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Windy Day+Model+Need to lock door=Flying(falling) recovery tank

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  • From: Ft. Sill, OK
Windy Day+Model+Need to lock door=Flying(falling) recovery tank
Posted by beav on Thursday, March 11, 2004 6:11 PM
So it was windy today-30mph gusts, I was heading to school to show a friend what I do-model of course. As a was locking the door, the model caught a gust of wind and started to fly(fall) It crashed on my concrete steps. BOOM!
Good thing: I got the main parts back
Bad thing: Using the phrase SNAFU (just look at the model phrases page)
and I got real mad.
Half was now under the steps, and school could not wait.
got the crane, and turret, plus all the stuff on top of the turret(tower thing) back.
I am happy, but now I have to redo it all.
I saw it in slow motion
Down
Down
Down
Down
it went
CONTACT
BOOM
and pieces whizzed off everywhere
oh well.Sleepy [|)]

"First to Fire!"

Steven

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  • From: Philippines
Posted by Dwight Ta-ala on Thursday, March 11, 2004 6:35 PM
Could we see that in instant replay? LOL.

Sorry about that.

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  • From: Rain USA, Vancouver WA
Posted by tigerman on Thursday, March 11, 2004 7:06 PM
I thought only airplanes flew and crashed.

   http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y269/wing_nut_5o/PANZERJAGERGB.jpg

 Eric 

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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, March 11, 2004 7:13 PM
D'oh
is it FUBAR or can you fix it
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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, March 11, 2004 8:07 PM
Heart felt sorrow to your tragedy. Been there, done that....
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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, March 11, 2004 8:51 PM
Sounds like a "Recovery vehicle meets Tiger tank" diorama opportunity ....
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  • From: Tennessee
Posted by MartianGundamModeler on Thursday, March 11, 2004 9:05 PM
It was windy here too. i performed my first experiment with making nets and bed rolls from tissue and gauze. I placed them outside to dry and As i was leaving to go pick up my daughter from daycare I noticed one of my rolls blowing away! Luckily I retreived it and moved the others to a safer location dry ...my wife's oven!Big Smile [:D] Sorry to hear about your accident.Disapprove [V]
"Some men look at things the way they are and ask ' Why?'. I dream of things that never were and ask "Why not?".--Robert Kennedy taken from George Bernard Shaw's "Back To Methuselah" (Thanks to TomZ2) http://martiangundammodels.50megs.com/index.html
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, March 12, 2004 4:00 AM
A while back I was transporting my M2A2 to the car to take to work to be photographed. As it was still work in progress, I hadn't glued everything down. Just as I closed the door I looked at the model in my hand. It was blowing fairly stiffly and just as I thought to myself: "Hmm that shovel isn't glued on, I hope it doesn't blow off.." I seemed to call upon the Force to do just that. That was in september I think.. I found it a week or so ago...
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  • From: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Posted by zokissima on Friday, March 12, 2004 6:39 AM
Lol sorry to hear about that, but damn, that'd be fun to watch, just for the heck of it.
I've allways wanted to take some of my old models and just either take a BB gun to them or some firecrackers in a 'simulated battle' scenario in my backyard Big Smile [:D]
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, March 12, 2004 9:05 AM
Sorry! Too bad life doesn't have an "undo" or "revert" key.
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, March 12, 2004 10:10 AM
Ouch and waaaah !
sorry to hear about ur mishap...looks like ur recovery vehicle needs a recovery vehicle now !
best of luck finding all the pieces and getting it back together again.
or it mite be the start of an 'abandoned afv quietly rusting in a field' dio ?

frostySmile [:)]
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  • From: Utah - USA
Posted by wipw on Friday, March 12, 2004 10:47 AM
beav, sorry to hear of your mishap. Hope you can get it all back together.
Bill ========================================================== DML M4A2 Red Army ========================================================== ========================================================== -- There is a fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness". (Author unknown)
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  • From: Camp Leatherneck, Afghanistan
Posted by bilbirk on Friday, March 12, 2004 8:11 PM
what is a recovery tank?
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Posted by Spamicus on Friday, March 12, 2004 9:37 PM
I can feel your pain Beav. I used to have a friend who picked up my JS III by the gun tube. I used to have a friend.......

Steve

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  • From: Ft. Sill, OK
Posted by beav on Friday, March 12, 2004 11:15 PM
OO, OOO,
Thanks for your heartfelt sympathy!
Well, there are lots of replies pressed into one:
Bilbirk, starting with you, since you are the closest to the quick reply box, My M32 is a converted tank(most recovery tanks were converted from outmoded tanks) it used to be a Sherman. It has a crane mounted on it, plus all the stuff that a travelling mechanic needs. It is used for pulled wrecked tanks out of the way, onto a dragon wagon, or pulling stuck tanks out of the mud. I am sure others have more to add.
Frostygirl, I am going to use it in my next diorama, and I got back the major assemblies, like the weird cylinder turret replacement thing, and the crane. It will be knocked out, a little rust, but covered in snow, and converted to a german machine gun pillbox in the ardennes(what better place to put one? Nice and dry, lots of room, warm, and you are still in an armored box)
Zokissima, If you really want to shoot tanks, a friend of mine, knows how to make origami tanks(he plays war with them(you can crush em, then refold reinforcements)
Captain Caveman, I can fix most of it, so it is not at all FUBAR (yet)
I wish I had a video of it, It would be great(BOOM)
I am gonna crush a cheap airplane kit this summer though(build it, then film an old International Harvester Crawler running over it)
Have fun all!

"First to Fire!"

Steven

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