Why I hate modeling!!!!!

Its those damn little parts that like to hop off the table and on to the floor. Spent 2 hours finding a grab handle for a T-55a turret a couple nights ago. Then yesterday spent over an hour looking for part C-4 and cant find it. Called Tamiya to order the sprue and they dont have any, have to keep calling back until someone sends back a kit for some reason. Damn Damn Damn John

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Jfluck
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A trick mentioned in my sons scouting magazine recommended using panty hose streched ocver a vacuum cleaner nozzle and ging over the spot where your part might be. With a little luck the suction will pick up the part. The nylons will keep it from going into the vavuum cleaner. Scott There is a fine line between "Hobby" and "Mental Illness."

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SnJmodprod

We would have to use our money to buy some. Might have to buy a fake moustache and a big hat and raincoat first though...

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Nemesis

snipped-for-privacy@aol.com (Eyeball2002308) wrote in :

A flashlight. Darken the room, and shine the flashlight so the beam's parallel to the floor. Even a tiny part will show up because it'll have a huge shadow.

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Harro de Jong

Damn tried all of those ideas, I am going to get a plastichound the second cousin of a blood hound then when I lose a part I can have him sniff the box the kit came in and he can find it for me. john

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Jfluck

that's assuming you clean your hobby room. If I did that I would find hundreds of crushed Cheerios, Cheetohs, etc and whatever else my kids drop on the floor...

Craig

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Craig

3 suggestions:- 1/ invest in one of those sticky rollers used for getting threads off suits and the like. It's a handle with a wide roll of sticky tape on it. Dry cleaners sell them. 2/ Scratchbuild a replacement. This will cause the lost part to show up, just as you're finishing it. 3/ avoid 1/700 destroyers.
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The Blue Max

Two things I've done to prevent that:

  1. Esp. with photoetch - "mount" the sprue on drafting tape. Easy to get it off when you want to - but it won't fly off on its own.

  1. Cut the parts off in a Ziploc freezer bag, plastic store bag, etc. They're then contained and easy to find.

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EGMcCann

Me, I model COMMANDO and am munchin on a big block of cheese too :-))

Seriously these are all great suggestions but I have had parts fall to the floor and tried everything mentioned and came up empty. Then days later I find the part 25 feet from where it fell. I have learned to never presume the part is in the vicinity where logic says it should have fallen.

Cheers, Max Bryant

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Max Bryant

Hurmph - I've got 2 MinPins that ensure no scraps of food are anywhere around.

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Grandpa

And the bugs who died there feasting...:)

Bill Banaszak, MFE

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Bill Banaszak

It been a while, but when I was a bachelor, its seemed discarded pantyhouse was not that hard to come by! ;) Ya got to keep trying!

Kaliste Saloom #30703 IPMS/Acadiana Plastic Modelers Society Lafayette, LA

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Mike Keown

I've found cats are useful for this purpose. They'll never fail to discover small plastic bits on the floor and start playing with them rambunctiously.

In the middle of the night.

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Toni Lassila

got a g/f...she just doesn't wear the damn things LOL I prefer the "buy another copy" idea...as soon as I open it I will find the lost part from the previous one!

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Eyeball2002308

The part is not on the floor. It jumped like a flea and landed on your worktop or even in your toolbox and is now hiding behind a paint tin or under your brushes...

Nick

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Nick Pedley

The kit from hellllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll lost another one damn damn damn

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Jfluck

I use a perspex developing tray that came cheap from an auction at an old printing place about 3 feet by four feet and sides about 3 inches high on my desk. Captures all my lost bits, paint spills, glue spills and drink spills. Even holds bits when the wind blows wild through the window. And I have a number of hooks at the end to hold up things like scalpels, wing dihedral, landing gear, etc.

Hope this helps, Peter

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Bushy

I use a dustbuster. I just make sure the bag is empty and vacuum the entire area. Open up the 'buster and I'll find the part in the mesh trap.

Sean

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Sean

An aquarium net.

Kurt Kunze

IPMS/USA Patriot New England Herpetological Society

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