Think of this as the infamous Jeff Foxworthy schtick of “You might be a redneck”.
Everyone remember this is just for fun and add your own humorous additions.
“If you shave off the cast on rivets and reglue them in the proper place…You might be a rivet counter!”
[(-D]
Tom
If you very carefully measure the Elesco FWH ‘bundle’ on your HO scale Rio Grande 2-8-8-2 and find that it’s a scale foot shorter and six scale inches smaller in circumference than the prototype which causes you to pack the locomotive away never to be run again on your MR–well, you just MIGHT be a ‘rivet-head’.
Tom
If the “S” channels, unique to PFE underframes , have a silght G shape because of your’e failure to reproduce to exact specifications that subsquently causes same to abandon the effort and take up Inca basket weaving in fustration, you might be a rivet head counter.
Dave
If you berate another modeler about the stack on his steamer being six scale inches shorter than that of the prototype you might be a rivet head.
If you strip the decals and paint off your brand new $500 locomotive, because it “just didn’t look right”
You may be a rivot head.
If you refuse to accept that On30 is a resonable compromise for American 3ft guage, then you are a rivet head.
If your wife pounds you on the dome every time you open your mouth, you might be a rivet head:
well peened.
Chuck (Modeling Central Japan in September, 1964 - without the aforementioned problem)
You might be a rivet head if’n you’s needs ta have a hard hat in your’n own home for to pervent gettin’ peened off the top of your’n noggin…
You might be a rivet head if you get up at 3 in the morning to be the brakeman of the morning local on your layout.
At night, you stick your eyeball up to a storefront window, all lit-up by its LED, to check what people inside the store are buying…
…You just might be a rivit head – After all, you wouldn’t want to miss a sale!
If you think that even a factory painted brass model just isn’t accurate enough…you might be a rivet counter.
If you know what’s wrong with every one of your models…you might be a rivet counter.
If you look at a freshly finished model of your own construction and think, “I can do better than that.”…you might be a rivet counter.
If you research the prototype to more accurately recreate the “real thing”…you might be a rivet counter.
If you think that “good enough” isn’t…you might be a rivet counter.
Paul A. Cutler III