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| Subject: | Re: Your worst nightmare, accident during asembly |  |
| Date: | Oct 3, 2006 |
| From: | Jerry Plettenberg | |
My worst modelling nightmare did not even involve a 1/35 kit but a 1/48 Tamiya Spitfire Mk II.
Having spent more than twice the kit's costs on photo etch and resin for the cockpit, bulging tyres, resin flaps, etc, etc I finally got to the very last job in hand, the fixing of a piece nylon fishing wire for the aerial.
Then the phone rang, my wife called me from the hospital telling me I had just two minutes before become granddad of two very healthy twin brothers. I quickly went to put away the just finished Spit in order to make my way to the maternity ward to meet my two 'cronwprinces'.
In my obvious hurry I hadn't noticed one of my cats slipping into my hobbyroom behind me. Since at that time I was also busy with a paint-job in one of my rooms a ladder was parked in the hobbyroom.
The cat climbed the ladder, I shouted at her to get down.
And she did.
She landed right smack into the middle of my Spit!
A total wreck...too many pieces broken off irrepairably.
I still recall thinking at the time if this perhaps was a bad omen?
It turned out it was not; both boys are 10 years old now, very healthy and very very interested in granddad's hobby.
One of them even built his own first 1/72 airplane model recently.
Which coincidentally happens to be a Spitfire....
But is it a coincidence???
Happy Modelling
Jerry |
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 | Your worst nightmare, accident during asembly - Konrad Drozanski - Oct 2, 2006 |
| . . . Re: Your worst nightmare, accident during asembly - Matthew Sinclair - Oct 2, 2006 |
| . . . . . . Re: Your worst nightmare, accident during asembly - Jerry Plettenberg - Oct 3, 2006 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: Your worst nightmare, accident during asembly - Brian Bocchino - Oct 3, 2006 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: Your worst nightmare, accident during asembly - Ray Peterson - Oct 3, 2006 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Your worst nightmare, accident during asembly - Paul A. Owen - Oct 3, 2006 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Your worst nightmare, accident during asembly - Paul A. Owen - Oct 3, 2006 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Your worst nightmare, accident during asembly - Tony Wilsbacher - Oct 3, 2006 |
| . . . Re: Your worst nightmare, accident during asembly - Chris Mrosko - Oct 3, 2006 |
| . . . Re: Your worst nightmare, accident during asembly - Tim Streeter - Oct 3, 2006 |
| . . . . . . Re: Your worst nightmare, accident during asembly - Roger Cockburn - Oct 4, 2006 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: Your worst nightmare, accident during asembly - george moore - Oct 14, 2006 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Your worst nightmare, accident during asembly - Mark Dunck - Oct 15, 2006 |
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