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First weeked drilling back with my home unit after deployment. I'd MUCH rather stay home.
Ok peeps. I'm stuck at home for 5 frackin days. I was supposed to go to Wonderfest this weekend but can't go. Whats your plans?
So I built my share of models as a kid, but I hadn't touched one for many years when I started hanging out with several professional modelmakers about 15 years back. These guys worked at a shop that made architectural models, courtroom exhibits, product prototypes, etc, and when they weren't on the clock they'd crank up the Melvins and ruin their eyesight scratchbuilding dioramas of bombed-out German factories all night long. It was actually pretty pleasant drinking beer, listening to loud/good music, and obsessing over tiny paint details a few inches from my aching eyes, so I picked up an AMT 1/25 scale '70 Impala model (I was driving a hideous '65 4-door Impala at the time and this was the closest I could get to it) and joined the fun, spending many evenings huffing Testors with the model geeks and trying to build a true beater car like the ones I saw all the time in the junkyard...Now of course I was always trying to get the other guys to stop building the same HO scale trainyards and war-obsessed dioramas- you know, apply their mighty skills to something different, like maybe a diorama of the manager's office in a New Jersey Buick dealership in 1961, only with marmosets closing the deal instead of humans. "Building the same ******* World War II shit as all the other model geeks is like the really skilled guitar player who plays the same tedious ******* Yngwie riffs over and ****ing over until you're ready to stuff his ****ing guitar up the ol' tailpipe!" Blank stares.(more...)
Quote from: Airwolf on July 18, 2008, 10:55:24 AMOK peeps. I'm stuck at home for 5 frackin days. I was supposed to go to Wonderfest this weekend but can't go. Whats your plans?Sorry you couldn't make it. I was looking forward to seeing some pictures.Here's a unique 1970 Chevy Impala model (with a story) to kill some time: QuoteSo I built my share of models as a kid, but I hadn't touched one for many years when I started hanging out with several professional modelmakers about 15 years back. These guys worked at a shop that made architectural models, courtroom exhibits, product prototypes, etc, and when they weren't on the clock they'd crank up the Melvins and ruin their eyesight scratchbuilding dioramas of bombed German factories all night long. It was actually pretty pleasant drinking beer, listening to loud/good music, and obsessing over tiny paint details a few inches from my aching eyes, so I picked up an AMT 1/25 scale '70 Impala model (I was driving a hideous '65 4-door Impala at the time and this was the closest I could get to it) and joined the fun, spending many evenings huffing Testors with the model geeks and trying to build a true beater car like the ones I saw all the time in the junkyard...Now of course I was always trying to get the other guys to stop building the same HO scale trainyards and war-obsessed dioramas- you know, apply their mighty skills to something different, like maybe a diorama of the manager's office in a New Jersey Buick dealership in 1961, only with marmosets closing the deal instead of humans. "Building the same ******* World War II shit as all the other model geeks is like the really skilled guitar player who plays the same tedious ******* Yngwie riffs over and ****ing over until you're ready to stuff his ****ing guitar up the ol' tailpipe!" Blank stares.(more...)http://jalopnik.com/cars/novelties/forget-the-weathered-camaro-1970-impala-model-253555.php
OK peeps. I'm stuck at home for 5 frackin days. I was supposed to go to Wonderfest this weekend but can't go. Whats your plans?
So I built my share of models as a kid, but I hadn't touched one for many years when I started hanging out with several professional modelmakers about 15 years back. These guys worked at a shop that made architectural models, courtroom exhibits, product prototypes, etc, and when they weren't on the clock they'd crank up the Melvins and ruin their eyesight scratchbuilding dioramas of bombed German factories all night long. It was actually pretty pleasant drinking beer, listening to loud/good music, and obsessing over tiny paint details a few inches from my aching eyes, so I picked up an AMT 1/25 scale '70 Impala model (I was driving a hideous '65 4-door Impala at the time and this was the closest I could get to it) and joined the fun, spending many evenings huffing Testors with the model geeks and trying to build a true beater car like the ones I saw all the time in the junkyard...Now of course I was always trying to get the other guys to stop building the same HO scale trainyards and war-obsessed dioramas- you know, apply their mighty skills to something different, like maybe a diorama of the manager's office in a New Jersey Buick dealership in 1961, only with marmosets closing the deal instead of humans. "Building the same ******* World War II shit as all the other model geeks is like the really skilled guitar player who plays the same tedious ******* Yngwie riffs over and ****ing over until you're ready to stuff his ****ing guitar up the ol' tailpipe!" Blank stares.(more...)
