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[Guest]

hello all

just a little thing if you have kids and i mean little ones. no matter what you do with your models the best thing to do is put them way up high. this is becase i put my wonderful P 38 in my glass cabinet and my bro pulled it apart. i got so mad

what and why do they go for so presious things e.g my models

[wonwinglo]

Char,animals and children do not go well with models,one of my Siamese cats once made a bed in a box of my models rustling amongst the nice warm pop wrap,children just do not realise how fragile these things are and are attracted by the colours,so keep everything in cabinets away from prying fingers and curiosity.Sorry to hear about the damage,any chance of repairing the model ?

[Guest]

Char' date='animals and children do not go well with models,one of my Siamese cats once made a bed in a box of my models rustling amongst the nice warm pop wrap,children just do not realise how fragile these things are and are attracted by the colours,so keep everything in cabinets away from prying fingers and curiosity.Sorry to hear about the damage,any chance of repairing the model ?[/quote']Thats the thing barry it was in a cabinet and no it is no repairable so my dad bought me a Spitfire MK 24 1/48 scale which i do like and plus it gets me practice for the group build.

[wonwinglo]

You do have a kind dad,he thinks the world of you.

[Guest]

My father once returned from a trip to sea with a completed model of the Victory, fully rigged. How on earth he got it home in one piece I have no idea but it sat on a window sill and slowly had bits knocked off it until he got fed up of repairing it and threw it away.

I always felt very sad that he had put so much into it and then it ended up in the bin. We didn't have any such things as glass cabinets in those days so it had to take its chance with two very small boys and my mothers duster.

Never had a chance really!

[Guest]

yes barry my dad does think of me but only hen im godd hehe

and richard i understand that. it happened to my dad enterprise which he built with all LEDs and everything my nan knocked it over wit a feather duster he was so annoyed. also i decided when i was four that i would use poster paint on my dads concorde he was at work at the time but he was so mad when he got in. lol ive got a picture of that ill post it up for a laugh sometime.

[Guest]

We all need to develop our creative talents somehow.

Obviously you were just trying to express yourself!!

[Guest]

Bonfire night was always the time my models had to hide. We had such fun as kids using bangers to blow them up. This all came to a head with my dads model of the USS Constitution (Ithink it was the constitution)

Which went in the bath with its hull full of bangers and a couple of my dads shotgun shells for good luck.

Both me and my brother got a good hiding for that (Ithink i still have the welt marks!) and deservedly so. I think we got the hiding more for the shotgun shells, which with hindsight and old age makes me think -good job they never went off. (the ship did catch fire though, and sank with a realism appropriate for a nine year old).

[Guest]

well this shows what we are all like youngsters lol hat about everyone else what have they done in the past.

[Guest]

I used to have models all around my bedroom and hanging from the ceiling and can still remember coming home from school only for my mum to tell me my spitfire had crashed....I said, "what do you mean it has crashed..??"...she said, "I knocked it off the window sill with my feather duster"...out with the glue again lol !!!

Regards......Mark.

[Guest]

I used to flash my torch at them in bed at night and pretend it was an air raid.

Now you're getting to much information!!!