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[greymack]

Hi Doug maybe its time to build a locking cabinet.

[Johnny]

Lost .............. no. 

 

Stolen ................ yes.

 

A word of warning. If you are going to pack your own models while the movers are packing the rest, do it before they arrive.

We had them packed but think some neighborhood boys snagged the boxes out of the trailer we were loading out on the street to move.

3 boxes, 2 quite large containing most of my Johan unbuilts and most of my earliest builds.

really was disheartning when we unloaded at the other end of the move and finding them gone.

Called police up there but they said unless we actually saw them taking them, they wern't looking into it.

One hanging around was a city councilman's son. Which probably answered the question why.

[Jantrix]

In my case was, there was a rather interested fellow packing stuff in the same room. He asked questions, offered compliments etc etc. One box of completed models (my earliest stuff) didn't arrive in St. Louis. The military gave me the going rate for a model kit per lost model.

[TooOld]

  A few years ago when I wasn't building models I decided to go thru my stash and kind of organize things .  Among the half finished models was a 1/16 Street Charger chassis . . . fully detailed ,  painted , wired,  fuel lines , brake lines , the works !  I carefully packed it in the original box with plenty of TP for protection and put it back in my stash .  The body and the rest of the parts went in another box and was also put away . 

 

  Fast forward to last year when I decided to start building models again .  While going thru my stash I come across the Street Charger box and when I open it what do I find ?  The body and all the parts !  The chassis wasn't there and wasn't any where to be found !

 

  To this day I don't know what happened to the chassis ,  but back in those days I did enjoy my Jim Beam on a daily basis ,  so I'm guessing that it went out with the trash .

[JunkPile]

For those with a problem keeping track of their models and related materials.......try using the glue in the blue tube.

 

   

[Gramps2u]

For those with a problem keeping track of their models and related materials.......try using the glue in the blue tube.

 

   

Too late for that!    

[robertw]

My story is an IMC Beatle kit that had not been finished but went back in the original box but apparently got up and ran away from home. That was many, many years ago and it's yet to come back. Isn't it amazing that no wonder how odd the modelling story there will still be quite a number of us who have had a similar experience.

 

You did an excellent job on this ikit and you're at least lucky enough to have a good photo to remember what you had.

 

P.S. I'll keep my eyes open on the local dumpsters just in case your Cobra has managed to find its way this far north and west .

[clavender17]

iv lost a few models and parts to my 4 legged trashcan  if that counts ?!?!?!

[tooltas]

i have lost parts to a dog but not a hole built model yet.  ...@#&^dog

[clavender17]

iv lost 2 kits from a dog 1 from my dog "32 5 window cupe"  and 2 revells sprint car that my dads schnouser shreaded !!!

[Craig Irwin]

Simular to a story above I was at a local show and swap where one of the contest models was taken by someone other than the builder.

[Tom Geiger]

I lost a Renault Dalphene body somewhere in my model room. It's been missing for something like ten years now.

 

Somebody lost a model at NNL East many years ago!  Usually we get a call within a day or two, once someone notices it's missing.  Not this time. We even checked through all the filled out registration forms and checked everyone's posted photos for clues, no help.  I sent notes to clubs in attendance, nobody!  So it's been sitting in my display case for years, just hoping someone will say something.  I'm not going to say what it is but if someone emails me and describes it, it can go home!  It's running up quite a storage fee here!  

[Edsel-Dan]

I have a good size list of Lost models.

2 Mission Impossible Coronet convertibles built, 

68/9 Bonneville, 72 Grand Prix. and more.

These were lost sometime around 71-72. We moved from NASA Wallops, Va, to Pocomoke, Md.

I was only 10 so................ Memory is not the best.

 

Most recent, LRE Dodge unbuilt re-issue and 2 Longbox Dodge Pickup restoration projects

Put those in a large shoe box, and moved it up to my attic, but can not find it now!!
Found what I thought was it, but empty!!!!

[Draggon]

Not a model, but a slot car. In 1972 I was warming up at the track for a race. I had my box next to me open, with a bullet of a group 7 car in it. A couple homies came up to me and tried to chat as I was practicing. Well, one of the dirty you-know-whats distracted me while the other stole the car. It still irks me today, I had a lot of bucks and all the best stuff in it. I had even placed 7th in a Car Model national race. I was the only non-pro in the main. Grrrrrr. I wish a pox on their souls!

[Zarana-X]

When I was a kid, I lost several to my brother and his IEDs; Revell Chevy 4x4 & Toyota 4x4 snaptites, a few Corvettes, Monogram 1/48 Patton & Tiger, and a 1/72 helicoptor. Ant that's what I can recall.

[martinfan5]

I lost a storage unit that a good majority of my models and parts from when I was kid, I am not all that upset about losing the built ups , they were junk, but all the spare parts, and my Legos, I really miss those

[80mirada]

lost an entire 1/16 scale Street Charger project 16 years ago, only to find it in the basement 3 years after we moved in here. I lost it long before I moved out of my parents house, only for it to "appear" in a a box of stuffafter My wife and Ihad moved to a new house?

[Don Sikora II]

I have--someplace--a built MPC '33 Chevy panel van. It's stock and unpainted black plastic, and I probably bought it about 20 years ago. It's in a baseball card box. Remember where it was before I moved in 1999. Went missing for about a decade until it popped up one day when i was looking for something else. So of course, I left it where I found it. Now, I have NO clue where it is. Have looked for it a couple times since last summer with no luck. It's safely tucked away, and when I find it again it is coming out of that box and going into a clear display case!

[Tom Geiger]

I found a model today!  I opened a '51 Chevy box and found a complete kit, some magazine clippings with pictures of an ambulance and a built hot pink Revell sedan delivery I never remember seeing before! 

[Agent G]

I have had a few vandalized while on the table years ago.

 

I also have had quite a few damaged in my house. I discovered it was not the kids or pets, but wife #2.

 

I was building a car, a '49 Ford, and putting a lot of love and attention into it.  Well I decided to build two at the same time as a test. I hid the '49 when finished, and took the completed build, an AMTMustang as I recall, up to be admired by the family. Back then my daughter sat nearby building her own stuff or "helping" dad. She was in on the plan, even at 9 she was a good schemer............................

 

Anyway lo and behold the 'stang was "somehow" damaged within three days of completion. I took the kids, my stuff, moved out and never looked back.

 

G