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Does your wife support your hobby??

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  • Member since
    April 2006
  • From: Denver, Colorado
Posted by waynec on Sunday, October 28, 2012 4:36 PM

my frau doesn't not support my hobby. i have my own funds from my business for hooby buys and she has her side business too. she appreciates the skills involves and doesn't mind me going to meetings and workshops and LHSs and always asks how i did at contests. . i have my workshop and study to build and display models. i could probably put a nice sailing ship model in the living room but not some of the military stuff which is fine with me.

i would be curious if model building coming up at an interview would be a plus or a minus. or having a business website that also includes fininhed models or works in progress.

Никто не Забыт    (No one is Forgotten)
Ничто не Забыто  (Nothing is Forgotten)

 

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  • From: Central Florida
Posted by plasticjunkie on Sunday, October 28, 2012 4:21 PM

Yes. And my mancave is sacred,

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Too many models to build, not enough time in a lifetime!!

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Posted by artworks2 on Sunday, October 28, 2012 3:21 PM

Lathe "WoW" Tahts awesome

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Posted by artworks2 on Sunday, October 28, 2012 3:20 PM

Great ladies you all have

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Posted by artworks2 on Sunday, October 28, 2012 3:19 PM

Yup I'm also not one to  display my finished work in our living room....

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  • From: Los Angeles, CA
Posted by corvettemike on Sunday, October 28, 2012 3:01 PM

fox

 She keeps asking me "Why don't you build the kits you have before you buy more?"  Sound familiar to any of you?

Jim Captain

When my mom comes around she asks that all the time.

Rise my brothers we are blessed by steel in my sword I trust...

Arm yourselves the truth shall be revealed In my sword I trust...

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  • From: Longmont, Colorado
Posted by Cadet Chuck on Sunday, October 28, 2012 2:28 PM

Artworks2: Man, are you blessed!  Appreciate that fine lady!  Not all of us are so lucky.

Gimme a pigfoot, and a bottle of beer...

fox
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  • From: Narvon, Pa.
Posted by fox on Sunday, October 28, 2012 2:26 PM

Mine does support my hobbies. As a total surprise to me one Xmas, she got me a mini-lathe. She saw me get frustrated trying to make barrels for a ship I was working on using an electric screwdriver as a lathe. A few years later, she went through my ship catalogs, picked out a sailing ship that she wanted me to make for our den, and ordered it. She only has one problem with my hobby. She keeps asking me "Why don't you build the kits you have before you buy more?"  Sound familiar to any of you?

Jim Captain

 Main WIP: 

   On the Bench: Artesania Latina  (aka) Artists in the Latrine 1/75 Bluenose II

I keep hitting "escape", but I'm still here.

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  • From: Los Angeles, CA
Posted by corvettemike on Sunday, October 28, 2012 2:22 PM

My "wife" is pretty quiet about my hobby Propeller

Rise my brothers we are blessed by steel in my sword I trust...

Arm yourselves the truth shall be revealed In my sword I trust...

Havoc Models

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  • From: Winamac,Indiana 46996-1525
Posted by ACESES5 on Sunday, October 28, 2012 2:06 PM

Suer she does whenever I order anything she knows about it , I give her all the info so we can show a debit in our checking account. She always tells me order what you want just be sure to let me know once in a while she will ask me about some aspect of modeling. She is very supportive!    ACESES5

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  • From: Utereg
Posted by Borg R3-MC0 on Sunday, October 28, 2012 2:06 PM
My wife is quite supportive of my modelling. I have never had an argument on hobby spending. She actually encourages me to go out and buy stuff. Furthermore, when we are on a holliday I can always visit some museums and modelshops.

But there is one definite "no go" area and that is displaying finished models in the living room. Luckely I completly agree with her.

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Posted by artworks2 on Sunday, October 28, 2012 1:44 PM

Hi Bish,

          Geek is a good word as many of us have weathered the current job statistics and also have lives which include our beloved hobby. I believe they see your conviction to your goals and it shows where you'll be in 5 years. soon to be wives are seeing what kind of man you are to start a project and see it through even if a hick up in life occures which always happens.

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  • From: Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England
Posted by Bish on Sunday, October 28, 2012 1:31 PM

I assume soon to be wives count. I have only been modelling at home a couple of months now, so she is yet to understand the complicated nature of German armour camo schemes (which makes two of us)and she doesn't yet know a Spit from an Me. But she does take an interesting in the current build, and she has encouraged me to put shelves up so i have some display space.

She does find it rather amussing that she is dateing a geek and that i have shelves with my models and little Star Wars toys. I reckon one day i will get her to build a model. But slowly does it, got to ese her in.

I am a Norfolk man and i glory in being so

 

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Does your wife support your hobby??
Posted by artworks2 on Sunday, October 28, 2012 1:21 PM

Hello guys,

                I've been married over 30 years and cant remember a time where my wife didn't appear in my studio to bring cheese and crackers or something. My wife is as supportive to the point of knowing the many aircraft types. Since I began carving models she researches line drawings assembles my refrence photos and makes coppies of my graphics as needed. Her father worked for HughesAirwest so It's natural to enjoy a hobby that seems to astrange many from their wives. Just for the sake of conversation and I'm bragging too as that's what modelers do.......

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