What DO modelers dream about?

Oh look, the car I've been looking for since I was a kid!

Oh no another, MAMA a whole shelf full of the rest of the collection that I've been looking for.

You have to look at the price, my heart can't take it...

What... cheaper than Wally World!

What does it say on the box?

Parts guaranteed to fit, not like AMT models.

Woo Hoo... where's the checkbook?

Mama backup the car to the door, daddy's loading up. 

"Get up, what are you going to sleep all day?"
"Did you finish your essay?"
"The kids missed the bus again, you take them this time."
"Did you fix my web site last night?"
"Did you research the info I asked you to do?"
"Did you fix my car?"

As I lay in bed half asleep, half awake, listening to the dreaded sounds in the distance getting closer and louder, I realize... a fellow modeler asked - "What DO modelers dream about?" Well I used to dream of well endowed blondes in bikini's and sunny beaches. But now I'm just stuck in this NIGHTMARE thank you very much.

your dream is half true at my lhs the guy in charge of armor and aircraft

tells you exactly that  about all the kits he sells (armor  aircraft)

except the new ones he don't know much until the new ones are in his shop for about 4-5 weeks

and although he will probably shoot you if you open a kit he will open kits to show you what your getting

I can honestly say that my modelling has NEVER been in my dreams. Thank God. I think I'd freak my self out with my neerdiness if that were not true.

I had one about my airbrush.  It was upgraded to a computerized version.  All I had to do was type in RLM 76, ENAMEL, MODELMASTER, and it woud spray it.  To clean it, I woud put the end in the ACP(airbrush cleaning port) on the side of the computer and press ENTER.  There was a LED screen on the airbrush that read out pressure and paint/thinner ratio. 

 

Henry

.........More kits that I have no time to build or store.

More money.

Maybe it's a bit strange but I frequently (about once or twice a month) dream about going to hobby shop's usually there's a sale going on or I just browse trough dozens of obscure kit boxes. It's a different, non-existing, hobby store every time. I find these very nice and relaxing dreams to have.

I have yet to dream about models, the plastic kind anyway I don't think I want to. Model building for me is a way to relax, and dreaming is a way to escape reality. If I can escape reality, then I can relax, so I don't need models? Or is it the other way around?

I'm with eizzle, I don't dream about modeling, I also don't dream about work, I have a brother-in-law who's a computer engineer and he says he'll work out solutions in his dreams!  So much for leaving your work on your desk...

i had my 1st dream about models last night and it was crazy

it was an old school with classrooms full of kids doing model projects

the thing was they were taking the parts off the sprues smashing them and throwing them away. then use the sprues and the model boxes and packaging  gluing them together in piles and painting them messy colors

the worst part is they were using rare expensive models and models that aren't even make  like a 67 merc station wagon  1/25 scale

and a tamiya 1/32 scale skyraider and then  the law was after me because i took many of the models away to save them from destruction but the law was chasing me not because i took them, but because i took them and would not destroy them. in my dream models were against the law

it was crazy    (shades of farenheit 451)

DURR wrote:

i had my 1st dream about models last night and it was crazy it was an old school with classrooms full of kids doing model projects the thing was they were taking the parts off the sprues smashing them and throwing them away. then use the sprues and the model boxes and packaging  gluing them together in piles and painting them messy colors the worst part is they were using rare expensive models and models that aren't even make  like a 67 merc station wagon  1/25 scale and a tamiya 1/32 scale skyraider and then  the law was after me because i took many of the models away to save them from destruction but the law was chasing me not because i took them, but because i took them and would not destroy them. in my dream models were against the law it was crazy    (shades of farenheit 451)

That was the first thing I thought of as I was reading this post! That is just insane! What were you watching on tv before you went to bed lastnight Durr???

I had a nightmare the other night.  I had seen the Trupeter 1/32 P40 B marked down to $37 at my local hobby store, and was seriously thinking about getting it.  Anyway, I wound up buying my Beaufighter for the Battle for the Atlantic group build and some paints, and left the P40 on the shelf.  I woke up around 3 AM that night freaked out because in my dream it had been sold and was no longer there.  

Needless to say, I went to the hobby store the next day and thank god it was still on the shelf.  LOL  I picked it up and brought that baby home!    >:)~ 

eizzle wrote:

DURR wrote: i had my 1st dream about models last night and it was crazy it was an old school with classrooms full of kids doing model projects the thing was they were taking the parts off the sprues smashing them and throwing them away. then use the sprues and the model boxes and packaging  gluing them together in piles and painting them messy colors the worst part is they were using rare expensive models and models that aren't even make  like a 67 merc station wagon  1/25 scale and a tamiya 1/32 scale skyraider and then  the law was after me because i took many of the models away to save them from destruction but the law was chasing me not because i took them, but because i took them and would not destroy them. in my dream models were against the law it was crazy    (shades of farenheit 451) That was the first thing I thought of as I was reading this post! That is just insane! What were you watching on tv before you went to bed lastnight Durr???

i hadn't seen that movie in about 10-12 yrs but now that i think of it we at work had a discussion about welfare and government control

Reading this made me think of something (I know, amazing! weird! NO! You actually think!... keep it to yourselves ) If any of you get Readers Digest, they just had an article in their about interpriting your dreams by the colors that were in it and things like that. They also talked about how you can make yourself dream about something to let your subconcious work out a solution. It was pretty interesting. It was the latest one to come out, so you should be able to find it pretty easy.

Durr, have you read the book, its better than the movie, IMHO. We had to read that in my Sophmore english class then we watched the movie.