News
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October News #2
October 12, 2023
Early October Updates. Hey folks. It has been an up and down week here at the Bunker. We are keeping busy and trying not to pay attention to all the troubles in the world. I picked up more model kits and have been listing stuff from a large toy soldier collection. The Magic the Gathering "Dr. Who" sets have arrived and will sell out over the weekend. On the homefront my son has senoir night for his football team and my daughter is coming home from Flagler College for the weekend. Of course a little bad timing om my part with me heading off to the New Jersey Toy Soldier Show on Saturday. The show is Sunday. I have gotten a lot of calls about what is now a thing of the past...."the Hackensack show." The show was great for so many years but has not been scheduled since 2019. I will be looking into getting a new NJ show for the Fall of 2024. I am also working on a new location for the West Coaster Show. We just added more this week. Including some Conte Coll. Plastic GI's. You can see some updates here. King and Country Retired - LINK: K&C W.Britains Retired LINK: RETIRED Conte Collectibles LINK: Conte Thomas Gunn Collections LINK: GUNN We have a few pre-orders below as well as some new product information. Above is an upcoming release from W.Britains - a photo of their new US Army 40mm Bofors Anti-aircraft gun as it might have appeared during the last months of the war in Europe 1944-45. The gun comes with a 4 man crew and features a C-N-C turned aluminum barrel, with an elevating and traversing gun. The outriggers function and the wheels lift so the gun has a stable platform to fire from. This new Bofors Anti-aircraft gun should be available during the first quarter of 2024. Email us to reserve one!
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Early October news!
October 6, 2023
Early October Updates. Hey folks. Happy Hump Day! We are gearing up for Fall and looking forward to Halloween. King and Country just dropped these cool new Frankenstein themed figures that will be out later this month. See the links below for new products. Last Sunday I attended the PATCOM IPMS model show for the first time. It was a small venue with a full crowd. It was nice to see all the great models and displays and chat with some longtime customers. I got home in enough time to watch my NFL Patriots get dismantled. Sad afternoon for Pats fans. I am trying to get back and sort out more of the massive collection I picked up in August. You can see some updates here. King and Country Retired - LINK: K&C W.Britains Retired LINK: RETIRED Conte Collectibles LINK: Conte Thomas Gunn Collections LINK: GUNN We have a few pre-orders below as well as some new product information. The Chicagoland Toy Soldier is a wrap! Check out facebook for 100's of pictures! https://www.facebook.com/ChicagoToySoldierShow/
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End of September Updates.
September 29, 2023
End of September Updates. We are having a busy week here. We are trying to get back into the swing of things here at the Bunker. As many of you know, I just ran the Chicagoland Show and it was great success. It was easily the largest challenge I have pulled off as a businessman. Thanks to all my helpers! Joe, Joe, Chris, Steven, Dale, Woody, Verne, Rudy, Jim P., Jim R., Katy, Evan K., The Marriott, The Garfield's, The HB crew and DearthCo my design guy! 2024 here we come! Albert, Evan, and Dawn held down the fort while I was gone and we are getting back on track. This week we received a shipment from King and Country, our 2 game distributors, our 2 hobby distributors, Games Workshop, and a few others. Stop by the shop and check out the new stock. We have a few pre-orders below as well as some new product information. The Chicagoland Toy Soldier is a wrap! Check out facebook for 100's of pictures! https://www.facebook.com/ChicagoToySoldierShow/
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September News #2
September 14, 2023
Mid-September Updates. We are having a busy week here. We look forward to seeing many of you in Chicago next week! Albert, Evan and Dawn will be here holding down the fort so the store will be open and packages will be shipped. Today we received a King and Country shipment - all orders going out today! We also just received 4 huge cartons of our Hobby Bunker and Paragon Scenics polyfoam diorama pieces. We will have them sorted tomorrow. We also received a restock of hobby supplies and some new car models today. If you want to pick up anything at the show we need to know now!!! matt@hobbybunker.com We have a few pre-orders below as well as some new product information. We have been carrying the hand made terrain made by John Gittens (JG Miniatures) for over 20 years. Sadly John Is retiring at the first of the year. We can take orders for a couple more months. For the most part we will be selling of just the existing stock. We can take orders for bit but you must buy - we are not taking unpaid pre-orders. LINK: JG We just got a few shipments from the UK. We will have some Tommy Atkins, Fusilier Miniatures and an all new "King Charles" figure at the show next week.
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September News #1
September 6, 2023
We hope you all had a great Labor Day weekend. We were short handed here and the shop was really busy. I had to work all weekend! I am trying to get ready for the Chicagoland Show but I am still up to my elbows in collections! I just received a list of 3500 models kits! Not sure if will but that one...I would have to build a second bunker just to store them. We have a few pre-orders below as well as some new product information. We have been carrying the hand made terrain made by John Gittens (JG Miniatures) for over 20 years. Sadly John Is retiring at the first of the year. We can take orders for a couple more months. For the most part we will be selling of just the existing stock. We can take orders for bit but you must buy - we are not taking unpaid pre-orders. LINK: JG Above is a picture from Thomas Gunn Miniatures. His Roman range is clashing with a barbarian invasion! Blake from Thomas Gunn will most likely be attending the Chicagoland show this year.