Who'da Thunk ?

General Discussion General Modeling Discussion
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Yes a silly start . Okay I am guilty . Now down to tass bracks !

I was driving from the bank when it hit me . How many of us remember what we were thinking or doing the very day minutes before we laid down our hard earned cash for that special model now in our stash ? Yeah , I know , that’s to much thinking . Is it ? What was really going through your mind ?

Were you thinking about the addition to your shelf of pride ? Or how you’d fare at the next contest with it ? or , if your not contest oriented , where were you going to put this example of your hard work and creativity ?

Funny , I remember exactly what I was thinking when I bought the Aoshima rendition of the Triton 3-3300 Research Sub . I was going to carefully assemble it , taking care on the colors and the assembly so it came out just so . Shoot , I’m not even done with the interior , and I bought it over six months ago !

Does this happen to you ? Now that asked , that day I was thinking , how nice it would be to get my car A/C repaired before summer. Naw , ain’t happened yet . Or , how about this , I was thinking ,let’s get all the hulls together for my Battle Group ( W.W. 2 style ). That’s a lot of 1/350 hulls to have together all at once .

Nah , I’ll work on the Dicker Max I won three years ago . Got the tracks on her ( Fruilmodel ) and that’s as far as she got . Now I am working on a 1/43 Morris Mini . The Airfix kit I mentioned in another post .Yeah , I got the floor and bottom painted as well as the tires, and it now sits in the box as well .

That’s funny too . In that same bunch of vendor models I got three different Vosper boats - Two P.T. boats and an Air / Sea rescue boat . All the hulls are assembled . I have a funny technique on Airfix’s hulls .Because most , all are more than two pieces I assemble them , tape them to a board so they come out square and then piddle as the mood suits . One from a different purchase has the most well detailed torpedo tubes and launchers of any of my surface boats . Yeah , it’s in the box now too .

Could the thing that ails us be akin to the disease that women get ? You know ," Not Enough Shoeitis ? " If you suffer from this thing I shall call " Not Enough Modelitis ? Let’s hear your story . T.B.

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The only thing I’m thinking when I’m buying a kit is, “Do I have enough money to buy it?” And that’s pretty much it.

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It is a feeling that goes back to buying kits as a kid. Can’t wait to open it. I usually take the plastic off in the front seat in the parking lot so that I can look at the instructions at red lights.

Online purchases usually follow a plan. In the LHS I look for something different.

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I’m kind of a combination of Devil Dawg and GMorrison:

I think about any financial impact buying the kit may have for the week and open the kit before leaving the parking lot.

However, I open the kit to check that the contents are all there.

A few years ago I bought an Eduard Bf 108 kit only to find that the clear parts were not in the box.

Unfortunately, the hobby shop ( Venture Hobby; another victim of online hobby shops ) was a considerable distance from my home.

Though the shop exchanged the kit, the transit time and petrol expense made checking box contents a priority from that point onward.

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I’ve remembered the details surrounding purchases I’ve made but never for a model.

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Oh Yea I’m with Devil Dog on this one .

I basically work twice a year, for a week at a time ,parking cars at the Daytona Speedway. I save the pay check and once or twice a year attend an IPMS show (providing it’s close,) and spend it all. I’ll buy an armfull of kits , PE, paint etc. for a deep discount, then scurry out to the parking lot and open all of them like a kid at Christmas. Check the gas guage to see if I have enough fuel to get home, then it’s back into the show to see what other deals I can find until the savings are all but gone. I’m still working on the stuff I had bought last Sept and every now and then open up the kits and get excited to build them all over again. I love this hobby ! The SWMBO says I’m still a kid.

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These days, I think, “will I live long enough to build it?”