Funny?
You mean “hah-hah” or "OH S***!
I’d been trying to get a long time friend interested in modeling. We were both in the same profession and he’d retired. Since we wouldn’t have work stuff to relate to each other anymore, I thought getting him to the bench could be a good thing.
I bought him a kit or two and some beginning tools for Christmas and kept hitting on him to take the plunge.
He’d started to weaken and came by as I was finishing up a 1/48th Lunar Module.
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I’d put a piece of stock tube in the engine bell and mounted the model on a piece of brass rod into the tube. This supported the model during the last stage of construction and would be the final mount for the completed build. This was important because once all the little antenna mounts, etc., were attached it would be very difficult to hold the model without breaking something off.
He was next to the bench as I was about ready to put on the last finishing touch when…
the tube inside the bell broke at the glue joint and the module rolled off into my hand! I couldn’t sit the model down, I’d break it. I couldn’t super glue the tube with the rod still inside with one hand!
My blood pressure and anxiety began to spike!
He wouldn’t touch or hold the model, “I’m not getting involved in this problem,” he said.
Somehow through adroit juggling, creatively applied profanity and pure luck, I was able to get everything back together with little appreciable damage.
“You want me to start doing this stuff so I can RELAX?!?!” my friend asked.