Model Thieves!

Dark days indeed, Sir. On the bright side, they were stolen and not trashed. At least the thieves have some shred of decency left. Commiserations Chek

My model skills are so poors its a crime............

Sorry, hope you get them back but not in as many peices as came in the box!

They were obviously after the models and took the PCs to cover it up. ;-) Sorry for the loss, homme. :-(

WmB

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Try to look on the bright side, more people exposed to model making. Not much, but better than nothing I guess. Good hunting! (if you know what I mean).

Back in the late '60s there was a guy from Oregon who did it for a living.

He nailed me for two thick binders of 1/72 aircraft decals and a San Francisco hobby shop for several thousand dollars worth of brass locomotives. He was eventually caught and spent a couple of years in jail.

A few years later my Frog V-1 converted to a Reichenburg IV on trailer was stolen from the locked display case in a Bay Area hobby shop that only lasted a short time. Never saw it again. The Oakland Air Museum suffered the theft of many (most/all?) of their built-ups from the glass cases that they were displayed in several years back. Don't know if that one was caught.

Hope that you get yours back quickly and in good shape (along with computer,etc.).

Tom

Colonel> As far as we know, no other personal items were stolen; Colonel> just the laptops, a DLP projector . . . and my two Colonel> models. Anybody else ever experience or hear of Colonel> scale-model theft?

I had two models (1:700 Pitroad/Skywave Soviet missile craft) stolen at the South African IPMS Nationals in Johannesburg a few years back. Not a nice feeling. Sort of characterized the place for me :-(

Most likely the scumball had a kid at home and decided to give him a couple of toys. I used to adjust theft losses--they'd steal anything from a gouda cheese to used women's underthings (and gee, I wonder why?)

Mark Schynert

I remember at one of the hobby shows here that two friends lost models off their table. That's the closest I've ever been to it. Sorry to hear of your loss.

Bill Banaszak, MFE

The combination of gouda cheese and women's underthings is just way wrong.......

Which in a twisted sort of way is an extreme form of flattery. The modellers that didn't get jacked must have been relieved and insulted at the same time.

WmB

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Yeah....... but they can at times have things in common........... Even with the most beautiful ones too!

There is a guy in the northern SF Bay Area who appears to be just slimy, but has been caught removing things from hobby shops and other businesses without permission.

He was at the Nats in Santa Clara and I had a great time with him.

He owed a friend of mine located out of state quite a bit of money for books purchased and never paid for. At the end of the first two days I cornered him with a law enforcement friend and took most of what he had made each day to pay the bad debt. We had a sworn affidavid (sp?). He promised to pay the balance, but of course never did.

Haven't seen him around much since then. :-)

Tom

Since my models were left alone I almost added that but I think I was more relieved.

Bill Banaszak, MFE

Hmmmm...just curious as to exactly how your law enforcement friend figured into this deal and how you "TOOK" what he made each day. The fact that the slimeball owed someone (your friend) some money is a completely civil matter that a law enforcement person has no business being involved in whatsoever. If the law enforcement type used his position to intimidate or menace the slimeball into paying, he could be in serious deep criminal and civil doo-doo.

Don't get me wrong...I'm certainly not defending the afore-mentioned slimeball, I just get my hackles up a bit when a law enforcement person abuses the authority granted to him/her.

The whole deal is between the slimeball and the person to whom he owes the money. It's up to your friend to initiate action against the slimeball to get paid. And if he can't get that slimeball to pay up, he has civil remedies available to him. And you and your law enforcement friend are not included in those available remedies.

Ummm...you guys didn't really use intimidation...didya?

Terry (22 years in law enforcement)

I don't know, I mean Gouda's nice, but I prefer Swiss, I mean ~that's~ beautiful.....

-- John The history of things that didn't happen has never been written. . - - - Henry Kissinger

Yeah it happened to me, back in high school circa 1978. I was taking drafting/rendering classes and the teacher was an avid model builder. At the time AMT was having a model contest and the teacher decided as a class project we would all build AMT kits for the contest. Well not being a car modeler I was not looking forward to it but then I discovered AMT had a few

1/48 scale aircraft. I built their Corsair and it was sweet. I ended up painting it and stripping it several times before I came up with an award winning finish (IMO). I took it to school and gave it to the teacher. He put it in the back supply room of the classroom with all the other models. Well a few days later it was time to photograph the models for the contest. My Corsair was gone! I did not get to enter the contest and I never have seen that Corsair again. Some P.O.S. in my class took my plane!

Cheers, Max Bryant

I also recall that when the Canberra (B57 to others) had it's 40th Birthday celebration at RAF Wyton in 1989, the local IPMS branch put on a 1:72 scale display of every variant of the type. It was a big display - 70-odd models if I remember rightly. After the weekend ended, more than half the models had gone into stealth mode and disappeared. The irony is I'm sure if asked, the club would have gladly given models to any ex-flyers or techs there. Chek

Thanks for all the comments (and the inevitable tangents). It makes me feel a little better, but only a little. I especially enjoyed this one from WmB:

If you're familiar with the F-16, you'll probably agree that my Block

25 model was too down-the-middle anyway -- it didn't really represent an early or late Fighting Falcon. I'll probably replace it with a Block 15 F-16A (a.k.a "F-16A Plus") and a Block 40 or 50 F-16C (a.k.a "F-16CG/CJ"). This way I'll show both variations of the vertical tail, both small and large inlets, both Pratt and GE engines, and both basic paint schemes (stuff only a model-making nerd could appreciate). I'll build 'em side-by-side!

Sigh.

Bad Idea!! Half way through you will get the models mixed up and get one of the features on the wrong model. Been there, done that!

Bill Shuey