An unexpected consequence of Mad Tiger Day.

Anonymous

Member since
November 2005

An unexpected consequence of Mad Tiger Day.

Posted by Anonymous on Monday, August 16, 2004 10:25 PM

I must have been bit by something...
All I want to build now is really small stuff with indy tracks, really quick like.
I had the day off and took my youngest on a roadtrip to what he calls the 'train store' and what Daddy knows as the NSLHS. Tongue [:P]

I grab, among other things, Dragon's 1/35 Goliath with engineers. Well, everything went according to my evil plan and after running around the shop for about an hour and a long drive home, he's out cold. Eat lunch, still asleep. wash the kit, still asleep, clean and file, still asleep, finally glue the kit and he's still asleep. After dinner I AB the sucker (the kit, not my son) and from 9-11 PM I assemble. I had a blast with it, indies and all. Even the crappy way Dragon set up the idler with no positive way to position didn't bother me.
I would have weathered and finished but it's clamped right now.
Mind you, I have Tamiya's Full Option 1/16 Tiger I and M4 sitting on the opposite bench and don't even think about working on them.
I want to build nothing but small kits with a lot of parts in one day. Any ideas on how to cure this?
This Goliath is smaller than my thumb by the way, with indies and had two kits with two figures each in the box.
I'll post pics tomorrow when I can unclamp and weather.
Help.

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wbill76

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July 2004
From: Texas

Posted by wbill76 on Monday, August 16, 2004 10:28 PM

Whoa ausf you are really in trouble now...soon you will tackling Kettenkrads and Stuarts with indy links and cackling madly while casting furtive glances about the room!

Laugh [(-D]

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Monday, August 16, 2004 10:29 PM

QUOTE: Originally posted by ausf
[Mind you, I have Tamiya's Full Option 1/16 Tiger I and M4 sitting on the opposite bench and don't even think about working on them.
I want to build nothing but small kits with a lot of parts in one day. Any ideas on how to cure this?
Help.

I have a cure, send me the 1/16 Tiger and I'll send you all the "small" scale armor kits I have.... Tongue [:P]

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tigerman

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March 2003
From: Rain USA, Vancouver WA

Posted by tigerman on Monday, August 16, 2004 10:31 PM

Since Harry called the Tiger, I'll take the Shermie off you. I'm still wanting to dabble in 1/72 myself, just haven't pulled the trigger yet.

Eric

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Monday, August 16, 2004 10:42 PM

My pals,
Here I come to you with a serious problem and you try to take advantage of my misfortune. How many kits are we talking about? Wink [;)]

How small? 1/144? 1/285?

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Build22

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May 2003
From: Upstate NY

Posted by Build22 on Monday, August 16, 2004 10:42 PM

QUOTE: Originally posted by ausf

.................I want to build nothing but small kits with a lot of parts in one day. Any ideas on how to cure this?...........................

You better cure it quick.................you know what's next............................

....................That's right - SHIP IN A BOTTLE ![:0][:0][:0]

Jim [IMG]

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fightnjoe

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Posted by fightnjoe on Monday, August 16, 2004 10:50 PM

hmmm..... sounds like you have just been converted to braille scale.

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Monday, August 16, 2004 10:53 PM

QUOTE: Originally posted by wbill76

Whoa ausf you are really in trouble now...soon you will tackling Kettenkrads and Stuarts with indy links and cackling madly while casting furtive glances about the room!

Oh I've got the Ketten...
And speak of laughing maniacly, my three year old snuck out of bed to see what I was doing, To get to my workshop, you have to go through their playroom. He steps on a lego and lets out this blood curdling scream making me jump a mile. I get him calmed down and back to bed, head back to the bench and to find about half the indies scattered on the floor. I must have knocked 'em off when I whirled around. I found most of them which is lucky considering they're about an eighth of an inch each. A lot of choice words were muttered then, I assure you.

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Monday, August 16, 2004 10:56 PM

QUOTE: Originally posted by Build22

QUOTE: Originally posted by ausf

.................I want to build nothing but small kits with a lot of parts in one day. Any ideas on how to cure this?...........................

You better cure it quick.................you know what's next............................

....................That's right - SHIP IN A BOTTLE ![:0][:0][:0]

Jim, I'm going to build a dio in a bottle...
Two Famos hauling a Tiger. Great idea, Thanks!

First I'm going drink the bottle of course.

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Build22

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May 2003
From: Upstate NY

Posted by Build22 on Monday, August 16, 2004 11:10 PM

Jeff,

That will be a mighty big bottle !

Or maybe at least the old "Rheingold - Chug-a-mug" - theres more room for fat fingers !

Jim [IMG]

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Monday, August 16, 2004 11:38 PM

If you can do a full PE set on those little tanks then I'll worry about ya Jeff

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philp

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December 2002
From: USA

Posted by philp on Tuesday, August 17, 2004 12:11 AM

Next you will be doing the new Dragon 1/144 kits with PE. Should be able to build 1-2 of them in a day.

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, August 17, 2004 2:19 AM

I always used to step on my Lego. I understand the little blokes pain.

Ausf, don't try to cure yourself, if you are having a lot of fun, do it til you aren't. Then do something else.

Just make sure you tell us all about it, and post pics of your micro machines.

But if you absolutely positively can't do that Tiger....I'll send you my address!

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, August 17, 2004 4:21 PM

I have a cure! Compare the prices, I decided one day a few months ago that me (a college student ) needed to take some precautions and save my money for books and rent and so on, but I still wanted to feed my addiction to the plastic. Thinking inside the box I thought hey a smaller scale should cost less because it's smaller. Well after taking a trip to my LHS I looked around in the 1/72nd section keeping a safe distance from their larger 1/35 scale counterparts, I looked at some of the higher quality kits like Revell Germany and Hasgawa much to my suprise the prices ranged from 10-25 dollars, I guess I was expecting somthing signifigantly cheaper anything worth building such as Tiger's and Abram's tanks were still around 12-16 dollars, maybe Im just old fashioned but I would only pay 5-8 dollars for those tiny tanks if im gonna spend 20 bucks on plastic it better be big enough for my clumsy fingers .

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, August 17, 2004 5:26 PM

D'oh, you had to mention MTD! I put that project aside, with the determination that I would not put any more than seven more hours into it -- the amount of time I spent at work instead of building that fateful day. But I am goofing off! Sad [:(]

I must finish it up. So close and yet so far ... (sniff).

Anyway, I now return you to your regularly-schedule relevant conversation ....

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cplchilly

Member since
January 2004
From: SO CAL

Posted by cplchilly on Tuesday, August 17, 2004 6:14 PM

Model in a bottle, now would you leave the worm inside as part of the ground work and use the AA chit if someone figures out what it is or...................