You know you're an N Scaler when you buy sheet brass,wire or scenery materials,they come in "lifetime" supply quantities. You buy more detail parts than you need because you realize once it flies out of the tweezers,no point in looking for it.Your wife will find it with her bare feet a week from now(ouch). When you've finally learned patience.Just because it's out in HO,it will be 4 years before we see it in N scale.Even with all these things,I am still convinced there is no greater scale!
Get 10 S Scalers together and they call it a convention. Get 10 Lionel guys together and they'll all loose 1/3 of their hearing within an hour of running. Get 10 HO'ers together, and they'll form 3 different clubs. By the end of the week, one of the clubs will break up and start fighting with the other two. Get 10 N Scalers together, and in just four nights they'll have a new module ready for the next show. Here's hoping that you are making a few new modules for our big show next summer! We're going to need them!!
Hey, N Scale is the new"Fountain of Youth". I agree with Paul. In other scales,they fight & try to out do each other. "iN people"(New term,I just came up with) try to help & encourage one another. Lets face it,with all the $$$$$$ we have invested in engines & misc. stuff (like cars & building) to make to engines look better, we HAVE to stay young & sharp.mg: :shade:
And the fun you have when you open those trunks and boxes, and find something you'd totally forgotten you had bought (I've done this more than once). It's like buying it all over again, only this time you don't spend the money!
You know you're an N scaler... ...you get 'reverse claustrophobia' when looking at a big basement at a friends house (imagine how much this would cost to put a layout in!!!) and start to shake... ...you've earned the name "Edward Tweezerhands" from your teenage children... ...you can't imagine working in O scale - how would you insert the eyelashes into the figures? And detailing the dents on top of spikes just seems like WAY too much work...
I haven't had such a laugh in years! Great stuff! - My female cat weighs 45,000 tons, the equivalent of an Iowa class battleship, in N scale. Forget about the male cat. - I have bloody holes, not callouses, on my thumbs from pushing in those track joiners - My wife borrows my +4 Optivisor because her +2 is not strong enough - I can park a 40-car train on a siding on the top level, behind the warehouses, and forget about it for an entire year. - I can build a huge industrial complex for less than $1 - I can model a 500-foot freighter and fit it on my layout. Actually I can model about 10 of them, and 20 smaller ships. - I can model a 600-foot bridge, and fit it on short side of the layout. - I wear surgical whites, and use a large cardboard box as an operating room, when I install details like the Kato Mikado handrails. - I mold my own parts, since 1:192 is too small, and 1:144 is unobtainable.
When your favorites list are mainly n scale sites and of course the N scale section of Trainboard is first on the list.*S*
*ROTFLMBO* Wow, the conference table in my workcenter is huge--I could build an empire on it! You guys are evil.... If the next staff meeting starts to get boring, you know what I'll be doing!:angel: You know you're an N scaler if: --You can accurately describe the noise a MT coupler spring makes when it jumps into hyperspace, from the tip of your Xacto blade --When you detail a complete engine, and only need one drill bit. --You have (and use) an Optivisor
... when you spend $150 for a high end nice shiny new locomotive, and another $20 for paints, powders, and weathering supplies to make it look old, beat, battered and worn out... Case closed.. :embarassed:
