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>>11674511Fuck, wrong previous thread: >>11653721
Well boys, I'm freshly divorced and in my tiny divorced guy apartment. Hopefully I'll get my production up this year. I've got nothing but time now.
>>11674525That's awful, how much did she take?
>>11674525Do you sleep in a racing car now, too?
>>11674526Not a dime. We kept completely separate finances and the house is in her name (for this exact reason) so it was an easy split. I've been quietly saving and I'll be able to buy my own house this year.>>11674528I am the the male living space meme. I figure there's no point in buying furniture if I'm just going to move in a couple months.
>>11674531Good for you. Same for me, but having your home in someone else's name is always a bit uneasy. I mean I'm not worried but an autistic fuck like me that hates moving... at one point where there was talk about a potential split, I was mortified, but we both agreed we had stopped investing in the relationship and decided to actively deal with it and it seemed to work out.PS. those fucking carpets in every single american house are beyond disgusting. Especially considering you wear shoes indoors.
>>11674534Yeah, she would always scream at me to get out of "her" house whenever she was having a fit but ironically being married protected me because it is illegal to throw your spouse out on the street lol.
>>11674531I'm incel and have never even spoken to a 1/1 scale woman, but what's the idea of getting married and still handling your finances in a way to make divorce easy? If you think the divorce is that likely why get married in the first place?
>>11674542She threatened self harm to trap me in the relationship when I realized she is just using me and I tried to leave. I guess I'd rather she be alive and me unhappy than me be happy somewhere if it cost her life. Now she's in a much better place so she has decided she can do better than me and I'm finally out. My boundaries were no joint finances and my name was not going on any mortgage or loan with her.
>>11674542>but what's the idea of getting married and still handling your finances in a way to make divorce easyNTA, but being financially smart and covering your own ass. Also you can still have a shared account for household things or whatever you want, it just prevents straight up financial abuse. I've seen how even couples that don't really care for money in the moment and have had very civil breakups start to get petty over every cent when it comes time to split up. This is especially the case if you have shared loans. I've been with my gf for like 7 years and I've asked her about marriage several times but it's just not something she sees as a necessity at all. I'm not sure what the english term is but we are just in a relationship that is pretty much like marriage without the paperwork.
/smg/ came for the models, stayed for the relationship /adv/ice.
>>11674525>>11674531This is how I live despite never being married. I bring my completed models to my shop now since I ran out of space. Also the twice a year visitor is weirded out that I don't have a TV, saying it's "too quiet". But my rabbit seems to enjoy the peace and quiet, which seems to be the peak "lonely male in a tiny hole" pet.
finished up this recently i'm considering putting a couple more figures on it, but i'm uncertain
has anyone ever ordered these metal model "puzzles" from temu? just a few bucks for a small tank, but if quality is shit then I'd rather not buy garbage.
>>11674648I did buy a TIE fighter a while back and it's exactly what it says on the tin. Sheet metal that can be folded together. The connectors are shit and the only way to make it actually good would be to solder everything. It's cheap trash that gets sold in dollar stores and fairs, if that's what you expect, then it's great for you.
>>11674648I thought about getting one of these, but working with PE already makes me want to blow my brains out
>decided to get back into it after a long break>Immediately blow like 500$ on a couple shitter 50 yo models, addons, brass, brushes and compressor
>>11674733blame the boomers with too much free time who would rate kits low if they didn't have PE or individual track links
Looks like the first show near me is in Sarajevo Hope GDI scum don't show up to destroy Temple Prime again
Gonna give this AK preshade mask shit another go. I'm not fully convinced of this technique but it is at least quite easy to do and the result before painting looks rad. Should probably use this to make something like the fish pattern guy is doing at some point
>>11674786Have you seen the plastic detail they were working with?
>>11674525>>11674531>>11674541>>11674543jfc this is more pathetic than me not having sex for 5yrs.
Airfix dropping some new tool kinos in a few hours, please 1/48 first gen harriers.
>>11675656new spitfire when
hey dudes, what brand would you recommend for airbrush ready acrylic paints?
>>11675701airbrush ready as in you don't add more thinner yourself? no ideaor just good paint for airbrush? tamiya is pretty good if the latter with their thinner, vallejo is also decent when you use their airbrush thinner in a 1/.25 ratio with a drop or two of their flow improver
>>11674915>fish guylooks good dude. I'm just waiting for the post with supplies so I can start the colour. Really fucked up the engine cowling by trying to prime it first before assembling. I primed it then test fit it before figuring that it would be easier to glue the pieces now rather than afterwards. Should have realised that the Italeri kit I was building was Italeri.
>>11675656the only "kino" airfix can give us is moving production out of india
>Heres your new airfix kit broI mean hasegawa kit was still okay besides lacking full intakes and missing a few rivets. But a welcome addition as zoukai mura said they wouldn't be doing a british phantom.
new Canberra tooling for 1/72
>more jetslop
>>11675907*jeetslop
>>11675892Very nice, I can make it Argentinian
>>11675907phantom is sovless but Canberra is soVl core
>>11674528>Yeah I've lost it all but do YOU have three F-35s?
>reintroduce big hellcat>replace good schemes with bad schemes>increase price substantially thanks I guess
Are the 90% discounts not a thing any more?
>>11675892I'll only care if they tooled it to make way for a B-57 in the future.
>>11676350not anytime soon, covid had kits flying off the shelves, all popular models gone in a few years. if they 90% now they'd have nothing left to sell
>0 (zero) new spitfires
>>11675892this is the nicest of the new tools imo, it's not an amazing aircraft or anything but that little bombardiers nose station looks fun to paint up
>>11676433They will release 4 more next year to fix this issue
>>11676478it's a pretty cool aircraft
>>11675705yeah no.... I'm looking for something like the mrp lacquer paints but acrylics. I know mrp has an acrylic range but I have no idea if it acts like the lacquer range and requires no thinner or flow aid.
Put 14grams of weights into my Warning Star instead of 15 thinking that would be sufficient and it's still back-heavy. Options now are either rip its wings off and put more in or make a little stand to prop the back up. Oh well.
got me eduard 109
>>11674525Congratulations bud
So apparently the chattanooga contest didn't grade on a gold/silver/bronze for the top 3 of each category, but instead gave everyone a medal with gold/silver/bronze. Whatever color medal you got was dependent on how close to their criteria you managed to get.I've never heard of IPMS judges grading builds like it's a high school math test but apparently boomers are up in arms because it's participation trophy culture or some gay shit like that
>>11674915Better than last time I think. Still gonna need to post shade/highlight this for my tastes though>>11676951Build quality at my local IPMS would warrant this because they are so decidedly mid that they'd have to just draw who wins
>please give us 30 great bri'ish pounds you fat old fart for rebox of a 90s era old as shit kit with below average engineering
>>11677091but anon, think of the HobbyPoints!
>>11674511this nigger stole my picanyways, heres the final look.
>>11677153what is it with tamiya and turret numbers?
>>11677157that nice cast structure on the wield hullfuck you tamiyaits not that hard to sand it off and when making new casts anyways
>>11677165tamiya xf dark yellowsome brown for corners n shadespencil chippingfuture (for aryan anons: Erdal Bodenglänzer für Kunststoffböden is the same. Spar group)wash with oil colours + turpentinesome brown pastel chalk grinded to dust as dirtmr hobby color clear matte h20semen
>>11677187german bootythose kits need no sanding exept main gunsdetails are meh sometimesprice is goodgeometry goodgonna add an antenna and cut prism out of an old cd case
>>11675892does it come with rhodesian markings?
>>11677202that would be the last fucking thing that shit island would do
>>11676951This is Open Format. Boomers get mad about it because the contest doesn't get dominated by the same people every year so they feel cheated. Open is better because it's skill-based. If you do a gold-level job, you get a gold. This is generally much better than having new people bust their asses putting work in, only to get squat when Boomer Bill (who has been friends with the club judges for forty years) gets his trophy. Boomer Bill can still win his gold for his work, he just can't lock everyone else out. Open eliminates any suspicion of bias. But boomers would rather kill the future of the hobby if they can ride out a last few years of their glory days.
one of the best AMT kits I've ever built and I'll chalk that one up to it not being a mold from 60 years ago. somehow melted parts of the canopy so this model is effectively ruined, but ignoring that I'd say it's still a 7/10 job to me.
>>11677552thought it would be fun to put LEDs in it so I did. I naturally fucked those up too, so one shines brighter than the other. no idea what I could do with the wiring so I just ran it along the stand and it will get displayed with the wire facing away so you can pretend its not actually there
really not sure how this happened, I didn't do anything different or use a new product
>>11677091they do some decent sales though. id prefer if things could just be a good price the whole time instead of overpriced 90% / cheap 10% of the time
>>11677153>>>11677240I need this >>11677560Capillary evil
>>11677187It takes 3 seconds to fix the white balance of pictures, please do it.The model looks nice.
>>11678111Very nice panther, I am currently working on a tiger 1
