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You're not a real modeler until.......
Posted by Bundy74 on Saturday, June 7, 2008 1:41 PM

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1.)   Half of that brand-new bottle of decal solution ends up spilled on the workbench because you tried to reach over it for the decals.

2.)   The tip of your thumb becomes part of that gondola load you just made.

3.)   You forgot to scuff the surface of that metal vehicle and the new paint puddled.

4.)   Superglue seemed like a great idea until you decided to repaint that hardware store kit.

Feel free to add your own.

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Posted by dehusman on Saturday, June 7, 2008 2:39 PM

1b) ... and the solution wets the last three letters of set, dissolving them, and leaving you with a car lettered on one side.

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Posted by trainfan1221 on Saturday, June 7, 2008 2:53 PM
You learn that the force of gravity applies to model trains that are too close to the edge as well as everything else.
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Posted by MisterBeasley on Saturday, June 7, 2008 3:04 PM

You've spent 45 minutes on your hands and knees looking for that Kadee knuckle spring on the thick pile carpet, even though you've got a whole container of extra springs.

You won't let anyone see your layout in operation, because you just know that you will break your 127-days-without-a-derailment streak if someone else is watching.

You wear your blue and white striped engineer's cap, even if no one else is there.  Or maybe it's only when no one else is there.

You just can't understand why K-mart doesn't have turf and flocking next to the hair spray.

You're laughing all the way through this thread.

It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse. 

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Posted by loathar on Saturday, June 7, 2008 3:08 PM

1-Till you decide to make horn hooks on your layout extinct.

2-Till you learn a 40' wood side ice refrigerated car doesn't belong behind an AC 4400.

 

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Posted by Fergmiester on Saturday, June 7, 2008 4:10 PM

1. The owner at your LHS sends you Christmas and Birthday cards.

2. All the medical staff at the local Emergency know your name without looking at the chart.

3. Your kids didn't learn those "bad" words from their friends.

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Posted by Railphotog on Saturday, June 7, 2008 4:37 PM

Your fingers have many scars from sharp X-Acto blade cuts!

You consider band-aids as an essential modeling tool!

 

 

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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, June 7, 2008 4:41 PM
When you start working at 3 PM and finish at 5:30 AM, because it took that long to make a branch line look "weedy" enough.
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Posted by IRONROOSTER on Saturday, June 7, 2008 5:02 PM

Until you install the coupler "correctly" and then turn the car right side up.

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Posted by dale8chevyss on Saturday, June 7, 2008 5:04 PM
You get your kid brother to lick the rails when your DC pp is on full.  (I know I'm cruel but the idiot did it!)

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Posted by Bapou on Saturday, June 7, 2008 5:06 PM

 dale8chevyss wrote:
You get your kid brother to lick the rails when your DC pp is on full.  (I know I'm cruel but the idiot did it!)

Laugh [(-D] And Bow [bow] to that! Just think if it was DCC, up to 16 volts instead of 12... Evil [}:)]

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Posted by Kenfolk on Saturday, June 7, 2008 5:06 PM

...you read posts like these.

 

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Posted by SteamFreak on Saturday, June 7, 2008 5:15 PM

 dale8chevyss wrote:
You get your kid brother to lick the rails when your DC pp is on full.  (I know I'm cruel but the idiot did it!)

Your brother's lucky you're not a three-railer!

Laugh [(-D]

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Posted by BlueHillsCPR on Saturday, June 7, 2008 5:15 PM

 MisterBeasley wrote:
You wear your blue and white striped engineer's cap, even if no one else is there.  Or maybe it's only when no one else is there.

 Hmm, this is the only kind of hat I own, or wear...I have about 6 of them so I always have a clean one handy. Smile [:)]

I also have a wooden train whistle...BUT I don't take it with me like my hats. Big Smile [:D]

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Posted by leejax01 on Saturday, June 7, 2008 5:21 PM

1. Until you get excited and then furious when they announce a model that you just kitbashed...that's when they announce it you know.

2. Until you look for a place that has the same item for 1 1/2% cheaper

3. Refused to pay $5.47 for that overpriced kit

4. You realize that you have 10+ unfinished building projects

5. Finally, you realize that you are 4+ years into building your layout.

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Posted by alco49 on Saturday, June 7, 2008 5:26 PM
 Bapou wrote:

 dale8chevyss wrote:
You get your kid brother to lick the rails when your DC pp is on full.  (I know I'm cruel but the idiot did it!)

Laugh [(-D] And Bow [bow] to that! Just think if it was DCC, up to 16 volts instead of 12... Evil [}:)]

Say, that raises an improtant question. Are kid brothers DCC compatible? And can you access their sound features on standard DC? Hmmm... gotta test this one Mischief [:-,]
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Posted by tomikawaTT on Saturday, June 7, 2008 6:04 PM
 leejax01 wrote:

1. Until you get excited and then furious when they announce a model that you just kitbashed...that's when they announce it you know.

Not very likely.  (For the reason, check my signature.)

2. Until you look for a place that has the same item for 1 1/2% cheaper.

Remember when you got the same item for about 10% of the present MSRP.

3. Refused to pay $5.47 for that overpriced kit.

Before the price went up to $54.70 and the item went on eternal backorder.

4. You realize that you have 10+ unfinished building projects

And about 1000 unSTARTED projects.

5. Finally, you realize that you are 4+ years into building your layout.

And aren't even decently startedLaugh [(-D]

Watch for the great Golden Spike ceremony - in 2037, if I last that long.

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Posted by aloco on Saturday, June 7, 2008 6:33 PM
You're not a real modeler until you're wounded in action.  I can't count how many times I've cut or poked my fingers while working on trains.
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Posted by lvanhen on Saturday, June 7, 2008 6:40 PM
When cleaning up your "stash" you realize you have enough unbuilt kits of structures/rolling stock/scenery details to last past 2050!Shock [:O]
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Posted by GAPPLEG on Saturday, June 7, 2008 7:22 PM

Until youv'e run 3 units on DCC (I'm a newbie to DCC) and forgot you left the drop open across the doorway . F

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                           floor.  UGH.Shock [:O] Got unit back together finally.

 

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Posted by twhite on Saturday, June 7, 2008 7:45 PM

 lvanhen wrote:
When cleaning up your "stash" you realize you have enough unbuilt kits of structures/rolling stock/scenery details to last past 2050!Shock [:O]

OHMYGAW!!  You, TOO?  I just re-arranged the stuff under the layout and found that I have some Grandt-Line kits I forgot that I BOUGHT!!

Or:  Your track has a joint in the middle of your curved viaduct that you installed in January on your garage layout.  It's June.  The track has EXPANDED!  KINKED!  You cannot run any big locos over it, in fact, your little 2-8-0 has just taken a dive 190 scale feet into the forest below it.  Now how do I manage to get all that scenery out of that bent cowcatcher and ruined Kadee #5 without everything popping off--and where in Heck is the HEADLIGHT?  EGAD, it's fun being a modeler!

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Posted by galaxy on Saturday, June 7, 2008 7:54 PM

...you take out a second mortgage to build on a train room.

...you use your home equity line of credit to buy that "must-have" locomotive.

...you call your kids "Chessapeake" and "Ohio" .

...your dreams are in DCC.

...you forgot your significant other's name.

...you've ballasted your driveway.

 

 

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Posted by loathar on Saturday, June 7, 2008 7:55 PM
 alco49 wrote:
 Bapou wrote:

 dale8chevyss wrote:
You get your kid brother to lick the rails when your DC pp is on full.  (I know I'm cruel but the idiot did it!)

Laugh [(-D] And Bow [bow] to that! Just think if it was DCC, up to 16 volts instead of 12... Evil [}:)]

Say, that raises an improtant question. Are kid brothers DCC compatible? And can you access their sound features on standard DC? Hmmm... gotta test this one Mischief [:-,]

My guess is his sound function worked rather well once his tounge hit the DC rails!

 

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Posted by Wikious on Saturday, June 7, 2008 8:20 PM
...until a lot of these start sounding very, very familiar.

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Posted by AntonioFP45 on Saturday, June 7, 2008 8:21 PM
............you realize something doesn't look "quite right" at the club when a member is hauling a loaded, 50-car coal drag........... at high speed .....................with an SW-7!  Laugh [(-D]

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Posted by locoi1sa on Saturday, June 7, 2008 8:29 PM

 1. When you shot the last custom bent grab iron into space while the ACC is hardenning in the holes.

 2. When your packing your HO scale modules and driveing 100 miles in the snow for a one day train show at 0 dark thirty in the am. 

 3. Watching that cute little kid grab a handfull of scenery material while the parents are watching them and when you say something they say its alright he didnt do to much damadge.

 4. After countless hours of detailing and remotoring and adding sound and lights you finaly get to see the smoke from the steamer when you remember that it doesnt have a smoke unit. 

 5. Bad things only happen when others are around watching.

 6. When you leave the hobby shop with two shopping bags of stuff only to realize when you get home you didnt get what you went there for.

 7. You go to Home depot with a handfull of dirt to match it to a flat latex paint. 

  This list is endless 

 I pray every day I break even, Cause I can really use the money!

 I started with nothing and still have most of it left!

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Posted by IRONROOSTER on Saturday, June 7, 2008 8:39 PM

You have more locomotives than your wife has shoes.

Enjoy

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Posted by CSX_road_slug on Saturday, June 7, 2008 8:45 PM

#207) You visit your local HD and walk past the PVC piping, and imagine how many HO grain elevator silos you could make from a single 12' pipe.

#208) A cereal box lying on its side could be a scale warehouse with some pasted-on scale brickwork...?

#209) When you go to the LHS, you always buy WAY MORE than what you actually need of glue, paint, Kadees, etc. just so you'll have a good supply "just in case"

#300) You finally remember that one critical item you originally meant to buy on your trip to said LHS - after you're more than halfway home!Grumpy [|(]

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Posted by Fergmiester on Saturday, June 7, 2008 9:09 PM

 lvanhen wrote:
When cleaning up your "stash" you realize you have enough unbuilt kits of structures/rolling stock/scenery details to last past 2050!Shock [:O]

Actually 2053 but... I haven't picked up Walther's latest catalogue so the date is questionable but who's counting?

I'll be dead before the stash is actually discovered by the Mrs. that or she discovers the stash and I'm dead anyway... It's a win win situation regardless!!! 

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Posted by trainfan1221 on Saturday, June 7, 2008 10:17 PM
You find that Krazy Glue, despite that it doesn't hold your trains together, is great at bonding your fingers.  Only, why would you want to do this?

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