NYC modeling

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.

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

 

                     

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