Modellers Commandmants

[beowulf]

Thou shalt not wear rubber thongs in summer because that's the only seaon when you drop you modelling knife to the ground.

Allan in Canberra

had a scary mental picture there until i realised you are from Oz, since an Aussie thong is very different to a Euro thong  ....thought we were entering the 'World of Radish' for a moment 

[Gondor]

Thou shall buy many models that when assembled shall take up more space that you have for storage and they shall be of such length or width that they shall not even pass through the holy loft hatch to be stored with the holy stash or loft insulation

Gondor

[PR19_Kit]

Thou shalt continually buy many and varied add-on resin parts, even though hath no model for them to be mounted upon, for verily it shall be that unto those thus well endowed shall be bestowed the riches of Airfix, Revell, Hasegawa, Fujimi, Tamiya and Trumpeter.

(Other plastic kit manufacturers are available...)

[IanH]

Thou shalt hunt for that elusive old knackered kit & pay through the nose for it, only to find Trumpeter/Revell/whoever are releasing one next week.
Thou shalt loose enough tiny items to the Carpet Monster to wonder why thou is not permanently stepping on plastic.

Bring em on!

Codicils to the above:
Or complete the Vacform/Scratchbuild/Conversion Thereof...
On completion of said parts replacement by either your efforts or that of others, the Carpet Monster renders unto you said part...

[Rheged]

Go forth to thy hobby store with your woman. If she stays for five minutes and does not fall asleep or smite thee with nagging, cast her out, for women like that do not exist and she must be an illusion.

What do you do with a woman who actually encourages you to buy kits?  I married her!

Regards,

Greg

There's more than one of them out there.....I've married  one of them too.........and am still married to the same one nearly 25 years later

[GTX]

Thou shalt not wear rubber thongs in summer because that's the only seaon when you drop you modelling knife to the ground.

Allan in Canberra

had a scary mental picture there until i realised you are from Oz, since an Aussie thong is very different to a Euro thong  ....thought we were entering the 'World of Radish' for a moment 

Yes, Allan, isn't quite the deviant that post may seem to some of you non-Australian types

[GTX]

Although I have a very supportive wife modelling wise, I would add the following:

Thou shall only do a complete stash review/count (including pulling all said stash out and spreading acrosss modelling room) ONLY when SWMBO is out of the country.

Regards,

Greg (who just did this)

[Knightflyer]

Definitely agree with the last one! Can remember the panic of packing kits away hurriedly and then attempting to appear very innocent when 'er indoors returns early from a day out! 

Also for the sake of us innocents ....what an aussie thong? (apart from the opening line of a dodgy joke!)

[IanH]

Sandals?

[Knightflyer]

Yes...I've just caught up having seen Greg's "you know you're Australian' post!

[IanH]

LOL

[frank2056]

Thou shalt not place your fingertip over your airbrush and backflush it without first checking that it still has the needle protector on it.

I see someone's been spying on me... I have an Iwata needle sized hole in my left index finger.

My wife encourages me to but more kits, that way her yarn stash doesn't look that much bigger than my model stash!

[IanH]

Thou shalt not place your fingertip over your airbrush and backflush it without first checking that it still has the needle protector on it.

I see someone's been spying on me... I have an Iwata needle sized hole in my left index finger.

My wife encourages me to but more kits, that way her yarn stash doesn't look that much bigger than my model stash!

Amazing that - are you married to my wife's Twin?

[Allan]

thongs are those rubber footwear consisting of a rubber sole with two rubber extensions through which you pass the space between your big toe and the next one to it
that sounds just so horribly clinical!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Allan in Canberra

[ChernayaAkula]

thongs are those rubber footwear consisting of a rubber sole with two rubber extensions through which you pass the space between your big toe and the next one to it <...>

Given that an estimated 117% of your local wildlife is either poisonous or very poisonous, shouldn't a modelling knife in the foot be your least problem?

Ha! I bet the Australian Carpet Monster is somehow poisonous!