OK,how does this compare with your own experience.
While building a M36B1 tank destroyer for a campaign,the loaders seat pings off into space frontiers .I clean 90% of junk off my rather lage bench looking for it.No go.I then(now really cheesed off)decide it has gone behind the bench,to the floor,against the wall.I tear everything out frome under the bench and find a ton off stuff I forgot I had,but no loaders seat. .I give up the search,shove all the crap back under the bench,pop a beer break,and then scratch build a replacement(easy).
FIFTEEN DAYS LATER..............I am taking a bag of trash to the can in the garage.There on the floor,18 feet from my bench,is the freakin' seat! I am considering epoxy to fasten it to the wall over my bench as tribute to the Styrene and Resin Gods.
So the poll is:
What is your oddest,wildest, most amazing lost part comeback adventure?

Well i have a recent one

last week while working on my M-10 I was cutting a peice off the tree very small peice it was one of the canteens.. anyways it few off and I seached the floor for it in my hobby closet... then the dining room area which is outside the closet.. no luck........ gave up and was grabbing some canteens out of the bits bin. and wife asked me to take out garbage.. walked into the kitchen.. grabbed the bag.. and looked down and there it was by the garbage can...

so the part few off the spruce and towards my left and back... out the closet door and across the dining room.. and into the kitchen.....and the kitchen door is offset to the back and not in line with the closet door.. and it must have bounced of the fridge and landed on the floor in front of the trash can...... total distance... 18' to 20' feet..

TCGWMBF
(The Carpet God Which Must Be Fed)
has intense powers.It can leviatate a small piece of plastic or PE and attract it across great distances.

I was building on of my 450 warf figs when I broke off the hand and it fell off the bench and hit my knee -no worries it should just below me on the carpet -big mistake I cleaned the floor -I even vacuumed - nothing (i did find a few other missing pieces) I needed the hand so I sculpted a replica and went on
I found where ? exactly where I thought it fell _ it must have bee in the 5th dimension for a while- who knows
Ian

delbert, your description makes the part sound like the magic bullet (JFK conspiracy anyone?) of the modeling world

I rarely seem to be able to find my dropped pieces.
I think there is a conspiracy between the nylon carpet and their cousins the styrene from models. The carpet acts like the resistence units in WWII and smuggle the escaped model pieces back to their homeland so they can build again! :-) It's just a theory, though........

:-) same consipiracy about single pieces of socks getting lost in another dimension inside the laundry dryer :-)

My 3rd every model, the DML Panther, I lost a small part.

Then after a year or so, after i've finished about 10 models and while i was cleaning my room, the darned thing was just below and behind the table i've worked on.... weird i didnt find it there before...

oh well....

Your experiences are truly wild and wonderful!

I'm glad I'm not the only one that crawls along the ground for hours looking for the missing part. :-)

Regards
Dieter

My story is not more of a comeback rather than I wish it would comeback. You see last year I bought a Monogram Aircraft kit that was on sale, time passes, I go to build the kit, can’t find it. Now I know I brought it in the house, but to this day I can’t seem to locate it. Where the H is it...

I'd posted this one before , but it fits here too.
My expereince..


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It has never happened before and I'm sure it will never happen again, but I was making one of those 1 -piece Eduard WWII German tool clamps. You know, the ones that take 6 folds and results in a piece the size of a small ant...

I'd cut it off the tree, trimmed it and made the first two folds, lifting the ends up.
Then it slips off the desktop, no tweezer launch luckily, and drops to the floor.

I couldnt see it immediately, and after checking behind the chair wheels, roll back and slowly and lightly sweep my hand across the floor.

Then there was that sinking feeling of a small fragile piece of photoetch ROLLING under my hand...I'm imagining a tangled ball of metal.

Imagine my surprise, when I pick it up and lift the 'handle ' portion clear to find a COMPLETED tool clamp!

Completely folding the next clamp with tweezers, hold and fold, scalpel blades takes 12 minutes and does not look as good as the rolled one...

I'm done at the bench for the morning.

Mike

One funny thing happened to me some years ago. I was building a mini cooper. I was about to paint the metallic rims of the front turn signals, so I put the parts on clothes pegs. When I was about to start painting, PING! One of the parts was gone. I then made a new set of signals,I made a mould from games workshop's green stuff putty using the remaining part as a master and formed new signals by pressing heated clear sprue against it. I got a good set of new signals, and after a couple of months after completing the model, I was cleaning my work desk when I noticed something small and shining on top of a sand container at the other side of my desk. Yes, it was the missing turn signal!

Btw, If you need turn signals for your mini, I still got the mould!

Like many, I've lost a few parts before ... and found a few too. But there's nothing like finding them on your shoe laces 5 hours after you gave up! :-)


Jeff

In the early stages of putting together a Dragon Sherman Firefly, I realised that the front sprockets I had glued in place would have to come off in order to fit the tracks. In ordr to do this I had to lever them off quite forcefully. Well, the left one came off no bother and plopped into my hand, but the right one eventually popped off, flew straight towards my left eye- I ducked- sailed over my shoulder, over the back of the sofa to land somewhere in the mysterious darkness that lies there...
this being a fairly solid sofa made from shaped steel (think IKEA) and almost wedged into a tight space I had no option other than sliding it out. Of course what I didn't realise was that the sprocket I was looking for was right by the front sofa leg... didn't realise that is, until I heard a small but painful crunch as the sofa slid over it.
Needless to say it was shattered, but fortunately repairable (eventually).
Now all I need is for all those braille scale Stug tracklinks to turn up... yeah right! :-)

I once found a part on a carpet one floor over (approx. 15metres and one stairway away from) my hobby room. The funny thing was that I had completetd that model a few weeks before - I don't know how that part survived the vacuum cleaner

I've found a foolproof way to recover those parts sent to the great green carpet monster (yeah right - green carpet for a military modeller - what colour are most of my parts.......) --- I ferret around on the floor for a few minutes, SWMBO offers her help and before she's taken more than two paces the part ALWAYS appears !! :-)

Well guys here I have a story for you.

Was working on my Panzerbefehlswagen 1 and was cutting a little hook for on the side of the upperhull so the crew could tie there stowage on the tank. Well No problem with cutting everything went smooth. Then I cleaned it where neccesary. Then Glued it and with Tweezers I wanted to put it on it`s place. Well the wellknown outcome of the story. The Part got launched and faster then I could follow it (And I didn`t hear it falling either). First checked my workbench.............. nothing. Then I spend around 15 minutes on my knees searching literally every Centimetre of the Floor...... Result; Nothing. Quite Annoyed I grabbed some Evergreen ad spend another 45 Minutes of scratching the tiny part as I really wanted to be on the vehicle. Well the scratched part at least looked like it but it wasn`t that nice. Thought I first would take a smoke. So I stood outside. And I did stroke through my hair well Curious enough I did find the part in my own "Carpet"

Too funny! :-)



Jeff

Hi All, this very thing happened to me today . I am building a ICM Zis Truck and I lost a completed wheel. I bet when I go into the workshop I find looking at me saying "Silly Sod I was here all the time". I do not have any carpet only floor boards , So any item that hits the floor goes off at a tangent. I Wish for magnetic plastic . Cheers ian