Ultimate geek purchase

spongtastic

Finally the first is here



On the way a UH-1H, waiting to see if I've won a Jaguar T2, AH-64A, F-4E, F4-EJ, F-15E, and F/A-18A. All from the same series. Nerdy!

cooldad

A plastic helicopter?
How nice for you.

Chrissz

Wahey :!:

I'd love to be "allowed" to make those again but wife and 2 small kids prevent

At one stage I had most of the (then) current range of aircraft and AFVs - all by Tamiya, as well as a couple of battleships Iowa/New jersey being the best/most fun one to build

MountainMonster

Chrissz wrote:

Wahey :!:

I'd love to be "allowed" to make those again but wife and 2 small kids prevent

At one stage I had most of the (then) current range of aircraft and AFVs - all by Tamiya, as well as a couple of battleships Iowa/New jersey being the best/most fun one to build

Surely their all exactly as boring to build as each other? How can you have more fun building one pile of sticks than another one?

DCR00

that Hesegawa ?

Jesus, that takes me back

Montevideoguy

It's not a jetpack.

Jetpack = ultimate geek purchase

title = wrong

Andy

Lame

Gazlar

Ann Summers sell plastic choppers, you dont need to put them together either, and its more fun to lick clean after its been used

MountainMonster

Gazlar wrote:

Ann Summers sell plastic choppers, you dont need to put them together either, and its more fun to lick clean after its been used

Surely the blades cause the red water to flow?

Northwind

I'm pretty sure that's nerdy rather than geeky.

Cat With No Tail

Yay!

Mine keeps costing more and more money.

Initially got the kit for a tenner, then bought an aribrush for another £20, then spent another £30 the other day on paint :roll:

Arkady001

Excellent choice - I have a 'staffel' of 1:32 Hasegawa Bf 109s going from an Emil up to a pair of Gustavs (G-4 and G-16).
Takes ages to get them as Hasegawa only build them in small batches now - it took almost a year to get my G-4 after ordering it...

My German relatives are slightly baffled as to why I have 'Nazi' aeroplanes on the living-room shelves...

To those who don't get model-making: you know that saying - men are just boys, but taller?
Well it's true - so what do you expect?
Some might say that playing around on bicycles in the mud is pretty juvenile as well...

Gazlar

MountainMonster wrote:

Gazlar wrote:

Ann Summers sell plastic choppers, you dont need to put them together either, and its more fun to lick clean after its been used

Surely the blades cause the red water to flow?

Well there was this one time, in Bolton!!!!

spongtastic

Cat With No Tail wrote:

Yay!

Mine keeps costing more and more money.

Initially got the kit for a tenner, then bought an aribrush for another £20, then spent another £30 the other day on paint :roll:

hmm spend so far is about £30 on paint and sables from ebay, and another £30 on tools and stuff from modelhobbies.co.uk. Can't do anything until the microset and microsol turn up though.

ctrlaltdel

Have you ever tried digital modelling? That can be a lot of fun and very rewarding too.

Gazlar

ctrlaltdel wrote:

Have you ever tried digital modelling? That can be a lot of fun and very rewarding too.

what? Like posing for Nuts Magazine?

ctrlaltdel

lol no, I mean making aircraft models on a computer;

http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread. ... 627&page=1

spongtastic

ctrlaltdel wrote:

lol no, I mean making aircraft models on a computer;

http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread. ... 627&page=1

I would but my computing time and skillz are limited to posting stuff on here, facebook and B3TA.