you know you're addicted to modeling when...

...your family confronts you with concern about your inhalant addiction
...you wonder what the tamiya paint code is for your car's body paint
...you are surprised to find out the engine in your real car is made of more than 4-6 pieces
...you consider your daily driver the 24:1 scale model of your tamiya kit
...you think the only automotive manufacturers out there are tamiya, fujimi, revell, monogram, ertyl, burago, hasegawa, maisto, testors...

that's all i can think up for now
feel free to add your own and be creative!! :D

and when you have a pile of model boxes at home like you see in the "waiting models" post :flash:

...You're dissapointed that your tires don't slide right off the rims.
...Your fingers are getting fatter and longer, but it just putty you can't get off.
...Heaven help anyone who actually has food in their teeth, because there are never any toothpicks to be found (at least none without paint or glue on them!)
...You're looking for a supplier that can get you a 5-gallon drum of Semi-Gloss Black.
...While you sit at your model desk, your chair is actually built from the boxes of all the kits you haven't even started yet.

:hehe:

...You have Technicolor rainbow colored Boogers.
...Your cat walks buy with a freshly painted Skyline body stuck to its side.
...You could build 1:1 scale model of the Eiffel tower, out of the piles of sprues laying around.
...You watch paint dry.

...You watch paint dry.





LOL :D

Originally posted by Protek
...You watch paint dry.

thats just the romance. :D

*The wife/girl friend wants sex, and you would sooner get that model primmed ready for painting tomorrow

* You take over the china cabnet.(she still hates me for that :p )

*You hide the bank/Visa statements when they arrive :D

Originally posted by primera man
*The wife/girl friend wants sex, and you would sooner get that model primmed ready for painting tomorrow

* You take over the china cabnet.(she still hates me for that :p )

*You hide the bank/Visa statements when they arrive :D

LOL! exactly like you said!

"Come on! Don't you love me anymore? Uhh, I see you in love with your little cars" :)

...The wife/girlfriend leaves you!!!:(

.......when you try to insure your models under AAA but they give you the rates of an actual 1:1 car(this really happened).

........When you treat your cars like the real one

.........When you loose your smell senses when spray painting in your house

.........your family/freinds ask you whats all over you hands and arms....you reply while pointing at each color 'thats TS-8, thats X-18, thats XF-1, thats X-11, thats, XF-16...etc.....etc.....'

(points for knowing all those colors by Tamiya code!)

.....you get home from work and before kissing/huggin significant other, you run to your table to make sure nothing has happened to the body you sprayed the previous night......

Originally posted by VideoNasty
'thats TS-8, thats X-18, thats XF-1, thats X-11, thats, XF-16...etc.....etc.....'

(points for knowing all those colors by Tamiya code!)Italian Red, Semi-Gloss Black, Flat Black, Chrome Silver, Flat Aluminum.

:coolguy: I'm a geek. :(

Originally posted by jay@af
Italian Red, Semi-Gloss Black, Flat Black, Chrome Silver, Flat Aluminum.

:coolguy: I'm a geek. :(


Yup, those are the colors of my Alfa GTV......Im wearing them proudly up to my elbows!:D :D :D

Originally posted by VideoNasty



Yup, those are the colors of my Alfa GTV......Im wearing them proudly up to my elbows!:D :D :D Your elbows !!!

I'm to scared to ask :eek: :eek:

Originally posted by primera man
Your elbows !!!

I'm to scared to ask :eek: :eek:


:rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: then why did ya??????




(actually I think I wear more paint than the models most of the time):rolleyes: :rolleyes:

Originally posted by VideoNasty



:rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: then why did ya??????




(actually I think I wear more paint than the models most of the time):rolleyes: :rolleyes:

How do you get paint on yourself? Other than your fingers or hands maybe. Man, I would shure like to see what your work area looks like, must be pretty scary.

hahaha.....you guys are pretty funny.......haha.....to whoever watches their paint dry, go outside and just take a whiff of fresh air not diluted my tamiya spray cans.......and the 24:1 comment was pretty funny......i wish my model cars were 1:24 scale of my REAL cars........primera man and guiddy would be rollling!!!!!

-Your name is Jay and you hae 7 or 8 models sitting around waiting to be started

Originally posted by Moss1O6GTi
-Your name is Jay and you hae 7 or 8 models sitting around waiting to be started ...or Dan or Chris (Kris)...

Originally posted by Moss1O6GTi
-Your name is Jay and you hae 7 or 8 models sitting around waiting to be started Bawhawhawhawhawha




slacker! hows the S2000 coming along?

...you are working on so many concurrent projects that you forget which parts tree goes to which model...

- you model shop just needs your custom to stay in business

Originally posted by sarujin
- you model shop just needs your custom to stay in business

Tell me about it! Went to the shop yesterday, no new shipment (promised two weeks ago!), and the guy behind the counter looked so miserable that I just had to buy two more kits (2000 Pug WRC and a GTV) Duh! :rolleyes:

- you start talking to your decals

- you start threatening your decals



- you start blackmailing your decals




- decals blackmail you with stronger dameging information :D

- you are trying to build a 1 : 1 model with all the leftovers from your previous kits

-you are addicted to smell primed or newly waxed cars. (boy they smell so good)

-you take sips from x-20 during painting. (you cant drink "sex on the beach" without 1/4 tamiya x-20)

-you start to see people like Pman and Guiddy more important people than your university professors. you start to take notes about a subject for the first time in your life (2 coats of primer 15 minutes waiting 1 coat of light....). you believe more in those guys than your professor (if Pman says smelling paint 4 hours a day doesnt hurt your lungs or anything it doesnt, i just wont argue).

-if you screw a paint job you just cant get an erection for at least 3 hours due to emotional breakdown.

-you start to prime your dog's food

-you start to think about "what will happen to my cars after I die" even before thinking about your kids and wife.

-you start to see dead people. (too much primer dust intake. 'the 6th sense syndrome')

Originally posted by parkcaka
[B(if Pman says smelling paint 4 hours a day doesnt hurt your lungs or anything it doesnt, i just wont argue).

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Yaeh...ais vou can sea iits had noo efect on mi mind tat oll :bloated: :bloated: :bloated: ...j/k

Man your to much......those last four just cracked me up laughing.....cant get an erection for 3 hours ROTFLMAO :p :p :p :p :p

...you contact Tamiya about buying their epoxy putty in bulk so you can make a custom aero kit for your real car.

...you open the hood of your real car just to make sure it isn't a "curbside" car.