You know you've been modeling too much when...

[Bearingtheword]

You know you've been modeling too much when...

 

You pick up one of your kids toys, notice mold lines, and grab your exacto knife and start to scrape them off.

 

Seriously. True story.

 

~BtW

 

What have you, my fellow chaos brethren, done to let yourself know you've been at this hobby perhaps to good an amount of time?

[Hyaenidae]

Going hand in hand with yours...

 

When one of the kids toys break, your wife immedietley brings it to you to pin, glue, greenstuff, sand, and repaint it.

 

No joke. Both my sons have about 7 or 8 GI Joes each that have gotten my treatment.

[Dark Apostle Thirst]

While I don't go so far as scraping them off, I do see mold-lines everywhere now.

 

A classic: You know you're too into 40k when everything becomes a bit :lol:

[Kristoff]

You know you've been modeling too much when...

 

... your hands shake from the tenseness of getting those arms "just right".

 

... the bits are gluing better to your fingers than the parts they are supposed to glue to, and you haven't applied the glue yet.

 

... you faint from blood loss due to all the nicks and cuts from the models/knife.

 

... you faint from the fumes of the glue.

 

... you begin to have strange ideas that no one would otherwise consider, because it "would be cool", and you've inhaled too many fumes... again.

 

... the sun comes up, and you're still not finished.

 

... you look up and find that your wife/girlfriend/roommate has already moved out, leaving you behind.

 

... you faint from hunger and dehydration.

 

... you faint from the smell of your Depends.

 

... you run out of models and bits.

[vipertaja]

While I don't go so far as scraping them off, I do see mold-lines everywhere now.

 

You know it's gotten serious when you start seeing moldlines on yourself...and then you try to remove them... ;) :P

 

Wouldn't this fit better into the modelling section though?

[the jeske]

you run out of glue .

[red_starrise]

When your wife shows you a plastic serving spoon that's broken & you think to yourself:

 

drill out both sides, sand the break smoothe, insert a length of copper heavy wire then apply plastic glue to melt the two halves together again voila! that's gonna be a hard fix to rebreak!

[Seahawk]

...you realize, anything can be something.

 

...all styrofoam can/should be stored, simply because you never know.

 

...you can't wait to show someone, even someone who doesn't care, your latest creation.

 

...you find random bitz all over the house...like a bolt pistol in a corner of the room, or a combat knife on the kitchen counter.

 

...you decide to consolidate the material you have but still can't fit it all in one closet.

 

...you have to go to the hospital because you just gouged open your hand with a hobby knife.

 

...you need a tetanus shot because you realized the blade was a little rusty.

 

...you don't change your knife blade for a long period because there's not enough time to fetch new ones and get this project done, resulting in the above.

 

...you've learned the opposite of most people's habits; when you drop a knife into your lap area, those legs fly open to let the darn thing hit the floor instead of you.

 

...your wife comes looking for you in the hobby room after a while because you've been quiet for hours, plotting away in your corner.

 

...that if anything small needs to be fixed, cleaned, redone, or any other such handy jobs, people come to you to get it done right.

 

...you realize some glues smell pleasant.

 

...you realize some glues smell like burning.

 

...scraping flash off of plastic GW minis smells like styrofoam.

 

...your eyes start getting blurry because you've been building/painting very small things for a very long time without a break (8+ hours).

 

...your eyes refuse to unblur (for hobbying only) after taking a break from the above.

 

...you've been hunched over so long, when you stretch you can pop your sternum (or the muscles around it).

 

...after weeks of searching for that one bit you know you have and not finding it, it finally turns up. You pick it up with an "Ah ha!" only to put it down somewhere and promptly forget where that was.

 

 

 

All of the above - true stories for me.

[CarbonCopy]

You know you've been modeling too long when...

 

You have bits sorted and labeled in multiple bins by army, manufacturer (FW/GW/MaxMini/ChapterHouse/etc), type *AND* edition (RT/2nd/3rd/etc).

 

You go apartment shopping and your first priority is the new place having enough closet space to store/contain the mountains of storage bins of kits/bits/parts/materials your have.

 

You mention your hobby in a dating profile, and explicitly state that being forced to leave the hobby by any new prospective mate is a "deal-breaker".

 

You can identify if a solvent/glue has xylene in it by the odor floating in the room.

 

You skip lunch for a week so you have enough money for an esoteric resin bits order from a country half way around the world, of which a half dozen conversion projects are put on hold until the "essential" parts arrive in the post.

 

You have cases of materials shipped to your work, ordered via an actual wholesale distributor under the guise of product for manufacturing/resale.

 

Your boss comes to you for advice on resin casting custom machined parts for a client.

 

You build a custom spray booth out of cardboard boxes in your dining room and only wonder *AFTER* it is built if it detracts from the decor.

 

True stories that have all happened to me within the last four months.

[cathar the great]

This thread is pure gold.

 

The only equally disturbing/weird thing I can provide is my dream of visiting a store where you can buy single bits. They're all organized in these giant boxes and there's shelves of the stuff as far as you can see. And even larger buckets of mixed bits you can just buy by the kilo.

 

The really strange thing: This dream is recurring, I've had it half a dozen times now, always the same shop Oo

[PanzerSmurf]

It's your calling, Cathar, and guess what, it's calling you! (Callings tend do do that you know ;-) ) Don't ignore it!

[vipertaja]

This thread is pure gold.

 

The only equally disturbing/weird thing I can provide is my dream of visiting a store where you can buy single bits. They're all organized in these giant boxes and there's shelves of the stuff as far as you can see. And even larger buckets of mixed bits you can just buy by the kilo.

 

The really strange thing: This dream is recurring, I've had it half a dozen times now, always the same shop Oo

 

 

Oddly enough I had a similar dream once or maybe twice. It was more of a small "kiosk" thing though.

They sold single bits but not the kilo deals. It was before these online stores selling single bits and sprues were around.

[Myxx]

...when you buy a house and put the 70" TV in the basement and the modelling gear in the living room because it has "great natural light for painting"...

[Zincite]

You pick up one of your kids toys, notice mold lines, and grab your exacto knife and start to scrape them off.

I've picked up 'collectable' figures (As in, small statues rather than miniatures) before now and though, "Don't these people even know how to highlight?"

 

... When you start trying to build little cities from spare sprue.

 

... When your mind becomes one with your hobby knife.

[Sgt. Tiberus Satio]

You know you've been modeling too much when...

 

... your hands shake from the tenseness of getting those arms "just right".

 

... the bits are gluing better to your fingers than the parts they are supposed to glue to, and you haven't applied the glue yet.

 

... you faint from blood loss due to all the nicks and cuts from the models/knife.

 

... you faint from the fumes of the glue.

 

... you begin to have strange ideas that no one would otherwise consider, because it "would be cool", and you've inhaled too many fumes... again.

 

... the sun comes up, and you're still not finished.

 

... you look up and find that your wife/girlfriend/roommate has already moved out, leaving you behind.

 

... you faint from hunger and dehydration.

 

... you faint from the smell of your Depends.

 

... you run out of models and bits.

 

 

I notice a lot of fainting from you....Perhaps your body is not as sound as you think? ;) (just kidding)

 

You know you've been modeling to much when...

 

...You start teaching children how to properly model playdo into structures for your models.

...You see every structure and say "That would be great as a terrain piece".

[Bearingtheword]

Wow, Looks like I sparked a firestorm, hehe.... ;)

 

Keep 'em coming....

 

 

~BtW

 

P.S. Thanks to the mods for moving this here :D

[Elric the Silvercoat]

You have been modeling too long when.....

 

....you go to stand and you fall down because your legs forgot what that was and your only worry is that you didn't knock over the models.

 

....you can't close your eyes until you take a shower because the super glue's fume sealed them open.

 

....you go to church and think about if that arm would be an easy convertion to put on that model.

 

....your wife says that we don't have to go to church because you need to find putting your models together before the game that night.

 

....your wife is talking to you and all your thinking about is how you are going the model that one guy so he looks cool, and then she asks you a question about what she was talking about.

 

 

These have happened to me but I am lucky. My wife plays Eldar.

[Olgerth Istaarn]

The one about mold lines is especially true. I have an collection of old(er) action figures, and some of them have mold lines that have been painted over aaarrrghhhwhatthehellyousloppybuggershowdidyoumanagetomissthatmustscrapeoffandrepaintaaargh.

 

Everything has a potential to become a bit. I found myself at Michaels' arts and crafts store in the beading section, looking for things that could double as cables. There were several older ladies in the same section. One of them kindly asked me what kind of project I was working on. I honestly answered that I needed cables for power armor. She was mildly perplexed.

 

I've fixed multiple household things with GS, pins and sandable putty.

 

I don't cut myself anymore - in fact my latest batch of models have been put together without as much as a single nick, and there was some heavy conversion involved. I consider this "gaining a level" after a fashion.

 

I experienced something akin to pure joy after finding an "even better" glue dispensing nozzle.

[glayvin34]

You know you've been modeling (40k) too long when...

 

-You've got a great rapport with the guitar string guy at the music store even though you don't play guitar (nice, those .145 gauge D'addarios that I ordered are in? That will be perfect for my techpr... uh, hardcore metal band)

 

-You know the layout of all the local bead stores along with the material and scale all of their skull-shaped beads (Do you have any in pewter or resin? I'm not paying $6 for a pure silver skull that I'm going to spray paint black as soon as I get home)

 

-Local hardware stores know you as "the guy who's a little too concerned about his glue" (Yeah, I saw those high viscosity glues next to the caulk, but those are really best for terrain and flowing glues are best for model scale, I'm looking for new non-CA formulation, preferably something that cures in a few seconds instead of thirty seconds... sir? Are you listening to me?)

[D-USA]

You know you have been modeling too much when...

 

...your wife is not allowed to throw away any packaging before you inspected it for usable pieces of styrofoam or custom shaped pieces of cardboard.

...your cats walk around the house covered in paint because they jumped on your table.

...you have more brushes than pens.

...you have a bald spot on your arm where you used your hobby razor to shave a big chunk of hair/superglue of your arm.

...there are more tools in your hobby room than in your garage.

[Elric the Silvercoat]

Need to add some more.

 

You know you have been modeling too much when...

 

....you don't leave useable fingerprints anymore because of all the superglue taking skin off.

....you don't put blood affects on your models but people complain about how cool the blood affect is.

....you see trash at work and go "That would make a good terrian starting piece." and you take it home.

....you wake up in the middle of the night and model a guy up because you had a dream about how to make it and you don't want to forget how to do it.

....you look at Warhammer 40k forums when at work, when you should be working.

[WeaponAdept]

....you look at Warhammer 40k forums when at work, when you should be working.

 

Guess where I am :)

[darth_giles]

...when you buy a house and put the 70" TV in the basement and the modelling gear in the living room because it has "great natural light for painting"...

-- when you do the bulk of your modelling in the morning/evening because the natural light is best at that time.

[Warsmith Aznable]

When you get a gold star buyer's rating on eBay exclusively from ratings given to you by your favorite bits supplier, who, after getting curious and checking, represents almost all of your ebay activity for the last six months (or more).

 

When you find yourself digging through the box of old and broken toys your teen aged children have abandoned at Grandma's house, for things you can use in conversions.

 

When you're at the store and you buy a bottle of glue without stopping to wonder if you need any or not, you just do it out of a habit that developed from a paranoia of not having any on hand when you needed it.

 

When you buy an entire model for one piece off the sprue because none of the bits suppliers have it in stock.

 

When the store clerk thinks you play three times as many armies as you actually do because he's sold you all kinds of models that you've bought for that one piece off the sprue because none of the bits suppliers have it in stock.

 

When you don't understand why a collector is so upset with you, but he's just realized that all you're going to do with this rare and expensive model/figure/toy is cut off a couple pieces to put onto your Daemon Prince/Super Heavy/Titan and then throw the rest in the spare parts bin.

 

When you come out of your hobby room to fetch more tea and are puzzled as to what that bright light coming through all the windows could possibly be.

 

When you only quit modeling for the night because you've got to the point where you're gluing more parts to yourself than the to the model.

 

When you slice yourself open with a hobby knife but the fine layer of superglue that coats you from the elbows down seals the wound before any blood can come out.

[CarbonCopy]

....you look at Warhammer 40k forums when at work, when you should be working.

 

Guess where I am :o

 

Seconded...