General observations on modeling and growing older.

hey armornut

in fun? i am crushed, devastated beyond mere words.

like your tagline. desktop back from the shop and picked up big squadron purchase from club: JGSDF spa, 4x4 rcn vehicle (cute little thing), a TUNGUSKA spaa, and the revel 3 in one ada system which means i have 1 scout 2 radars and 2 launchers do travel and combat mode for both. but i digress

i work sans glasses and magnifiers so i am rather close. i will work with an xacto than flip it around in my hand to sand and therein is the danger. i have dropped an xacto and caught it as it fell PARALLEL TO THE GROUND. just sat there watching it quiver as most of the blade was in my left thigh. my frau was less than supportive even after she stopped laughing.

if the zombie apocalypse comes and styrene is the "monetary unit" i am rich and i am mmortal if i have to build half of them before i die. already have fixes for the "soon to be found or replaced" part and i can build the rest of the truck and add it later. 

in all seriousness because of the way i work i put on a respirator if i have to use CYA on more than 2 pieces.

LOL, ya know if we actually spent more time modelling we may make a dent in our stashes..... naa, like you said earlier I've meet my best friend almost 13yrs ago,( a year after my wife just to clarify), at a model contest our lies and stories get bigger every time we get together. He's really old his SSN is 2 (can't prove it though) so maybe this whole thread makes all of us grumpy old men. Well at least I'm in good company. Now I'm gonna study for a test then take a chance and sniff some glue and live on the wild side by maybe painting some camo without opening the window, and for gooness sakes msn be careful.LOL catch ya later

Hi ;

  Hey , I was accused the other day of having that SSN . Seems someone told a kidding friend that I had served on WW1 ships .I just told the respondent I was NOAH'S damage control chief petty officer . That got more laughs .You know your old when a kid in his teens looks at your fifty -six chevy model and asks what kind of old car is that ? Or , when he looks at an F-4 phantom model and asks how many of the enemy did they shoot down in WW-2 ? The beauty of getting to be an older modeler is you can have a lot of intelligent conversations while building - With Yourself ! Now that is scary because no one seems to worry much !

Heck TB you guys may have served together, my friend talks all the time about being a bosun on the ark (more like Gilligan on that crazy island LOL ) . Kinda sad about kids these days forgetting history and periods of time when stuff got done and machines where not only functional but works of art crafted by folks who knew how to make it last. Whoa to deep for this thread waynec hasn't been here for a bit.... wonder if he forgot his resperator while using super glue, maybe he stuck his fingers together ( hope not).as for talking to yourself...turn on the radio...everyone will think your confused about your location, may stave off the really clean fellas with that new coat that has all those fancy buckles on it. Does it mean I'm getting old if I think ya'll know how to party?  LOL   until I check in again.

I have rediscovered that I hate - HATE!! - painting with gloss white. Stinks worse than any other color in my inventory!

Tarasdad

I have rediscovered that I hate - HATE!! - painting with gloss white. Stinks worse than any other color in my inventory!

I hear ya!  I'm doing a T-38 for the Trainer GB and I have lost my patients with gloss white!  I'm thinking flat white with a couple of coats of clear gloss from now on! 

Eagle90

my first all white model was a 1/35 canadian LAV-III 8x8 in un colors. think i used TAMIYA. airbrushed out great. than i  read that white is hard to airbrush and my next un vehicle, canadian COUGAR 6x6, was a disaster. third, un UNIMOG was ok. i primed it in whote which was bad. i know better than to prime in the base color of the vehicle..

on another note, i hurt my knee hiking  early april in the blue ridge. doctor said not serious just no high impact or twisting for a while. i have flat feet but standing on a concrete floor in the bunker for hours doesn't bother it or my lower back. knee hurts worse when i sit. i airbrush standing, surf the net on the bunker computer standing and do a lot of base building standing. just interesting.

Glad to have ya back waynec, white paint period gloss or flat is my arch nemesis, I will avoid it like the plague. Primers do help and keep in mind the lighter the primer color the easier it is to cover with white, yellow, international orange,.......the one thing I've yet to muster up the fortatude to do is a bare metal acft. I have a few in my stash  civil airliners and a 104 but that shiny finish just looks good on the box art.

I'm going to do a bare metal kit. One of these days. Yup. Can't be all that hard, right?

Sure lets keep telling ourselves that LOL.

Hello Fellow :

I have a very important question for you .Why do you stand ? Since I stopped drinking years , and years ago , I found a solution to that little problem  . I kept my favorite personal Bar stool ( from my home bar .) And now it works even better . The thing is , with that , the floor is definitely further away !

tankerbuilder

Hello Fellow :

I have a very important question for you .Why do you stand ? Since I stopped drinking years , and years ago , I found a solution to that little problem  . I kept my favorite personal Bar stool ( from my home bar .) And now it works even better . The thing is , with that , the floor is definitely further away !

hey tankerbuilder

congratulations on stopping drinking.

my home made work bench was build to work st standing up and my drafting table and one other work area are standing height. i do have a drafting chair i use sometimes for that and will probably look for a used bar stool. my other 3 work tables are regular sitting tables. i never gave it any serious thought, it just happened. i like to think i am burning more calories than sitting. seems most work benches for doing woodwork and repairs are standing height. it could also be because i used to sit all day doing computer graphics.

Newest observation - it takes me a whole lot longer to finish a kit than it did when I was younger.

Your supposed to finish? Mmmmm, maybe I'm getting old cause I've noticed the same thing.

armornut

Your supposed to finish? Mmmmm, maybe I'm getting old cause I've noticed the same thing.

guess i missed the memo on finishing. i do get quite a bit done but still ihave a dozen shelf queens. actually base coated one yesterday. and i have to finish up my LCVP and 2 subs for 2 GBs. all 3 are at painting stage.

Don't worry about missing the memo, I build up to the major painting then I seem to hit a block, maybe cause I've "seasoned" ( read aged) up to know the difference between the four shades mimimum of OD Lol, I do seem to finish in spurts  should have a DST (dang small tank) and a U.S. halftrack done tonight or tomorrow. Just figured out how to et my resume attached to my applications so SOMEDAY I'll figure out how to post pix.

My F-15 Strike Eagle has been ready for paint for 3 weeks and counting. Just can't find the energy to set up the airbrush in the garage to get it done! Now I've missed all the nice spring weather and am faced with summer sauna temps out there - yikes!

There are good things, too, about becoming an old modeler. I've gained a lot of experience with modeling disasters. So now, when something goes wrong during assembly or painting, I usually know how to fix it and continue on toward completion.

Good point. it does help to know where the pitfalls are and how to overcome them, yessir can't argue that.