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When are you going to stop buying model kits?

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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, December 14, 2003 12:22 PM
Since I am not going to die....lol...that will happen the time I own a model company......
I will produce all the kits I dream of for free.....for all! you FSM guys!!!!!!
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, December 12, 2003 5:44 PM
When the well runs dry. When the lights go out. When the money tree in the back yard dies. When da fat lady finally SINGS!!! Wait do you think there is a hobby store in Heaven. oh the possibilities.
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Posted by M1abramsRules on Tuesday, December 9, 2003 10:47 PM
who said anything about stopping LOL
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Posted by cassibill on Tuesday, December 9, 2003 4:19 PM
ok sisyphus drink a red bull and get back to us.

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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, December 9, 2003 3:46 PM
Well Im going to add to my previous response in this thread....

With the ambition of opening my own hobbyshop/online store I hope to be buying kits for many years to come in bulk numbers monthly!!!!! LOL

Things are still a ways off right now....but I have a few irons in the fire and the ball has started rolling up the steep hill.....lets just hope I dont slip or else I'll be run down by the ball!
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Posted by cassibill on Tuesday, December 9, 2003 8:55 AM
I wouldn't say they were bad influences. I've always had a bunch of unbuilt kits. I'm actually built more since I started hanging out on the forum. It's like a reminder about what I ought to be doing.

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Posted by shrikes on Tuesday, December 9, 2003 8:42 AM
Man, you guys are bad influences... I have never before in my life done more than one kit at a time, or even owned more than one unbuilt kit at a time... Now i have 3 in the works and 2 in the wings... sheesh! Smile [:)]
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, December 9, 2003 8:33 AM
You talkin to me?
Sounds like you got de bug. I started collecting because I wanted to rebuild all the stuff I had as a kid. Luckily, I didn't build any of it. Now , I COULDN'T. Who has the time to build 3,000+ kits? (I'm not complaining though. I've learned a LOT from the instruction sheets.) So why did I just run out and get both 1/35 scale Leopold kits? I read 'bout 'em in FSM! BCNU, Doc
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Posted by caine on Monday, December 8, 2003 7:40 PM
I keep telling myself that I won't buy any more until I have finished the ones I already have... yeah right! When will that happen? I keep starting more and more kits... yet the closet is still filling up with new ones. Like the Hell freezing over joke... the model kit flux into my closet is positive... so some day all hell will break loose!

Of course you could think of the collection as an investment... figuring that most kits you will never get around to building... imagine the money you could get back by selling them as collectors items years from now. If no one else in your family is a model builder... then that massive stash could also be thought of as a life insurance policy to be cashed upon your death. I just hope I can finish the ones I already own before I die, let alone the ones I am yet to buy.... and I am only 24!
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Posted by karlwb on Monday, December 8, 2003 3:08 PM
Plenty of time to stop buying when i'm dead.....
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Posted by paulnchamp on Sunday, December 7, 2003 9:06 PM
Stop buying kits?? Why, I can stop any time I want to. . . . Smile [:)]
Paul "A man's GOT to know his limitations."
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Posted by leemitcheltree on Sunday, December 7, 2003 6:51 AM
Give up buying models? Whaaat????
Who wrote that? Someone out there needs treatment.
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Posted by South Aussie on Friday, December 5, 2003 1:04 AM
QUOTE: Originally posted by hou_ge2000

What if scale modeling get outlawed?


Follow one of my distance ancestors examples and become a bushranger. Confused [%-)]Confused [%-)]for those not aware of aussie slang - become an outlaw.
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Posted by South Aussie on Friday, December 5, 2003 12:57 AM
When I die and then Ill do my best to smuggle them into well where ever I end up.


QUOTE: Originally posted by paraclete1

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]

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Posted by nicholma on Thursday, December 4, 2003 1:56 AM
When I can no longer see, think or hold a model knife
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Posted by Bossman on Wednesday, December 3, 2003 11:48 PM
I stopped buying kits 2 weeks ago.
I can't really start up again NOW - the stores are all closed. But they'll open in 8 hours or so...
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, December 3, 2003 10:23 PM
why stop buying ,what am i going to do ? i can never have enough around for that special project,weather it b 1/35 armor or 1/72 air ,and but NOT least 1/25 auto
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Posted by shermanfreak on Wednesday, December 3, 2003 9:23 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by hou_ge2000

What if scale modeling get outlawed?


Then only outlaws will have scale models.

How's that for a play on words with an old saying. Wink [;)]
Happy Modelling and God Bless Robert
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, December 3, 2003 9:06 PM
What if scale modeling get outlawed?
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Posted by tigerman on Wednesday, December 3, 2003 8:46 PM
When I cut my last finger off with an exacto knife. Ok, I guess I can still use my teeth. Big Smile [:D]

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Posted by therriman on Wednesday, December 3, 2003 7:45 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by cassibill

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.


When I posted this I almost said "not counting the one here in Michigan". I didn't know Norway had one to.

A long standing winter joke up here is "Hell froze over last night".Big Smile [:D]
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Posted by berny13 on Wednesday, December 3, 2003 7:30 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by styrene

NEVER!!!




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

Touche!
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