On my way back home, after work to day, I had to make a quick stop at my local hobbyshop to buy some mesh netting for a turret basket on my current project. This is what happened:



Have you experienced the same thing? Only one thing to say: Modelling is a great hobby!!!


PS. The hobbyshop did not have any Mesh netting.

:-) :-) :-)

Thanks, that is one of the few posts I've seen that made me laugh out loud! Looking at the haul you came home with, seems it wasn't a wasted trip anyway

hehehe, :-) did you get the mesh-netting at all

I can sympathize. I spent $45 dollars trying to get three small ModelMaster bottles of paint (about $7.50).

Jeff

i went to Hobby lobby to get a nozzle for my airbrush but i ended up getting a Tiger 3in1 and the New T-34

I once drove 3 hrs to a shop in S. Carolina , as they were the only ones to carry Humbrol paints. I couldn't justify going that far for a $1.49 item, so I went ahead and bought three kits. The drive didn't feel so far afterwards. Even today, I still do it, I just don't drive as far.

I have a one word answer, "DUH!" Hobby Lobby is normally my downfall. I'll go in there just to SEE what they have now to plan for the next half off sale. I'll come out with paint, brushes, matte boards, moss, etc, etc, etc.

Lol, nice powershopping there dude :-)

I allso happens to me, but mainly when i shop on the internet, then i tend to wanting to get the most out of my shippingcost.

Only a problem when taking the box into the house:

She: "Oh, thats a huge box for only a single kit"

Me: "Well, you know, its mostly fill and old papers to protect the kit...."

first of all ahahahahahahahaha thats a great post. yes tis happens to me all the time. my parents can predict me when i go into a hobbyshop for on thinh it doubles or triples. ha oh well it is a great hobby and the anticipation of getting home and building that new kit and to see the new thing finished pays for it all.




Graeme

Wow...thats awesome. There is some dedication there.

Brian

Lol :-) :-)!
I once went into a hobbyshop to get a bag of ballast and I came out wiht some kits, ballast (yay i got my objective) paints, brushes, and for some reason I even got some little trees. My mom reminded me those are for the railroads and I said," Oh. Yeah..." then i put it back after eyeing around for about 30 minutes and when I got home I found a use for everything I bought! Except for a slinky. God knows why I bought that.

I went down the local art shop last week for some earth tone pastels came home with a new air brush

Every time :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)

What's worse is when you buy a conversion for akit you don't even have. Yet. :-)

I think you win the prize with that one Al.

And then I'll wait for the kit to go out of production, and become a rare collectors item......... :-) :-) :-)

Since there is no "true" LHS in the Nashville Area that I am aware of, I go to either Hobby Lobby or a place called "Phillip Toy Mart". My wife & I went there Saturday - just to "look" ...yeah right. I left w/2 AFV Modeller magazines, an MMIR magazine, an Opsrey book, a MODEL magazine, some plastruct, some Games Workshop Matte Finish Spray, oh and buttload of candy and a box of "Whipper Snappers" which I didn't even know still existed. :-)

Boy O boy...... I'd kill for some "whipper snappers" Now I'll have to go checking all the candy aisles looking for them.......
Nothing like a whipper snapper, and a refreshing glass of paint thinner during a modelling session. :-) :-) :-)

All the time.......the only way for me to keep things on an acceptable level is not to take much money with me when I go to a hobbyshop and leave my CC/bank card at home :-)

Actually, my wife did not know what a "Whipper Snapper" was so I had to throw a few in the parking lot for her. The Candy was in a seperate isle. :-)

I do this every freakin' month even though I have no space to stuff it in.
I am pathetic

Hobby Lobby is my downfall also. I just go in there to look and I leave with 5 or 6 kits. By the way when is the next sale!!!!
Recon

i went to get a churchil for christmas, and they had to order it, and with every 100 dollar purchashe you saved 15%, i left with an order for the churchil, 5 figure sets, 6 bottles of paint, and b-17.... i go to order one kit and order 2 more, always happens

Frank

It is good to see that I'm not alone. I have had lots of fun reading all your comments through the evening.

Best Regards

Erik

:-) :-) :-)

Girlfriend: "how much you gonna spend?"
Me: "Thirty bucks."
*15 minutes later...*
G: "Did you find your stuff."
M: *Shrugging* "ya."
G: "So how much this time?"
M: *Meekly* "$155. But I got a good deal."
G: *Shaking head* " I wanna eat some where nice for lunch, and go to the Botanical Garden and see the new Diane Lane movie."
M: *Best fake jovial laugh and smile* "Sound great! Glad you thought that up (hurting inside)."
G: "Ya, great idea huh dumbass (smiling leerily)."

She still loves me. She just squints everytime I mention St. Louis.