Captain
My wife has a Chef’s certificate[C=:-)] altough she works at a Bank. I get to ‘eat out’ at home[:D]. My wife’s idea of a good meal is the one I cook her…yes I can cook too. But the real irony here is, is my wife is a great cook and her name is Lucretia and our surname starts with B…think about it! [:p]
Been there and done that too… however in my case it was a fur-bearing four-footed creature who was the culprit. The victim in this case was a newly-completed diorama which was slated for competition. I was able to repair it but not in time for the show.
Hope it never happens again, Pete, but at least you know you’re not alone!
Sorry to hear about the accident. Is the model to far gone for any repairs or is the model going to be put in the parts box?
mark956
Consider that you have a wife who does not mind that you leave in-progress models on the billiard table, and be grateful. [:)]
That said, I leave my stuff in all kinds of crazy locations, and bad stuff occasionally happens to it, and I never learn.
Well, at least your wife said, “I love you” and apologized. I was buildiing a ship for someone, and she went into my hobby room to turn off a fan. You guessed it, The Ship went down like the Titanic. She never said anything to me, just closed the door and went on. I found it two days later and asked her what happened. She simply said “It fell wehen I tried to turn off the fan. You need to save electicity.” When I tried to impress upon her the time and hard work I’d put into this, and the fact that it was for someone else, she acted as if I was wrong for “making her go into the room and turning off the fan instead of doing it myself.” (her words!)
Oh well. Maybe someday She’ll learn…
I feel your pain, the loss of my TU95 was unBEARable, (bad pun intended). didn’t get so much as a sorry and that wasn’t the first model that she has totalled. she always seemed to wreck the ones that i can’t replace like my heller EC121 and the revell 1/32 mosquito. anyways i have converted my loft into a modeling room and as i have to pull myself up through the hatch (something she isn’t physycaly strong enough to do) she can’t do any more damage (OR CAN SHE???). Greg
I’m sorry to hear about that… it’s never fun to see an almost finished project destroyed partially or completely, at least you can blame it on somebody else, it’s worse whe you are the one the does it
Can’t understand you guys with pets. I’ve never had a pet, but I always end up washing, feeding, worming, walking and taking my wife’s dog to the vet. I had to feed and clean out my older son’s mice pen when he was younger, and feed the other son’s fish and clean the tank regularly. If I had to look after my own pet as well, I would never get any modelling done[:p]!
Duke, I think you MUST be worse off than me. At least I think my wife will be more careful in future. Maybe you should should invest in a timer for the fan and a lock for the door!
Gregors, but aircraft are such flimsy things anyway[:o)] There are a lot more fine parts on an aircraft and I know, from when I modelled them, accidents usually result in an addition to the parts box not a rebuild. I gotta feel more sorry for you - especially that the kits are irreplaceable.
Larry. It was there for less than 90 minutes! I had actually moved it out of the garage so my wife or kids would not knock it off the desk when she left for work or they went to school later that morning. My wife suffers from migraines, so I have to paint outside so the fumes from paint do not set her off.
Well the weekend has come and gone, and after copious quantities of glue, bracing around cracked hull joins, putty, replacement parts from 2 guys from my club (one even brought the old Kirin resin add-on armour kit in case I needed that!) the LV is on the road to recovery. I believe she will walk again, but it will be lots of physio and TLC to see her through.
Thanks again for all the support
I’ve heard those words too! It’s really tough to put things in perspective at a time like that and remember that it is, after all, something that can be replaced and maybe even improved on (that’s my way of dealing with it!). It’s one of those times when NO words and a hug are worth much more than any harsh words. I’m sure your wife felt about as bad as you. ( I knocked over my ex’s favorite orchid once and she not only ragged me out, but never forgave me for it… I know what the flip side feels like too.)
Ron.