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onager

(9,356 posts) Fri Oct 31, 2014, 07:22 PM Oct 2014

Happy Halloween...and my Weird Hobby comes thru...

I may not believe in any of the rigamarole surrounding Halloween, but I still insist on celebrating it. Atheist or not!

So my big bowl of goodies is ready and in a couple hours I'm hoping for some visitors. Except I live in a security bldg. and they usually don't bother. Last year I got NO trick-or-treaters. So I took the Bowl Of Evil and walked around the neighborhood until all the candy was gone. Reverse trick-or-treating!

But I already had a Happy Halloween. Went to my local hobby shop today and found the...interesting scale model kit below. The figures are 1/35 scale, or about as tall as your index finger.

I really like the inclusiveness of this kit. One zombie is a Black policewoman, and the nurse is also female (the one crawling). Our brave heroine on the bike is obviously a woman, and may be a Muslim wearing hijab. Except she's also wearing black stockings and (presumably) a garter belt. So maybe she's on the run from The Garden of Allah Gentlemen's Club or something...

MasterBox is a Ukrainian company who does a lot of military scale model kits. They've really broken the mold (no pun intended) of only turning out figure sets of soldiers/weapons. Quite a few of their kits include civilians, women, kids, animals etc. I'm looking forward to more from Zombieland!

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Happy Halloween...and my Weird Hobby comes thru... (Original Post) onager Oct 2014 OP

I might not be a believer-But I love mythology, fantasy, and horror LostOne4Ever Oct 2014 #1

Unfortunately, that's exactly what "not completed" means. onager Oct 2014 #3

Kit to come Cartoonist Oct 2014 #4

Sounds like a fun creative hobby. Cool BlueJazz Oct 2014 #2

This year, once again, we had zero millions of trick or treaters. Warren Stupidity Nov 2014 #5

Not one trick or treater here either. RebelOne Nov 2014 #7

Zombies!!! Love it!!! wavesofeuphoria Nov 2014 #6

I made eight dozen cupcakes and baked, frosted, decorated them, put them in baggies individually, Manifestor_of_Light Nov 2014 #8

LostOne4Ever

(9,290 posts)

1. I might not be a believer-But I love mythology, fantasy, and horror

Reply to onager (Original post)

Fri Oct 31, 2014, 08:22 PM

Oct 2014

So Halloween is probably my favorite holiday!

That is an awesome looking model kit. But what does it mean by "This kit is not completed by a model of a motorcycle?" I hope that does not mean that the bike isn't in the kit, because it is particularly cool.

onager

(9,356 posts)

3. Unfortunately, that's exactly what "not completed" means.

Reply to LostOne4Ever (Reply #1)

Fri Oct 31, 2014, 10:47 PM

Oct 2014

No motorcycle in the kit. Which irked me too. But lots of companies make 1/35 scale motorcycle kits.

Everything from German BMW & Zundapps, to American Harley WLA-45s, to oddities like the Russian R-16 copy of the BMW. Some of the kits are insanely detailed, with stuff like photo-etched metal wheels (to get those fine spokes).

Cartoonist

(7,323 posts)

4. Kit to come

Reply to onager (Reply #3)

Fri Oct 31, 2014, 11:45 PM

Oct 2014

Just wait for it. May be in the development stage or ready to launch soon.

BlueJazz

(25,348 posts)

2. Sounds like a fun creative hobby. Cool

Reply to onager (Original post)

Fri Oct 31, 2014, 09:12 PM

Oct 2014

Warren Stupidity

(48,181 posts)

5. This year, once again, we had zero millions of trick or treaters.

Reply to onager (Original post)

Sat Nov 1, 2014, 11:40 AM

Nov 2014

So the real question is why do we have that bowl of candy, and only my wife can answer that.

RebelOne

(30,947 posts)

7. Not one trick or treater here either.

Reply to Warren Stupidity (Reply #5)

Sat Nov 1, 2014, 03:53 PM

Nov 2014

It was too rainy, windy and cold. That's alright because I get to eat up all the Reese's peanut butter cups. I only buy candy that I like so I can eat the leftovers.

wavesofeuphoria

(525 posts)

6. Zombies!!! Love it!!!

Reply to onager (Original post)

Sat Nov 1, 2014, 01:45 PM

Nov 2014

Manifestor_of_Light

(21,046 posts)

8. I made eight dozen cupcakes and baked, frosted, decorated them, put them in baggies individually,

Reply to onager (Original post)

Sun Nov 2, 2014, 12:09 AM

Nov 2014

and handed them out. Boy I was tired Friday night after busting ass cooking all afternoon!

We live in a no-fun zone where the churches have appropriated the holiday, and kids want to dress up and have fun.
They really appreciate the effort we take to decorate the front porch and hand out good candy. One lady told me I'm famous in town for my cupcakes. I've made them before.

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