You open a bottle of wine just to get the lead foil from the bottle top :-)

Your talking a walk in the countryside and are looking at the gound for twigs to make logs :-)

anyone got anymore ?????


Ian

When you "cadge"......Big McD straws for faceines........
.and plastic stirrers for paint mixing..............and sauce tubs for paint mixers...and...and
Mmmmmmm!!!!!
aye
BARV
(GOSMG)

Peer into skips for anything 'useful';
buy thoroughly hideous framed pictures from charity shops as cheap diorama bases;
buy organic veg and keep the bushy and hairy bits ! ...for diorama vegetation...
Think twice before throwing away anything and buy pies purely for the foil trays!

- you think that parsley and baking soda is not solely for cooking
- you hallucinate seeing rivets on pinheads
- you love, revere and WORSHIP the word "WEATHER"
- you feel sexy and aroused the moment you file the gap on a figure's crotch
- you suddenly feel hungry when you hear the words polystyrene and plastic cement
- you suddenly take interest in studying your grandpa's pictures
- you want to save cooking tins, aluminum soda cans, plastic packs for lunches when these are supposed to be in the garbage can
- you suddenly pick up a rock while walking with a date because the rock looks "just right."
- you have a lot of band-aids around your fingers
- you want to play "Call of Duty" or "Battlefield 2" not for fun but for reference
- you suddenly crawl on the carpet
- you make your dog your mortal enemy because he ate up your GIs arm
- you request your younger cousins to please save the foil of their favorite yogurt or noodle soup
- you see a dilapidated building and somehow, you can inexplicably relate it to Blockhaus
- you see a beautiful scenery and you suddenly kneel down, look up at the sky, hold out your hands and exclaim joyfully "Alleluiah, Jackhammer 81!"
- you know that a Blade48mrd is not a power tool but a very generous guy
- you know that "scratch" isn't about an itch on your back
- your favorite other hobby is browsing through Big A

Angela

Have more kit boxes in your clothing closet than clothes?
Your digi-cam never leaves your side so that you can take reference pics for Justin Case....

When you speak of PE and AM you are not refering to Port Elizabeth or the morning...

Your having a night on the town with the lads and you get asked the question "why the F*** are you putting those twigs in your pocket, how many have you had!?"
:-) I always try to do it very incompsicuously, but it never works.
Cheers

:-) :-) :-) I tend to feel more embarassed for the wee fella, after all I'm a hamfisted man and that files gotta hurt!

Some more...


- You can't walk past workmen without eyeing up their rubbish for bits of wire..

- You head straight for the floor polish section when you hit the supermarket (and your opinion of the supermarket drops drastically if they don't stock Future)

- You can't watch Band Of Brothers without pausing it and pointing out to your uninterested other half just how obvious it is that the Tiger is a T34.

- You want to file the mould seam off every item you buy which is made from plastic.

- Your idea of dream holiday involves cameras and tanks.

- You refuse to vacuum your modelling room until you find that elusive part.

oh and this one happened to me very recently...

- You leave blockbusters with a war film as well as whatever you went for, just so you can use the screen grabs for reference !

You get a blister on your index finger from taking too many pics when you go to Bovington (and after a whole day I still didn't get past 1945!)

you can't pass by a construction site without stopping and running to a pile of dirt with a spoon and a bottle

you have 4 different paint colors on your hands....and you don't care

You tell your boss that you have to go and see the bank manager that afternoon, but really you have to go to the LHS to get more Tamiya Nato Black for your pre-shading of a new DML kit

when you end up saving the baby food bottles to use for paint mixing....

when styrofoam gives you ideas on diorama contours...

and when the first thing you do when you get to work is log on to armorama.

Your pants need to be sugically removed , you didn't notice the upturned Zap a gap dribbling on your new jeans. You then ask the nurse for the scalpel and some of those gauze pads would make great Camo nets :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)

When you are planning next years visit to Wales, so SWMBO can visit her folks, to coincide with EuroMilitaire! :-) :-) :-) :-)

You know you are a modeller when:

You say douh, and can't remove your hand from your forehead...

When your xacto rolls off the edge of your work table and sticks upright into some part of your anatomy...

When the woman at the retailer starts to question your sexual orientation when you buy dried flowers...

When you know more about history than you do current affairs...

When you spend more time at work thinking about modeling than you spend actually working...

you know you've got me there mate :-)

:-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)

Very very good guys and gals that gave me a good laugh there are some real gems in there.

There was not one that I coudl not relate to in one way or another

Hehehehehe

Thanks for the input

Ian

You hang around the first aid room at work waiting for someone to open a sterile eyewash so you can use the rather handy sized dropper bottle as pipette when they are done.

Look at my signature :-)

You don't go to sleep one night because "My tank needed paint so badly it was bothering me"

You constantly change the price of something really cool you bought up or down, depending on whos listening

when you go to bed and you dream of how your dio will look when finished and ways to create it!
When you go for a walk at the woods and search for suitable plantation to use at your models!
When you watch a movie and instatly fictionize the next project!
When you have the Kitchen table in your appartment(mine to be specific) filled with models and tools and you eat your food at the chair!!!
:-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)

When you jump out of bed early on a weekend because your inspired

You know your a modeler when.......hmmm

you use more future floor polish at your workbench than your wife does on the floor..

Your co-workers wonder what your doing when they find you out back in the scrap iron pile filling small containers with different colors of rust dust.

You kill time while your wife is shopping at Wal-Mart by going through the craft and fishing asles hoping to find something usefull that you don't already have.

You know the going prices for kits at the hobby shop, an online store and ebay off the top of your head.

you wear shirts that have drops of paint on them and when asked you proudly tell whomever all about that specific color, its history and what you used it for 3 months ago....

when you bend the laws of physics by sitting at your bench for ten minutes, while two hours pass in the real world

You know you’re a modeller when:

Most of your clothes have at least one glue / paint stain on them.
You are busy studying how different materials rust.
You can name more German tank aces and Allied fighter pilots than you can fashion models or actresses.
Your daughters can recognise at least ten different tanks and name their country of origin.
Your daughters also know that a Mirage is a jet fighter as well as an optical illusion.
You bought TIVO / Sky+ so you can pause / freeze frame for research purposes.

On your holiday, you spend five hours hobbling around Bovington after [EDIT: Sorry, Strain not sprain] straining your ankle, with an idiotic grin on your face taking numerous photos and only go to hospital when the museum closes. (True story)

Tsk Tsk Eric :-)