going to the body shop

[topher5150]

So we agreed to have my brother in law and his kids stay over for a week, they went out to get groceries while we were gone and left the kids at home by themselves. Well we get home and the four year old, who has never done anything bad in her life decided that hey those cars up on top of the cabinet look like fun. So now I have to re-piece my 68 Shelby convertible, and some of the big deuce back together. :angry: :angry:

I'll get some pics of the carnage later.

[PappyD340]

YIKES, real bummer dude!

[grayghost]

This bugs me to no end.

People just can not seem to under stand about messing with

outher peoples models.I guess to them they are just toys.

If they only knew what went into building one. Just may be they would.

[mnwildpunk]

I'm on the other end of the spectrum enjoy their mods and harass them later in life my step son has ruid a couple of my models already but I take it for what it is. Because I know his kids will do the same to him!!

[topher5150]

Right...they are kids thats why i didnt get too mad. I was more mad at the parents for leaving three kids under the age of ten home alone.

[Harry P.]

Why was this posted in "Under Glass?"

[Miatatom]

Right...they are kids thats why i didnt get too mad. I was more mad at the parents for leaving three kids under the age of ten home alone.

Under ten, yeah, that's too young to be alone.

[Quick GMC]

This bugs me to no end.

People just can not seem to under stand about messing with

outher peoples models.I guess to them they are just toys.

If they only knew what went into building one. Just may be they would.

They're kids. If you expect kids to not touch stuff, especially things that look like toys, then you're in for a world of hurt.

[highway]

They're kids. If you expect kids to not touch stuff, especially things that look like toys, then you're in for a world of hurt.

Exactly! My fiancee has three nephews that are 5, 4, and 2, and the two oldest boys sat with me at the kitchen table one night watching me put together some of a Hawk 1970 Torino diecast kit. Since no one else in the family builds, much less even seen the inside of a model box, but me, they were starting to grab parts, instructions, and most anything else they could. I was being patient uncle to be and asking them nicely to not touch anything because if they lost any pieces, I wouldn't be able to finish the car. They went to bed and I finished putting it together after that, and the next day I took it out to do it's finished photoshoot, and the 5 year old came over and grabbed it by the roof and moved it back and forth and said "Wow, it rolls" and then he asked me if it was to play with. Of course I told him no, it was to sit on a shelf and look pretty, it wasn't a toy. There was a method to the madness with doing that, though. I was first testing them to see what they would do since it was just a diecast kit and not more fragile plastic, and two if the first thing they would do is try to play with it, and both tests were failed horribly! The moral of the story is if you know little hand will be around, put the models well out of reach of the little hands, and if the the children or even their parents have never been into or around modeling, they don't know the effort involved in building them and that they are not toys.