A few nice toys & hobbies images I found:
Charles Ro Supply Co, “America’s Largest Train Store”: Cobra attack helicopters
Charles Ro Supply Co, "America’s Largest Train Store". Pasting from Wikipedia:
Charles Ro Supply Company
USA Trains started out as part of Charles Ro Supply Company, the biggest train store, as well as America’s largest Lionel dealer. USA Trains is a family-run business, started by father and son Charles Ro senior and junior.
Lionel
Charles Ro Supply Company was established in and it started out as a beauty shop business of 4 salons with sixty hairdressers but moved into the hobby business when Charles Ro, Sr. began selling used Lionel trains at one of the storefronts in Everett, Massachusetts. In 1972 Ro started purchasing directly from Lionel to sell them mail-order. By 1980, Ro had completed Lionel’s first million dollar order. Also at this time, the company moved to a new location in Malden, Massachusetts into an old supermarket building. [4]
Garden trains
In 1982, Lionel moved production to Mexico, not producing model trains for 9 months. To make up for this, Ro began selling German-made large-scale model trains that were suitable for outdoor use. Realizing their popularity, Ro began making his own large scale model trains under the name Charles Ro Manufacturing Company. In 1989, business was moved into a new building, it’s current location, in Malden, Massachusetts with 3 storeys and over 50,000 square feet of area. Until 1995, when manufactuuring was moved offshore, USA Trains were manufactured at this new location which also served as the store.
Awards/Recognition
In 1998, the GP 7/9 locomotive won Model Railroader‘s Reader’s Choice Award
The Ultimate Series line introduced in 1999 won four Reader’s Choice Awards
In 2003 , USA Train’s Jle Hudson won the 2003 Reader’s Choice Award
USA Trains claims to have the world’s largest selection of G scale rolling stock
Robotech VF-1S Gerwalk Mode
Sunday 17th August 2008
Roy Focker’s Veritech VF-1S "Skull Leader"
Mode: Gerwalk/Guardian mode, with Super Valkyrie accessories
Manufactured By: Toynami
Scale: 1/100
Year: 2006 (2008 accessories)
Acquired June 2007, (August 2008 accessories)
I came across the accessories by accident only today. It was just under twenty dollars, which I thought was reasonable (considering I didn’t even know they made it) – so I bought it.
Then I caved went to the shops and bought the DVD Boxed Set: Robotech Protoculture Collection. It has all three Robotech Series and heaps of extras too.
So much for pay day after next.
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This photograph is part of my Robotech set on Flickr.
Photograph Copyright © 2008-present Joriel Jimenez
Please use with permission and full attribution
Star Wars Republic Commando – Vode An, Brothers All
Blogged at Cinematic Toys
Live shot, no post processing. Paint modification of Republic Commando’s Scorch action figure using a metallic blue, silver and black paint scheme. The sun in the background is a red LED light shone on an unevenly patterned gold reflective presentation board and then white balanced to a yellowish tint. The sand is created by mixing fine charcoal and pottery like gravel from the hobby store (model train supplies) to create a Geonosis like surface.
