Well most of my models are stored in the outhouse. We had lots of rain and hailstones last night and the roof leaked exactly where my models were. Result is most of them are water damaged, a lot of the guilding on the Soliel will need redoing (its all gone cloudy, I'm hoping leaving it on there radiator will dry it out and it will go clear again) to say I'm upset is an understatement.
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That is a real bummer, hope everything dries out ok, make sure any decals in kit boxes are removed to a dry place. -
Damn, that is a bad thing mate, my heart ache goes out to you and I feel your pain mate. When my shed leaked I too had some damage to models, luckily mine wasn't too bad. I hope you manage to get things sorted.Comment
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That's a real shame I hope everything dries out ok and you don't have to do much to repair the damage.Comment
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So sorry about this.
Well. Water. Tell me about it! We lived in a black-and-white cottage after I retired. A dream. In the 2000s, a very wet decade, we were flooded out three times. Farm water inside to hip level. Two months to dry out each time, we living upstairs. Fortunately, insurance covered the cost each time of new carpets, three-piece suite, redecoration, furniture repairs, new washing machine etc. (The third flood followed the second within three weeks).But we lost things like all the photos of our holiday in Australia with family, books, keepsakes. Huge cost of building a flood wall which saved us from the fourth flood four months after it was built (although the water level was lapping its top!) Now we live on high ground with lower ground all around.
The cause was the brook the other side of the farm was very choked. It hadn't been cleared since 1945. it was the landowner's fault but we were advised that he had a bigger barrister than we could afford!Comment
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Sorry to hear that Ken.Comment
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Hopefully your models are dry and that they haven't endured too much damage. Hopefully you shouldn't have to repair them too much!Comment
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Well. Water. Tell me about it! We lived in a black-and-white cottage after I retired. A dream. In the 2000s, a very wet decade, we were flooded out three times. Farm water inside to hip level. Two months to dry out each time, we living upstairs. Fortunately, insurance covered the cost each time of new carpets, three-piece suite, redecoration, furniture repairs, new washing machine etc. (The third flood followed the second within three weeks).But we lost things like all the photos of our holiday in Australia with family, books, keepsakes. Huge cost of building a flood wall which saved us from the fourth flood four months after it was built (although the water level was lapping its top!) Now we live on high ground with lower ground all around.
Well that puts it all in perspective, sorry about that Steve, actually looking at it tonight a lot of the bases are scrap but the models themselves just really need washing, good news is that the guilding on the Soliel has cleared just a bit of staining on the transom.Comment
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oh no Ken thats a bummer ,do hope they dry out alright,
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Damn me mate, sorry to hear that not a good situation I sincerely hope it improves.
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Hi all well the after a day to calm down
the models just need a wash in clean water, the warspite dio base could be saved but to be fair its taking up too much space so will probably break it down and make some smaller dios I'm just glad the Thermopylae and Soliel hulls were in the living room.
here's the warspite dio
and here's the Soliel guilding
As I said after a day to calm down not as bad as I thought, not too worried about the bases as I needed room anyway, so maybe its a good thing.Comment
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Wow! You were lucky.Comment
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