Although my wife rarely enters the train room (usually only if our 4 y/o grandson asks her to come in) she fully supports my hobby. She sees it as my release from the stresses of my day. In fact, it was her who suggested that I build a layout in the space bedroom.
Mike
My wife is totally supportive, she doesn't give me grief if I happen to buy a new engine or 2 or a bunch of freight cars off this forum.. Rather have me doing something constructive then chasing skirts/drinking all night at a club.. Wife and I have a common hobbies of Boating being outdoors & we enjoy each others company "most of the time"
When house shopping my wife would not even stop to look at a home that did not have a full basement with a 8' ceiling. She has rule over the main floor, the basement is totally my domain. She calls it my Disneyland. 2k sq ft of man cave.
My wife has always supported my model train hobby.
My wife had a pretty fair idea about my train habit before we got married. She is not only supportive, but on a number of occasions, an active participant. Not only does she make dinner for us when I have the guys over to work on the layout, but she has helped me with a number of layout related projects including electronic board assembly. She actually did that for a paycheck, so she's quite good at it. Handy skill! She scours the internet shopping for materials for the layout. She does a lot of graphics related projects, including writing out all my car cards. I want to teach her how to weather and apply graffiti to cars.
My wife, I think I'll keep her!
My wife goes way beyond supportive. It's more like above and beyond. Not only do I have trains running around the living room walls but I also build all sorts of models, dioramas, large scale RC tanks, large scale RC planes and cigar box guitars. I'd say she's a keeper. Here's my latest T.F. engine.
rustyrail o scale posted:My wife goes way beyond supportive. It's more like above and beyond. Not only do I have trains running around the living room walls but I also build all sorts of models, dioramas, large scale RC tanks, large scale RC planes and cigar box guitars. I'd say she's a keeper. Here's my latest T.F. engine.
Nice M-41 tank! Interesting markings, is this supposed to be marked as a prototype, as the model # is where the serial # is supposed to be?
Just curious.
I used to know a guy who had one of these in his military vehicle collection in running condition. I drove it several times for him...
p51 posted:rustyrail o scale posted:My wife goes way beyond supportive. It's more like above and beyond. Not only do I have trains running around the living room walls but I also build all sorts of models, dioramas, large scale RC tanks, large scale RC planes and cigar box guitars. I'd say she's a keeper. Here's my latest T.F. engine.
Nice M-41 tank! Interesting markings, is this supposed to be marked as a prototype, as the model # is where the serial # is supposed to be?
Just curious.
I used to know a guy who had one of these in his military vehicle collection in running condition. I drove it several times for him...
Yes the serial # should be in the center of the track skirt but I put some damage there for a realistic effect. The tank is marked Hiep Duc 68 in honor of the brave men of Co C 2nd/1st 196 LIB who fell in that valley during operation Twister Charlie. If you like to read there is a book detailing this battle called through the valley. My neighbor was one of only a handful that walked out of that valley after being overrun by nva the night before.
Support is mutual. My wife enjoys making beaded jewelry using expensive beads and semi precious stones. I don't say anything and neither does she :-) a little give and take.
Bob
My wife really enjoys the hobby. She is in charge of interior decorating in all the structures we build and does it well. Plans to be in York next month.
Of course there can be too much. We got two engines from Charles Ro yesterday and, when opened, I said, "Happy birthday" (9/24).
"No"... firmly too.
Thanks goodness my wife is fully supportive of me!
-- Greg
rkswenson1 posted:Support is mutual. My wife enjoys making beaded jewelry using expensive beads and semi precious stones. I don't say anything and neither does she :-) a little give and take.
Good point. My wife had no real hobby other than looking for ways to heap crushing responsibility levels upon us both (seriously, I think she should have been born to a family who owned a farm as she seems to be at her happiest when she's got a huge list of big chores to do).
But as much as I despise the cooking contest shows she watches (I keep having day dreams of hitting Gordon Ramsey in the back of the head with a boat paddle), she's recently taken to baking cupcakes to the standards in those shows. I do everything I can to support this and I also get the benefits of tasting samples of the most recent batch of whatever she makes (she makes stuff people like, not all those weird "I've run out of new idea with food so let's try this instead" stuff you see on those shows), which is not only supportive, but yummy, too!
rkswenson1 posted:Support is mutual. My wife enjoys making beaded jewelry using expensive beads and semi precious stones. I don't say anything and neither does she :-) a little give and take.
Bob
My trains share a room with beads, lol
My wife is the Greatest Woman Who Ever Lived! Not only does she support me in the O gauge hobby, she encourages it. She is a great enabler on the layout we are building.
She also has hobbies that I encourage and support. Her biggest is genealogy. I've spent many a trip walking through old cemeteries looking for ancient relatives and spent many hours with her in small libraries in small midwestern towns. But it's a small price to pay, and really pretty interesting what she's found, for all the support she provides for the train hobby. She has even found connections with relatives and trains! Some day she wants to create a book with all the info she's uncovered to give to our grandchildren to learn where they've come from.
With the trains, not only does she let me buy anything I want, she will sometimes buy trains that she likes along with scenery and buildings. What's more, she occasionally will surprise me with railfanning weekends to the PRR Horseshoe Curve and the surrounding area and sometimes will ask me to stop while we are driving at the old train station in Elkton, Md. to watch Amtrak trains fly by. She happily attends any social model or real train function with me. On a recent family reunion trip to Georgia, we stopped on the way home at the Aiken, SC. Train Museum and the North Carolina Transportation Museum and took the train ride and walked the grounds and exhibits while she took bunches of pictures.
AND, she's an awesome cook! All that and she's a sports fan, going to many baseball, hockey, football and basketball games with me.
My wife certainly supports my hobby as evidenced by the construction of a Polar Express layout in our formal dining area for the upcoming Xmas season.
A wife that supports his railroading hobby...................not here!
But Lizzy (my beagle) loves going to the Black Diamond Society of Model Engineers with me on Thursday nights.
JohnB
As long as we can pay our bills, my wife pretty much lets me buy what I want. I have, however, started building wooden trestles to help augment my budget.
Access to this requires an OGR Forum Supporting Membership
