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[lilsquirt]

Hello Friends

I made a big Bo Bo!

I tried to lay carpet in my hobby shop during s thunderstorm and with bo place to move my builds to I tried to lay the carpe tby just moving the builds from one place to another!

Mistake #1

dropped a few by trying to move too msny at one time OUCH!

Mistake #2

a bun ch of cars slid off a counter when I bumpet into it!

Mistake #3

lettng my Grandkids help move the stuff around!! Triple OUCH!

Now I have to rebuild all the Racers and haulers once again11

Larry

But the carpet is down !!!

[Smart-Resins]

The carpet may be mistake #4? You may find yourself dropping tiny pieces to be forever lost in the knapping of it? LOL. Sounds like way too much fun. LOL. Jody

[FloridaBoy]

lilsquirt

Don't dismay. From my reading your stuff, you sound like an accomplished modeler, and even though you and I may or may not be excellent modelers, I and am sure you have the confidence of what I term "mastery of plastic" which gives you the ability to restore any damage. With the miracles of modern technology and materials, you can take any damaged build and put it back, most of the time better that it was originally. This is not to brag, but to inspire you. As long as there is CA, Plastruct Plastic, body putty (in my cast Bondo) and epoxy any damage can be addressed.

From what I see on this board, in the finished builds, and in progress builds, as well as the signatures on the pages, I am far from being among the best, but over the years by trial and error, I developed this attitude, albeit arrogance, but it is contained mostly within myself until this moment.

I realized this in 1997 when I was building a sectioned and highly modified Lindberg Pink 40 Ford which I did some real experimenting with body sculpturing. Midway before primer, I am watching tv while doing mild sanding on my little portable workbench for on the couch. All of a sudden the entire rear section of the body disintegrates into small pieces - weirdest thing I ever saw. It was if it were built of table salt. I gathered up all of the pieces, and put it back together jigsaw puzzle style, and used CA for the oriignal fit. Then took plastruct glue and painted it underside to reinforce the CA joints. As that dried and cured, I mixed some epoxy and with Plastruct pieces and strips, I glued reinforcement strips under the trunk area on the break joints, then coated it with epoxy. Then rough sanded it on the surface, added bondo then fine sanded it and primered it, and 12 years later, it is perfect and strong. It has survived its original paint, and I am now painting it and remodeling it, as I came up with a new theme for it. I will call it Alien.

So, lilsquirt, take the worst and make it to the best. I have confidence in you.

Ken "FloridaBoy" Willaman