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A Site Dedicated to those Nutty enough to enjoy the fine art of modeling

September 2007

About Hobbynuts

Hello and Welcome to Hobbynuts 2007,

    In 1998 I was selling 16mm film on eBay as I was and am still an avid film collector, while searching one night I found a model I had put together as a kid. I bought the model and I re-discovered the joy of taking a bunch of pieces of plastic and turning them into an object I could be proud of. And the rest....is Hobbynuts
At the time I owned a cabinet shop and the building boom of the time kept us in the shop 16 to 18 hours a day most of the time. When time allowed building models was a way to escape the pressure of the grind, it was like I was 12 years old again (my lovely and understanding wife believes that I still am). One thing led to another and in 1999... well depending on how you look at it, things kinda got out of hand, a friend of mine and I had a chance to buy out a distributor that was retiring. We left his building with 6 tractor trailer loads of stuff, everything from Railroading, Remote Control, plastic, glue, paint, to puzzles and books, it was incredible the amount of stuff we had just acquired...now, what to do with it all. It was obvious that I would never be able to put all of the models together or build a Model Railroad set that would have stretched from Suffolk, Virginia to Baltimore, Maryland (and there was enough stuff to do it...we would have called it the HobbyNUT Line)
   I took one of the buildings on the property the cabinet shop was on and turned it into a hobby shop, became involved with eBay even more, and started the Web Site. I found myself devoting more and more time to the hobby side and less and less to the cabinet shop. I became involved with a distributor, Nesson Sales in Norfolk, just a few miles from Suffolk and had a steady supply of supplies to replenish what was being sold. Since I was so close I could go there and pick up what ever I needed. Nesson's was a 250,000 sq.ft. Warehouse LOADED with models. Now I got to tell you, walking through there with a grocery basket filling it with models was a feeling I will never forget, every time was like Christmas Morning.
    The shop made fifty times more than selling hobby stuff on eBay, over the web site, or out of the Hobby Shop...But I enjoyed it more! Then in 2004 My distributor and, by then, good friend Eddie Nesson decided to retire, I bought most of his model stock and once again had more models than I knew what to do with. Finally by 2006 I was burnt - out...totally. I chunked it all, sold the cabinet shop and the other buildings. However, I wasn't ready to stop so I built another building that houses the cabinet shop and the Hobby shop, but on a much smaller scale. It took several months to build the building and during that time I left the cabinet business and hobby shop alone. During that time the Old web site got hopelessly out of date and for the last several months I have been working on revamping it and making it easier to navigate, there is still lots of work to do but it will get done.
Now, why do I do this? Because, I know there are people out there that enjoy modeling as much as I do, and with hobby shops getting harder to find, I feel that if I can provide a service and a product that can bring joy to someone, that makes the work worth it. It is the goal of Hobbynuts to try and provide this service and at a price that won't break your budget.