- Member since
September 2004
- From: Vernon, BC, Canada
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Posted by razordws
on Thursday, May 31, 2007 1:32 AM
 wyoroy wrote: | Frank, the first step is to admit you have a problem, repeat after me..."Hi my name is Frank and I buy more kits than I build" LOL |
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Hi, my name is Dave and I too buy plasic model kits faster than I can build them. It all started when I was about five years old. I had this friend whose brother was a plasticholic. It all seemed so innocent at the time. One or two kits a year to start. By the time I was 13 I was probably building a dozen or more a year. There was no stash back then, I would rip open the box (or blister pack) on the way home and have the instructions memorized by the time I got there and before I knew it I had it built and was making airplane noises as it bombed miscellaneous objects in my bedroom. It wasn't until university that the stash appeared, it wasn't much, a few kits stashed in the basement for when life slowed down a little. But then the babies came. First to go was the sewing room, then the study, then the spare room in the basement. Next thing I knew there was just nowhere for me to set up my stuff. My models, tools and other manly things were relegated to the closet under the stairs. But the meagre stash sat there... and waited... and festered until at long last we moved to a new home and they were brought out into the light of day once again. Oh how I missed the smell of styrene and the odorous enamel paint and yes... even the stringent high of liquid cement. After establishing a base of operations and cutting my teeth on a couple of kits from the festered stash I immediately sought out my long forgotten enablers at the LHS. They graciously supplied me with a couple of modest kits and while there I picked up a copy of Finescale Modeler magazine (curse the day that all my early copies got thrown in the trash to make way for the cat litter box) and wait what is this I see within its pages? A web site? and oh... a forum? Fellow plasticholics from around the world in one place. This is so cool... or so I thought. It was only the beginning of the end. Once on the web not only did the peer pressure of fellow modelers pull me deeper into my addiction with offers of comradery and helpful tips but I found my way down the darkened sultry path to the hallowed doors of the online mail order room. OOOOhhhhhh my... a smorgasbord of styrene on a level never before contemplated. But not just styrene, a whole new world of aftermarket decals, Photo etch and resin. The possibilities were endless... and then I saw it... a newly tooled Hasegawa kit of something I have always dreamed of building, the He 111. Oh it was expensive alright, but after all those hard years of schooling and raising a young family I deserved it. It was a thing of beauty, the box art, the crisply molded engraved panel lines and the coloured Eduard PE set provided the icing on the cake. Never before had I dared to acheive something so ambitious but the finished product almost made me weep for joy. I was hooked, and the new releases kept coming, and coming, and coming and the stash grew and grew until at long last I realized that I needed to do something about it. I hearby swear that from now on I will... BUILD FASTER!!!! ![Clown [:o)]](/emoticons/icon_smile_clown.gif)
Dave
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