A few weeks ago I was working on my diorama, when one of my finished figures fell onto the floor. Well, the RIGHT foot came off. I ripped the whole room apart and could not find it anywhere. So, I subsituted the feet with another brand. Okay, fine.

Now today, I was working on the same diorama, knocked over a different figure. The head, helmet and RIGHT foot came off. I found the head and helmet and you guessed it. I CANNOT FIND THIS FRIGGIN FOOT!!!!
I have to get out of this room.

Am I losing it???? Someone please tell me so. Thanks!!!

well, you are losing a couple of right feet...

be more careful maybe?

being attacked by model gremlins

mmmmmmm! Carpet monster treats........foot candy?right ones taste best?

I know exactly what you´re going through mate!

A fine example of myself almost losing it is yesterday when i was clipping away the front lamps from the sprue of my DML Firefly VC....and the lamps has a medium grey color which by the way fits PERFECTLY whit my medium grey carpet that covers 2/3 of my room.
After spending two hours scanning the floor whit green stuff modeling putty all over my hands and a very irritated temper i can swear that if i hadn't taken a break , a voice inside yelling ...me angry - me SMASH accompanied whit my "green" hands would have gone berserk.

I use a small light blue LED reading light when searching for any lost grey resin parts. Finds them every time.

/
Christian

Nope... not losing it. Model gremlins are real... sometimes (frequently, in my case) taking the form of an 18yo who can't keep from fiddling with models sitting on my workbench, which is right beside the 'puter. Parts lost? Yep! And then miraculously reappear a day or two later. But the one that drives me, and I mean, really drives me... is when I have to fix the legs on a machine gun or something like that, that I'm working on for a vignette. ===Rant Ends===

Other than that, oh, yeah, model gremlins are real. They cause the mysterious paint scratches, utterly unexplained missing parts (sometimes from the sealed box!) They're also responsible for your SdKfz suddenly deciding to roll off your workbench while your hands are full working on another delicate part.

But in spite of these gremlins, we keep on modelling, and trying to find ways to foil them before they strike. Chin up, Sean!

Hi Sean,
I do have ALOT of sympathy for you mate..i was busy painting these two blokes when out of know where the infamous carpet gremlin appeared and within a blink of an eye my figures had lost their left hands...evidence is self explanatory.They won't be smiling for too much longer, eventually i'll have to break the bad news and tell them their hands are gone for good!!!
Cheers,Shay

In such scale the modeller gremlin would be probably building 1/1 dio. That seems a bit unlikely. So if I would be you, I would be rather hunting for amputee gremlin. At this moment probably fully equipped with two peglegs...

I have lost enough peices of gear to equip a platoon of model gremlins. Just lucky they havent gotten any weapons from me yet, other than the occasional grenade.

Kevin,
Are you sure they've not got any weapons.
Have you checked your spares box lately?
I've got a salmon pinkish carpet where I model (don't go there it's SWMBO's idea). The little f#**##s must be running around with the same colour in little spray cans, or sometimes they leave the part on the kitchen worktop or similar.
Tom

Edit:
I've just noticed the radio aeirals are missing from my M1A1 model. Now this model is in a cabinet behind glass. They were attached when I put another model on the next shelf down a couple of weeks ago, but now they're not. They're not even lying on the shelf somewhere.
gremlins. Can't live with them,
Can definitely live without them!
Tom

I lost a 1" square flat, Yellow part on a blue carpet and hunted everywhere for it.

I gave up in disgust and scratched another one and painted it yellow. I lost it on the same carpet. I went ape and took the place apart. I didn't find either of them.

I scratched a third in despair.

A week later I found the first two both stuck to some masking tape on the bottom of the model box!

Thanks guys, I do feel better now. I took a break, went back into the room and found the FOOT!. Other foot still missing though. Found the foot in a box that had a hole on the side of it. Whats the chance of that happening?!?! P.S. My room has hard wood floors, no carpeting. THANK GOODNESS, I'd really be going NUTS! Take care...

If you are working on a green sprued modelkit, put a large piece of white pvc (linoleum) floor covering under your work space. Same for Every other colour, apart from light grey... then use a dark piece of linoleum..
If you loose a part, as a last resort you can pick up the piece of linoleum, and tip it up, to move the missing part.

You need to say: "St.Anthony, St.Anthony, take a look around, something is lost and cant be found".....Cant hurt!

I've done that from time to time and it is maddening. Hope you find it before the vacuum does!

Thats all I've got, anymore sympathy I cant afford; I placed my keys on the kitchen table two days ago, nothing else on the table and they vanished into thin air. I have gone thru the kids toybox, the sand box, all the drawers in the house, the garbage(twice) and still no keys.

Hi There,

I take my vacuum cleaner and just using the hose put a lady's nylon over and slowly vacuum the floor. The parts are light enough to stick to the nylon but not small enough to go through.

I've recovered many pieces that I have thought long lost

Cheers

Ray

Too funny...

That must happen to everyone. I searched for a small, very small piece of painted styreen. I gave up.

Then I found that it was stuck to my forearm.

I have wooden floors and still lose things. Don't blame it on the carpet.

When you do find the things, let me know so I will know where to look.

THANK THE GODS I`M NOT THE ONLY ONE !!!!
I know exactly what you mean --gently does it,snip,PING --DAMN !!!
AAAh,but did you also know that the part that goes is proportional to the cost and noticeability of its absence on the finished kit .

Sean-- yes, you are now certifiably gone. Too bad, please send me a PM so you can send me all your unbuilt models prior to undergoing therapy.
Your buddy,
DJ

PS-- what are pals for......

My ex-missus took it one step further. As well as having to cope with the carpet monster she'd hoover my desk then deny it. That stopped when I emptied the hoover onto the living room floor to retrieve an exhaust off a Puma as I knew she was lying about sucking up everything on my desk. Found the exhaust, then refused to clean up the mess as she'd lied to me. I thought that was fair...LOL