dwRavenstar wrote: 14. Has a junk drawer in his garage that's actually a drawer of junk, pilferred from trash piles because it might someday represent something on the layout. dwRavenstar
14. Has a junk drawer in his garage that's actually a drawer of junk, pilferred from trash piles because it might someday represent something on the layout.
dwRavenstar
How about a footlocker, two large cardboard boxes and a half-dozen mailing tubes...
In the same vein:
15. Goes to garage sales and buys ancient junk toy HO (sort of) to kitbash.
Chuck (who gets that ancient etc when his sister goes to yard sales)
13 , States he is between layouts...has been designing layout for past six years
dekruif wrote:12. You worry about your wiring/scenery/benchwork etc. in bed.
Heh......oops...
After reading Dick Hafer's model railroad cartoon book This is not the Honeymoon I Anticipated, it made me think of some people I've encountered during my 25 years in the hobby. It inspired me to come up with a list of traits that describe the archetypal model train fanatic. Feel free to add to this list.
1) Always wears an engineer’s cap to model railroad functions
2) Also wears a vest covered with railway logo patches
3) Has railway logo signs hanging above his layout, even those of railways he doesn't model
4) Reads major model magazines and the Walthers catalogue like the Bible
5) Never afraid to give other modelers advice, even when it’s not called for
6) A nit-picker in the worst way, always commenting on details
7) Spends 90 per cent of his leisure time railfanning and modeling
8) Likes to tell stories about trains, even if they aren’t his own
9) Talks like he is an expert on the time period and particular railway(s) he is modeling
10) Always talks about his next purchase and loves to show off his latest acquisition or creation.