Well, I figured I would give it a try, what do modelers NOT do, or worse; What do phony modelers do?
You may NOT be a model railroader if you have not built at least one kit.
How about the guy boasting about how much better his stuff is compared to all the dribble on the model contest entry table, but never allowing any living being outside of his cat to actually see it.[|(]
Having a collection of 200 brass peices, all safely boxed and stored, but no actual layout or display shelves to show them on.[%-)]
Your entire empire consists of one 30 year old original Tyco Chattanoga ChooChoo set, still in the original box and still stored under the bed.[:O]
Being absolutely convinced your 30 year old original Tyco Chattanoga ChooChoo set, still in the original box, is actually a “valued collectors item” [(-D]
my father, lol.
Dave
you look at a deal and say it;s just a toy
Model railroading is just a hobby(it’s life)
I saw this on the forum somewhere: we don’t sell toy trains
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You’ve never trashed MR, its staff or its content.
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You’ve never complained about hobby prices, but have instead shown that they are not out of line compared to inflation adjusted prices in the past.
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You’ve never gone on a rant about the death of craftsmanship and how it’s just too easy just to buy stuff ready-to-run.
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You’ve never insisted that the 1950’s were the “Golden Age” and everything else since then is crap.
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You’ve never assembed a steam locomotive kit including assembling the valve gear correctly. (You can’t be a model railroader if you just model diesel. Real model railroaders model steam locomotives. [swg] )
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You’ve never heard the name Gonpher Coughie.
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You think Tony Koester was killed at the Battle of the Little Big Horn.
Andre
Correction to above post… anything made by tyco!
If you have reffered to a yard sale which pays you to take the trains as your “hobby joint,” you may not be a model railroader. but you are an idiot!
You see a big sheet of 2" thick pink foam board laying discarded on the side of the road and you DON’T stop and pick it up…
vsmith-I’d like to have one of those unopened Choo Choo sets![:D]
You purchase all of your locomotives and rolling stock through the Hawthorne Village.
…if you visit a club with an elaborate layout, and ask “How long does it take to set this up every year?”
Lee
Thankfully, that type of collector seems to be on the wane and selling their wares either on consignment or E-bay so guys like me who like to RUN brass can get them for decent prices.
Oops, WAIT A MINUTE! We’re talking NOT model railroaders here, LOL![:I]
How about: “Hey, I wonder how FAST these trains will go around these mountains?”
Tom [:P]
Well, somebody beat me to the Tyco remark.
You’re kicked out of the club for crashing the trains.
Your wife has more shoes than you have boxcars.
Your trains all have faces.
Enjoy
Paul
You look at somebody’s nice kitbash update of a rather mediocre brass locomotive, then berate him for, “Ruining the one piece I needed to complete my collection of Max Gray imports.”
Chuck (modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)
If you didn’t let your future wife know before the wedding that the 1000 SQ. FT. nanny suite will be converted to a train room as soon as you don’t need the nanny any more. And yes she agreed without hesitation. MAN I love that woman!
Chuck:
OMYGAW, can I relate to that one! I was running a kit-bashed Rio Grande 2-10-2 of mine one time and one guy looked at it and said, “Hey, that’s not bad. What was it before?” I told him it was an old PFM Santa Fe 2-10-2 junker that I bought for $25 at a swap meet, you’d thought I’d attacked the Vatican with spray-paint. I then proceeded to have a lecture thrown at me about how ALL brass was SACROSANCT and meddling with it was tatamount to Heresy. I decided not to tell him about the 2 old Akane Yellowstones I’d resurrected with new drives and Cal-Scale castings or the Akane USRA 4-6-2 that I’d just outfitted with a complete Cal-Scale Elesco FWH system. I mean, he ALREADY looked as if he was going to have cardiac arrest.
Tom [:P]
You have a 4 x 6 oval of snap-track, a 5-car train with horn hook couplers that fits under the Christmas Tree, and you refer to it as your “train set.”
chicochip
When you come to the fork in the road where the LHS is to the right, and the shoe store is to the left, you turn left. (Unless, of course, the ATM is also to the left, and you’re going there to get cash so your train purchases don’t show up on the credit card.)
You mean, that’s NOT a train set?
If you have anything that your refer to as your “train set,” then, well, you may NOT be a model railroader.
You actually get mad and curse at those darn trains when you get stuck at a crossing instead of taking pictures and making prototype notes.