Well said upnorth.
It is a shame that many of those people that you talk about do not understand that a child has to be taught these things…they seem to think that they are born with all of the knowledge that they need to function in the world.
I agree with you on the direction of society…I sure hope that more people pull their heads out before it goes all to…well you know![:D]
Jerry
Hell in a handbasket? Well, as long as the California “Niveau Riche”(which is a FRENCH[AKA: sinful] term!) have there way, and they have the guns taken from the innocent and give 'em to crooks, and their “anything that involves Video Games causes violence” mindsets are aloud to prevail, civilization will be heading that way! (That and I hear that California is trying to ban Plastic Models as well, because their often military nature, is believed to cause violence, according to leading bribed scientists)
Also, we need to get pro-active. It’s great to complain, but if we don’t start teaching our children, and try to influence others, nothing will change! We’ve got to start DOING, not just SAYING!
This is realy the pits when so many people have run into these situations, I am a gun nut also and have heard these same sort of tales from the shops I have hung out in. to read that someone had all thier stuff taken in the middle of a tournoment is mind boggling. it would be great to catch one of these punks red handed at a swapmeet or a show and hold them till the cops show, that would give at least 15 to 20 minutes to hassle this scum till the cops took him. now that could get real fun real quick.
I was at an air show at NAS Miramar (when it was still the top gun school) a number of years ago where our club had a large display. Someone had lifted some model mags we had on display there when it was noticed we had notified security.I had not ever before or since seen such a sight.A “swarm” of m.p.'s had decended upon our tables in serch of some kid that snagged a couple of books.Talk about cool…
As for punishing a model thief?
My recommedation would be to force the thief to build the kit .
Then I would chain that person to a table and unleash the most vial,cruel,inhumain,soul eating cretures ever to live amoung men.
Thats right folks an I.P.M.S national judging crew.
That poor bastard would’nt stand a chance.
Forcing him to listen to those guys tear in to his kit building skills might change his way of thinking or at least make him never want to get caught again…
Just remember their are bad people every where,you just never know where they will strike…Happy modeling all…
Oh yeah, thats so cruel it sounds great, but have it like the movie groundhog day, every day the same thing, getting torn apart by a pack of hungry judges, sounds incredible. if they would actualy punish these low lifes maybe it would’nt seem so “easy” to them.
One up the judges by unleashing the rivet counters that think they know soooo much but know next to nothing and won’t accept that they’re wrong under any circumstances “Thats god awfull! Totally innacurate, you must be off of the true FS number by at least a whopping millionth of a degree!”
The best torture, sit them at a table with a serving tray of parts removed from their sprues, all the same colour, same scale, same subject, throw in a few excess parts but making sure there’s enough missing that a complete model can’t possibly be built from the assortment and give them nothing but a couple of grainy photos of the real thing to work from. No instructions, no boxtop, no clear current pictures and low quality glue to stick it together with.
It’d be like making them build a jigsaw puzzle or fold up a road map correctly with a blindfold on.
For added fun, you could stand over them, looking over their shoulders, bouncing on the balls of your feet while wincing and sucking air through your teeth every now and again when they do something. Just something to make them jittery and more error proned.
The closest I ever get to hunting is the rare fishing excursion, so firearm tortures are a bit of a foreign issue to me, however, you could take that very fine and flexible tip end of a fishing rod and use it as a sort of riding crop on your hapless thief while they’re muddling aimlessly with the hopeless exercise in futility you’ve placed in front of them.
Hold them there until the crew with the rubber truck comes to pick them up.
If that fails, force them to make a functional origami flapping bird out of a square of toilet paper. That’ll push em’ straight over the edge!
give them a limited run french kit with SO many pieces and only give them a gluestick
A buddy of mine who is a vendor has had kits lifted in the last two shows we participated in. Only two were taken but to someone who works hard to put on a good display and selection it really sucks… he puts it like this: shit happens. No matter where you go it will happen. My brother-in-law is from South Africa and he says that they used to take them out in back of the store and knock him or her around a few times and the cops would look the other way. He runs a local hardware store and wishes the laws applied here too. Like my hobby store buddy says; " There’s always one who wants to ruin it for everyone."
take care Ian
regards,
Jon
PS… he probably has the model obscured in Super Glue haze with his earlobes glued to his lips.
upnorth, I agree.
These days people are doing everything to get something even though it’s wrong. I myself witness an argument broke out between one of the participants and one of the judges in a modeling competition. It seemed to me that that guy really dissatisfied with the result. Well, come on do you have to fight for it. And for stealing somebody else kits…SHAME, SHAME, SHAME ON YOU! You are not a true modeler by doing that. Me, I once lost a Fujimi 1/72 F/A 18C Hornet when I was in college. I costed me a lot. I searched the kit in my country for months and finally get it. I kept it 3 days then someone ‘kind’ enough to steal it from me. I was so disappointed I stopped modeling for several months. Now working have my own house, I have special cabinet to store all my modeling equipment and kit.
Khairuddin
Malaysia.