MAJOR MESSUP!!!
You guys aren't going to believe this! Yesterday, (Saturday) I put the left side tracks on. It took me about 4 days of fiddiling to get the left side done. I got the right side on in about 5 minutes! I had two or three partial breaks that I was able to easily fix. It was GREAT! Finally the tracks were on. So what was the messup? Read on...
I decided to drive down to the hobby shop in Salt Lake about 40 miles away and show off the tracks (as well as pick up a 1/72 Trumpeter kit.) But I didn't want my wife to know and she was at a play, anyway. Well I carefully packed the Panther in a box and off I went. I got down there and everyone ooohed and awed over the tracks. (Very gratifying, especially after all the trouble I had!) Well, I wound up spending way too much time there, including about 10 or 15 minutes talking to a "returning modeler" about what was new in kits and what I did and didn't like about the various 1/72 kits. All of a sudden, my cell goes off and it's my wife calling. Well, it's grab my stuff and head out the door (before answering the phone!) I head out on the freeway, call her back and tell her I'm on the way to the commissary for groceries, carefully leaving out the part that I'm 40 miles from the Base! I figured I was soooo very smart! (Never try to be dishonest!) I head up and get our groceries, head home and get everything unloaded. Everything is fine,...until I realize I left the box with the Panther in the car. How could I be so stupid??! Out to the car I go, after all, the tracks were done and I was determined to post the pics to all you fine friends! I open the door...and...NO BOX! I was sure I hadn't taken it in, my hands were full of groceries and stuff I bought at the model store. So, at 5:58, I call the store and yep!, it''s there. And, to add insult to injury, they are moving next week to the store front where Great Models used to be and will be closed for TWO weeks! My only chance to get it before they open back up is to go down tomorrow! (Now how do I explain THAT to my boss!)
So, sorry, guys, no pictures of those "fun-loving" tracks!
(And, I wound up telling my wife I'd been down there, just so I could boob about not having the Panther, and figuring she was going to find out anyway!)
(Oh, I bought one of the Can Do 1/44 Tiger I builtups, and the Trumpeter Ferdinand. I'll post another thread about it, but a first look has it being a really impressive model.)
Bill
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-- There is a fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness". (Author unknown)