Paladin1dcs
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Joined: 7/7/2011 From: Charleston, WV Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: nashvillen I picked up a Tamiya 1/350 Fletcher kit the other day. I am getting pretty good at the 1/700s and am ready to try something with more detail. I tried ships. I'm not sure they're for me though. I've got a Bogue CVE somewhere (1:700 scale) and packed away in a box somewhere is a Buckley DE with photo etch to convert it to a RN Captain class frigate. But they aren't likely to get done any time soon. A small child and a lack of patience has seen to that. So I salute you, for your ability to glue tiny bits of plastic to other, slightly larger, bits of plastic. As someone who routinely glues small lead pieces to slighter larger lead pieces in 6mm, 1:285 scale for his other wallet-destroying metal-crack addiction, I must admit that I laughed at your description of 1:700 scale models. The part that I don't laugh about any more is the fact that my 6mm minis can cost the same as your 1:700 scale models. I wouldn't consider it any more wallet destroying than I would some of my wife's hobbies. I atleast have something left to display (Models), use (completed wood working projects), or earn my money back (real estate). Her...not even close. I'll grant you, I use and display my minis so it's not like they're going to be a complete waste, but the price of lead and other metals used in miniatures has sky-rocketed in the past decade, to the point that I was paying almost $90 for certain minis at one time. Granted, those days are long gone, but you get the idea. What caused it to stop was an internal audit I did of my assets one year shortly after my divorce, when I realized just how much money I had sunk into a miniatures board game. I'll put it this way, my truck isn't as valuable as my mini collection...
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