BROKEN MODEL!!!

Anonymous

Member since
November 2005

BROKEN MODEL!!!

Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, September 10, 2005 5:44 PM

Don't you just hate it when other people handle your models? Something is always bound to happen with me, so I want to know what you guys do to stop that. I have cases but since I mostly build helicopters they don't fit even if the case says it can hold 1/48 scale and the model is 1/48. I just lost my blackhawk to an incident like this, and it was my first pro model, this is the second time it has happend. I need a special place for them. Any of you guys have ideas?

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Anonymous

Member since
November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, September 10, 2005 10:38 PM

Having friends who model helps as most model builders are reluctant to handle other people's builds. The other option is to have a notice saying "don't touch" and keep an eye out for "itchy fingers".

Once your friends get used to the idea that you don't want the models handled, they'll leave your models alone.

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Anonymous

Member since
November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, September 11, 2005 7:22 AM

I've lost a few to my cat and more to my mom. I lost a Tamiya Me 262 to my cat about a month ago. Now I have a new modeling table that won't collapse when the cat jumps on it.

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Borg R3-MC0

Member since
September 2004
From: Utereg

Posted by Borg R3-MC0 on Sunday, September 11, 2005 9:21 AM

Get a glass cabinet in which the models fit.
or
Why would anyone be touching your models? you need to tell/explain to them that it's unacceptable!

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RadMax8

Member since
February 2005
From: Cleveland, OH

Posted by RadMax8 on Sunday, September 11, 2005 11:35 AM

Peter, get a taser. It's the best deterrant Big Smile [:D]

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Anonymous

Member since
November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, September 11, 2005 5:03 PM

Infared Censors are an option Tongue [:P]

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FreedomEagle1953

Member since
December 2012

Posted by FreedomEagle1953 on Sunday, September 11, 2005 5:18 PM

armed guards work well for me ... Smile,Wink, & Grin [swg]

FreedomEagle1953

Chicago, IL area

"keep on building 'em ... but don't glue your fingers together"

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Anonymous

Member since
November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, September 11, 2005 5:29 PM

I have a sniper on my roof!

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Anonymous

Member since
November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, September 11, 2005 11:16 PM

I have a great method now, but it sucks in another way. I don't have anywhere to display my built kits right now so they are in Rubbermaid tubs in the cold storage. No worry about breakage! I just have to show photos of them instead right now. Banged Head [banghead]

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gburdon

Member since
January 2003
From: Burlington, Ontario Canada

Posted by gburdon on Monday, September 12, 2005 11:12 AM

You can surround the finished builds with Photo Etch Barbed Wire and a Pillbox! Big Smile [:D]

Cheers:

Gregory

VETERAN - (Noun) - Definition - One who signed a blank cheque as: “Payable to The People of Canada, Up To and Including My Life."

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DanCooper

Member since
March 2004
From: Belgium

Posted by DanCooper on Monday, September 12, 2005 12:21 PM

A claymore works fine, place it away from your models Evil [}:)]

On the bench : Revell's 1/125 RV Calypso

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Anonymous

Member since
November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Friday, September 16, 2005 4:39 PM

My cat ruined my Me 262.
My mom stepped on my P-40E.
Engine degreaser just dissolved my P-51B.

And I lost the tracks to my M-26(I have a strange feeling my mom knows where they are). This really sucks! Hopefully my October project won't have the same misfortune.

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DURR

Member since
July 2013

Posted by DURR on Saturday, September 17, 2005 7:51 PM

QUOTE: Originally posted by RadMax8

Peter, get a taser. It's the best deterrant

a baseball bat to the knukles is always good too

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DURR

Member since
July 2013

Posted by DURR on Saturday, September 17, 2005 7:54 PM

load the models with carpet tacks in performs 2 things 1 it acts as weight for the models and 2 next time your mom steps on a model she will remember for sure

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Anonymous

Member since
November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, September 17, 2005 8:00 PM

QUOTE: Originally posted by ryanpm

I've lost a few to my cat and more to my mom. I lost a Tamiya Me 262 to my cat about a month ago. Now I have a new modeling table that won't collapse when the cat jumps on it.

Don't you just hate that! I am working on a computer table and left the sliding thing the key board sits on out, and then the fat cat jumps on it and everything goes.

Sucks!

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Anonymous

Member since
November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, September 18, 2005 7:32 AM

I use to work on a card table. The cat knocked the model off, got off the table to examine her kill, then she jumped back up on the table and it collapsed right on top.

Now I have a nice wood and metal table from Hobby Lobby that can't fold up or fall.

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Anonymous

Member since
November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, September 18, 2005 11:47 PM

Alright I got some ideas thanks guys. I probably should go out and invest in a taser. Well thanks just wanted to see what ideas came about. I'm still pissed because I lost my Blackhawk :(

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eizzle

Member since
August 2005
From: Greencastle, IN

Posted by eizzle on Monday, September 19, 2005 11:54 AM

I have lost a couple to a child (not mine, she doesn't mess with my models) who shall remain nameles. It seems that brightly colored platic cars are seen as play things and if there is access to my room (when I'm not home) I will lose a couple. High shelves work, that and the claymore idea, but it will make a mess out of the room!

Colin

Homer Simpson for president!!!

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tho9900

Member since
July 2004
From: SETX. USA

Posted by tho9900 on Monday, September 19, 2005 9:17 PM

I recently lost one of my FAA Martlets this way... had the N. Africa Martlet out on display, my sister in law came over and her step daughter (the story is getting convoluted no? in laws... step daughters...) went to pick up the Martlet... doing so she put her palm down on the antenna wire and snapped it and the mast off...

Immediately I yelled in a loud voice " Censored [censored]

!!!!!" when the step mother (my sister in law) came running with a look of fear in her eyes, I heartily apologized and explained it took me about 50 hours of work to complete that.. she almost had tears in her eyes... I think she thought it was a toy too... she immediately took the girl into the bed room for a talk, which I know did now good but I think the expletive alone I think was enough for the teenage step daughter to think twice...

(make sure you use your best R. Lee Ermey from mail call voice when you yell out the expletive)

Loud expletives are the way to go......

---Tom--- O' brave new world, That has such people in it!

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jboutin

Member since
December 2004
From: 288921 E, 5659868 N UTMz12, NAD83

Posted by jboutin on Tuesday, September 20, 2005 11:23 AM

I usually don't have a problem with other handling my models, it is ME!

Last month I was holding my old bf-109 and I was holding it gingerly with my thumb and index fnger on either side of the fuselage. I think Iwas holding it too gingerly as it fell and with my other hand I put it out to catch it, of course I snapped off the attenae, the wires and the starborad landing gear. Censored [censored]

was I so mad with myself, amazingly the canopy which is in the open position didn't break!

I've also broken off numerous pitot tubes, wires and gun barrels over the years (me and my clumsy fingers...)

JAY - fighting evil since 2:15pm, July 8,1976 -

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Anonymous

Member since
November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, September 20, 2005 11:38 AM

most of my modeling is R/C aircraft, not the really great looking scale models you guys do.. and my thumbs usually end up taking care of the storage problem after a while! Either that, or mid-air collisions, those happen once in a while when you race.

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Anonymous

Member since
November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Friday, September 23, 2005 11:33 PM

QUOTE: Originally posted by ryanpm

My cat ruined my Me 262.
My mom stepped on my P-40E.
Engine degreaser just dissolved my P-51B.

And I lost the tracks to my M-26(I have a strange feeling my mom knows where they are). This really sucks! Hopefully my October project won't have the same misfortune.

I gotta ask...

What's your mom doing walking on your workbench and/or shelves? Wink [;)]

Just kidding, I have model parts in almost every room in the house and a couple of kits have pieces in 3 different rooms... I'm louzy at keeping things organized.

Don

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Jim Barton

Member since
February 2003

Posted by Jim Barton on Wednesday, October 5, 2005 6:36 PM

Another way to keep people from getting their grimy mitts on your model: A pit bull with AIDS! Big Smile [:D]

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

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Anonymous

Member since
November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Monday, October 10, 2005 7:49 PM

hi guys,

i will go for the glass cabinet, i'm a cabinet maker

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st_gorder

Member since
January 2004

Posted by st_gorder on Monday, October 10, 2005 10:41 PM

Hey guys;
I just put a showcase lock on my glass case. The show case is one with sliding glass doors. The lock has kept the fingers off! The inspiration for the lock is my 18 month-old grandson seeing the planes and saying "OOOOOOOHHHH!!!!!!!!!, and then just about getting the door slid open. A close call.
Steve Gorder

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Anonymous

Member since
November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Monday, October 10, 2005 11:35 PM

Being a woodworker with a full shop I custom build VERY simple non wood cases for those out sized objects (not just models)I wish to display.
Next visit to your local home center pick up some sheet plastic and super glue. Cut the top, base and sides to sizes needed ,but mitre all the edges except where the sides meet the base. tape the thing together and from the inside run the THIN superglue around the seams. You can hinge one side, put a small hasp and lock on the opposite side and maybe people will get the message. Add embellishments as you desire, but that's the basics. I have them all over and haven't lost a piece to non thinking adults, cats, rug rats, the odd flying squrril or 'possum in years (I livein the woods so we get the occasional visit from the local furry woodland critters). Works for me.

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Thehannaman2

Member since
August 2004
From: Buffalo NY

Posted by Thehannaman2 on Tuesday, October 11, 2005 7:22 PM

For the adults I have an actual "Please don't touch" sign. For the childun's, I have my boot.

Justen

"The distance between genius and insanity is measured only by success."

Member IPMS Niagara Frontier. "The BuffCon Boys."

IPMSUSA Member 45680

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Anonymous

Member since
November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, October 13, 2005 12:31 AM

Put a sign next to your model that says:you break it you buy it!Then,make teh shelf they are on incredibley weak.when they touch the shelf,they all fall,and the person has to buy all of them!then you buy new ones;-)

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Anonymous

Member since
November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, October 13, 2005 2:13 AM

Here's an idea, and it's cheaper then a huge glass display.
Take a wall shelf and mount it a 45 degree angle down rather then 90 to the wall then glue, tack or wire your builds to the surface. This will give a better line of sight and the seemingly precarious mounting will inhibit "feelers" from poking there didgits at 'em.
A sign that says "Keep yer Beaters off" would help too!!!
You could even paint the shelf surface like the wild blue yonder to giv'em that "in flight" feel

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jinithith2

Member since
January 2005
From: returning to the FSM forum after a hiatus

Posted by jinithith2 on Sunday, October 16, 2005 8:54 PM

did I tell you about that time when my "friend" (now my foe) made a football pass to another "friend" with my 1/72 Abrams? it was on concrete floor, and of course the kid misses it. so- "oops!" *slip* *kssssss* "AUGHHHHHH!!!!"
mine plow, barrel, and the suspension snapped clear off. later, that kid said, "I was just trying to be funny". now when I think about it, it feels like I'm going to get a heart attack Angry [:(!]

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