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                        You know you're a "real" ship modeler if...

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                        Anonymous
                        • Member since
                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Monday, August 2, 2004 10:53 PM
                        Your wife starts giving your in progress model " the look " everytime she sees it. Which is starting to be pretty uncomfortable and downright scarry.

                        Then again, model on!!!!
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                        diggeraone
                        • Member since
                          July 2003
                        • From: Ozarks of Arkansas
                        Posted by diggeraone on Sunday, August 1, 2004 8:26 PM
                        When you paint and detail your house to look like a battleship and have your wife dress in dress blues.Digger
                        Put all your trust in the Lord,do not put confidence in man.PSALM 118:8 We are in the buisness to do the impossible..G.S.Patton
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                        Anonymous
                        • Member since
                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, August 1, 2004 5:11 PM
                        You sneak out of bed in the middle of the night to work on the rigging and painting the ship's boats, and are awakened by the sunlight (and/or the smell of cooking bacon and/or an annoyed spouse shaking you) the next morning still sitting at the bench (or at the dining table which has begun to lead a double life as a hobby bench), with an empty air can and some paint drying in the airbursh. --- oh but you did get the boats painted!
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                        ROGER RAMJET
                        • Member since
                          December 2002
                        • From: Bendigo , Australia
                        Posted by ROGER RAMJET on Saturday, July 31, 2004 4:04 AM
                        If you throw the rigging ropes away and visit the habadashery shop
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                        scottrc
                        • Member since
                          December 2003
                        • From: 37deg 40.13' N 95deg 29.10'W
                        Posted by scottrc on Tuesday, July 27, 2004 10:00 AM
                        You buy yourself a sewing machine.

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                        Anonymous
                        • Member since
                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Monday, July 26, 2004 10:38 PM
                        ... you buy your in-law a space age sewing machine, and start asing about pattern making. The next " gift " is a lampmagnifier.
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                        Anonymous
                        • Member since
                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, July 22, 2004 1:33 AM
                        ...you go to Vienna only to see the 1/25 cutaway of Viribus Unitis, take one look, and decide you can do better.
                        ...you prove it.
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                        scottrc
                        • Member since
                          December 2003
                        • From: 37deg 40.13' N 95deg 29.10'W
                        Posted by scottrc on Wednesday, July 21, 2004 11:16 AM
                        Yep, been there and done that tooCool [8D]
                        I told my wife it was just a hop, skip, and a jump from Houston hee hee.
                        QUOTE: Originally posted by jeepguy_tx

                        ...when your cross-country vacation includes a 950-mile detour to visit the USS Lexington in Corpus Christi Bay.

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                        scottrc
                        • Member since
                          December 2003
                        • From: 37deg 40.13' N 95deg 29.10'W
                        Posted by scottrc on Wednesday, July 21, 2004 11:14 AM
                        HEY, I KNOW THAT FEELING!!!!Big Smile [:D]Sign - Ditto [#ditto]Banged Head [banghead]

                        QUOTE: Originally posted by oz1998


                        "You know you're a "real" ship modeler if...."

                        You genuinely can't understand why your wife doesn't think a 4 foot Japanese Battleship would make a great centerpiece for the dining room table.

                        You are totally flabbergasted when she also doesn't think the above same battleship wouldn't make a great anniversary/Christmas gift for her.

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                        Jim Barton
                        • Member since
                          February 2003
                        Posted by Jim Barton on Saturday, July 17, 2004 1:23 PM
                        QUOTE: Originally posted by Jeff_Herne

                        You know you're a "real" ship modeler if...

                        As you're holding two parts waiting for the glue to dry, you watch your X-acto knife roll off the table and embed itself into your thigh...and you DON'T drop the parts...

                        (Chest thumping Tim Allen 'huh huh huh huh')

                        Yup, did it tonight...while attaching a photoetched platform to the rear of the bridge of the IJN Tone...

                        Jeff


                        OW! OW! OW! OW! OW!Smile [:)]

                        "Whaddya mean 'Who's flying the plane?!' Nobody's flying the plane!"

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                        Anonymous
                        • Member since
                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Friday, June 25, 2004 10:39 PM
                        When a family member has to pull an x-acto out of some part of your body because you're either too squeamish to do it, or unconscious.

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                        paulnchamp
                        • Member since
                          January 2003
                        • From: Warwick, RI
                        Posted by paulnchamp on Friday, June 25, 2004 10:08 PM
                        When you refer to your workspace as "the shipyard".
                        Paul "A man's GOT to know his limitations."
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                        boscotdg
                        • Member since
                          April 2004
                        Posted by boscotdg on Friday, June 25, 2004 3:45 PM
                        register for wedding gifts at White Ensign and Pacific Hobbies
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                        Anonymous
                        • Member since
                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, May 18, 2004 4:56 PM
                        You've counted the number of individual clove hitches that you tied with two pairs of tweezers and it comes to 1150.

                        Someone says, "You've missed a button off that 1/700 phot-etched sailor's tunic!", and you reply, "I know, but I ran out of thread!" :-)
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                        cthulhu77
                        • Member since
                          January 2003
                        • From: arizona
                        Posted by cthulhu77 on Sunday, May 16, 2004 8:00 AM
                        The guests at your wedding are treated to a seminar about 1/72 scale PT boats, and the virtues and comparisons between PT and Schnellboots during the reception...
                        or:
                        Your new wife blanches every time the Fedex or UPS truck comes near the house !
                        http://www.ewaldbros.com
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                        Anonymous
                        • Member since
                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, May 15, 2004 7:15 AM
                        ...you require all guests to ask permission to come aboard when entering your house.
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                        Anonymous
                        • Member since
                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Friday, May 14, 2004 8:05 AM
                        you visit the Chesapeake Maritime Museum to take detail pics for the "Skipjack" you're building.
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                        Anonymous
                        • Member since
                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, May 13, 2004 10:39 PM
                        you get together with the other "ship" modelers on the base and only one has done a fully rigged ship, and when you view it, you notice all the corners he cut. (He didn't even use the correct color line for running rigging). He said dark line stands out better!

                        RTC Great Lakes
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                        Anonymous
                        • Member since
                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, May 13, 2004 4:15 PM
                        you have frame numbers above the doors in you apartment,
                        and compartment information stenciled on the bulkheads.
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                        Anonymous
                        • Member since
                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, May 13, 2004 2:26 PM
                        ...when your cross-country vacation includes a 950-mile detour to visit the USS Lexington in Corpus Christi Bay.
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                        72cuda
                        • Member since
                          July 2003
                        • From: USA
                        Posted by 72cuda on Thursday, May 13, 2004 12:41 PM
                        when you cut down all the Oak Trees and buy all the canvas in the neighborhood to make your next Tall Ship Model

                        84 of 795 1/72 Aircraft Competed for Lackland's Airman Heritage Museum

                        Was a Hawg Jet Fixer, now I'm a FRED Fixer   

                         'Cuda

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                        oz1998
                        • Member since
                          June 2003
                        • From: Rhode Island
                        Posted by oz1998 on Wednesday, May 12, 2004 3:06 PM

                        "You know you're a "real" ship modeler if...."

                        You genuinely can't understand why your wife doesn't think a 4 foot Japanese Battleship would make a great centerpiece for the dining room table.

                        You are totally flabbergasted when she also doesn't think the above same battleship wouldn't make a great anniversary/Christmas gift for her.
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                        Anonymous
                        • Member since
                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, May 12, 2004 3:03 AM
                        You spend a romantic weekend in San Diego with your G/F and for every pic she's in, you have 100 each of Nimitz, Midway and John C Stennis
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                        Anonymous
                        • Member since
                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, May 11, 2004 5:21 PM
                        .. you spendt your honeymoon crawling around in the bilges of HMS Belfast, Cutty Sark, and other maritime museum attractions.

                        Yep I really did!
                        Bruce
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                        Anonymous
                        • Member since
                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, May 11, 2004 9:50 AM
                        Custom made photoetch or 3D sailors for 1/1200 models taking care to properly show the uniform badges and rank (tags?).
                        Custom make a 1/1200 pet mascot......
                        Rust every nut and bolt in the ship after you have individually installed 1000s of them.
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                        BRASSWIPES
                        • Member since
                          March 2004
                        Posted by BRASSWIPES on Sunday, May 9, 2004 12:26 AM
                        You spend more time shopping for sewing thread than your wife!!!Big Smile [:D]
                        "dirty deeds done dirt cheap"
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                        richter111
                        • Member since
                          November 2003
                        Posted by richter111 on Saturday, May 8, 2004 3:22 PM
                        when your child is born and you ask your wife what scale it's is and if you can get photo etch to "enhance" it .....
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                        Anonymous
                        • Member since
                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Friday, May 7, 2004 8:23 AM
                        Blimey mate ok ,prosac ,dark room increase in personnel, take time out mate you are too young to start looking like me!
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                        Jeff Herne
                        • Member since
                          January 2003
                        Posted by Jeff Herne on Friday, May 7, 2004 8:07 AM
                        Server is not FUBAR, I'm just running around like a madman...induction dinner last night, recovering fom being sick, and heading for Aberdeen all of next week to recover our first aircraft for the museum...haven't been to Cranford yet for Kate, the club meeting is next Friday...

                        J
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