sturmovik30

as im only a few mins away and its me day off i will pop in,if mz go wheres my next nearest lms? bexley?..clapham?...or the net and the odd airshow.

if he did get any of the stores back i think you will see the same old story it would almost certainly become a r/c and gadget type shop more than ever.

well done roy! i did think it was a bit on the naughty side.im not surprised though typical of the way they were...run?...

is the zvezda il4 a bit pants then? ive been looking forward to getting one, this looks promising though.

OMG! what a great kit!

i think the most inacurate mustang must be the old revell one its like a banana..

i see its 6 weeks to close all the stores,i popped into the bromley shop today and got some tamiya paint at 50percent off,got to [also ] say great staff in the bromley and croydon stores,i hope i can keep in touch with them great modellers and very knowledgable on various subjects,and to be quite honest i enjoyed my stints at bluewater and croydon,shame the firm lost its direction and let their staff down.

is this just some stores or the lot?

the MAJOR problem with MODELZONE has always been markup,the buyers have always been insisted upon making a 80percent markup, and to stick to it no matter what,so if the profit margin isnt there then dont buy it,all well and good in running a business i suppose but at a cost,if the suppliers dont play it their way then they dont buy,in the long run it reduces the ranges they keep and end up buying endless r/c tat from china and the like ,hence the problem they have now,not only have they destroyed any rep they did have ,but they have alienated themselves too.also they dont actually own any of the hornby and scalextric they sell,its done as a concession,which is why they also get the new release long after anyone else,and sell it at a higher price.not good business....

being a ex staff member of beatties and in recent times mz, i also can say im not surprised by the recent news,we have seen it coming for awhile now,the upset caused by the management on not allowing airfix,corgi,hornby club discount,the high kit prices,the bombardment of rc helicopters to the point of flooding the market,and too many toys etc has kept the customers away,the original image of mz as a collectors and modellers shop i thought worked,but it was gradually watered down with a as mentioned before a lot of import rc gimickery,if they do manage to survive i hope they can get back to thier roots and be a modelzone.