre in Golden Hawks livery is very cool. My dad and I worked in Kelowna tower with Ken Shepardson, who was a Golden Hawk pilot, and rumored to have flown his F 86 under the lift span of the floating bridge on Okanagan lake. Must get out to this museum soon!
thats nice ,in Uk they got couple museums i visited that also got model shops ,although they are favoriting Airfix kits
Thanks for a tour around that cool air museum and source for model kits. Gotta put that on the bucket list!
Cool place, love to visit one day.
Looks like a great place to visit! First model airplanes I ever built were bought at the US Air Force museum at Wright Patterson AFB. in Dayton ,Ohio. I think it was the late 70's early 80's. An He-111 and a B-25 Mitchell.
Really nice I'll have to head north to see this one. If you ever get to the USA stop by the New England Air Museum in Windsor Locks, CT. Its a real beauty too.
Looks like an amazing place to spend a day
What a perfect museum!!
Or is it the perfect model shop??
Either way will do me 😁👍🏼
Poor Voodoo, stuck outdoors. That's one of my favorite fighters.
OMG! Heaven for modellers and aircraft nuts!
Ngl, more museums should probably make their souvenir shops like this. The only other museum I've seen that sells model kits is the Yushukan War Museum in Tokyo, which only sells IJN and IJA models, for obvious reasons.
The Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum not only has a great collection of aircraft, but also a well stocked hobby store. I think any museum of worth has a well stocked hobby shop specifically featuring the museum aircraft.
What an Amazing Candy store, if I ever get within 250 miles of it I will definitely pay it a visit ❤
Damn! I'm impressed! Kudos to the Atlantic aviation museum on the fine setup, there.
That is incredible right there 😱
I'll be adding this museum visit to my bucket list. Thanks for sharing.
Fantastic! There used to be that arrangement at Coventry (GB) 'Midland Air Museum'. Although I haven't been for many years.
I love this place I've gone and it is great
Great video...👍
I've only been there once but I loved it plus its like 20-30 kilometers away anyways.
If you're traveling on I-75 stop at Warner Robins, GA, there is a great aviation museum next to Robins AFB.....same for Ft Walton Beach , FL, Eglin AFB also has a great aviation museum....
Oh and there is a Museum at CFB Shearwater near Dartmouth with some great aircraft.
@@martkbanjoboy8853 the Hamilton Museum is one of the best!! Shearwater is all volunteer with some DND and Municipal funding but not as much as it really needs. The Fairly Firefly will never fly again. Sadly, the fabric is old and weak. The displays are all craft that have been used by the Air Force to support the Navy.
Thanks for this! I will be in Halifax in a couple of weeks, but since it is a business trip I doubt I will have time to check it out. I am embarrassed to say that while I have long been familiar with the Shearwater museum (and really need to get there sometime), I was not familiar with this one. I was just at the Museum of Flight in Seattle, and while it is a fantastic museum with an amazing collection, I do not recall seeing any kits in the gift shop which seems like a real shame and an opportunity missed.
All can say this is the best Aviation museum Model shop ive ever seen. Although I'll never get to see it personally its two entities featuring each other. You can't get better than that except of course other Aviation museums and other model hobby shops.👍🇭🇲🦘🐨✌️
Midland Air Museum in Coventry also has a great stock of kits.
Good video. Thanks!
PS. Thanks for sharing that visual tour for me. I would have loved to visit that place but not in a position to. Great video tour. From down under Melbourne Victoria Australia 👍🇭🇲🇭🇲🐨✌️
The newark air museum in the UK is like this too. Their giftshop is wall to wall plastic model kits lol
Also about 10 minutes from my house. Nirvana. They'll also take kits when you are trying to "thin the herd" and give you store credit.
I went their last year and got my first two models a mk2 spitfire and a bf109
Wow, what a great place! Thanks for showing!
very impressive
My favorite place to visit in Halifax!
Ah, was hoping it was Halifax, Yorkshire (UK) bur no such luck! Still,, looks amazing.
Very impressive; looks like I need to go there some day. I thought the Airfix 1/72 kit of the F-111 was pretty good when I made it years ago. I also made Monogram's 1/72 kit of the A-26 Invader. ICM seems to have good selection of aircraft from many different nations.
Chris. I love your videos.
Das nenne ich mal einen Shop Fantastisch Grűsse aus Wien
Heaven on earth really does exist!!
Super cool!
Nice video. I've seen footage from that museum before as well as their Facebook content but this was more information than before and the only footage I've seen from the actual store. All this peeks my radar since I've been increasing my interest in vintage RCAF planes of late and now have a few in the stash (but some without Canadian decals).
Heaven on earth 😮
"Wait... Is that...?"
"That counter...?"
"The Voodoo outside...?? Wait no way."
OMG IT IS BEST MUSEUM EVERRRR
Hobby shops in both the Canadian Aviation & Canadian War museums in Ottawa have a reasonable model shop but agree the on in NS shown here is one heck of a shop.
So where were you? In model heaven :)
I have never seen so many good models together.
That’s a wonderful museum. I visited many times on my trips to Halifax and PEI. If you’re still there (in N.S. that is) and you have the time, please also be sure and visit the Shearwater Aviation Museum over in Dartmouth. There’s also an excellent museum that covers the Atlantic Naval war at Admiralty House on the Naval base in downtown Halifax. Other attractions include some excellent bookstores, like Doull’s in Dartmouth, which has always had an excellent selection of aviation and military titles, Schooner Books and The Dust Jacket in downtown Halifax. Be sure and drop in at Maritime Hobbies near Dalhousie U, open since 1947! And if you haven;t already then you need to take a tour of the HMC Sackville, and stop by the excellent Maritime Museum on the Harbour. You can polish off the evening with an excellent dinner at McKelvey‘s across the street. Did I mention the Citadel? Halifax is a wonderful city with an interesting past, full of history, and a wonderful place to visit. Thank you for the video. It was very nostalgic! I haven;t been up to NS since the pandemic nonsense, but next year for sure.
Martime Hobbys, has gone out of business ,sadly
York Redoubt National Historic Site is worth visiting. I would visit during Spring, Summer, or Fall. There is no Winter maintenance and the paths road in and etc. can ice up badly.
@@davepowell3293 Arrrrgggh! That's really bad news. I just looked at their web site after reading your post and saw the closure news for myself. It was a great shop. I'm saddened to hear this. Very saddened indeed. I spent many happy hours there during my summer visits to Halifax.
@@davepowell3293 When did they close? It seems quite recent, but I could be mistaken.
@@GBooth july 16th
Imagine entering a room with close to 100 aircraft hanging from the rafters ranging from a ME-262 to a B-52 high and mighty carrying an X-15 all at 1:72! Still working on the complete Space shuttle with tank and rocket boosters!
I like to build a lot of ICM kits just to support Ukraine during their struggle. They put out some nice kits that build up well. I couldn't tell from your video, but for that to be a proper hobby shop, they would need to sell all the glue, paints, sandpaper, hobby tools, oil washes, filler, thinner, lacquer, etc....But yeah, what a gem that business is. If I'm ever in Halifax, I'll definitely drop in.
That museum is over the top. My husband has thousands of model airplanes never open still in the box I’d love to get rid of them. He also has remote control airplanes when he used to fly them some brand new still in the box I just donated several thousand dollars of airplane pictures from World War II to the museum in Savannah Georgia. I live in South Carolina. If you know of anyone that would be interested in buying them I sure would like to know.
Oh that's a hobby shop with Squadrons to walk around.
Most of the hobby shops that are left in California, have gone over to Gundam, Gunpla, and RC garbage. There is very little left in the way of plastic scale model kits. Amazon, E-Bay and other online retailers are where we model makers have to go now for kits.
Cool!!
They should sell balsa kits also!
Went to Chicks in LaGrange and slot in wing in rantoul. Both long gone 😢