Hey! My F-14 is leaking!

This beats anything I’ve ever seen… I have a 1/48 Monogram F-14 hanging from the ceiling above my desk and a while back I noticed drops of “stuff” on the desk under where the model was hanging. After a long search I noticed that the bottom of the model, near the exaust was leaking an oily liquid. I wiped it off but the next day there was more. It has no smell and is about the consistency of linseed oil. I only painted that model with Testors spraypaint, nothing else. What’s really odd is that it was built at least 6 years ago. If anything was going to have a reaction, it should have happened long ago. There is no way anything could have gotten on or into the model in at least 3 years. The stuff seem to be coming from inside and had no adverse effects on the paint. I estimate that enough of this stuff dripped out to fill the lid of one of those small Testor paint jars.

-fish is confused[%-)]

Somebody call Mulder

is there an attack above your room??? if there is, check it…perhaps something spilled up there,leaked threw the floor, down the wires to your plane,and collected in the lowest spot???

just a thought…

Maybe it’s haunted? Happy halloween. Bob

I have heard of real aircraft leaking, but never a model. This is the day before Halloween and not April Fools Day, isn’t it? [%-)]

Did you use some modeling clay or something as counterweight on the nose? If so please check it out if it has melted.

Or come to think of it. A pilot sitting on the cockpit for 3 years without somewhere to go to “when it is time to go” can be a suspect. LOL.

Nothing leaked onto the model.

I havent had it exorcised, but I’m leaving that option open.

no joke.

There is nothing inside the model, not even paint.

…and there’s no pilot. Yeah, that’s right. I built a flying, gear up model of an F-14 with no pilot. I wasn’t too big on details back then.

Hhhhhhhmmmmm I know a good priest!

Fill out a maintenance chit and report it to the crew chief.

Where’s Paul when you need him. Probibly doing a mass somewhere.[:D][:p][zzz]

Before I can solve this mystery I have to ask a few serious questions.

  1. When the lights are out in the room does the plane emit any strange light or aura? If yes is it in the blue/green or yellow/red spectrum?

  2. When the “leakage” is touched does it have any healing qualities? Does it cure migraines, eliminate arthritis pain, cure baldness or the like?

  3. Any sound coming from the aircraft? If so is it a whistling or whirring sound?

  4. Has anyone from the National Enquirer stopped by? Are complete strangers being drawn to your home?

Sorry fish couldn’t resist. But my official guess is…time delayed chemical reaction.

THE POWER OF CHRIST COMPELLS YOU!

Perhaps it is the spirit of a retired or destroyed real Tomcat that has taken posession of your’ model.[(-D]

DJ

HAH, that’s hillarious. I just finished reading that book a short while ago. Man that cracks me up.

what kind of book is that???

Funny book about christ???

Hey Stoopidfish,
There’s no real answer here is there?
Take the thing down from the ceiling and place it on a desk or something for a while, and see if it still leaks.
If it still does, and you can’t live with it, just hit it with a hammer.
If if still leaks, just get a bigger hammer.
Works for me every time. Sorts the kids out, too.
Cheers
LeeTree

are you sure it is not a disguised SR-71?..lol

Let me see if I have this correct now … you have an F-14, hanging from the ceiling, and it leaks.

Depends …

The darn thing needs … a Depends.

Maybe it is like in the movie Toy Story or some of the old commercials for , I think Nissan" where Barbie gets picked up by GI Joe leaving Ken in the dust. Does are models come alive when we are not around or could it be Elves taking a break from making shoe and going for test flights?

This could only be solved by Scooby-Doo! Okay now I now I have been watching too much TV with my daughter.

Alrighty-O!! [alien]

Why don’t you take it down and dissect it. [:)]

Do you live near a toxic chemical factory? Maybe the air is bad? [xx(]

LOL at shermanfreak