... when you're struggling to justify the purchase of that new locomotive and your LHS dealer says with a grin, "take two, they're small." I thought this only applied to cookies or hors d'oeuvres. I can't refuse either, but I'm confident that my LHS dealer's kids will be able to afford a good college thanks to me.
Another HO trait........ Snuck in here & read the list- got a laugh from all of it! Even we HO folk enjoy a jibe or two at our expense. For the record, I have ebough N scale stuff stashed away for another layout. The missus is gently pushing me towards building one, and I need to search the discount bins for a damaged door. I won't worry about details aside from decals (thankfully Frisco's paint scheme is easy to do in O/W)should I make that move. Time for trifocals................. ............sez this bifocal-wearing Model Railroad subscriber & NMRA modeler
Great stuff here You know you're an N scaler when... ...You can't eat a meal at the dining room table because that's where the test loop is. ...Whatever you look at immediately raises the question "What else can this be used for on the layout?" IE...Your wife shows you the blue ribbon Azealias she so lovingly nurtured and immediately in the back of your mind you think "Cool!... These would make great tree armatures." A word from experience... It's ok to think things like that, but never, never, never... say them out loud. Don't ask me how I know.
I'll toss in another one.... ...When you drop a painted and detailed propane tank on the dining room table at breakfast, and when you install it later that evening, realize it has "Centrum" stamped on it, and you wonder what you took for a vitamin that morning.....
You know your'e an N scaler when... Putting a 4-6-2 on the track is almost as much trouble as the real thing. You have to use a dust buster and magnifier to find that part you just dropped. You wonder if the guys who built the Hoover dam could build an IM boxcar kit. Most of your paint is more than 10 years old. RICK
You accidentally kick the table leg on your railroad empires benchwork, and 120 train cars and 12 locos all fall over sideways like dominos.
Isn't Polystyrene a B complex? LOL~ You know you're an N scaler... When you ask the waitress for a dozen coffee stirrer/straws... for your soda.
...when a small part , abiding by Murphy's Law, springs up in the air from your tweezers and then when searching for it you have to check your hair.* (*You balding modelers are except from this)
You're not the only one... You were wondering.... not the flat ones... the little round ones. The waitress and the others at the table were wondering too... 24" pipe loads.... as everyone rolled there eyes. :embarassed:
....when you look at new HO stuff in the mags and at the shop and think "damn, I hope they do that in N"
You know you're an N scaler when... you want to constantly dust and vacuum your layout because the dust mites would be the size of palmetto bugs in your towns... Okay I just had a bad nightmare last night... :unsure8ao:
......when you see a layout picture in a "mainstream" magazine and the only way you can tell what scale the models are is to look at the couplers or spot something that isn't made in N .....yet!!! Charlie Vlk
