"Oh...by the way..."

Modeling Subjects Armor
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These are the words my wife spoke today when she happened to mention that she let our 2 1/2 year old run around the basement and grab my Panzer IA I’ve been working on for 4 months!!! It’s all painted and ready for weathering

I ran downstairs to see the track off…the turret gun broken…and I didn’t have the stomach to look at the finer details yet. My wife knows BETTER! What if my paints or X-acto knife were out too!

I was hoping for a nice Sat evening trying some weathering…but apparently I’m in repair mode…grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

Okay…carry on…I’m done venting.

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Oh the humanity. I ran into sort of the same problem, except the wife was the one touching my model. The indy tracks broke and in repairing them, just made it worse. It took days to finally fix them.

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I know the feeling. My 2 year old nephew got ahold of my Marder III back on Easter Sunday.

I haven’t gotten the heart up to fix it yet.[:(]

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Which kit? Is it salvageable?

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So sorry to hear that. I hope the repair wont be so bad.

My input on this is; get your self a cabinet or shelf that you can lock. Even thou me and wife dont have a kid yet, but I have bought my self a shelf where I keep all my build there save and sound and dust free.

I also use my shelf to house my unfinished build.

So run your self to a furniture store and get one, they are worth it.

Ben

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I say you let him get a hold of something of hers thats fragile and let him have at it! Just kidding we probally have all have this experience at least once. Even if you do not have kids the dog or cat will sometimes pay your hobby table an unwanted visit. It hurts to have hours of work destroyed but we have to move on. Me I just put it away and start something else for now. If you try to repair the damage while you are still all worked up about it you will only get more agrivated. Hope it is not to far gone to be repaired.

Soulcrusher

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Kids— they do the darndest things–my kids are 28 yrs old (twins) they still break my crap-[(-D]-- ya gotta love 'em-- tread[8D]

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[B)]ouch! I feel your pain vtrockin! I don’t have any kids, but I have several nieces and nephews over today for a big family gathering so I put all my models on the topmost shelf! I luv them to death, but they always want to play with my “cannons” when they come over[sigh]…I’m thinking about getting a couple of those Fields of Armor tanks just so they can go hog wild on them and leave my stuff alone.

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[:(] Mom should know better and be more considerate of your efforts, [V] after all, she is a bit older. Does she realize the amount of work required?

[party] I’m sooo lucky… It’s just been me and my boy for over 19 years (since he was a year old) and he has never broken or touched a single model of mine. [bow] No wife either… and that makes me [#toast] double lucky.

Steve

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Im an AC man, my fav is when the nephews come over and try to spin a glued prop. Grrrr.

I love em to death. But it seems to me the worse thing you can do is say ‘Dont touch’.

Red rag to a bull.

…Guy

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once my cousin came over and he went into my bedroom while i was outside playing football so he breaks some of my stuff detroys stuff on my shelves and screws my unnaturally clean room. Threw a fit when i yelled at him.said he said his mom could go in my room. I had spent the day cleaning vaccuming and dusting. 6 models broken bad and a 1/18 huey heli rotor snapped!

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It seems someone has cast a spell on the Dragon Pz IA Smart kit. Some time ago FingersEddie was building the same kit and through his WIP pics one could see how beautiful it would turn out, just like yours, vtrockin. Then one day he got tired of it and smashed it up! I think the whole forum was in chock after that.

Anyway, my hart goes out for you, vtrocking. [:(] I really hope that you haven’t given up the idea of building the Pz 1, since it’s a great little piece, but doesn’t seem to be too poplular among modellers.

/Tony aka bultenibo

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for kids, all you can do is keep your stuff out of reach. for adults, the time to move is when you hear the question " hey, does thing really work? "

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That idea does work bufflehead. I have two 1/16 scale remote control tanks. They are pretty accurate but are still preassembled “toys” so the are durable. I gave my 4 year old niece the tank and the controls and she had a blast. The main gun fires plastic BB’s and she loved that even more. I have lost some small pieces of them like a smoke tube launcher and a couple of fenders but it is all repairable. Best of all she is not interested in the "boring ones"sitting on the shelf that do not do anything! The only casualty was the tank commander of the M-26. She drove it under a chair and he was decapataded by a chair rung. Bad day for him I guess. By the way I am still finding yellow plastic BB’s everywhere!

Soulcrusher

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Vtrocking, I think in your state that is grounds for divorce.

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I feel your pain. When my grandkids come over and ask if they can go downstairs they really already know the answer, but I tell them again No that’s grandpas room, there’s nothing in there for you to play with. It is full of things for grandpa to play with though.

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Sounds like when kids want to wander into my guitar room. “Those are NOT toys.”

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Don’t get me started on my kid playing with my guitars!!!

Well after a lot of patient work last night and some more inspection it seems nothing is beyond repair. Some CA glue, some re-bending of plastic, some paint touch up, and more patience is all that’s needed.

I do like all your stories…glad we can all laugh about it afterwards.

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whenever i get ticked about having to clean my room, my mom threatens to dust my models for me and that shuts me up right away.

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It’s Tamiya’s Marder III. The damage wasn’t too bad, it just kinda took my enthusiasm out of finishing it. Mine was at the same stage as vtrockins, painted and ready for weathering.