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Model Forum / General / Models / May 2006Who Are All You Modelers???
hasn' been done in awhile... any kids posting here? any women here? I personally don't know any women who build/collect models. or is it just a bunch of old farts filling their basements with stuff? Craig > hasn' been done in awhile... > [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Craig There is a lady up in your end of Californy who builds car models. Even with neuropathy she builds better cars than I ever did. You can find her stuff on E-bay under the name 'mustanggal', IIRC. Jackie is her first name. More than that I wouldn't say. Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr. 57 and trying to maintain equilibrium in the basement. >...is it just a bunch of old farts filling their basements with stuff? I resent that remark. I don't have a basement... ;-p  SignatureAl Superczynski, MFE, IPMS/USA #3795, continuous since 1968 My "From" address is munged - use 'modeleral (at) swbell (dot) net' to respond via email. Check out my want lists and eBay listings at "Al's Place": http://home.swbell.net/arfunguy/index.html "Build what YOU like, the way YOU want to, and the critics will flame you every time." c...@earthlink.net wrote: > or is it just a bunch of old farts filling their basements with stuff? BINGO!!! Martin Garage, in my case. After the attic gets insulation, flooring, ventilation, pull down stairs and shelves they all go up there. That leaves 7000+ aviation and modeling magazines and books in new cabinets in the garage. As far as "old farts" are concerned... I'll be 59 next month, but I only feel that old on occasion. It sure is nice to get back to building models again. :-) Tom > c...@earthlink.net wrote: > > or is it just a bunch of old farts filling their basements with stuff? > > BINGO!!! > > Martin > As far as "old farts" are concerned... only when the Ford pills are working I'm afraid No basement either. Just the 2nd floor of this old Victorian 'barn' since the last two kids left 10 yrs ago :-) -- Chuck Ryan Springfield OH > hasn' been done in awhile... > [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Craig >No basement either. Just the 2nd floor of this old Victorian 'barn' since >the last two kids left 10 yrs ago :-) a whole floor? my stuff lives in the second bedroom's closet. i would kill for a floor in a house. well, i'd kill roaches or rats, anyway. > >No basement either. Just the 2nd floor of this old Victorian 'barn' since > >the last two kids left 10 yrs ago :-) > > a whole floor? my stuff lives in the second bedroom's > closet. i would kill for a floor in a house. > well, i'd kill roaches or rats, anyway. Both 14x12 brms plus most of the walk-in attic. All this space and everything is still a mess :-) -- Chuck Ryan Springfield OH >> In article <lWTcg.153921$eR6.35931@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net>, >> [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] >Both 14x12 brms plus most of the walk-in attic. All this space and >everything is still a mess :-) i hate you! (g) crw59@earthlink.net wrote in news:1148440744.828482.254270@ 38g2000cwa.googlegroups.com: > hasn' been done in awhile... > [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Craig Hi All, Dennis Loep, male, from Enschede in the east of the Netherlands, near the German border. 36yo, so no old fart (yet). I CAN feel like one sometimes, but most of the times I (like to) feel younger. About 700+ 1/48 plane kits in storage. Plastic, resin, paper etc. Have built some 50 over the years. I live in a converted horse barn, so all the kits and work space is up in the insulated hay loft. No basement, but still space left!! Have worked in a model shop, a lubricating oil/grease producer and am now working in civil construction, where I lead teams building concrete structures on, under and above ground. Like overpasses, parking garages, fly-overs, rail road bridges etc. Cheers. NEXT!! Dennis So whats wrong with being an old fart who makes models...thought it was part of the thing, train spotters have anoraks, we are old farts...well 46 actually and yep..its the basement thats the modelling room/workshop, and like most modellers working in the space that you cannot swing a cat round in, never mind a 1/72nd B-52 (that might be why its now got its wings on yet) crw59@earthlink.net wrote in <1148440744.828482.254270@ 38g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>: >or is it just a bunch of old farts filling their basements with stuff? At 35, I sometimes feel like a kid when I'm at IPMS meetings (surrounded by old geezers)... SignatureHarro de Jong remove the extra Xs from xmsnet to mail me > hasn' been done in awhile... > [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Craig Old retired fart here. The whole basement is mine, except for the storage. The women are all into the latest fad, Scrapbooking. The kids are playing digital games on the computer and wouldn't know how to glue two pieces together unless they could do it with a joystick or keyboard. SignatureBill In Hamptonburgh, NY To Email, remove the double zeroes after 'at' Been browsing this newsgroup for the better part of ten years. Started posting as a young Army captain and am now an older Army lieutenant colonel. Old fart in a one bedroom apartment with 400+ unbuilt kits. Used to be 700+ but sold some off. I may stop selling since it looks like I'm gearing up to build once more. I'm hoping to finish my first aircraft kit in 30 years by October and hopefully 4 if I can learn to do a decent natural metal finish. >Old fart in a one bedroom apartment with 400+ unbuilt kits. Used to be >700+ but sold some off. I may stop selling since it looks like I'm >gearing up to build once more. I'm hoping to finish my first aircraft >kit in 30 years by October and hopefully 4 if I can learn to do a >decent natural metal finish. as they say, just do it. i'm always trying stuff i son't know how to do. if no one can teach ,e, i just do it until it's right. i taught myself pc hardware. no one told me a dec rainbow couldn't run ms dos, so i did it. take big bites, moderatuion is for weenies. I don't know if I qualify as an old fart but I am not a kid either. I still work full time running a fairly large industrial supply company (primarily fasteners) in Colorado. I resumed building models a little more than a year ago after more than 20 years. I build for relaxation and escape. I buy mostly to build but I do have 25 or so kits that will remain as sealed box "investments". I have a nice setup for winter building in our 4th level and, in good weather, I have a table set up in our patio room where I look out on a pond / waterfall and enjoy the birds, fish, and the sound of the water running from the waterfalls down the stream and into the pond while I build. All together it is a nice escape from the stress of the work day. > Old fart in a one bedroom apartment with 400+ unbuilt kits. Used to be > 700+ but sold some off. Sell some off. That's what I have to start doing so I don't leave a huge mess for my heir to have to dispose of. Who out there is a good contact to sell off a collection? Rare plane detective?? Bill Shuey >> Old fart in a one bedroom apartment with 400+ unbuilt kits. Used to be >> 700+ but sold some off. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Bill Shuey please send me a list of the lindberg/matchbox/old airfix kits. and any 1/48 momogram german 2 enchine or jet stuff. we can work something out. "old farts filling their basements with stuff". Well I guess that pretty well describes me. Actually I just turned 68 and have been model building since I was about 8 or 9. I build models in the Fall and Winter and compete in black powder rifle competition in the Spring and Summer. Also Baltimore IPMS member. Bill Shuey > hasn' been done in awhile... > [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Craig On Tue, 23 May 2006 20:19:04 -0700, crw59 wrote: > hasn' been done in awhile... > > any kids posting here? > > any women here? I personally don't know any women who build/collect > models. Yep : ) I'm approaching old-fart-ness at 42, but I haven't been building any models. In my current residence I have absolutely no room to do anything like that unfortunately. I want to get back into building models again and even have a couple of kits squirreled away but unfortunately it all has to wait until I get into a house with some room. <frown> In the meantime I just browse forums like this, thinking about the stuff that I would like to do once I'm in a position to do it. <g> Bruce Melbourne, Australia <snip> > Bruce > Melbourne, Australia Bruce?! From Australia?! Hmm . . . This reminds me of one of the Monty Python skits . . . Thanks for the chuckle! And speaking of old farts, what is the crossover fartdom age anyways? In any case, I don't think that I qualify yet. As for farts, I do it often. I'm a guy after all! Oops... pardon me... I live in the US and work in tech support for a large computer company. My workshop is in a finshed room in the basement. I've been a modeler since I was about 5 years old. As far ar r.m.s. goes, I've been here off-and-on since about 1998. :-) Peteski > And speaking of old farts, what is the crossover fartdom age anyways? The day you beg your doctor for a prescription for Celebrex. Art > <snip> >> Bruce [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > :-) > Peteski > > And speaking of old farts, what is the crossover fartdom age anyways? > > The day you beg your doctor for a prescription for Celebrex. Aaaaahhhh Men!! Bill Shuey ><snip> >> Bruce [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] >:-) >Peteski there are 30 yearold old farts and 50 year old kids... >I'm approaching old-fart-ness at 42, but I haven't been building any >models. In my current residence I have absolutely no room to do [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] >Bruce >Melbourne, Australia build on your pc desk. you really don't need a huge space. my build surface is a round wire spool table i built. about 30" across. >build on your pc desk. you really don't need a huge space. Well, yeah, I could probably do that if all I wanted to do was *build*. But I'd like to *paint* as well ... which means space for keeping paints and painting gear (and no, I don't even have room to shove it all in a box somewhere when I'm not using it) ... space for waiting for paints to dry ... not to mention actually displaying the finished product somewhere. When I say "I have no spare room" I mean that quite literally, I'm afraid. It's OK; I'll cope. It's annoying, but it will pass. When spare room comes my way again at some point, I'll get cracking! Bruce Melbourne, Australia >>build on your pc desk. you really don't need a huge space. > [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] >Bruce >Melbourne, Australia must be frustrating, i feel for you. >>build on your pc desk. you really don't need a huge space. > [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > Bruce > Melbourne, Australia I built a computer desk out of a musician's keboard stand and a 48" table top I bought from Ikea. It's modular, and also can be used as a drafting board since I can tilt it. Signature- Rufus > I'm approaching old-fart-ness at 42, but I haven't been building any > models. In my current residence I have absolutely no room to do [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > Bruce > Melbourne, Australia I do most of my modelling on a small table beside my bed. I on the other hand paint in the basement where I have my modest 3000+ models. Dan > I'm approaching old-fart-ness at 42, but I haven't been building any > models. In my current residence I have absolutely no room to do [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > Bruce > Melbourne, Australia Male 37 not quite old fart and I keep them in an air conditioned attic. > hasn' been done in awhile... > [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Craig Not quite an old fart yet (I hope) at 46. Started modelling again about 5 years ago and have made 59 1/72 models in that time. I have about 145 kits in the stash in the garage (where my modelling is done). I share the garage with 2 cars and 2 dogs. Cheers Ultan Bill Hicks predicted that on Thu, 25 May 2006 04:31:47 GMT, "Ultan Rooney" <noone@nowhere.com> would write: >> hasn' been done in awhile... >> [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] >Cheers >Ultan My wife and I build, I'm 42 shes 21 (the second time around) ;> we have a 1000 sq ft trailer and we use the middle room. It's about 7x8 or so and we built two benches (had to assemble them in the room) on either wall and put up shelves above them. She does rockets and RCM planes I do the regular plastic models and love to spare part build. (not just kit bashing, I take anything I can find, spark plugs, old hard drive insides, mouthwash bottle, when she was in the hospital they let me take home her iv set, old primers, parts of her infusion set (she is a 32yr diabetic) etc and make stuff out of them. I haven't seen or heard of anyone else that dose what I call "spare part model building", just kit bashing, oh well. It dosen't take a lot of space to bulid and have fun. Paul & Victoria Heisner Keep Buildin'! > hasn' been done in awhile... > [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Craig No basement , collection is spread around the house to make it look smaller than it is . Not an old fart , just cronologically gifted at 53. SignatureKevin (Bluey) "I'm not young enough to know everything." bluey69@westnet.com.au > hasn' been done in awhile... > [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Craig === Will turn #@%&* this November, and retired last November. However, I do not consider myself an OF. No basement here in Texas, so the stash is in the garage, some 300 models of which about 50 percent are in some state of completion. There are two husband and wife teams in the club I belong to. They (the ladies) do build some very good contest quality models. The wife and I share one of the bedrooms for her arts/crafts and my modeling. I am working on a mobile workbench so I can work on models and watch TV at once - or at least try - then roll it away when I am not working on models (will post some pics on abms when I get it completed - about another week). Cheers, Ray Austin, TX === >> hasn' been done in awhile... >> [quoted text clipped - 28 lines] > Austin, TX > === Always makes me think of one of my favorite artsist who came from Austin, Texas. Stevie Ray Vaughan. Thank you for that. Dennis Any women in baltimore where are you? Dan > Any women in baltimore where are you? > > Dan One Lady modeller in the Baltimore IPMS chapter. She does pretty good work but her hang up is U.S,. Navy jets, won't bother with anything else. Bill Shuey > >> Any women in baltimore where are you? [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > Bill Shuey > Maybe she's only interested in "An Officer and a Gentleman". SignatureBill In Hamptonburgh, NY To Email, remove the double zeroes after 'at' Hello some 450 models..... in my bunker...... Greetings TDC The Bunker Collection 1965-2006 > hasn' been done in awhile... > [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Craig Apparently I am unique --- have more built than in my stash. Webmaster for our local club. Come on over and look around. SignatureM Stanley Webmaster: Pelikan Model Club www.percongrp.com/pelikan.htm . > hasn' been done in awhile... > [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Craig Unique, hell! You're perverted...a monster...a threat to all we procrastinators hold dear. How do I tell my wife that "*everyboby* in this hobby buys more kits than they build" when you publicly flaunt your self-discipline? Wait a minute...didn't I see you in a starring role in the latest X-Men movie released today? Yeah...that's right - Kit Builder - the most dangerous of all the mutants! His kit stash morphs into built kits! May the Saints preserve us! Art > Apparently I am unique --- have more built than in my stash. > [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] >> >> Craig |
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