Great Hobby Adventures is a full line traditional hobbyshop in Des Moines, Iowa. If you are looking for plastic models of aircraft, armor, automobiles, ships, and fantasy we can help. If it is aftermarket items you needÊfor your plastic models, we carry many lines of photo etched and resin parts as well as historically accurate paints.

If you are a model railroader we carry HO, N, and O scale. We deal in all kinds of accessories for railroading including track, DCC, and scenery items.

If you are into R/C Great Hobby Adventures promotes electric R/C cars, R/C aircraft, and R/C boats.

Great Hobby Adventures is also your source for specific hobby tools. Air brushes and compressors as well as special hand tools unique to modeling can be found here.

Do you have a school or science project are Pinewood Derby car you need to build? We are here to get you started. We have supplies and tips to get things done.

As a Des Moines hobbyshop, we sponsor and IPMS plastic model club, the Central Iowa Railroad Club, the Warren County Modular Railroad Modeler (NMRA) and Des Moines NTrack (n-scale modular club).

Additionally, we sponsor Make N Takes for Des Moines' youngsters and modeling seminars at he hobby shop for everyone. These seminars cover every aspect of the hobby from figure painting to airbrushing to weathering model railroad cars and scenes.

Visit us. We have over 30 combined years of experience as a Des Moines hobbyshop and over 80 years of being hobbyist ourselves. We are a hobby store run by hobbyist for hobbyists.