Fellow Modelers --

I implore your help in appeasing the Carpet Monster !! It jumped six feet from the floor to the top of my paint booth, dragging my 1/72 Pax River Blue Angel back with it.

In this seizure, the starboard stabilator was devoured ... i have searched naked eye and with flashlight all over the floor, behind the display case, under the air compressor, etc -- and even carefullly inspected the ceiling ... to no avail.

Since burnt plastic is a pleasing aroma to the Carpet Monster, will all of you please sacrifice one-tenth of your best suplus sprue for the return of my stabilator. Perhaps in three days, like the whale spit Jonah out, my stabilator will reappear !! Thank you for your special help, George

Feeding 1 won't help....the rest of the pack will sense fear and pounce!!!

Go back to the scene of the disappearance and intently look for something else. The stabilator will magically reappear before your eyes. Amazing. It'll be like it was right there all the time (which it was/is).


It's only a hobby..it's only a hobby..it's -

My Paw showed me this one. When you drop a nut or bolt or (part) on the ground, find a identical part (port side) and lay it at your feet. Your eye will pop to the same shape within about a five foot diamater. We easily loose perspective of scale. Soooo, rip off the port side and tell me I am wrong!

If your carpet monster is a mean one, you are on your own.

California Steve

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and lost the other part too!

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A whole roll of old but new tri-color blue shage rug to this guy for his Man Room.

George?...........................

Ha! Ha!,

California Steve

I have vinyl flooring and I still lose stuff. Adios, Larry.

Field Artillery brings dignity to what otherwise might be merely a vulgar brawl.

Scratch-build a replacement.

After fitting this part you will then find the original sitting on top of a bottle of paint or reference book you have not used for a while.

You reached for this color or text because you realized it might be pertinent to the model you are working on.

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It's only a hobby..it's only a hobby..it's -

your trouser cuffs and the instep of your shoes/slippers. I think the Trouser/Shoe monsters (a close ally of the Carpet variety) live in there.
I've sometimes found leavings in there after a week of fruitless floor searching.


Brett

Lose a part, spend four hours scratch building a semi-respectable replacement and you will suddenly find the missing part. It's happened too many times to me.

However, I've also given up and months later opened a reference book, that hadn't been out in years, only to find my part between the pages!! I have NO explanation for that one!

Face it George; if the Carpet monster wants it, they are going to get it.

Illegitimi non carborundum
In memory of Denis Keegan.

Yup, been there done that. Nothing like going through a vacuum bag full of disgusting filth and dog hair in search of a part, yuck!!!! And of course we all have heard the sweet sound of a canopy we have searched and searched for being crushed into the carpet, yup...good times. One or two little tricks that might help, keep them on a piece of masking tape, as well as cutting out little parts while on the tape (really good for PE parts that might put your eye out), and always find someone else who can look for the part, a fresh pair of eyes help, that's why I had kids. Well, that's all I got for now, but I can say I have gotten very good at scratch building because of the "carpet monster".
Cheers

P.S. Hard surfaces aren't much better, they bounce for miles!