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

Jeff Herne bows to you
Sorry mate but your ships are soooooo cool
Will you please E mail me back or is our sever FUBAR?

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

Been there, felt that.....

EJK

Azrog,

Did that on the Big C.

I corrected a sailor giving a tour, it took me about 3 hours to swim the harbor!

You visit onboard the 1:1 USS "Constitution," " Charles W. Morgan," USS "Missouri," HMS "Victory," "Flying Cloud," "Empress of India," RMS "Queen Mary," etc., etc. and complain to eveyone that the paint colors aren't "authentic," the rigging's not from the right era, and the fittings are all "out-of-scale."

"Should we prosper it shall be as is our custom...by Miracle!"

No, but it came awful close to something else, if you catch my drift...

J

At least you didn't cut the end of your finger off this time Jeff

You take classes in needle point, cross-stiching, and fly-tying to improve your rigging skills. And your the only one in the class that is male and under 50 yrs old

When you consider puchasing a new Plymouth vehicle because the hood ornement is a Sailing Ship!!!

When you go in a hardware store and tie the ropes ends into several different types of sailing knots.............

you have a 1-MC in the house to make announcements like Reveille, Taps, GQ, the smoking lamp is lit/out, etc, etc....

The dining table starts to move when the wind gets up outside and the cat when sitting IN your type V11 box(again!) starts miaowing ALARM !when you pick up your new flower class corvette!

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

...you're wife/gf asks you to get clearence to pass through the military dock aka you're workspace with the diner.

... you're house is only decorated with modellships, the kitchen is transformed into a ships bridge, you've got torpedo tubes in the living room and the old pictures on the wall of you're parents/grandparents are overtaped with detail pictures of you're next modell

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

QUOTE: Originally posted by RSaddlemire if you attempt to model all the ships you served on while being in the Navy. Richard

Guilty as charged!

When you analyze every doodad and scrap for its potential use on one of your current or future modelss

Isn't it kinda perverse to decorate a German U-boat with PE from a British firm called White Ensign?. My Uboat might murder me in my sleep. I've already opened up all the free-flood holes on the hull and bevelled the plastic around the holes to appropriate thinness. I just drilled out all the drain holes, every last one, on the Revell 1/72 Uboat's conning tower using a 1/32" drill bit in a pin vice. I am now exacto-knifing my way through all the limber holes on each of the 3 deck sections. Next I plan to make the entire, detailed pressure hull out of styrene plastic. After that I'll make the equipment under the casing from mostly brass tubes. When that's done I'll make new handrails on the deck, the conning tower, wintergarten, and periscope stand from soldered copper wire of the currect diameter. Finally I will scratch build the voice tube, compass repeater, engine room telegraph, and torpedo site pedastal. The only photoetch I'll need would be the handwheels for the 88 canon and the 20mm flak.

if you attempt to model all the ships you served on while being in the Navy.

Richard