Description

This shop sells boxes for building aeroplanes, cars, ships, and military equipment. It sells by correspondence, and offers period toys too.

'Ta-Boo' sells all sorts of articles for model making, and is located in a central area of Bologna not far from Piazza Maggiore.

It specialises in car models and sells kits as well as ready made models. The cars vary from commercial vehicles to specialised cars, from earth diggers to agricultural vehicles. The sizes vary from small 1/87 to 1/8. The shop offers accessories for the elaboration of models of all sizes. There is a section reserved for car models for electric tracks with all the relative accessories. In this shop you can find ship models of various sizes, in balsa wood or plastic, aeroplane building kits, military equipment, motorbikes, and sci-fi articles from films such as 'Star Wars', 'Star Trek', and others. There is a large area dedicated to model soldiers, which includes plastic ones, and an interesting selection of hand-painted lead soldiers which represent famous people such as Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Mao, Garibaldi, Napoleon, and many others from many different periods, as well as military soldiers from various armies (carabinieri, swiss guards, UN soldiers, etc.)

The shop also stocks a wide selection of period toys.