I'm not quite dead yet...

[Roger Holmes]

Definitely a plus to date someone with the same name.  Mrs. H 2.0 got most upset when she thought that I called her Mrs H 1.0's name.

[tehachapifan]

Out of curiosity, what's the beef with the DPM kits? Personally, I love the large selection (though one I got has the freight doors set too low...or was it too high) and find them easy enough to paint and build.

[peteski]

Out of curiosity, what's the beef with the DPM kits? Personally, I love the large selection (though one I got has the freight doors set too low...or was it too high) and find them easy enough to paint and build.

Good question!  From experience I know that painting windows, window sills, and other details is a bit cumbersome (since all the details are molded-on), and that the brick mortar lines are shallow, but with some careful painting, they do make good models.

[johnb]

I have nerve damage and my hand is not as steady as it used to be...

[nkalanaga]

"WTF" is a work friendly acronym for "What The ****".  It seems to have stated with texting, where every letter counts, and gone mainstream.

[Chris333]

There is even a WTF banner.

[Maletrain]

"WTF" is a work friendly acronym for "What The ****".  It seems to have stated with texting, where every letter counts, and gone mainstream.

And all this time, I was thinking it meant "Where's the food." [Place pot belly emoji here.]

[R L Smith]

"WTF" is a work friendly acronym for "What The ****".  It seems to have stated with texting, where every letter counts, and gone mainstream.

I've never understood why asterisks are used.  Every dog owner knows "What the Fluff" is dog-speak for, "You're cooking bacon right now and you just gave me a Beggin' Strip?  What the Fluff!!"

[sirenwerks]

DELMARVA I understand, what WTF is WTF? It's WFT: Washington Football Team.

You mean the Seahawks?  Or the Huskies?

[wazzou]

You mean the Seahawks?  Or the Huskies?

No, the team that was once known as the Redskins.

[nkalanaga]

A suggestion I once saw, in an editorial cartoon, for the Redskins:  Keep the name, change the mascot.  The cartoonist's suggestion was an overweight, bald EuroAmerican, with no shirt, a can of beer, and a bad sunburn.

[cgw]

wtf is NOT any washington football team.       It is the rallying cry for the Detroit lions       A couple of years ago  there was a section in the stands that everyone was wearing a paper bag over their face because of their poor performance that season.   

[Ed Kapuscinski]

Out of curiosity, what's the beef with the DPM kits? Personally, I love the large selection (though one I got has the freight doors set too low...or was it too high) and find them easy enough to paint and build.

#1: The ubiquity of them. There is nothing that takes kills a model railroad scene for me like seeing an off the shelf DPM kit in the scene. Well, maybe seeing an unmodified Walthers kit. Or the Bachmann 2-8-0.

#2: The window situation! Such a pain in the a$$.

#3: The size. They're usually ok across the front, but buildings like them are almost always way deeper than DPM has modeled them.

#4: Wall thickness. They're obnoxiously thick.

I think that's all the reasons I can think of right now.

But that being said, I still have my fair share.

[Rasputen]

#5: The amount of draft angle on the edges.

[dem34]

#5: The amount of draft angle on the edges.

And you would think that it would be done in such a way that you could use it as location when putting the walls together. But of course its the opposite. And that's why I own a tabletop table saw.