Catastrophe !!!

Wirraway

Member since
January 2006
From: Pineapple Country, Queensland, Australia

Catastrophe !!!

Posted by Wirraway on Sunday, September 21, 2014 5:05 AM

Had a shelf fall down onto a lower shelf today while I was moving some models. Top shelf fell onto the lower shelf and crushed everything underneath. I looked at the carnage, and just couldn't see myself doing that much repair, so straight into the trashcan. I think I'm bearing up quite well (so far) The casualty List: 1/72 Airfix B1-B Lancer (just finished today) 1/72 Italeri PB-1J 1/72 Bristol Beaufort (A FSM secret santa GB gift from a few years ago) 1/72 Fujimi Chinook 1/72 Hasegawa Sea Hawk On the plus side, I did free up some display space...

"Growing old is inevitable; growing up is optional"

" A hobby should pass the time - not fill it" -Norman Bates

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Milairjunkie

Member since
October 2007
From: Scotland

Posted by Milairjunkie on Sunday, September 21, 2014 7:27 AM

Very painful - especially as one was just finished today........... Crying

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the doog

Member since
January 2007

Posted by the doog on Sunday, September 21, 2014 9:41 AM

Man, that's a bummer. Must be a sign from the modeling gods....cruel buggers, they...

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pyrman64

Member since
May 2005

Posted by pyrman64 on Sunday, September 21, 2014 10:03 AM

sorry for your loss.... Sad

Greg H

"There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell." Gen. Wm T. Sherman (11 April 1880, Columbus, Ohio)

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mississippivol

Member since
November 2003
From: State of Mississippi. State motto: Virtute et armis (By valor and arms)

Posted by mississippivol on Sunday, September 21, 2014 3:49 PM

Ouch, sorry to hear that.

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CN Spots

Member since
February 2014
From: N. MS

Posted by CN Spots on Sunday, September 21, 2014 10:11 PM

Well, they're all the same scale... time for a junkyard diorama?

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roony

Member since
July 2010

Posted by roony on Monday, September 22, 2014 9:49 AM

Sorry to hear of the loss. But I'm curious to know the cause of the crash. So that I can take the ounce of prevention.

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tankerbuilder

Member since
August 2008

Posted by tankerbuilder on Saturday, September 27, 2014 9:54 AM

Ouch ! !

This has happened to me when moving the display cabinet I have . Ouch , Ouch! and Ouch! again .This is a revoltin development , that it is !

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tankerbuilder

Member since
August 2008

Posted by tankerbuilder on Saturday, September 27, 2014 9:58 AM

Hey Wirraway !

Have you noticed ? If a shelf is gonna fall , it's your favorite or just finished planes that suffer ? Kind of like the old idea of a Peanut butter and Jelly sandwich .When you are getting it ready the jelly side of the sandwich falls to the floor , jelly side down ! You'll make it through .My sympathies are with you . T.B.

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Jim Barton

Member since
February 2003

Posted by Jim Barton on Tuesday, September 30, 2014 4:44 PM

Sorry to hear about the loss of your models.

"Whaddya mean 'Who's flying the plane?!' Nobody's flying the plane!"

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Wirraway

Member since
January 2006
From: Pineapple Country, Queensland, Australia

Posted by Wirraway on Saturday, October 4, 2014 1:09 AM

Hey Wirraway !

Have you noticed ? If a shelf is gonna fall , it's your favorite or just finished planes that suffer ?

Yes I think that the 2 hours that Bone survived was the shortest time frame for any of my models. It was a pig of a kit, but it deserved a better fate than a nose dive into the floor from 6 foot up. I added (doubled) the amount of shelves in the bookcase, but as the new shelves are not as long as the original shelves, there is a bit of wiggle room, and the shelf wiggled right off the supports. Oh well, lesson learned

"Growing old is inevitable; growing up is optional"

" A hobby should pass the time - not fill it" -Norman Bates

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VanceCrozier

Member since
February 2003
From: Rothesay, NB Canada

Posted by VanceCrozier on Saturday, October 4, 2014 3:58 PM

I think I just threw up a little, just thinking about seeing that mess. :(.

I recently picked up a couple of nice displays, that need some surgery to install glass fronts. (AKA, feline defence systems). Good news, and bad news, they come with rather heavy glass shelves. Now thinking of adding something more substantial than just side-pins as a means of support, just in case.

Know they didn't die in vain sir!

On the bench: Airfix 1/72 Wildcat; Airfix 1/72 Vampire T11; Airfix 1/72 Fouga Magister

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modelcrazy

Member since
July 2014

Posted by modelcrazy on Saturday, October 4, 2014 4:12 PM

I'm so sorry about that, it's never happened to me (I may have dropped one here or there) but I can only imagine what your going through.

Can you use some of them for spare parts?

As far as the peanut butter and jelly, the chance of a peanut butter and jelly sandwich falling gooy side down is directly proportional to the cost of the carpet.

Steve

Building a kit from your stash is like cutting a head off a Hydra, two more take it's place.