Boys and their toys. 11/28/2006
I did a bit of spring cleaning recently, and sorted out some stuff that I had lying around, and throwing out a lot of junk. The nice thing is I now have my study/workspace back. The bad news is that I have a lot more stuff than I thought I had. Things that had been buried in boxes for years are now seeing the light of day. Bikerwannabe will know what I’m talking about. He saw the space before the clean-up, and wasn’t impressed. Things are a lot different now. I even found books I thought had gone forever. Along with six 80GB hard disks filled with pornography, mp3’s and music videos, and the most awesome collection of Japanese AV VCDs and DVDs next to Charger’s, Paul Tan’s and Dr. Liew’s. But maybe not Makaveli’s.
I was sitting down at the desk, staring into space, unlit cigarette dangling in my fingers. I looked up, reached for the camera, and took a picture.
The picture above is just a very, very small sample of the kits in the collection. I think if I showed you the rest, you’d think I was showing off. I’ve spent years in building models. It used to be a fairly serious hobby of mine, way back when. I’ve still got all the gear and tools and everything.
I think the height of my hobby came when someone commissioned me to build a kit of a Charlie 130, painted in R.M.A.F. colours. Since there were no decal kits made for that particular model of the C-130 Hercules, I had to airbrush the markings in. Along with colour matching the camoflage. After about a month of intensive work (I had a serious day job at the time) I finished the model and presented it to the person who commissioned it.
He took one look at it, and asked me if I could make a full set of these, with the appropriate airframe numbers, so that he could present it to his squadron pilots. I laughed, and said they probably couldn’t afford it. I had charged a four figure sum for the work I did, and I was still making a loss. He shrugged, opened a cheque book, and asked me to name my price.
- Posted in : Personal
- Author : thesnark
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And did you? I’m betting you didn’t because of the time it’d take.
Please shown off the rest of ur collection, I am sure there r a lot of ur reader will like 2 c. BTW r the six 80gb hdd 4 sale along with its content of couse?
Landy : You’re right, I didn’t. 8 identical model kits, with just very slightly differing details, would have driven me insane.
Horny A.M : I might, one of these days, if I’m in the mood. The really scary part is that the collection keeps growing, and I’m rapidly running out of storage space. I don’t build them either. Well, I might build one kit a year, if I’m lucky. There’s still a 1/60 scale Strike Gundam awaiting completion, and I started that one 2 years ago. As for the HDDs, get stuffed.
i’m coming over with my portable HDD. download please, heh!