you know your a modeler when......

You know you're a modeler when...

You have paint under your finger nails and right after the last joint on your finger... and as you're walking down the street you think "damn, this is two shades lighter than it's supposed to be!"

You should be thinking about your Thesis, but instead you're milling about in this forum.

You get to the crapper and instead of bringing a magazine in with you, you bring your new kit's instruction sheet to visualize how it's going to come together.

You know your a modeler when:

You cheese everyone off at the movies when you loudly point out the WWII Zero is actually a Texan painted grey!

You tell everyone you spent the weekend with a "model" and wonder why they're impressed.

You know you're a modeler when,

You have half a dozen razor cuts on your fingertips all sealed with superglue.

You identify paint colors at Home Depot by RLM/FS numbers.

You may tell the Blue Angels pilot at the air show that the landing gear on his plane is painted the wrong color.

You have the number to Squadron Mail Order and/or Great Models on speed dial.

When you go out on your day off in -15c / 5f weather because that new kit is in stock and you just cannot wait.

You know you're a modeler when:

You instinctively grab for your favorite gap filling substance to take care of cracks and nail holes in your walls.

You spin your car wheels on sandpaper because they just don't look worn enough to be realistic.

Your toolbox is full of monofilament, fishing weights, solder, wires of various guages and guitar strings, but you don't make fishing or electronics your hobbies and your guitar skills make Bob Dylan look like a classical guitar master.

You think you should seal the walls with Future so the wall paper has a good glossy finish to stick to.

When you buy house paint, you ask the clerk about thinning ratios and what sort of psi to set your airbrush at with that paint.

While looking at the cockpit of your favorite fighter at an airshow, you start recomending various aftermarket sets and accesories to the pilot so he can make it accurate cause' it just don't look right.

I've used squadron white putty on the wall before!!!LOL

QUOTE: Originally posted by shrikes You know you're a modeler when... You get to the crapper and instead of bringing a magazine in with you, you bring your new kit's instruction sheet to visualize how it's going to come together.

So creepy.. How did you know??

- You use a piece of sprue to stirr your coffee

- You butter your toast with a no. 11 blade

- You know more about WW2 tanks and planes than about your own car

- You drybrush sugar onto your cornflakes

- You go to bed at night with your mouth tasting like paint and thinner

- When making a sauce for dinner, you mix it to a good enough consistency to airbrush

- There are more clothes pegs in and around your models in assembly than on the clothes line

- You have to explain to the guy at the garage why the buttons are dry-brushed.. Again

- The car is never washed, nor is it touched, otherwise it'll loose the weathered look

You take the entire kit into the bathroom with you and a tear comes to your eye as you look at the sprues.

You go through the cosmetics section at your local store trying to find tools that are suitable for handling small parts.

You watch t.v or a movie and say "I got that in kit form or I wish that would come out in kit form."

QUOTE: Originally posted by kaleu You go through the cosmetics section at your local store trying to find tools that are suitable for handling small parts.

Everytime!!!

Michael- LMAO.

The top 10 reasons "You know you are a modeler when......."

10. You can recite the instruction manual in your sleep.

9. You debate paying the electric bill or buying that brand new release.

8. You start to zimmerit your wall instead of texturing it.

7. You leave the store with 10 boxes of toothpicks and the checker gives you the eye.

6. Your fingernails take on a permanent dunkelgelb color.

5. 1/3 of your monthly budget is blown on pe and am parts.

4. Your girlfriend asks you "what is the difference between enamel and acrylics?"

3. Your wife is in the mood and all you want to do is get that camoflauge pattern sprayed on.

2. You buy kits faster that you can build them.

1. You reply "I'm going to go to Disneyland" when your mate asks you what you got from UPS.

You often look at full size structures or items (engines, carbs, landing gear, brake discs etc etc) and are constantly thinking how you could scratch build an exact replica.

LeeTree

Almost all your clothes have paint on them from accidents

You steal tools from your dad that he'll never see again

You steal things from around the house to make the building easier (IE: toohpicks, straws, ect )

you know you are a modeler when:

-when somebody calls and asks what are you doing you say holding the upper hull to the lower hull while it dry.

-when you tell your wife that you are going to check your e-mail that also means checking the FSM forums.

-When your b-day starts to roll in you start wondering what models will you get or if the money that you'll receive as a gift will be enough for that new release

-when you go into a hobby store the size of wal-mart and you can tell inmediatedly if there are misplace items on the shelves

-when you go into a hobby store and everybody knows you by your first name and asks you how your other 189 models are going

- when you read all of the things posted so far and understand them and relate to them

- when your wife refers to you as the hermit that lives in that little room full of little things

QUOTE: Originally posted by Michaelvk QUOTE: Originally posted by shrikes You know you're a modeler when... You get to the crapper and instead of bringing a magazine in with you, you bring your new kit's instruction sheet to visualize how it's going to come together. So creepy.. How did you know??

Doesn't everyone do this??

You hear the UPS truck's distinctive sound coming up your street, and you fly to the door to see if it stops at your house (not even remembering if you've ordered anything recently). And you think, maybe you've been sent someone's Academy 1/32 Hornet by mistake! <sigh>

When you go out for an evening and get told off by the missus (or old man) for putting a dash of mineral spirits on instead of cologne..

2. You buy kits faster that you can build them.

Thanks Tigerman....Your top 10 list nailed me with #2

For us adults, I'd like to add one:
You know you are a modeler when....You get more enjoyment out of reading the assembly instructions instead of checking out the latest playboy mag.

WOW some good stuff in here......

You know your a modeler when all the knives in the house wont cut through hot butter but your Scalpel or Xacto blades are razor sharp.

You would rather have a box of disposable gloves over winter gloves and frown when the wife shows you the "gloves" she bought for you...

You look at things in scale terms rather than actual measurements...

You find yourself wondering where to "hide" the latest LHS purchase...

You have more nail polish and polish remover than your wife has....(For auto modeling)

You look at various food storage containers and wonder what they could be used for in the hobby room before the cashier can even ring them up....

Your on a first name basis with your UPS/FEDEX/Postal carrier...

You call the orderline and you get the same rep who you have for the past few yrs and they ask about your family and your last project...(I used to get Judy at Tower Hobbies all the time...even swapped Christmas cards with her for 4yrs!)

You find a route that might take you by the LHS while your out in town, even if its a 7 mile shortcut.....

- You get christmas and birthday cards from Tamiya, Eduard, Revell etc. etc.

QUOTE: QUOTE: Originally posted by Michaelvk QUOTE: Originally posted by shrikes You know you're a modeler when... You get to the crapper and instead of bringing a magazine in with you, you bring your new kit's instruction sheet to visualize how it's going to come together. So creepy.. How did you know?? Doesn't everyone do this??

Yep!

there are more flammable, toxic liquids in your hobby area than at the local napalm storage area

QUOTE: Originally posted by kaleu You take the entire kit into the bathroom with you and a tear comes to your eye as you look at the sprues. You go through the cosmetics section at your local store trying to find tools that are suitable for handling small parts.

YES YES YES!!!! Got a Trumpater Arizona for Christmas and took it to the bathroom with me. My wife said I needed to see a shrink. That I have a problem.

The women at the beauty supply shop see more of me than my wife.

I can give my wife a manicure better than the professional at the salon.

Scott

Doesn't everybody take their newest directions into the bathroom when they have to go???

What better way to fill all that dead time??

You've ever had to explain to a customs guy why you're bringing back 15 rolls of film and a dozen kits--I missed my connection that way.

- Spend more time watching for reference ideas in movies than enjoying the movie.

-You look at the tanks your kids got for christmas for errors and how you could weather them to make them look better.

-Your 2 year old can identify the difference between a Sherman and a Tiger.

you have to stop at each and every toy shop in town and take a look at the same basic kits every single time

When you travel, you first look for the nearest aircraft or ordnance museum for a little research.

When In Manhattan, your wife thinks "Broadway" and you think "Intrepid"

When you were reading this thread, you knew what pe and am and other normally unintelligible codes stood for.

You notice it and hate it when the History channel uses file footage of the wrong aircraft.

Your cable box is almost hard wired to the Discovery Wings Channel.

When you admire this month's centerfold model and it's a MiG.

You open the kit box on the way home so you can look at the instructions during the red lights.

Everybody takes them to the bathroom.

you know your a modeler when......

everytime you go to your local hobby store you carry out a stock check,
noting down what has arrived and what has been sold.

You know youre a modeler when:

- You take pictures of the tank, not your family standing beside it.
- You think that the "Glues and Adhesives" section is the most exciting nook in the grocery
- Everyone admires the birthday cake and you say the tray is styrene
- You keep every lid, tin foil, candy wrapper, blister pack and every imaginable piece of manufactured goods otherwise considered as rubbish thinking it might be of use to you someday.
- Your officemate pulls out a pen with a blue stripe and you say its a dummy round.
- You think the toothpick is the greatest culinary invention.
- You accompany your son/nephew/grandson to the toys section and you scorn at how toymakers could make such gravely inaccurate F-15s.
- Your beer buddies howl "FHM!" in a bookstore and you howl "FSM!"