"Visit to Paris" Topic

2 Wargamers are visiting Paris this March

Opinions sought on the
* best military book store
* best Plastic modelling store
* best historical wargame-store
* best artist's supplies store that carries wargamer-related items such as airbrushes
* best mall to deposit our wifes and our daughters during our visits to the stores above :-)

Thanks in advance

Hahah…..

Paris is always worth a vist.

There is a super big modelstore close to hotel de vile / chatelle metro station. You have another one in the station midi/ south train station.

The best ( in the world)shop for tanks for in 25mm is in pasage de charolais 10.
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Between the metro station sorbonne and maubert are several game stores around the univercity. Here are also very good book stores.

In the swiss art village is FG miniatures the last and best store for historical minis. Around him are art stores and stores for real historic artefacts. You can walk this from the dome des invalides if you are tough. But the museum shop of the dome des invalides is also very good.

A little bit outside is decatres, but i think they have changed name but they are still there.

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I normaly take a taxi and dump my wife a galleries lafayette at place hausmann around 9am. That departmenstore and printams will keep them busy for 2 days. So i do my trip around the stores. It is a real consideration to rent a taxi with diver for the whole day… Let him wait in front of your store and deposit your goods in the taxi aslong you are buying in the next store. It is very difficult to call a taxi in paris from the road and you wil buy a lot. The game stores close all at 6pm… Travell between location is 45min to 1h.. So you better hurry. It is a tour de force… :)))

It is a advise. Make sure you have enough cash as your creditcard might have limited credit in france. Raise the limit before or take serveral with you.

Greetings and have fun

Great advice

If your family has not seen the Louvre it can also consume a day (and much easier on your pocketbook than Galleries Lafayette)

If you have not seen the Musee d'Armee it is worth a look!

Unless you find something really unique, I wouldn't buy too much hobby related stuff in Paris. Remember that you've got to get it home and since just about everything in Paris is expensive, I'd expect hobby related stuff is also. I don't know what prices are like where you live, but they are probably lower than what you'll find in Paris.

Thanks to all your advice esp. Rudi

@Rudi: SO you have the same issues as me ;-) I tried to find your specified locations on maps.google.de
Impossible because of the english location
Could you please recall the name of the shops so that I can find them?

Greets

Thanks Rudi for speaking about us (FG MiniZ exFG Miniatures) but we are no longer selling figures in our shop (only on order); we have done this for years but not any longer. We are now a painting service and figure manufacturers

To Frederick; sadly the last military bookstore has closed in january and there is no historical wargames store anymore

Abot a plastic modelling store there is euromodel-online.eu near Gare de Lyon

Cheers

Franck
forgottenglorious.blogspot.fr
fgminizpaint.blogspot.fr
dbmarmies.blogspot.fr
fgminiznewsflash.blogspot.fr

Dear Franck,
Thanks for the info on FG MiniZ exFG Miniatures.
We'll take a look on your offers on the web.

>>sadly the last military bookstore has closed in january
Could you please name me the store?

Greets

Hi Friedericus Rex

The store was Armes & Collection: they still have a website but not more shop.

Cheers
Franck
FG MiniZ
forgottenglorious.blogspot.fr
fgminizpaint.blogspot.fr
dbmarmies.blogspot.fr

Thabk you so much Franck

I normaly take a taxi and dump my wife a galleries lafayette at place hausmann around 9am. That departmenstore and printams will keep them busy for 2 days.

Or at the Forum des Halles, shops on three levels underground it looks specially designed as a national park for wives where they can roam free in their natural biotope for days.
But DON'T go in there yourself or you'll come out with new clothes. You have been warned.

Thanks Patrice, so funny.
Even my wife and my daughter laughed about it

Greets