Worried

[Barry M]

I keep coming across items of N Gauge for sale all over the internet and the common comment with the sale was " Selling as moving to OO Gauge as getting older and due to eyesight".

Here's me, yes I'm getting older...well only 53 (ahem, cough!) and moving to N Gauge from OO Gauge.

Oh dear, what am I doing?!!!

Barry

[Michael Shillabeer]

I keep coming across items of N Gauge for sale all over the internet and the common comment with the sale was " Selling as moving to OO Gauge as getting older and due to eyesight".

Paul Fontaine, an optician, wrote an article in the N Gauge Journal about eyesight and N Gauge. He suggested that when visiting an optician take an N Gauge model with you to ensure that your new glasses are suitable.

Michael

[4x2]

I keep coming across items of N Gauge for sale all over the internet and the common comment with the sale was " Selling as moving to OO Gauge as getting older and due to eyesight".

Here's me, yes I'm getting older...well only 53 (ahem, cough!) and moving to N Gauge from OO Gauge.

Oh dear, what am I doing?!!!

Barry

Stronger glasses are a lot cheaper than selling your N and going back to 00...! 

[Barry M]

Yes, perhaps a pair of 'Modelling Glasses' higher magnification, purely for modelling?

Do you think that's a possibility? Or will the optician laugh at me?

Barry

[FeelixTC]

Oh dear, what am I doing?!!!

You're being a pioneer instead of a sheep 

[Jack]

I use a magnifier visor that I got from a local modelling shop, it cost me about a tenner. Its brilliant! Although my kids (all adults) think I look like the mad professor out of "Honey I shrunk the kids" when its being used.

As an idea http://www.ebay.co.uk/bhp/magnifying-visor

[4x2]

Yes, perhaps a pair of 'Modelling Glasses' higher magnification, purely for modelling?

Do you think that's a possibility? Or will the optician laugh at me?

Barry

Not at all, I'll bet they get asked that all the time. Not just for modelling, but for lots of other hobbies and occupations. One of those magnifiers with a ring light built in would be a good investment, I'm lucky as I don't need glasses (yet), but even i'd struggle without my desk lamp to light up the object i'm working on.

[Barry M]

Yes, I see they come in differing magnifications too!
I can put up with being called 'A mad professor' - The kids have called me worse......(behind my back)!

Barry

[PLD]

In my experience the theory that the smaller the scale the better the eyesite required is untrue...

The larger the scale, the greater the detail you need to include, and the smallest component in an O gauge kit can often be smaller than the smallest part in an N gauge kit!

[Dorsetmike]

I keep coming across items of N Gauge for sale all over the internet and the common comment with the sale was " Selling as moving to OO Gauge as getting older and due to eyesight".

Here's me, yes I'm getting older...well only 53 (ahem, cough!) and moving to N Gauge from OO Gauge.

Oh dear, what am I doing?!!!

Barry

Barry, if you're worried about age at 53, what you  gonna do when you get to my level - 79. You're only two thirds of the way yet!

I have a head band magnifier but don't find I need it for much of the time, I'm still building kits, kit bashing and some scratch building; I've been wearing glasses for many years now, had a cataract op last year, due for one on  the other eye some time in the next couple of years.

I find eyesight is not as much a limiting factor given magnifiers when needed, I have more trouble with fumble fingers and droppit syndrome, biggest problem with droppit is not only the dropping but more serious is the getting down to pick up whatever dropped then getting back up.

[Barry M]

Barry, if you're worried about age at 53, what you  gonna do when you get to my level - 79. You're only two thirds of the way yet!

I have a head band magnifier but don't find I need it for much of the time, I'm still building kits, kit bashing and some scratch building; I've been wearing glasses for many years now, had a cataract op last year, due for one on  the other eye some time in the next couple of years.

I find eyesight is not as much a limiting factor given magnifiers when needed, I have more trouble with fumble fingers and droppit syndrome, biggest problem with droppit is not only the dropping but more serious is the getting down to pick up whatever dropped then getting back up.
I know exactly what you mean....believe me Mike!
Also, losing bits in the carpet 'forest' is a nightmare!
Barry

[FeelixTC]

I know exactly what you mean....believe me Mike!
Also, losing bits in the carpet 'forest' is a nightmare!
Barry

I have a 'Big Magnet' - fabulous for 'finding' (ferrous) bits in the carpet

[mereman]

I know exactly what you mean....believe me Mike!
Also, losing bits in the carpet 'forest' is a nightmare!
Barry

I have a 'Big Magnet' - fabulous for 'finding' (ferrous) bits in the carpet

I take my shoes and socks off... soon find the bits then

[FeelixTC]

I take my shoes and socks off... soon find the bits then

You wouldn't if your soldering skills were like mine 

[Newportnobby]

biggest problem with droppit is not only the dropping but more serious is the getting down to pick up whatever dropped then getting back up.

As the comedian once said "When I bend down to tie my shoes laces I ask myself what else I can do while I'm down here"