Has this ever happened to you?

This is my take;No one ever touches my models but me!My wife and kids knew from a young age that  they were not toys and how much work goes into them.If anyone touched them in a cavalier manner causing damage,my resulting negative reaction would be downright scary!Violence would not be out of the question!

Neat story Tanker. Amazing that 58 survived. Could you share picture of it and those ships?

Hello TIGERMAN ! You know,I have often wondered about this and others handling my models at shows.Thirty four years of model completions,some very detailed scratchbuilds and one client,s (my first commission) lost to natures anger(Tornado.)

Nothing survived EXCEPT a 1958 CHEVY IMPALA which I later found in a tree! It wasn,t even scratched! Yes I still have it. But it,s very carefully packed away,never to see the light of day again.WHY ? well,I don,t live in my own home anymore so space is limited(very) .

My landlady(do they still say that?) has a very intense hobby too,stained glass.We work at the same table,specially set up for the both of us(her idea)Luckily,the builds I have done are in what I call doctors cabinets(the kind with lift up glass doors they kept medical books in)I have most of a WW2 battle group (three carriers,two battlewagons four cruisers and eight destroyers.ALL in 1/350 so they only fill up four of the shelves.)

There are shelves dedicated to cars and planes and the few armor pieces I have, plus one diorama that is in bad need of repair(it,s special)So I have had the BAD experience. Now ,GRANDMA was very protective of what her grandson built so that was cool !.

(She was responsible for buying most of them) She would sit for hours talking to me and watching and asking questions.You know-Why does that have to go there? What goes on first ? and so on. Thanks for sharing.      TANKER-builder

Manstein's revenge

Stephen_Social

...followed by pure rage, followed about 20 mins later by semi-satisfaction when I caught up to him at his friends house and beat the daylights out of him in front of his buddy.

 

Let's hear more about this part...

Yes, perhaps we could pop some corn and sell tickets too.

Geez Stephen, that is indeed a sad story. We can't always replace the time and of course a great build as well.

Stephen_Social

...followed by pure rage, followed about 20 mins later by semi-satisfaction when I caught up to him at his friends house and beat the daylights out of him in front of his buddy.

 

My younger brother of 5 years laid waste to my entire (YES ENTIRE) collection out of anger once when I was a Senior in HS. I can't even begin to explain the feeling of complete sorrow followed by pure rage, followed about 20 mins later by semi-satisfaction when I caught up to him at his friends house and beat the daylights out of him in front of his buddy.

Needless to say, we don't fight like that now, but he knows better than to touch any of my belongings when he's angry at me now.

...sorry...sniff*sniff...

Manstein's revenge

Okay, maybe a pic wouldn't be nice...

 

You just hurt a little kids feelings

fermis

Manstein's revenge

A pic would be nice...

OK....this one goes back to around 1988-89...I'da been 11-12...

It was the first build that was entirely covered with paint (no bare plastic showing), and my first time sanding seams. I was so proud!!!

Two crew no-less, very nice Fermis.  You must have been a good kid, all my builds from from that age were either set a-blaze, tossed off the balcony or shot up with the BB gun.

Manstein's revenge

A pic would be nice...

OK....this one goes back to around 1988-89...I'da been 11-12...

It was the first build that was entirely covered with paint (no bare plastic showing), and my first time sanding seams. I was so proud!!!

Nope, never had it happen yet.  Of course, it's been so long since I've been at the bench........

A pic would be nice...

As an Army brat...we had our share of long distance moves. Most of those moves involved anywhere from 20-30 models. My mom didn't feel that it was important to tell us when the packers were comming. It always seemed to be while I was at school. I'd get home to find nothing in my room, but a bunch of boxes and a suitcase with just enough cloths to get to wherever we were going. Them suminabiches would plop the models down on a sheet of packing paper and just roll em up like it was a cheeseburger. The models were not any good, by any means, but they were mine....and special. Needless to say, there was lots of repairs to be made when I unpacked. Only one model from back then still survives. It's a 1/72 ME262 that sits a bit nose low, from having the nose gear snapped several times....the radar array has been long gone.

Four on the floor...

Just had something kind of similar happen recently, but it was with the kits I have on display at the LHS, so I accept responsibility for taking the risk by having them there.

The owner had a guy taking care of fixing some things up at the shop and reorganizing the displays was part of the project.  There's a cabinet where I had some MiGs and a B-Wing displayed that he offered to light but that ended up being nothing more than stringing up some white Christmas lights around the outside of the thing and reorganizing so that the cars he thought were cool were left inside with my non-car kits mostly on the outside.  He broke the wing tanks off of one MiG and the missile pylons off the other ( not a big deal, since I had planned for such inevitabilities with the selective use of CA glue, and the parts weren't lost ), and at least one of the B-Wing's guns was broken off ( a bigger issue since that's actually a broken part, but still fixable ).

The thing is that he apparently didn't even tell the owner about this, since she's made sure to tell me immediately about any mishaps involving my displayed models before and had no idea about this.

My rule is, you break it, any of it, you bought it. It only takes the loss of 1 c-note to get my point across :)

Most people don't realize the amount of time that goes into modelling nor do they have much respect for the hobby. It irritates me when models are called toys. Toys are to be played with. Models are absolutely positively NOT to be touched, much less played with.

It's like my friend said after we were at a show and this guy puts a SUITCASE up on the display tables. The suitcase in question falls over on it's side smashing a scratch built car of his: I loose another model because someone is a dumb I'm going to jail.

lol, assault vs vandalism, hmm, which is the more serious?

pyrman64

I took a scratchbuilt model to an IPMS national contest, about a decade ago....rat &@$%^@#* judge didn't even leave a note of apology, when they broke off a support leg!  When I commented to the head judge about it, I got "stuff happens."  

I took a scratchbuilt model to an IPMS national contest, about a decade ago....rat &@$%^@#* judge didn't even leave a note of apology, when they broke off a support leg!  When I commented to the head judge about it, I got "stuff happens."  

This got big quick.

Seems to be a touchy subject.

Zukiman2002

I feel ya man. My ex wife decided I was to old to be "playing with that junk" and stacked all of them in the closet in the basement while I was at work. Needless to say I had a lot of repair work to be done that week end. She just couldn't understand they were not toys.

Sukiman

Exes, good riddance. 

I feel ya man. My ex wife decided I was to old to be "playing with that junk" and stacked all of them in the closet in the basement while I was at work. Needless to say I had a lot of repair work to be done that week end. She just couldn't understand they were not toys.

Sukiman

Bissyboat

She might break them, but she can't get them all. :D

    Hahahahahaha!   Amen to that!

Cats can be the worse---and they seem clueless when they knock stuff over...

The worst i've had was some LB messed with one of my planes at a show, and knocked off the canopy.