HobbyLink Japan's Notes
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This gray morning brightened up with the first stock delivery of the new week! The waiting forklift will bring filled pallets inside, where our receiving team will check in the stock.
The first new loot of the new week! (Whoever invented this style of truck container was a genius!) 11/24/2009
Our favorite e-mail this week came from longtime customer Jody Cheesemore, who has kindly given us permission to share it here:
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Having ordered a fair amount from you over the past few years, you can imagine how many of your parcel / packing boxes I have had to dispose of. Luckily, I have come up with a novel way of recycling them!
Behold – the HobbyLink notebook!!
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Having ordered a fair amount from you over the past few years, you can imagine how many of your parcel / packing boxes I have had to dispose of. Luckily, I have come up with a novel way of recycling them!
Behold – the HobbyLink notebook!!
Using some of the cardboard from your packaging and some old continuous feed printer paper I have, I’ve come up with this little beauty!!
Bound with large cable ties, the HobbyLink notebook has 198 pages, and will probably be used as a travel notebook. Am on somewhat of a writing kick at the moment, so this will be ideal for taking notes while I’m out and about!!
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Thanks again, Mr. Cheesemore!
HLJ is closed on Saturday and Sunday, and on Monday for Japan's Kinrou Kansha no Hi (Labor Thanksgiving Day) national holiday. Enjoy the weekend, and we'll see you Tuesday!
Tasca's all-new 1/24 Pz.Kpfw.II Ausf.F kit (TAC24001) has just arrived! The armour fans on our staff flocked to check out our front-office sample--and HERE's how good it is (click the photo to make it larger...)!
This big new 1/24 Panzer II kit from Tasca is eye-wideningly good! 11/19/2009
Here's a look at one side of our warehouse's Location B, just before start of business this morning. Military, aviation and naval kits, mini cars and tanks, books, magazines, and CDs are usually kept here.
This side of our warehouse's second-floor Location B is where we usually keep military, aviation and naval kits, books, and more. That partial wall divides Locations A and B. 11/18/2009
Since Friday, we've had a countdown ticking on the top page of http://www.hlj.com -- and last night was a late one, making sure we've got everything in place for when that counter reaches triple-zeros today!
Yesterday we headed out HLJ's front door well into the night, after making sure everything is in place for today's culmination of our top-page countdown. 11/17/2009
Here goes the first of the day's three pick-ups of outgoing HLJ packages by Japan Post! There are eight rolling cages of packages in this load; four are on the truck, with the fifth on its way. Japan Post will bring back the emptied cages later in the day and pick up the next shipment.
Three times each workday, Japan Post picks up our rolling cages loaded with outgoing packages. 11/16/2009
What was aviation artist extraordinare Shigeo Koike doing in the HLJ front office with his artbook "Flying Colors 3" and a pen in hand? We'll let you know soon--and how you can get a chance to own the result, too--on http://www.hlj.com!
We're closed on Saturday and Sunday. Enjoy the weekend!
We're closed on Saturday and Sunday. Enjoy the weekend!
On Wednesday, HLJ staff were treated to the sight of the legendary Shigeo Koike with his artbook "Flying Colors 3" and a pen in hand...and what came next! Details on how you can get a chance to own the result are coming soon on http://www.hlj.com! 11/13/2009
Shigeo Koike, known for his box art for Hasegawa aircraft kits, is considered by many to be the finest aviation artist in the world today...and yesterday he visited HLJ! In our warehouse, imported reference books on aircraft were of special interest.
We were thrilled to have aviation artist extraordinaire Shigeo Koike visit HLJ yesterday! 11/12/2009
Opened cartons of the most popular items expected to be packed that day are put in a special area of our warehouse's Location A, for easy access by our picking staff. At one end of this row, various extra-hot Saint Seiya Myth Cloth figures will soon be heading into fans' hands.
The most popular items scheduled to be packed that day get an area of Location A to themselves, where our picking staff can nab them out of their opened cartons. 11/11/2009
In our warehouse, one long wall of Location A shines with our photo-etch stock. This particular portion of the wall holds detail sets that we import from maker Aber of Poland.
We carry several makes of photo-etch detail sets, and they keep a long wall gleaming in Location A of our warehouse! 11/10/2009