Middle aged pleasures (6 Viewers)

[ann post]

they have a colossal (unbuilt!) model of the titanic in the window. €450. you'd want to have a lot of space to build and store that.

Like a big space in your life that is normally filled with friends?

 

[JohnnyRaz]

Probably 30 years ago now, I got a model kit in there for a Star Trek DS9 Runabout, then got so panicked about messing it up that I never built it. I still have it, it’s on the shelf somewhere in the house. Maybe one of these days...

something to do when Covid 24 hits

 

[nuke terrorist]

I go in there occasionally. It’s hasn’t changed since I was a kid. They’re great for the paints. Last time I was there, a kid was with his mam and he was clearly neurodivergent and she was out of her depth with his hobby. It was nice just to be able to chat with them and let him tell me about his stuff. Such a pure experience that you don’t get in somewhere like Smyth’s.

Was Mark's Models previously upstairs somewhere on D'Olier Street circa 1989/90?
There was a place that sold toy trains there. it was just one room and I think they were just about to relocate.

It is near Tara Street Station now.

 

[ernesto]

Found laminated timber on DoneDeal to do a bedroom for under €200.

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

Was Mark's Models previously upstairs somewhere on D'Olier Street circa 1989/90?
There was a place that sold toy trains there. it was just one room and I think they were just about to relocate.

It is near Tara Street Station now.

I don’t remember that far back, my forays into modelling happened closer to the mid-90s. It was right beside my bus stop on Hawkins St (it’s still there but don’t know where the buses have gone).

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

Probably 30 years ago now, I got a model kit in there for a Star Trek DS9 Runabout, then got so panicked about messing it up that I never built it. I still have it, it’s on the shelf somewhere in the house. Maybe one of these days...

Just do it! There’s loads of great YouTube channels out there for guidance.

 

[magicbastarder]

a friend of mine happened to call in there today too. he's doing some kitbashing.

 

[nuke terrorist]

I don’t remember that far back, my forays into modelling happened closer to the mid-90s. It was right beside my bus stop on Hawkins St (it’s still there but don’t know where the buses have gone).

Does anybody remember the model shop in D'Olier Street 1970s?

I can't remember the name of the business nor the name of the owner, but I do have fond memories visiting it in the late 1970s and early 1980s. I have one memory of buying ratio signal kits there before boarding trains to Galway, and starting to assemble the kits on the train! Happy days. Had a s...

irishrailwaymodeller.com

 

[therealjohnny]

I just realised it's been 20 years since I foolishly thought I would build this thing. I mustn't have been in Dublin at the time because I had my brother buy it every week for me from a stall on O'Connell St. He hated doing it because the guy would crack the same "joke" EVERY time "the red baron with the blue nose!?"
I started to build it at the same time my girlfriend got two kittens. Every time I went to work on it they jumped on the table and started playing with the parts. So I put it away to come back to later.

The box with all the parts is on the floor beside me.


One of these days....

 

[ann post]

Someone left a generic spitfire kit here if anyone wants it.

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

Someone left a generic spitfire kit here if anyone wants it.

“No, no. That sort of thing wouldn’t interest me at all.”

 

[JohnnyRaz]

a friend of mine happened to call in there today too. he's doing some kitbashing.

a new term for me - despite making models in my teens

 

[magicbastarder]

i only heard it for the first time this week when he mentioned it.

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

I’m surprised to see it here out in the wild, I did a double take when I read it.

 

[magicbastarder]

friend said 'if you fancy a rabbit hole or two, the models above are by Japanese dude Kow Yokoyama and part of his Maschinen Krieger (Ma.k) world'
(he'd posted a pic of a couple of models, one of which was a kinda space exosuit made from a helicopter kit)

 

[JohnnyRaz]

friend said 'if you fancy a rabbit hole or two, the models above are by Japanese dude Kow Yokoyama and part of his Maschinen Krieger (Ma.k) world'
(he'd posted a pic of a couple of models, one of which was a kinda space exosuit made from a helicopter kit)

I kitbashed a few model planes I made in my early teens - I had paratroopers jumping out of a Junkers Ju 52 for example.

 

[magicbastarder]

i've mentioned before i occasionally watch adam savage (ex mythbuster) on youtube, he's a general 'let's make this' guy, and does videos on how to make spaceship panelling etc.
he was working in ILM before he got the mythbusters job.

anyway, this (non-adam savage video) appears to be a primer for the stuff my friend mentioned.

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[MacDara]

Re kitbashing, I watch Adam Savage’s YouTube stuff now and then and I think he’s where I first heard the term, as they would have done it a lot making practical effects stuff back in the day.

 

[seanc]

My diet is naturally becoming ever more vegetarian. I think mainly because I am making sure I use whatever food is there, but also slightly because all my food conversations with contemporaries involve them going "ooh, can't be eating that too much anymore".

Made a version of this today, but with no kale and no garlic (no garlic in the house, major complaint). Anyway, it was delicious and nutritious. Twenty years ago I'd have slapped a bunch of rashers and white pudding on there.

Mushroom brunch recipe | Good Food

You only need mushrooms, eggs, kale and garlic to cook this tasty one-pan brunch. It's comforting yet healthy, fibre rich and gluten-free too

www.bbcgoodfood.com

 

[magicbastarder]

but garlic is one of the four main food types!