The shop

Five departments, one counter.

None of our shelves are online, and that is the speed of the place: ask, and the answer already knows your table.

No cart on this site by design. Stock moves daily and the counter answers faster than a search box; ring us and it is held.

Overhead view of a cutting mat with a model sprue, tools and dice arranged for a build. — Saturday morning on the workbench: a hull, the good blade and the second coffee.

Departments

Spoken fluently, sold honestly

Tabletop

Shelf-out boxes, a library wall you can play free, and picks sorted by the table you are buying for.

We sort the shelf by the evening you want: two-player quiet, table-of-six loud, first game ever. Box text tells you nothing; ask what broke our last game night and we will show you.

Promise: never the wrong first game

Card games

League staples and living sets, kept singles-free by design. The season board hangs above this shelf.

Formats change; the habit does not. We stock what the room actually plays on Thursdays, keep commons in the exchange tin, and teach the stack before you spend on it.

Promise: restocks held by name

Minis & paints

A rack you can trust under lamplight, primers that match, and a bench that knows thin coats win.

Undercoat, two thin coats, wash, drybrush. The rack is arranged in that order top to bottom, so a beginner can shop a whole scheme without a chart.

Promise: loaner brushes at paint night

Models

Kits from a first snap-fit to brass-railed weekends, with the cement, blades and balsa to finish them.

Scale is a language: 1:72 fits a shelf, 1:35 fills one. We match the kit to your patience, not to the painting on the lid.

Promise: stuck mid-build, bring it in

RC

Hobby-grade cars and parts, beginner classes explained straight, and a pit bench that fixes what it sells.

Toy-grade breaks on day two; hobby-grade gets fixed forever. We only shelve what the bench can service, and the bench has never met a gearbox it walked away from.

Promise: first tune-up on the house

A wall rack of round paint pots arranged in colour order beside the cutting-mat table. — The rack runs undercoat to varnish, top to bottom.

Aisles of kit boxes stacked to the ceiling under a warm pendant lamp. — The kit wall runs floor to ceiling and two eras deep.

The crew

The people behind the counter

Hired for patience, kept for taste. Between them they have painted, crashed, glued and lost more than the shop has ever sold.

Marnie

Counter · tabletop

Marnie runs the counter and the Tuesday tables. She has taught our easiest shelf game about four hundred times and still cheers when the learner wins.

Dev painting a miniature under a magnifier lamp at the workbench.

Dev

Minis & models

Dev owns the paint rack and the model wall. He judges a kit by its instruction sheet and holds strong, correct opinions about thin coats.

Ray at the pit bench working on a radio-controlled buggy beneath a pegboard of tools.

Ray

RC & repairs

Ray came in to fix a gearbox nine years ago and never left. The pit bench is his, and so is the shop's only tattoo of a differential.

The counter

Holds, orders, repairs, wrap.

Four promises we keep every day at the till. None of them need an account, an app or a reason.

Ring & hold

Call and it goes behind the counter with your name on it, for a week. No deposit, no fuss.

Special orders

If a distributor lists it, we can usually land it by Thursday. You pay when it arrives, not before.

Repairs & servicing

RC, models and the odd heirloom train. Straight quotes; if it is not worth fixing, we say so.

Gift-wrap & gift help

Tell us the person, the occasion and the budget, and walk out wrapped. Receipts slip out clean for swaps.

A bright fluoro radio-controlled car shell on a work stand at the tool bench.

The pit bench

RC repairs and model rescue, quoted straight. Book the first-Saturday clinic or leave it with Ray midweek; either way it comes back running.

Ring the bench

Come see the wall in person.

See what's on this week Plan a visit