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

[Dean-58]

You're still working on a locomotive rebuild while your friend has built several--from scratch.  (Actually, he's built 3-4 steam locomotives from the wheels up, plus converted several Lionel Diesel units to 2-rail DC operation, redetailed them, and painted them flawlessly in his chosen "Fallen Flag's" livery.  Sometimes I think I'm too lazy to live...)

[PMeyer]

Insuring your hobby stuff doubles the cost of your home insurance!

[lvanhen]

My wife told me she'd leave if I bought one more loco!!  I'll sure miss her - she was a good cook!!

hhhmmm....how many shoes does she have?

I lost count on fingers & toes - and not 1/2 way through counting!

How many outfits?

About the same as shoes!!

And how much closet space is yours?

I have my own closet - in the spare bedroom!!!

LOL 

-G

 

But her stuff are "things" - my stuff is just "toys"!!

[phatkat64]

If you live west of the Mississippi, it means your layout is in the whole carage, and your car's paint fades out in the driveway!

[galaxy]

My wife told me she'd leave if I bought one more loco!!  I'll sure miss her - she was a good cook!!

hhhmmm....how many shoes does she have?

How many outfits?

And how much closet space is yours?

LOL 

-G

 

[lvanhen]

My wife told me she'd leave if I bought one more loco!!  I'll sure miss her - she was a good cook!!

[galaxy]

...You plan family vacations around hobby store locations.

That and train spotting locations or museums or tourist railroads-anything vacation as long as it is train related! Even the steam trains at Disney World!

-G

[Dallas Model Works]

...You plan family vacations around hobby store locations.

[Anonymous]

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..... 

[Berk-fan284]

You inadvertantly use that shiny new sound equipped locomotive to scare the family dog out of the house until you turn the sound waaay down (and bribe her back in with half a box of dog treats).....

The dog has forgiven me (I think).

[railroadnut675]

When you play with your layout, you think about everything you can get for it when you leave.

Your so busy daydreaming about your layout, you forget to buy half the things you want to at the LHS.

[PA&ERR]

-When looking for a new house, you look at the basement first.

-You tell your real estate agent not to show you any houses without a basement and that a "finished" basement is a not a "plus".

-George

[cbq9911a]

You find a way to modify horn hook couplers mate with Kadees.

You have a transition car with a British hook and loop coupler at one end and a Kadee at the other, so that Thomas and his friends can pull your unit coal train.

[MOPACnut]

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.

 

Guilty

just  don't have the money to convert all of mine

[NSlover92]

You still havn't learned that the soldering iron is HOT, even after you unplug it. Mike

[rolleiman]

you wake your wife up in bed about a idea you have for the layout, and ask her opinion on it. 

 

When she says 'It's Me, Or the Trains' and you tell her to have a good life.

When you've bought that Must Have one of a kind kit only to realize you have 3 identical kits in the to be built pile.

When you're walking the dog, see someone's trash pile (curbside pickup here) and wonder what that gizmo could be used for on the layout. Then sneak back after dark to get it. 

[Robby P.]

you wake your wife up in bed about a idea you have for the layout, and ask her opinion on it. 

 

[trainfan1221]

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?

[Fergmiester]

When cleaning up your "stash" you realize you have enough unbuilt kits of structures/rolling stock/scenery details to last past 2050!

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!!! 

[CSX_road_slug]

#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!

[IRONROOSTER]

You have more locomotives than your wife has shoes.

Enjoy

Paul 

[locoi1sa]

 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 

[AntonioFP45]

............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! 

[Wikious]

...until a lot of these start sounding very, very familiar.

[loathar]

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!)

And to that! Just think if it was DCC, up to 16 volts instead of 12...

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

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

 

[galaxy]

...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.

 

 

[twhite]

When cleaning up your "stash" you realize you have enough unbuilt kits of structures/rolling stock/scenery details to last past 2050!

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!

Tom

[GAPPLEG]

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

                       A

                           L

                                L

                           floor.  UGH. Got unit back together finally.

 

[lvanhen]

When cleaning up your "stash" you realize you have enough unbuilt kits of structures/rolling stock/scenery details to last past 2050!

[aloco]

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.