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WELL Farmerboy im glad you eanrt in charge of my wallet lol
chrisb
Is scale modelling a cheap or expensive hobby?
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WELL Farmerboy im glad you eanrt in charge of my wallet lol
chrisb
Officially retired today!! Got time, state pension and a stash to work through (if I can escape from her indoors), life is sweet!!!!
WELL CONGRATS sir on your retirement an hope you enjoy it an escapein from her indoors who are you Athur daley from minder on tv lol
chrisb
I think most of it went in death duties when her husband died didn’t it? I remember a play about it years ago. Funnily enough, they also checked them “no publicity” box……
Congratulations on the retirement, by the way. I get to the official retirement age this time next year, unless it moves again….
Woah! I'm lucky as I hit previous retirement age some 13 years ago - lucky 13? - with this muppet in charge ... 
Steve
Steve
Well, when the previous shower got in I would’ve retired (well, got my state pension) six months ago, but they moved the goalposts…..however, I never expected anything different from them and I don’t from these, or from those to come…..
I just looked at what I've spent at our very own SMS, and its a fair bit, plus theres stuff I've bought from other model shops and from T'interweb, and from the couple of scale model shows I've now been to......(Sorry John)!
Then there's my little hobby space, not so little now, its slowly expanding, and all the gear that has gone into it, hand tools, paints, adhesives, varnishes, primers, lights, magnifiers, leccy/cordless tools, then there scenic stuff for dioramas, foam, grass, soil, balsa, various materials, rods, plasticard, decals, PE stuff, etc, etc.
It all adds up to quite a bit!
But, as others have said, we get a lot of enjoyment out of the hobby, and for me its not just the time spent actually building a model, its the time I spend on this (and other forums), the time I spend researching a model, getting ref photos, reading books/magazines related to the hobby, watching YT vids, and looking on the web at Scale Model related stuff, etc.
I'm retired now and so on a fixed income, but I'm very lucky that I still have a little bit of "disposable" income that I can spend on hobbies, not just this one. I think the total cost per hour of enjoyment is quite low, especially when compared to some other hobbies.
So for me its totally worth it. 
Then there's my little hobby space, not so little now, its slowly expanding, and all the gear that has gone into it, hand tools, paints, adhesives, varnishes, primers, lights, magnifiers, leccy/cordless tools, then there scenic stuff for dioramas, foam, grass, soil, balsa, various materials, rods, plasticard, decals, PE stuff, etc, etc.
It all adds up to quite a bit!
But, as others have said, we get a lot of enjoyment out of the hobby, and for me its not just the time spent actually building a model, its the time I spend on this (and other forums), the time I spend researching a model, getting ref photos, reading books/magazines related to the hobby, watching YT vids, and looking on the web at Scale Model related stuff, etc.
I'm retired now and so on a fixed income, but I'm very lucky that I still have a little bit of "disposable" income that I can spend on hobbies, not just this one. I think the total cost per hour of enjoyment is quite low, especially when compared to some other hobbies.
So for me its totally worth it.
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