Junkman

Oh, aye. Been a novice for 40 years now, but I'll improve some day to perman00b status.

Does it say so in the instructions?

Man, I'd love to have kits of some of the base cars. Could always saw them in half and scratch a camper shell.

I have the impression you don't take this hobby as serious as you should.

OK, different year, but in principle?

Be a real man and burn them before you start a kit.

Laughing Verboten! The next one who looks up from the serious and fulfilling task of glueing painted plastic bits together and dares to post something funny here, will be issued with a not quite as fluffy orange Onesie as Dr. Krankenstein's, and put into a kennel on Cuba, where he can think about how good life could be if he hadn't been funny.

There is no such thing as being unworthy of being posted. We are in this together.

I like how cynical and callous Hardy Krüger's character was in the original. Oh, and Barrie Chase's cameo appearance as a belly-dancer, of course. Nah, they don't make them like this anymore... There is no kit of a C-82 out there, is there?

Use dry-brushing and washing techniques after you painted the base colour with a rattle can.

Yeah, don't forget to bring cigars and the brush rake too, when you go to hospital. They might take you to a different one where you can live in the total comfort padded walls and floors provide. I wonder how well your bowler hat goes with it. A true gent should always be properly attired for any occasion.

I do, but that doesn't help. They both have a key.

Too bad that the car used in the movie was a '59 T-Bird.

Gerhard and Günther invade my home and snatch it.

Interestingly, I like the Doctor's combination of growth suit and cigar.

I see it differently. - "Under Glass" doesn't imply anything else but being the section for finished models. - Most people call a "show me your..." because they seek inspiration for their own variation of this theme. I would find it simply wrong to deny this to them. - There is still enough space left for everybody to brag about his own achievements - and don't we all love it?

'Onesies' prove men no longer exist 26-01-2012 THE availability of one-piece romper suits for adult males proves that men are over, it has been claimed. Experts believe that the man-sized babygrow or 'onesie' is the concluding event in the history of human masculinity. Evolutionary biologist Dr Emma Bradford said: "The modern world's diminished need for physical strength has left men struggling to adjust. Or even, it seems, to put on a pair of proper trousers. Thanks to the onesie the concept of 'man' is officially dead." She added: "Technological advances mean that is in now pretty much possible to make a baby from silicone. "Given the choice between a petri dish full of translucent matter and a genital organ that has been in a fluffy orange jumpsuit, I'm going with the fertile goo." Human male activities prior to dressing as giant infants include eking a living from the soil with bare, bleeding hands, forging tools from white-hot metal and fighting vagabonds to the death with swords. Historian Nikki Hollis said: "As recently as 1946 it was not uncommon for men to do brave, dangerous things. "Today, human males are bouncing around music festivals clutching falafels and shouting 'Tigger's here, weeeeeee!'. "It's over."

How about the Aurora Chitty Chitty Bang Bang? Not too many around of these. Same with the Airfix JB007 Aston and Toyota, or the DB6 and 2000GT Coupe while we are at it.

Cheers. Yes, Go-Boy-Store. I did quite a few good deals with him before he jacked up his prices into neverland. Since then his inventory doesn't seem to change a lot. It's too bad that Ebay is so unpopular in Japan. They predominantly use Yahoo auctions and there is some interesting stuff out there, lemme tellyas. Too bad that my Japanese is literally non existent and a few futile attempts to start communicating with sellers failed miserably.

And my favourite (because it is the epitome in politically incorrect box art):

Sure. But mind you, I consider them rare because I haven't seen any others. They may not be rare at all.

The very first Airfix kit was a tractor - a ferguson. And yes, it is one of the rarest kits of all. There were quite a few Tractor kits made in various Eastern Bloc countries, but they are highly prized collectors items among those folks and rarely make it westbound. I'd say all pre-Perestroika Eastern Bloc kits are on the rare-kit-list, at least here in "the West". Same goes for a lot of old Japanese kits. I have quite a few of which I have never seen a second one. Who knows how rare they really are.

Seems like my profession is one of the few remaining where one still gets into contact with non-virtual people on a regular basis.

You can, because people rather waste their time playing with those stupid gadgets instead of teaching their children manners. Hence we have a generation of social savages out there already and it will get worse.

Yes, it's something called 'education'. What do you think my mother would have done to me if I hadn't greeted people, said please, thank you, etc., when she took me places when I was a kid? So I better did it and it somehow took hold.