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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 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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                        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 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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                        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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                        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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                        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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                        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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                        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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                        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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                        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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                        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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                        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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                        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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                        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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                        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 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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