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    November 2008
NYC modeling
Posted by fudbfu on Sunday, July 18, 2021 8:51 AM

If you cruised the streets of Brooklyn in the 60s and 70s it seemed like a hobby shop was every block long gone they all are.as a first responder for 30 years I can tell you from being in thousands of Apts and homes and only once did I ever and I mean once did I ever see anyone with models in the premisis and It was a wife who beat up her husband for Paying more attention to his hobby and not her upon leaving the apt in the garbage was his stash.isn't marriage a wonderful thing isn't garbage a wonderful thing

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    May 2009
  • From: Poland
Posted by Pawel on Monday, July 19, 2021 2:47 AM

Well, now isn't that a sad story?

Then again, maybe there is some optimism there... Maybe it says that when you are a modeller chances are you won't need a first responder as often as, say, when your hobby was drinking?

Twenty ago I was walking from one apartment to another reading the heat consumption meters and I've found about five model collections in one large housing estate. Seems like yesterday, but it was a long time ago, they might have become less frequent but...

Last year I was working building small solar power plants. I sold and build 15 of them and one of my customers waqs a modeller, too - so maybe there's hope...

Thanks for reading and have a nice day

Paweł

All comments and critique welcomed. Thanks for your honest opinions!

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  • Member since
    July 2003
  • From: On my kitchen counter top somewhere in central North Carolina.
Posted by disastermaster on Monday, July 19, 2021 12:21 PM

fudbfu

isn't marriage a wonderful thing isn't garbage a wonderful thing

 

 
They're just alike. One and the same.
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  • Member since
    August 2020
  • From: Lakes Entrance, Victoria, Australia.
Posted by Dodgy on Monday, July 19, 2021 10:13 PM

A cobber of mine used to drive a garbage truck and once a year the local council organises a 'hard' rubbish collection. This is where you can put out old furniture, apliances, broken toys, old building materials etc. Nearly anything can be left on your nature strip. The garbos then go around with a tip truck and a couple of teams of helpers and collect it all to go to the tip.

On this particular day I was having a drink at the local when my cobber came in and handed me a brand new, never been used, Paasche VL1008 airbrush, still in it's box with extra needles and other accessories. He'd picked it up of the hard rubbish and because he knew I built models he thought I might like it! That was 12 years ago and I'm still using it.

I long to live in a world where chickens can cross the road without having their motives questioned

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