Ever lose a built model car in the house?

[bobss396]

I was getting my models together yesterday to take to a show tomorrow. All accounted for, less my '65 Fairlane stock car.

I did take it to the NNL East in April and it came home with me. I have to look in my phone photo gallery to find a "last seen" date if possible.

I'm not sure what have it in, probably a clear plastic box, maybe an old kit box. But I always label those. 

So far I have scoured my basement kit shelves, the dining room where I build, the front foyer. I have a lot to do today for the show tomorrow, so I'll give it a 1/2 hour.

[Ace-Garageguy]

Yes, at least twice, and one is still MIA...but it'll probably reappear as I finish packing to move.

[slusher]

Lost parts never found but never a model..

[OldTrucker]

Yes after a move. Found it years later in a box of doilies and nicknacs in a closet after another move.

[iamsuperdan]

Yup.

Years ago I was half finished the Revell VW Mk3 Golf GTI kit. 

The whole thing just vanished. The box, the stuff I started on, the remaining sprues...everything.

Never did find them.

 

[Ace-Garageguy]

11 minutes ago, iamsuperdan said:

Yup.

Years ago I was half finished the Revell VW Mk3 Golf GTI kit. 

The whole thing just vanished. The box, the stuff I started on, the remaining sprues...everything.

Never did find them.

Cue Twilight Zone music...

[Rob Hall]

Definitely after my two moves since 2017 (AZ to Ohio in 2017, to a new house in Ohio in 2023) there are things that I'm not sure exactly where they are...but there are probably in a moving box in one of 3 locations around the house and garage.    But there a couple kits--new kits I bought in the last year or so--that I have no idea where they are--I recall one being in a very distinctively sized/shaped shipping box (AMT Ford Garbage truck) but I haven't found it since last years' move...

[Brian_R]

I can relate.  After we moved here 20 years ago, I put a new (in the packaging) cordless Dremel in one of the boxes to go to the model room.  Never seen it since,

[Little Timmy]

Yea, this has happened to me.

Years ago ( 1998 ?) I purchased Seventeen  Athern train master locomotives.

My plan was to build all 17 that the Southern Pacific had. I had built 3 of them, when I decided that I should also build the only one that the Canadian National  had. I had just found the decals I needed ,and had all 17 locomotives , finished and unfinished in the same large box.

I have no idea where that box went.

Last seen in 2004 ?

I have moved 4 times since then ... no box...

 

[Bronzekeg]

sounds like if someone needs a spoon check the sock drawer.......

[bobss396]

I looked again, nothing. It will turn up. I have also lost a resin Nova stock car body some years back. I looked in all my promo type boxes, inside all my open Nova kits too. 

I had a Monte Carlo Savinos stock car kit open, I removed all the flash, etc from everything. I went back to it this year, the rear and every thing associated were gone. I figured maybe the sealed kit was missing parts? Nah... they all turned up in a pill vial I squirreled away. 

[NOBLNG]

Well I don’t feel so bad now. I’ve never “lost” anything. All my missing parts have been stolen by Bench Gremlins or devoured by the Carpet Monster.?

Edited November 10, 2024 by NOBLNG

[LennyB]

I can't say I've ever lost a model in the house, 'cept when I was a kit and my mother threw them out. But I regularly loose parts, not to the carpet monster but to the Dylan monster. Just found this 429 sitting in the middle of the living room floor.

Don't know where the rest of it went. Might show up again tomorrow ? But worse then that is I don't know where he took it from?

[bobss396]

My cat as a kitten would pick up model parts and leave them around the house.

He has grown out of it. Or graduated to entire built up kits.

 

[Little Timmy]

Yea, cats like models too.

I won't tell you about the time Edgar ate part of my ships rigging.

( I did get it back , ... sort of...)

 

Edited November 11, 2024 by Little Timmy
I had to

[Ace-Garageguy]

And...shortly after I moved last time, somebody here did a build of a woody with some pf the best wood effects I'd ever seen, describing the techniques and listing the materials.

So I went out and bought all the stuff to try it on one I had on the bench at the other place, Lorena, a chopped Monogram '30 Ford.

I was really fired up to try the wood look, but I could never find the model. I know I put her in a tin cookie box to keep all the bits together, but it's never resurfaced since the move.

Of course, in the intervening years I've scattered or lost all the wood-effect materials during subsequent bench cleanups too.

EDIT: Just this week I've lost the bright green box cutter I keep in the GMC, the red-handled X-Acto that's lived on my desk for years, and a teaspoon. Which is odd, cause I rarely misplace anything for more than an hour or so.

Oh my...  

 

 

Edited November 11, 2024 by Ace-Garageguy

[Bills72sj]

I have never lost one in the house. Though I was at a show and displayed a 1/64 Hot Wheels with the 1/25 kit I built of it. Some little kid walked off with the Hot Wheels. I did find a replacement on ebay a few weeks later. My wife's cat ran off with the front axle and center link for one of my Freightliner builds. I had to substitute a Ford front axle to finish it. I found the axle months later when we moved the dining room table.

[Monty]

Kinda.  When I lived in Dallas I attended a huge model show where tons of people were selling kits.  I came across an open box JoHan '74 Javelin which was complete inside and priced somewhere between dirt cheap and extremely reasonable.  If this hobby teaches you anything, it's to never assume the item you want will still be there later, so...Snag! In the bag.  I ended up finding two other kits I wanted at good prices as well as a few resin parts etc and decided to call it a day.  

Upon arriving at home, I took the Javelin body and interior out of the box and put them together (unglued) to see if another chassis I had would work better (not a fan of most JoHan chassis).  The experiment wasn't a success so I left the tub and body on my model table with the rest of the JoHan parts still in the box.  

The next day I decided to take another look at it but found the body and interior tub missing, while everything else was still in the box.  I asked both housemates, but neither had seen anything.  One is an amazing model builder (used to post here as PurePMD), but specializes in semis and has never had any interest in Javelins, plastic or otherwise .  The other had an incredibly creative mind and could've been a great modeler but had no interest in building any.  No one else would've been in the house.

I still have the box of parts but given the price of JoHan stuff will probably never be able to source a body and interior at anything approaching a reasonable price, so it sits in storage.  

 

[OldTrucker]

My worst nightmare was when we moved from Wisconsin back to IL. in the late 70's. When we unpacked the trailer discovered 2 huge boxes of my built models were missing aling with a few of household items. They were some of my earliest builds.

All we could figure was someone stole the boxes while we were inside the house while loading the trailer.

[bobss396]

I have projects that I have forgotten about and ran into them while rooting around for other things. Now I label all of my boxed up projects.

One was a '64 Galaxie stock car from around 2008.. I started working on it again last year. I should have taken another approach with the donor chassis.

The other was a '64 Fairlane resin stock car that was about 3/4 complete. I did finish it this year.

[NYLIBUD]

Oh God yes,I had four cats,and they loved hiding things on me.Not so much a finished model,but parts,which resulted in not finishing the kit.So it went into the non finished model box.One year I found four models that they scattered all around my apartment.It wasn’t till I moved that I found them.How does a cat know how to hide things.Use to drive me nuts.?‍?

[NYLIBUD]

Yes,Bob,it has happened,but then I usually find them left in another box,or under my bed.