SPA Modeler

keavdog wrote: ↑Mon Oct 19, 2026 9:54 pm Perhaps a Tom Daniel group build?

I was following an IPMS group build of his kits before he passed. Interest was mixed and it de-evolved into a place for showing off or selling off vintage kits.

cbaltrin wrote: ↑Wed Oct 21, 2026 2:21 pm Modeler’s Haven, Canton, Ohio.. looked all over for a photo…no luck…

I did find the address and local articles but you’re right, this is a hard one to research. Which location did you visit? Apparently, the store moved.

My first shop was Pratley’s hardware store in the little village I grew up in - Milton Under Wychwood on the edge of the Cotswolds. They sold Humbrol tube glue and Airfix/Humbrol paints and the only kits they had were Matchbox - which is why I've built some many of them. I didn't go into a proper m...

https://i.postimg.cc/Ss6vv85x/Screenshot-2026-10-19-at-6-30-13-PM.png Tom was born in Los Angeles in 1936. Eighteen years later, obsessed with the drawings of futuristic vehicles he’d seen on a high school field trip to the Art Center School of Los Angeles, he applied and was accepted to the school...