Scale Models
My decidedly geeky* hobby is building and flying large radio controlled scale models.

Anyway I had just finished a lovely model of a Hawker Hurricane and assembled it ready for engine runs and stood back and admired my work. Some photos in order I thought.

I bent over to casually wipe some dust away from the wing at the same time the screwdriver in my top pocket made its bid for freedom straight through the covering of the wing.

24 months work.

Full wing recover.

Fucksocks.

*yeah, and I don't care!
( FlexAlux laughed at something inappropriate on, Thu 27 Dec 2007, 13:30, 4 replies)

Whoops!
anyone that calls you a geek for your hobby is probably an "Eastenders" watching underachiever who would rather scroll through the tv channels for the umpteenth time than pick up a book or start a hobby that requires some technical knowledge.

Rant over.
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Thu 27 Dec 2007, 14:56, closed)

or
maybe they just enjoy other things life has to offer rather than an escapist route.

but just happens to be a rude arsehole when it comes to expressing their opinion of people who DO enjoy the escapist route, which is by no means better or worse.

(and vice versa, mind you)
(quibble, Thu 27 Dec 2007, 21:15, closed)

I wish
I was able to fly (and build) those things.....I can barely manage a kite!

I think they're cool
(misskitty reeks of sex and turpentine; laudanum afternoons, Fri 28 Dec 2007, 4:14, closed)

gutted
that sucks, having spent so many months slaving over its construction only to see it iced by the tip of the very device which aided the bulding process....the irony must have been crushing. model planes are cool.
(JasperSinister is offering two tickets to the gun show, Fri 28 Dec 2007, 13:04, closed)