Modelers enemies

ya your probably right with pieces bouncing even further than on carpet. How about putting everything in a clear box with armslots (like what new born babys have) and working with that. part flies, its stopped by the box...

i am proud to say i have never lost against the carpet monster (knock on wood) and i have 2 cats and a huge dog. but there not allowed in my room unless im there.

QUOTE: Originally posted by rebelreenactor ya your probably right with pieces bouncing even further than on carpet. How about putting everything in a clear box with armslots (like what new born babys have) and working with that. part flies, its stopped by the box...

Not ever having had any kids, I've never seen one of those boxes but it sounds like a good idea. Where do you get one?

The carpet monster in my new apartment is definitely meaner than the one I had in California. The only parts of my apartment that don't have a carpet are the kitchen and bathroom. I could buy a small dining table and use that for my workbench in the kitchen, but the kitchen would have its own hazards, namely the kitchen sink monster (just waiting for the occasion when I forget to put the screen over the drain), the stove monster and the refrigerator monster (both just waiting for that tiny part to roll under their exact geographic centers). And who models in the bathroom? (Actually, my bathroom might be a fairly decent place to model: it's one of those two-part bathrooms where the toilet and tub/shower are separated from the rest by a wall. It's got a nice large vanity and even a cupboard handy where I can store modeling tools. But then, I'd have to deal with the bathroom sink monster and the clothes hamper monster.)

How about losing a TOOL to the carpet monster? Just yesterday, I was trying to get a sanding stick when they and their container fell off the little shelf and behind my workbench. I managed to find most of the sanding sticks all over the carpet but the coarse sanding stick had utterly vanished along with the container I keep the sticks in. A fifteen or twenty minute search with the flashlight along with moving a bunch of stuff (like the typewriter) yielded nothing. I did manage to bang my head on the workbench--twice. A few days earlier I had made a homemade headrest for the rear seat of my Tamiya Jeep Cherokee Limited and glued it into place. As I was searching for the sanding stick yesterday--SCRUNCH! I broke off the headrest from the seat! So I had to glue THAT back into place! I never did find the coarse sanding stick nor the little plastic container. Instead, I had to make a new stick and find a new container.