You can tell you're getting older when.... (modelling related)

[PR19_Kit]

When your IPMS mag finally arrives and your membership no. has only three figures in it............. 

[NARSES2]

Like Ian I find myself buying masks, but I simply put that down to them being available now whereas back in 1960 they wern't  My first attempt to paint canopy frames "properly" involved sharpened matchsticks - wooden cocktail sticks wern't even around 

Age related purchase has to be the magnifying headband and the age related sale is my unpained 15mm wargames figures - way to small now and as for the 6mm stuff 

[Ian the Kiwi Herder]

I'm seriously considering switching to light beer while modelling....I can't seem to get anything done with my current brand !

Does that count ?

Absolutely 

Ian

[puddingwrestler]

I don't think you're old when you remember Matchbox kits being sold in the newsagent. I remember that and I'm only 27.

[Captain Canada]

Alot of stores here in Canada carried models when I was a kid as well.....you never knew what you'd find hiding in some stores ! Ah, the good old days....

[lancer]

You remember when your local newsagent sold matchbox kits ?

And then spending nearly all your wages from your paper round on said kits on a Saturday morning

[lancer]

(...the model store dedicates itself/most of it's room for a silly futuristic wargaming fad with 6 tables in the back while all the remaining models are put in a small, central aisle.(Sorry guys, but Warhammer 40,000 is a pathetic waste of time(Star Wars are better))

That sounds like my local shop.

[lancer]

You have to use your magnifying glasses to do nearly everything with your latest build!!

[ChrisF]

I went through a Games workshop phase but i have to admit i was more a fan of modelling something different now and again than the gaming side of it... Now they have "forge world" and i have to admit considering some of the crazier stuff in their catalogue... 

[Cliffy B]

(...the model store dedicates itself/most of it's room for a silly futuristic wargaming fad with 6 tables in the back while all the remaining models are put in a small, central aisle.(Sorry guys, but Warhammer 40,000 is a pathetic waste of time(Star Wars are better))

That's what happened to all of the comic book stores around here.  They have 2 revolving racks and one small book case with maybe 100 books and the rest of the store is stinking Warhammer stuff    Its probably a 95/5 split yet they still market themselves as a Comic Book shop, not a gaming shop.  So dumb...

As far as being old (I'm only 24), I can remember when the Navy Base Exchanges used to have an entire aisle jammed packed with model kits.  Mostly cheap Revell and Italeri kits and I mean cheap as in price not the kits.  I used to love to go in there as a kid on the weekends with dad and get new kits.  Now all they have is a tiny part of an aisle with a few crappy car and maybe 3 airplane kits.  Michael's has a better selection now.  Oh well...

-Mike

[jorel62]

You can tell you're getting older when........ you didn't have to take a second mortgage on your house. And sell your family to buy a good kit. I'm going to miss her.

[John Howling Mouse]

...when you're excited because you got the diopter on your latest prescription glasses carefully tuned to the exact focal distance for model-building...

...and when a good number of kits in your stash have price stickers from stores which have not existed for over a decade...

[NARSES2]

...and when a good number of kits in your stash have price stickers from stores which have not existed for over a decade...

Or in my case a couple of kits still marked up in £sd 

I find myself buying masks....

Is that for your other past time? 

No, no,No Dunc. Not since I grew a beard anyway 

[Allan]

when you have to put your face closer to the carpet to search for small parts that have fallen from your work bench

Allan in Canberra

[proditor]

When you're looking at the details on your latest kit, and you take off your (near sighted) glasses so that things get closer and clearer.