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When are you going to stop buying model kits?
Posted by nkm1416@info.com.ph on Wednesday, December 3, 2003 4:29 AM
Early in my modeling career I told myself I'll stop buying kits after I've completed one each of all the major operational aircrafts of WWII. After that, I told myself that maybe it will be a good idea to have four each of the fighter types so I can display them in flights of four formation and then I'll stop. Later, I again told myself it will be alot of fun to have bombers also in formation before I stop. Now, I have the USAAF fighters in squadron strength and I still tell myself " I'll stop when.....". It's a good thing I just told myself and not made any promises because a lot of promises would have been broken.
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Posted by Woody on Wednesday, December 3, 2003 6:02 AM
I'll keep buying them until they plant me! The golden rule of the collector is, way too many is not nearly enough!

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Posted by Swanny on Wednesday, December 3, 2003 6:16 AM
I'm afraid that even a few weeks after I've been planted there will be new kits showing up at the house. I look at it as something to remember me by.
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, December 3, 2003 6:39 AM
I Will stop buying kits untill most of the ones I have are built.....


But the Atermarket stuff is another story!!!!!
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, December 3, 2003 6:46 AM
Buying kits is a little like drinking :
One is too many, and a thousand is not enough.

Or (to paraphrase W.C. Fields),
"Don't say you can't stop buying kits. Its easy. I've done it a thousand times."
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, December 3, 2003 7:03 AM
When they don't make them anymoreWink [;)] (and then I'll hunt around at garage sales) Evil [}:)]
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Posted by cassibill on Wednesday, December 3, 2003 7:41 AM
After I die, if I have any, my kids, with luck, will spend their inheiritence on kits. When the money runs out I'll stop buying kits

cdw My life flashes before my eyes and it mostly my life flashing before my eyes!!!Big Smile The 1/144 scale census and message board: http://144scalelist.freewebpage.org/index.html

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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, December 3, 2003 7:46 AM
I'll stop buying when they take my VISA card from my cold, dead hands.
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Posted by erush on Wednesday, December 3, 2003 7:50 AM
Nobody like a quiter, quiter's are losers!! Tongue [:P] Wink [;)] Big Smile [:D]

When I'm dead and can't buy anymore, then I'll be a quiter. Wink [;)]

Eric
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Posted by shrikes on Wednesday, December 3, 2003 8:22 AM
I'll probably stop buying kits when i've gone blind or pushing up daisies (which ever one hits first)... then again, I'll just have some poor grandchild read me the instructions to my latest kit when i loose my eyesight... Smile [:)]
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, December 3, 2003 9:02 AM
I stop buying kits when the money runs out. (seems to happen a little too often nowadaysSad [:(])
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Posted by allan on Wednesday, December 3, 2003 9:25 AM
Stop buying kits? Only when:

1. Im so filthy rich I can buy the real thing. Or,

2. Im so filthy rich I put up my own scale model company. Or,

3. Im so filthy rich I have a pool of scientists who invent a shrink ray.

Then, maybe, Ill stop buying completely... for about a week. Big Smile [:D]

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Posted by therriman on Wednesday, December 3, 2003 9:32 AM
I've been watching the news/weather, and last I knew Hell hadn't froze over yet. So I keep buying.Tongue [:P]Evil [}:)]Big Smile [:D]
Tim H. "If your alone and you meet a Zero, run like hell. Your outnumbered" Capt Joe Foss, Guadalcanal 1942 Real Trucks have 18 wheels. Anything less is just a Toy! I am in shape. Hey, Round is a shape! Reality is a concept not yet proven.
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Posted by shrikes on Wednesday, December 3, 2003 9:51 AM
QUOTE: Originally posted by therriman
I've been watching the news/weather, and last I knew Hell hadn't froze over yet. So I keep buying.Tongue [:P]Evil [}:)]Big Smile [:D]


I dunno about that, therriman...

Tongue [:P]
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Posted by cassibill on Wednesday, December 3, 2003 9:58 AM
QUOTE: Originally posted by therriman

I've been watching the news/weather, and last I knew Hell hadn't froze over yet. So I keep buying.Tongue [:P]Evil [}:)]Big Smile [:D]

I think you're right, Tim.Well that depends on which Hell. The one in Michigan, Norway or the Caymans. I'm pretty sure the first two freeze. Here's a favorite joke you reminded me of. It proves Hell will never freeze.

The following is an actual question given on University of Washington chemistry mid-term. The answer by one student was so "profound" that the professor shared it with colleagues via the Internet, which is of course, why we now have the pleasure of enjoying it as well.

Bonus Question: Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or endothermic (absorbs
heat)?

Most of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs using Boyle's Law, (gas cools off when it expands and heats up when it is compressed) or some variant. One student, however, wrote the following:

First, we need to know how the mass of Hell is changing in time. So we need
to know the rate that souls are moving into Hell and the rate they are leaving.

I think that we can safely assume that once a soul gets to Hell, it
will not leave. Therefore, no souls are leaving. As for how many souls are
entering Hell, lets look at the different religions that exist in the world
today.
Some of these religions state that if you are not a member of their religion, you will go to Hell.
Since there are more than one of these religions and since people do
not belong to more than one religion, we can project that all souls go to
Hell.
With birth and death rates as they are, we can expect the number of souls in
Hell to increase exponentially. Now, we look at the rate of change of the volume in Hell because Boyle's Law states that in order for the temperature
and pressure in Hell to stay the same, the volume of Hell has to expand
proportionately as souls are added.
This gives two possibilities:
1. If Hell is expanding at a slower rate than the rate at which souls enter Hell, then the temperature and pressure in Hell will increase until all Hell breaks loose.
2. Of course, if Hell is expanding at a rate faster than the increase of souls in Hell, then the temperature and pressure will drop until Hell freezes over.
So which is it?
If we accept the postulate given to me by Ms. Teresa Banyan during my Freshman year that "...it will be a cold day in Hell before I give
you my number" and take into account the fact that I still have not
succeeded in acquiring her number, then 2 cannot be true, and thus I am sure that Hell is exothermic and will not freeze.
The student received the only "A."

cdw My life flashes before my eyes and it mostly my life flashing before my eyes!!!Big Smile The 1/144 scale census and message board: http://144scalelist.freewebpage.org/index.html

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Posted by J-Hulk on Wednesday, December 3, 2003 10:25 AM
I'll stop buying kits when they start giving them to me for free.



Helluva dissertation on hell thermodynamics there, Courtney!
~Brian
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Posted by styrene on Wednesday, December 3, 2003 10:31 AM
NEVER!!!




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Posted by djmodels1999 on Wednesday, December 3, 2003 10:54 AM
Sign - Ditto [#ditto]
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Posted by wayne baker on Wednesday, December 3, 2003 11:15 AM
I will stop when I realize that it is not procrastination that causes my pile to increase, but inability.

 I may get so drunk, I have to crawl home. But dammit, I'll crawl like a Marine.

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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, December 3, 2003 11:16 AM
I dont know, I havent bought that many. As for my husband contrary to what he thinks...HE HAD BETTER STOP at the 100 Mark I set for him, or else!Black Eye [B)]Black Eye [B)]Black Eye [B)]Dead [xx(]Dead [xx(]Dead [xx(]Wink [;)]
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, December 3, 2003 11:19 AM
Hey J-Hulk has the idea!
When kits are given out free...then we can stop buying them. Until then, as my wife seems to do, 'shop till you drop'!

Glenn
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, December 3, 2003 12:02 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by THEFIRSTLADY

I dont know, I havent bought that many. As for my husband contrary to what he thinks...HE HAD BETTER STOP at the 100 Mark I set for him, or else!Black Eye [B)]Black Eye [B)]Black Eye [B)]Dead [xx(]Dead [xx(]Dead [xx(]Wink [;)]

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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, December 3, 2003 12:31 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by cassibill

After I die, if I have any, my kids, with luck, will spend their inheiritence on kits. When the money runs out I'll stop buying kits


The Kits I'm buying "are" my kids inheiritance.Tongue [:P]

Don
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, December 3, 2003 12:37 PM
Hey paraclete1-

Touche!
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, December 3, 2003 1:18 PM
I guess if I have them all I'll stop buying. Then again, who says there's a limit on how many of each you can have?
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Posted by midnightprowler on Wednesday, December 3, 2003 3:02 PM
Hopefully when I am 6 feet under. Smile [:)]
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, December 3, 2003 5:09 PM
Stop, buying Kits. NEVER.

Shudders, sits down and pops a brew to calm the nerves.

I might slow down so that the storage can be emptied a bit for NEW kits.

Me and my Wife got an agreement, I shop at the Plastic Model Floor she shops in the patchwork/quilt section.
Display space & storage is fought over with either me holding a pair of scissors & her cut cloth and her offering to beautify my work-bench with the gas-torch.
:D

Actually we get well along, unless she starts to dig in my tool-box for handy tools. OTOH, she made me a portable tool-roll for competitions and so on.
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Posted by shermanfreak on Wednesday, December 3, 2003 6:28 PM
I'm thinking maybe never. But the future can be such a mystery.
Happy Modelling and God Bless Robert
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Posted by Dwight Ta-ala on Wednesday, December 3, 2003 6:36 PM
Pare, pag sarado na ang LIL's at ang lahat ng hobby shops.

Translation: My friend, if all the local hobby shops are already closed and out of business.

LOL.

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Posted by lizardqing on Wednesday, December 3, 2003 7:00 PM
Unless there is an all of a sudden world shortage of styrenne, I don't see it happening.
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