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If You Buy An Outfit........

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Posted by charlie9 on Friday, March 20, 2015 5:20 PM

SHE makes me take my apron off when I leave the kitchen sink.

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Posted by carl425 on Friday, March 20, 2015 4:52 PM

Ya gotta respect Cody for unashamedly "letting his geek flag fly", but has anybody else actually considered wearing an apron while working on model railroad projects?

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Posted by andrechapelon on Friday, March 20, 2015 4:42 PM

IRONROOSTER

Wish I knew it was this easy 40 years ago.  I wouldn't have wasted any time learning to build models, lay track, install couplers, build benchwork, wire the puppy up, etc.

Laugh

Paul

 

Ain't technology wonderful? And they're ready-to-wear outfits (RTW). 40 years ago, you'd have been given pile of fabric pieces and you'd have to sew them together yourself. 

Andre

It's really kind of hard to support your local hobby shop when the nearest hobby shop that's worth the name is a 150 mile roundtrip.
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Posted by rrinker on Friday, March 20, 2015 4:36 PM

 Caps - don't wear'em. Coffee mug - well, I don't drink much coffee, but a mug can be used for other things. Problem with a coffee much around a layout, at least one under construction, is that you will become the character in the old MR cartoon where the guys in the club all have a mug of coffee and another member yells out that the coffee pot is full of tie stain. As for an apron, well, it could come in handy if I worked on models while wearing nice clothes for some reason. I think I'd rahter the type that you pin up to the edge of the workbench to (hopefully) keep small parts from flying off to the great void.

 But hey, obviously enough people asked for this stuff so they decided to sell it.

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Posted by dknelson on Friday, March 20, 2015 4:36 PM

Anybody remember the FORUM MEMBER t-shirts that were offered when the whole idea of the Kalmbach magazine forums was new?  It has the logos of the magazines as well.  We would wear them to pre-arranged get togethers, such as at Galesburg Railroad Days (I remember seeing Jay Eaton there), Milwaukee's Trainfest, and other such places.

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Posted by MisterBeasley on Friday, March 20, 2015 4:36 PM

When I saw the title, the first thing that came into my mind was that Smothers Brothers routine.

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Posted by IRONROOSTER on Friday, March 20, 2015 4:30 PM

Wish I knew it was this easy 40 years ago.  I wouldn't have wasted any time learning to build models, lay track, install couplers, build benchwork, wire the puppy up, etc.

Laugh

Paul

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Posted by retsignalmtr on Friday, March 20, 2015 4:00 PM

I do not prefer to wear a Uniform to practice my hobby. I don't wear an engineers cap while running my layout. I feel I don't have to dress the part to play the part. It's Tee Shirts and Blue Jeans and bald head. When I take my bicycle out on the rail trail I don't wear Spandex ( you wouldn't want to see my wearing that). When I was in the Army I was proud to wear the Uniform and Fatigues. But now I don't even own a suit. When I pass on I will be buried in my favorite Jeans and a Tee shirt.

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If You Buy An Outfit........
Posted by andrechapelon on Friday, March 20, 2015 2:45 PM

Got an ad from Kalmbach this AM anouncing that the company is now selling wearable gear. I don't know why, but the first thing that came to mind was the Smothers Brothers version of "Streets Of Laredo". Lyrics follow.

As I walked out on the streets of Laredo,
As I walked out in Laredo one day,
I spied a young cowboy all wrapped in white linen
Wrapped in white linen as cold as the clay.
 
 I see by your outfit that you are a cowboy;
I see by your outfit you are a cowboy, too;
We see by our outfits that we are both cowboys.
If you get an outfit, you can be a cowboy, too.
 
If you can be a cowboy by buying the outfit, then by gum you can be a model railroader the same way.
 
Andre - getting the outfit
 
 
 
 
 
 
                                 

 

 

 
It's really kind of hard to support your local hobby shop when the nearest hobby shop that's worth the name is a 150 mile roundtrip.

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