You're not a real modeler until.......

[rfross]

You've been purchasing locomotives, rolling stock, building kits, ballast, track, turnouts, highway vehicles including cars, trucks and maybe even buses, in preparation for building that layout that you've had in your head. You've ended up with a lot of stuff, probably way more than you could ever use on your modest layout. Then you sit back and realize that you've been doing this for twenty years and haven't laid a single piece of track!

[loathar]

Seriously...you are a real modeler when you finally slow down the trains and start to run scale speeds... 

That's a good one!I really like making my trains crawl as slow as I can get them to.

[Geared Steam]

You replant all the wifes flowerbeds with golden rod (so you'll have plenty of tree material every fall)!

1. You and your wife plan to trim the shrubs and the hedges, only you spend more time looking for good armatures.

2. You have a trailer hitch that looks like a knuckle coupler.

3. You no longer have fingerprints on your thumb and fore finger (because of super glues)

4. Your postman tells you you need a bigger mailbox because of all the mags, catalogs, Ebay items won't fit in it anymore.

5. Your UPS guy is on a first name basis with you.

6. Your MRR links in your browser fills the screen.

7. Your boss now restricts access to any "hobby" websites. But he really likes the picture on your desktop.

8. Your replying to this thread.

 

[n2mopac]

You called your funeral director to find out the actual dimensions of a casket for your cemetary/funeral scene (told him I was building my own casket--which I was).

Ron

[Medina1128]

Boy, those ALL sounded vaguely familiar. Allow me to add:

• You buy a tool at the train show that you HAD to have, only to get home and realize you already have 2.
• You swear, "NO MORE LOCOMOTIVES", then Walthers has Proto 2000 units on sale for $45.98.
• Your soon to be ex-wife doesn't recognize your face, until you show her your feet, because that's all she's seen of you while you been working under the layout.
• Your pets follow you down to the layout room because they're so used to the sound of power tools.
• You stop everything you're doing, because you can't find the solder (and it's sitting right next to the soldering iron).
• You found out why they call Kadee knuckle springs "Jesus springs".
• You've made up your own curse words: see above.
• Your friends and family call you "Bobby" from "The Sopranos", or some other train related nickname.
• Every thing you say has a train reference.
• There isn't a single room in your house that doesn't have A) a model railroad catalog or flyer, B) a Model Railroader magazine in it, or C) something train related in it.
• You stop whatever honey-do item you were working on because you found that Micro Mark catalog under the sofa cushion.
• You have one of your favorite sports team trains proudly on display.
• You have a special train wardrobe that you wear to A) railfanning trips, B) your LHS, C) swap meets or D) family get togethers.

 

 

[tattooguy67]

You have more locomotives than your wife has shoes.

Enjoy

Paul 

Ok see now this has gotten me into trouble, my wife( remember her?, the greatest wife ever!) and i were reading this and having a good laugh when this one came up!, now she is going shoe shopping!!, thanks a bunch! lol.

[Packers#1]

All your money is poured into a 4x8 sheet of plywood, which is attempting to look like some weird scale model of the real world, with these things that run on nickel silver rail moving around.

[Guilford Guy]

You've managed to create a synthetic layer of skin on your hand, also known as superglue.

[MOPACnut]

You have more locomotives than your wife has shoes.

Enjoy

Paul 

Ok see now this has gotten me into trouble, my wife( remember her?, the greatest wife ever!) and i were reading this and having a good laugh when this one came up!, now she is going shoe shopping!!, thanks a bunch! lol.

Glad i'm single , i don't have to worry about it.

No offense to those who are.

Here's one:

You're not a real modeler until....... you finally accept the fact that NO layout is 100% immune from derailments. There's always those gremlins that strike for no reason.

ACCEPT IT!!

[jeffshultz]

You've spent an entire day trying to track down an intermittent short on your layout.

 

 

[Rotorranch]

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.

I've done that several times with 1/32 slot cars. $50 for a resin body, $10 for decals, $45+ for a donor car, and hours of time sanding and painting, and they release the same car for $44.99 retail, and it looks so much better than your kit-bash.

Rotor

[Rotorranch]

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.

That sounds familier.....except I don't think my layout has ever ran in ONE day without multiple derailments..... 

Ty...sounds like you need to work on your track more, and spend less time padding your post count!

Rotor

[IRONROOSTER]

You have more locomotives than your wife has shoes.

Enjoy

Paul 

Ok see now this has gotten me into trouble, my wife( remember her?, the greatest wife ever!) and i were reading this and having a good laugh when this one came up!, now she is going shoe shopping!!, thanks a bunch! lol.

I'm on the losing end of this one myself !!!!!! 

 

Paul 

[NYCfan]

Man all of them sound familiar to me!!! Especially the super glue. The only other one I can think of off-hand is while working on your current layout, you try to calculate when you'll be done so you can start on the "new" one that's been slowly growing in your mind since you started.

[corsair7]

<<And how much closet space is yours?>>

You have closet space? You must be a newly wed and your bride hasn't brought over her wardrobe.

 

[oleirish]

OR untell your fingers are raw and sore from "N" scale rail joiners!!!!

 

JIM

[mononguy63]

unless you've read all 70+ posts to this thread...

[Packers#1]

OR untell your fingers are raw and sore from "N" scale rail joiners!!!!

 

JIM

AMMMEEEEEEENNNNNNNNNNNNNNN to that. A little off topic here, but i found a good way to aviod that is take your xuron track cutters, and use the little holes cut in the handles to squish them on.

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!)

I gotta get mine to do that (he's almost 7). ;]

You spend an hour on the internet, comparing prices of several hobby shops for one particular item. (I have done this)

You go out to the local gun club with that piece of crap, won't run locomotive, and take care of business, then get home and open the package the UPS man brought, taking the new locomotive out. (I want to do this).

[Jake1210]

-You take into serious consideration the pros and cons of buying MMI HOn3 K-27s and a Tsunami Decoder instead of just buying a Blackstone... and vise versa...

-When you look at over 10 places for the cheapest price on said products.

[inch53]

You cut the tip of your finger off trying to make scale lumber on a scroll saw, because your to cheap to go out an buy it [believe me it hurts for a long time].

inch

[Bundy74]

You buy a 25 or 50 lb bag of clean sand from Home Depot so you can easily make a small gravel driveway...for one house

[lvanhen]

You buy a 25 or 50 lb bag of clean sand from Home Depot so you can easily make a small gravel driveway...for one house

[rolleiman]

You buy a 25 or 50 lb bag of clean sand from Home Depot so you can easily make a small gravel driveway...for one house

Sadly enough, I've considered that.....  

[galaxy]

...you scratch build a scale model of your own house.....and the house you grew up in

[Packers#1]

You spend immense amounts of time on 5 model railroading forums.

Your desk is covered with half-finished projects.

 

[boston1943]

You say all seven swears in a row at a piece of benchwork.

 

 

[Packers#1]

You say all seven swears in a row at a piece of benchwork.

 

 

Don't forget:

locomotive that doesn't run

burnt out decoder

That dang knife blade that slipped.

[boston1943]

 A related topic would be...

YOU MIGHT BE A MODEL RAILROADER JOKES!!! (Like "You might be a redneck" jokes, but with modelers.)

   You might be a model railroader if...

You pick up an AC-DC record and look for where it says DCC

You sleep with a soldering gun beneath your pillow

You spend 132 and a half full days anualy in your basement

You think 1:1 is overrated

You spent your honeymoon railfanning

Your dreams invove wiring Decoders

You've ever gotten carpul tunnel twice in a single week

 

Do you have any?

 

(P.S. Sorry for pirating your post) 

 

[boston1943]

Of corse, how could I forget?

[alco49]

.. you have a funeral for the new Proto model that you dropped... in a lake... thats twelve feet deep... but not before diving in and trying to find it.