You're not a real modeler until.......

Model Railroader General Discussion (Model Railroader)
21

OHMYGAW!! You, TOO? I just re-arranged the stuff under the layout and found that I have some Grandt-Line kits I forgot that I BOUGHT!!

Or: Your track has a joint in the middle of your curved viaduct that you installed in January on your garage layout. It’s June. The track has EXPANDED! KINKED! You cannot run any big locos over it, in fact, your little 2-8-0 has just taken a dive 190 scale feet into the forest below it. Now how do I manage to get all that scenery out of that bent cowcatcher and ruined Kadee #5 without everything popping off–and where in Heck is the HEADLIGHT? EGAD, it’s fun being a modeler!

Tom [:O]

22

…you take out a second mortgage to build on a train room.

…you use your home equity line of credit to buy that “must-have” locomotive.

…you call your kids “Chessapeake” and “Ohio” .

…your dreams are in DCC.

…you forgot your significant other’s name.

…you’ve ballasted your driveway.

23

My guess is his sound function worked rather well once his tounge hit the DC rails!

24

…until a lot of these start sounding very, very familiar.

25

…you realize something doesn’t look “quite right” at the club when a member is hauling a loaded, 50-car coal drag… at high speed …with an SW-7! [(-D]

26

  1. When you shot the last custom bent grab iron into space while the ACC is hardenning in the holes.

  2. When your packing your HO scale modules and driveing 100 miles in the snow for a one day train show at 0 dark thirty in the am.

  3. Watching that cute little kid grab a handfull of scenery material while the parents are watching them and when you say something they say its alright he didnt do to much damadge.

  4. After countless hours of detailing and remotoring and adding sound and lights you finaly get to see the smoke from the steamer when you remember that it doesnt have a smoke unit.

  5. Bad things only happen when others are around watching.

  6. When you leave the hobby shop with two shopping bags of stuff only to realize when you get home you didnt get what you went there for.

  7. You go to Home depot with a handfull of dirt to match it to a flat latex paint.

This list is endless

27

You have more locomotives than your wife has shoes.

Enjoy

Paul

28

#207) You visit your local HD and walk past the PVC piping, and imagine how many HO grain elevator silos you could make from a single 12’ pipe.

#208) A cereal box lying on its side could be a scale warehouse with some pasted-on scale brickwork…?

#209) When you go to the LHS, you always buy WAY MORE than what you actually need of glue, paint, Kadees, etc. just so you’ll have a good supply “just in case”

#300) You finally remember that one critical item you originally meant to buy on your trip to said LHS - after you’re more than halfway home![|(]

29

Actually 2053 but… I haven’t picked up Walther’s latest catalogue so the date is questionable but who’s counting?

I’ll be dead before the stash is actually discovered by the Mrs. that or she discovers the stash and I’m dead anyway… It’s a win win situation regardless!!!

30

You find that Krazy Glue, despite that it doesn’t hold your trains together, is great at bonding your fingers. Only, why would you want to do this?

31

you wake your wife up in bed about a idea you have for the layout, and ask her opinion on it.

32

When she says ‘It’s Me, Or the Trains’ and you tell her to have a good life.

When you’ve bought that Must Have one of a kind kit only to realize you have 3 identical kits in the to be built pile.

When you’re walking the dog, see someone’s trash pile (curbside pickup here) and wonder what that gizmo could be used for on the layout. Then sneak back after dark to get it.

33

You still havn’t learned that the soldering iron is HOT, even after you unplug it. Mike

34

Guilty [B)][xx(]

just don’t have the money to convert all of mine

35

You find a way to modify horn hook couplers mate with Kadees.

You have a transition car with a British hook and loop coupler at one end and a Kadee at the other, so that Thomas and his friends can pull your unit coal train.

36

-When looking for a new house, you look at the basement first.

-You tell your real estate agent not to show you any houses without a basement and that a “finished” basement is a not a “plus”.

-George

37

When you play with your layout, you think about everything you can get for it when you leave.

Your so busy daydreaming about your layout, you forget to buy half the things you want to at the LHS.[D)]

38

You inadvertantly use that shiny new sound equipped locomotive to scare the family dog out of the house until you turn the sound waaay down (and bribe her back in with half a box of dog treats)…

The dog has forgiven me (I think).

39

That sounds familier…except I don’t think my layout has ever ran in ONE day without multiple derailments…

40

…You plan family vacations around hobby store locations.