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Model Shops in Moscow
I am not a native Muscovite - but I have visited the city a number of times now and I am a keen modeller of Russian aircraft.
Moscow appears to have a thriving modellingscene, although due to the time factor, I have been unable to stay too long and really get to know the individual modellers. I have made a number of friends over the Internet though and we regularlyexchange models, books & magazines.
To find your way around Moscow, I am including a link to the Moscow Metro and a site with street maps of Moscow
Here are some of the Models shops I have found:--
1. Central House of Aviation shop.
Take the metro to Dynamo on the GREEN line. You will exit the station onto Leningradskii Prospekt. Make your way to the Central House of Aviation on ‘Red ArmyStreet’ :-
As you face the pale blue building with the main entrance in front of you, the model shop is around the corner to the left. The entrance is just a small wooden door – but the inside is agood model shop. There is also a small model ‘kiosk’ actually inside the museum. The museum itself is well worth a visit – lots of artifacts and models on display. It is dirt cheap !
Whilst you arein the general area you must visit the old central Moscow airfield of Khodynka – formerly called Frunze. It is across the main Leningradskii Prospekt behind the bus station. If you happen to bestaying at the Aerostar hotel you are lucky - it is just around the corner. Khodynka has a great collection of aircraft on display.

2. Model shop in the cellar at ‘Polytechnic’.
Take the metro toLubyanka on the RED line. As you emerge from the station (there are a number of exits from the Metro !) into Lubyanka Square, you need to have the large department store called 'Childrens World’ behindyou and the KGB building to your left (this is the infamous KGB headquarters - now jokingly called 'Hotel Lubyanka). The Polytechnic musem is a large building directly ahead of you. The entrance to...