Attack of the Model Fairy

styrene wrote:

You're sitting at your work bench and the model fairy appears, waves her magic wand, and POOF!--Everything disappears: your entire kit stash, photoetch and resin goodies, aftermaket decals, your spares box, the half-finished kits on your workbench, and even all the kits you've previously built and displayed have been vaporized. The fairy then tells you that for the remainder of your natural life you are allowed to build only ONE model.    But because the fairy feels generous, the end result will be flawless.  Of course, due to the current economy, the fairy has lost all her savings and fired her staff; so money-wise, you're on your own. Gip

That model fairy seems to be more like the Gestapo then anything else. Vaporizes my models, burns my tools, and then tells me to build one model. But if that's not enough, says she's too cheap to buy it. Geez.

Get the gun pa, tonight we havin' fried fairy. mmmmmm.......fairy wings

Bgrigg wrote:

I've given this a lot of thought. My difficulty lay in that there were so many great models to choose from, and I narrowed it done to two: Christie Brinkley and Cindy Crawford. I'm leaning towards Cindy, but it's a tough choice!

Ah yes, I can hear it now - "Honestly honey, it followed me home. Can I keep it? Please? I promise I'll clean up after it, feed it and exercise it! Purty please with sugar on it?"

I've given this a lot of thought. My difficulty lay in that there were so many great models to choose from, and I narrowed it done to two: Christie Brinkley and Cindy Crawford.

I'm leaning towards Cindy, but it's a tough choice!

Well I like the idea of the Death Star or a Klingon Bird of Prey, or any of the various other Star Wars vehicles - perhaps a Star Destroyer or an X-Wing - but I'd have to go with something real. 

Put me down for a fully functional, airworthy 1/1 scale P-40B in Flying Tiger markings.

I would go for a large-scale flyable DeHavilland Mosquito, with gas engines, remote control, etc.

I did one of these on a simulator, and it is the beats them all!

Then I would conjour up my old buddy, the Model Fairy's arch-enemy, the Bad Model Warlock, and have the fairy come back and have her evil counterpart cast a spell, turning her into a toad or something, on her until she agreed I got all my stuff back.

The incentive for the warlock to do this is to continue messing with my projects for the rest of my modelling life.

Then we would trick the Witch into putting herself into a Mason Jar with  liquid sodium in it, that I would immediately seal, and throw it into the Mississippi River.

ThenI would go off and fly my perfect Mosquito to my heart's content, grinning and murmuring "Rotsa Ruck" Model Fairy.

Tom T

Okay....I agree with a lot here....but the Death Star....nice ... but how about a different approach...Klingon Bird of Prey, ( I think that's the one from Star Trek IV), I'd be happy with 1/2 scale, but fully operational w/cloaking device, and follow her to her lair, recover stashes and put an end to her tyrannical reign!! . Or a 1:1 Combat Stealth UAV to accomplish the same mission.          

, Dave.

If you want 1-1 scale and fully functional think BIG like the Death Star.

That will keep you busy a while and should be more than adequate to get the fairy where ever she may hide.

Oh and remember to cover the exhaust ports so she can't get in to the reactor. 

hmm, only one model,,,,,,,hmmmm

okay, I guess I'd choose a 1/32 scale Kittyhawk with full air wing and deck section,,,working armament elevators and deck edge elevators,,,,etc

"just one model", the planes to a ship builder are just detail parts

jwb wrote:

1:1 scale fully functional Spitfire. For the sole purpose of shooting down that fairy for stealing my stash.

I'm assuming this is a scratchbuild project??  Somehow, I don't think "flawless" is synonymous with "airworthy". 

Oh, and Ross, I know the name of a pretty good psychiatrist.  I'll send you his number....

Triarius wrote:

jwb wrote: 1:1 scale fully functional Spitfire. For the sole purpose of shooting down that fairy for stealing my stash. Okay, if we can go to 1:1 scale, I want a P-51D—not plastic, metal. Airworthy. Fully armed—for the purpose that Jon mentions. And Jon, you better make that a Griffon engined Spitfire, or I'll get to that fairy before you do!

 Ahhhh, you guys beat me to it!!!  51 for sure!

jwb wrote:

1:1 scale fully functional Spitfire. For the sole purpose of shooting down that fairy for stealing my stash.

Okay, if we can go to 1:1 scale, I want a P-51D—not plastic, metal. Airworthy. Fully armed—for the purpose that Jon mentions.

And Jon, you better make that a Griffon engined Spitfire, or I'll get to that fairy before you do!

1:1 scale fully functional Spitfire.

For the sole purpose of shooting down that fairy for stealing my stash.

Normally I wouldn't touch a question like this with a twenty-foot wand, magical or otherwise, but since Gip posted it, I will.

Assuming I can have any kit I want and can afford, and that I will scratchbuild any detail not included in the kit:

a 1/16th scale P-38…or maybe a P-51D…or a P-40E…umm…or an F-16…or an A-10…or an A-1H…or a P-47…uh…an F-86…an F4U…an F-89…an F-4????????????????????

After about a month of anxious dithering, I conjure a Level 10 Demon, and put a contract out on the model fairy…

Hey, if you can have a model fairy, I can have a hit demon!

Seriously, I'd have to roll the dice between them, and I'd probably be happy with any of them. (You should see me trying to order at one of my favorite restaurants. I really do roll a die!)

I build solely for enjoyment of the build and the finished product. I think contests are, frankly, a bad idea—our society is overly competitive as it is. But if that's what lights your candle, then enjoy.

Of course, there's the real, secret motive that all of us share: Styrene, in kit form, is more addictive than any other known drug.…

So you can tell the model fairy that she can have my stash when she pries it from my cold, dead fingers. I'm armed, dangerous, and an experienced traveler on the astral planes. I wasn't looking for trouble. I am trouble. And now I'm looking for her! Buuuwahahahahahaha!

Silly enough?

I'm not sure what I'd build, but I'd make sure it had A LOT of pieces...

T_Terrific wrote:

Before I decide which subject to moel, I must as you, is that one model total for the rest of my life, or one model at a time for the rest of my life? My sole motivation for building is self-satisfaction. Now if someone wanted to pay me for building my favorites, or it was also a potential award-winnner, I would be open to that. Otherwise it becomes more of a "slave labor" project then an enjoyable hobby. Tom T

That's one--and only one--model for the rest of your life.  One. single. solitary. uno. model...

I agree completely with the primary purpose being self-satisfaction.  If it's not, then does it actually cease being a hobby?

Gip

Before I decide which subject to moel, I must as you, is that one model total for the rest of my life, or one model at a time for the rest of my life?

My sole motivation for building is self-satisfaction. Now if someone wanted to pay me for building my favorites, or it was also a potential award-winnner, I would be open to that.

Otherwise it becomes more of a "slave labor" project then an enjoyable hobby.

Tom T