You know that distinctive gut-wrenching sound that tweezers make when the ends snap together signalling that they have just launched some small part off into the nether regions ? It’s usually the death knell for whatever part it was, because Murphy dictates that the harder the part was to scratchbuild, or the more important and irreplaceable it is to the kit then the more obscure its trajectory will be, meaning it’s projected flight path can defy all laws of physics.
But not tonight. Tonight the tiny four piece, 3mm long latch that I had just scratchbuilt went flying into the blackhole of carpetdom. I’d just spent 15 minutes making it and damned if I was going to lose it. So I can proudly say that after 35 minutes on my hands and knees with a torch I actually found it.
Now I know in those 35 minutes I could have made not only another one but one of the two others I will also need, but that’s not the point. The point is I won. I defeated the carpet monster. I am man, hear me roar. I have conquered my Everest despite big thumbs, failing eyesight, the gloom of 11PM under a table and the littered debris of four days modelling.
Dean 1, Carpet Monster about 30. The fight back begins.
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The plushy monster knows that the BIG parts NEVER FALL, only thre little ones and he
is always there to hide them in the most unreachable spot.
Me, sometimes when I drop a part I immediately dissasemble the whole room and move furniture and all to the room next, I know my little parts is NEVER going to be in plain sight, so why bother just looking at the floor..IT’S NEVER GOING TO BE THERE..!!
When the Carpet Apocalypse comes I’m glad I’ll have you on my side.
*bats eyelashes*
I’ll remind you of that when the carpet eats your cat.
I thin any and every modeler who reads this is chuckling and cheering you on. I think an entire Sherman tank could drive out of my carpet at any time, someitmes the pieces you lose are soooo bloody big it is almost not possible to believe – and the distance they travel before landing is at times of Olympic proportions.
Go Dean. My monster last gobbled the right hand grab handle on the King Tiger hatch that I have on the ‘Russian’ armoured car!
Not to mention the amazing camoflage abilities of most carpets. The ammount of times you finally find a part where you already looked three times.