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warning! gremlins learn new dirty trick
almonkey
Member Since: March 23, 2003
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Posted: Saturday, November 13, 2004 - 02:00 AM UTC
i have just spent 10 minutes searching for a small part i dropped, in getting off the wheeled office chair i use i carefully pushed it away with my backside, after ten minutes fruitless searching i turned around to see it on the chair when i would have sworn it went on the floor, just thought you all ought to be warned about this new development in the war against gremlins
Teacher
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Posted: Saturday, November 13, 2004 - 02:13 AM UTC
The nastiest trick these little green monsters have thought of is the one where they put the dropped photoetched part (which yo've spent 30 minutes delicately foldng into 'just' the right shape') right under the wheel of your chair so when you roll back to see if you can see where it's gone, you immediately flatten it. Dirty rotten little mutants!
Vinnie
Vinnie
SpiritsEye
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Posted: Saturday, November 13, 2004 - 02:56 AM UTC
LOL!
that happens to me everytime!
and when i start to curse and swear, the parts 'magically' re-appear! :-) :-) :-)
that happens to me everytime!
and when i start to curse and swear, the parts 'magically' re-appear! :-) :-) :-)
steeldog51
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Posted: Saturday, November 13, 2004 - 03:03 AM UTC
:-) that happens to me too! i have a dark blue carpet in my kitchen! and guaranteed to part i drop will be black or dark green plastic !
i know for sure that when something hits the floor at the correct angle and velocity it opens a gateway in another dimension and there on this other side or the universe is a small pile of plastic parts i have dropped :-) and a crowed of small beings gethering around it poking it curiously! :-) o.k. maybe not but they have to go somewhere? right?
i know for sure that when something hits the floor at the correct angle and velocity it opens a gateway in another dimension and there on this other side or the universe is a small pile of plastic parts i have dropped :-) and a crowed of small beings gethering around it poking it curiously! :-) o.k. maybe not but they have to go somewhere? right?
shonen_red
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Posted: Saturday, November 13, 2004 - 03:09 AM UTC
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The nastiest trick these little green monsters have thought of is the one where they put the dropped photoetched part (which yo've spent 30 minutes delicately foldng into 'just' the right shape') right under the wheel of your chair so when you roll back to see if you can see where it's gone, you immediately flatten it. Dirty rotten little mutants!
Vinnie
Good thing I never use PEs :-) :-) :-)
almonkey
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Posted: Saturday, November 13, 2004 - 03:38 AM UTC
i was staring at the floor so as not to run it over with the chair, it is a dashboard with moulded on dials that would be impossible to replace
Max_Fischer
Member Since: January 02, 2004
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Posted: Saturday, November 13, 2004 - 05:00 AM UTC
oy!
I just killed me a Gremlins and i found me lil peices
well actually i just looked under something and they were there :-)
I just killed me a Gremlins and i found me lil peices
well actually i just looked under something and they were there :-)
tankysgal1
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Posted: Saturday, November 13, 2004 - 05:02 AM UTC
Yesss...these are dirty little creatures. Parts i swear i drop ..i look all over the floor and cant find them...sort of like the thing about your socks in the dryer...you put them in there with all mates...and then poof..they are gone...Kinda Sucks.... 
DaveCox
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Posted: Saturday, November 13, 2004 - 05:09 AM UTC
I usually find missing parts when I clear up after a modelling session - after I've made a replacement or searched one out of the spares box. 
Plasticbattle
#003
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Posted: Saturday, November 13, 2004 - 05:28 AM UTC
Last night I was attaching a hatch on my M113 fitter for the campaign when I dropped the little ring the hatch axel sits in. I swept the floor .... timber floors are every bit as bad.... and couldnt find it. I checked my spare parts box and nothing was suitable. Then I made one similar from plastic card. All of this, took about 40 minutes.
I glued the hatch in an open position and looking at it I was happy enough. Just as I was admiring my handywork, I spotted the little ring. It didnt fall on the floor. It clung to my tracksuit trousers on the inside of my leg. Lucky no gremlins ... or any other other family members were present. Colourful language was used to its extreme for the next 10 minutes!
I glued the hatch in an open position and looking at it I was happy enough. Just as I was admiring my handywork, I spotted the little ring. It didnt fall on the floor. It clung to my tracksuit trousers on the inside of my leg. Lucky no gremlins ... or any other other family members were present. Colourful language was used to its extreme for the next 10 minutes!
DRAGONSLAIN
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Posted: Saturday, November 13, 2004 - 05:34 AM UTC
Perhaps this is an old trick, but I once lost a decal in the kitchen and found it in the livingroom I hate when they gremblins do that. I loose something here and it appears 2 hours later somewhere else. 
I hate when they gremblins do that. I loose something here and it appears 2 hours later somewhere else. 
Mech-Maniac
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Posted: Saturday, November 13, 2004 - 05:39 AM UTC
oh so often that happens to me, i dont know how, one minute i'm looking on the floor, on the table, under the model, i get up and there it is.....on the chair....those dirty dirty gremlins
Easy_Co
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Posted: Saturday, November 13, 2004 - 07:44 AM UTC
I have the same problem as plastic bottle usually find it in my trainer or stuck to my sock.what else amazes me is how comes square parts can roll under the fridge I hate it when that happen s there i am on my hands and knees in front of the fridge she comes in "oh drunk again" :-)
whodini
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Posted: Saturday, November 13, 2004 - 09:20 AM UTC
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sort of like the thing about your socks in the dryer...you put them in there with all mates...and then poof..they are gone...Kinda Sucks....
And then at work you don't know why everybody's laughing until you look at the back of your shirt, and POOF, there's your missing socks :-) :-)
Rob
allycat
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Posted: Saturday, November 13, 2004 - 11:12 AM UTC
Phantom_M
how many half finished kits have you got now?
Tom
how many half finished kits have you got now?
Tom
recon-19d
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Posted: Saturday, November 13, 2004 - 11:41 AM UTC
And the monkey said, ”Can I have another banana”.
:-)
:-)
DRAGONSLAIN
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Posted: Saturday, November 13, 2004 - 11:43 AM UTC
errr...sounds like when a one dollar bill falls in the toilet of a public restroom. You can't pick it up, it isn't worth it to get your hand in there for a dollar. So what you do is to throw a one hundred dollars bill, then it is worth it...... :-)
:-) SpiritsEye
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Posted: Saturday, November 13, 2004 - 03:10 PM UTC
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how many half finished kits have you got now?
Tom
erm...i have a few unfinished kits but get this.... i have all the parts !
now my above method doesn't always work but it does give an idea of the trajectory of this missing part as well as possible landing zones...so your probability of finding the missing part increases !
and if all 3 are gone! then GOD BLESS! LOL :-) :-)
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