EOW Diorama.

14 November 2005, 06:03 PM

VROOOM! is the noise I always make when strafing my livingroom with a recently completed model. Oh $#@&!! is the noise I make while building one.

Mr Lawson I look forward to the therapy sessions at the Lawson-Abbott Institute and the pie sounds delightful. Should compliment nicely the entrees of crow I often ingest.

From the rubber (living) room,
Brian da Basher

The best advice I ever got was "Build what you want the way you want to.

Barker · 14 November 2005, 06:43 PM

AMS may also signify 'at Mutha Sucks, depending on one's peer group and judges.

Is there an "F" in there, somewhere?

Barker · 14 November 2005, 06:48 PM

EOW...engine noise

watch:

EOWmmmm.

no - you're not doing it correctly, try again:

EOWwwwmmMMMmmmmmMMMMMMmmmmmm.

see?

This, some putty,
some acetone,
a couple splashes of coffee,
a few pieces of fuzz from the carpet as "special instrumentation" -
and, hey:
You could win a tank model.

EricGoedkoop · 14 November 2005, 07:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Barker

EOW...engine noise

watch:

EOWmmmm.

Depending on your subject, of course.

If the littl'un on your bench has a rotary, you'd be more correct to go:

brAP brAP brAPbrAPbrAP bRAPBRAPBRAPBRapBrap brAP brAP brAP

and so on.

Barker · 14 November 2005, 07:50 PM

Extra credit for tappet noises.

NeilE · 15 November 2005, 12:19 AM

The inability to tolerate views other than one's own may be another trait of AMS. The definition I posted for Anal Modellers Syndrome was derived from one posted by a listee on the WW1 Modelling Mailing List, which is of course to be found at WWI Modelling Page. A wonderful and informative site and certainly one not dominated by proprietary, overbearing, and anal experts, and the home of Dicta Ira.

I'd beware the "lawson-abbot institute" too, sounds like a derivative copy of the Glencoe Institute of the 'drome in days gone by...

Neil

Carpo · 15 November 2005, 01:11 AM

Audible Machine noises aren't just engine sounds - Come on - we have all followed up a good EommmmMMMmmmmMMM
with an eck eck eck eck eck eck of machine gun fire!!!
I even manage to do this with unarmed aircraft.

Similarly, no ship model is truely complete until it has done a lap of the lounge room, bobbing to Wagener's "Ride of the Valkyries"

Carpo

Ross_Moorhouse · 15 November 2005, 01:31 AM

If I am not msitaken, the good Doctor Von Humbrol was the first to come up with engine mouth noses just as he created the first tube of Airfix glue.

Also isn't there a rumour going around that the good Doctor von Humbrol had a love child to the evil Dymphina??? And that love child has been known to use these forums?

Barker · 15 November 2005, 05:31 AM

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Originally Posted by Carpo

Audible Machine noises

one of the pommie bastards came up with thissun.
typical stuckup sticky beaks & their understatement.
"Engine sounds are vulgar".

waddyagonnado??

Quote:

I even manage to do this with unarmed aircraft.

wull, yeah.
everyoneknowsthat

Quote:

Similarly, no ship model is truely complete until it has done a lap of the lounge room, bobbing to Wagener's "Ride of the Valkyries"

this is an outrage.
I'm telling.

NeilE · 15 November 2005, 06:05 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ross_Moorhouse

If I am not msitaken, the good Doctor Von Humbrol was the first to come up with engine mouth noses just as he created the first tube of Airfix glue.

Also isn't there a rumour going around that the good Doctor von Humbrol had a love child to the evil Dymphina??? And that love child has been known to use these forums?

The illicit relationship between the Late Lamented Good Herr Doktor Kurt Von Humbrol and that woman of questionable morality and standing Dymphna, (she was rumoured to expose her table legs!) is not one we wish to discuss in such a forum as this. As for the alleged bastard child of that relationship, the less said the better. Raised as he was by a group of severely AMS addicted WW1 modellers in a disused model shop, it was no wonder he is disturbed. It was the one great scandal of the Late Lamented Good Herr Doktor Von Humbrol's life that he could not bring himself to acknowledge this child - unfortunately he just found him butt ugly! Now the poor child drives himself on and on, constantly attention seeking, always searching for the recognition his Late Lamented father never gave him. To get metaphorical for a moment, he is Mordred to his Late Lamented Father's King Arthur. As Revellus of Padua opined: Non ci può essere vernice senza trementina

Regards

Neil
Director
The Glencoe Institute
(Incorporated in Liberia)