No sign board may be lacking in service and limited choices. However, I have bought items there twice which I feel was more than a good bargain compare to other shops in Singapore. Compare to the shops in Hong Kong and Shanghai which are already competitive and lower than Singapore prices, I really wonder how in heaven can they manage to sell at such good price and stay in business.

Another aspect to note is ,they carry a wider range of Photo Etched products there.

My first model was Tamiya's German Artillery Crew back in 1978. I was a sucker for the box artwork and being naive then never knew exactly what I bought till I open the box. But since then there was no looking back for this hobby.

this is a long story:

I used to go to Anglo-Chinese Primary School. It was next to Fort Canning Hill along Coleman Street. It is now some kind of National Archive building. The point was one day whilst hanging out in the nearby Peninsula Plaza (this was before Funan Centre was even built) I stumbled upon Hwa Hwa at the 3rd level. This was the only place I knew where you could get real models, not the 144th planes at the Emporium. Anyway, the prices were forbidding for a Primary 3 boy, so I started saving 50cents everyday (I got 70cents per day) So after 7 straight school days of making a nuisance of myself at Hwa Hwa, asking all sorts of questions and asking to see everything, which they nicely obliged. (thanks yusuf and alice!) I scraped together $3.50 and bought the cheapest kit there: a 1/700 Tamiya IJN Ayanami destroyer!

those were the days...wondering if any of you guys ever went there or remember the people there...