How does a piece just disappear?

Grr, I can't for the life of me find this one missing piece. It's like an elongated tube and I was testfitting it this morning to onto the YZF-R1 engine. I left both in the same place on my modeling table and left the house, and when I got back it wasn't there. I was the last to leave the house and first to come home, and nobody broke in, we don't have any pets...GRR!!! I searched everywhere, even cleaned up my modeling table ( :o ) not an easy task..it's a pretty big piece too, probably an inch long..

Now (hopefully) I didn't search hard enough...or it maybe got snagged onto my clothing and is now gone forever in the streets of Philadelphia...I really hope it is the former case..

Whoever invents a magnet for polystyrene will be a god amongst modelers :silly2:

Man! that stinks I really hope you find it. But if you don't jfind it just leave the engine cowls on and noone will ever know. I hope you find it, if you dont do you think you might be able to scratch build it?

See, daggerlee... you didn't sacrifice enough extra plastic from the parts trees to the floor gods. The floor gods get angry when you don't give them any extra plastic, and start swallowing up parts of value!

At least that's my theory... Maybe I need to check my respirator for leaks. :bloated: :)

Coug

are you feeling alright??(cougar)haha

dagger hope ya find it soon...but if not...scratch building is an option isn't it?

Sometimes a piece can sit right under your nose, only you don't notice it. Then you kick yourself when you find it there.

yep, you know those floor gods. Just hope that if you finish the model that you don't find it a day later. That always happens to me.

I never did find that windshield....

That really sucks man. Can you scratch-build it?

It always happens to me. I test fit a part (usually small) then drop it. Murphy's law takes effect there.

"The smallest, most important part in an assembly will always fall or roll into the most unlikely and most inaccessible area."

:D

Hope you can still complete your bike.

damn that pisses me off when that happens to me!! frikkin floor demons i tell ya:flipa: .... good luck searching

Try to stay calm. Once, when I was 10 or 11, I was playing with my Gundam, and a couple of tiny pieces fell off. My room was scattered with junk, and they were to little to find. I got pissed off, and ripped two comic books in half, one of them being X-Force #1 still sealed in the polybag. And you know what? I found the pieces a few minutes later. Don't get mad and give in to the floor demons. They are evil:devil: , and want to control your mind. Just keep hope alive!

First if were you i find my girlfriend an pinch her tit in case she hadf anything to do with it if it was a male friend that was in the room kick em in the balls if it was a relative hide some of their shit. J/K

if it was them 1/24 midget f**ers that stole your parts youre sh!t out of luck i havent caught these bastards yet but we all been had by them.J/K

maybe its somewhere near your desk or do back tracking

Dunno, but certainly they do just disappear...

That just happened to my Volvo 850 BTCC Saloon - so if someone has an extra grille, please sell it to me... Though I think it's very unlikely that anyone could have an extra grille :rolleyes:

It will be in the last place that u look!:finger: :D

Its a big piss-off when this happens. I was in a huge state this week when i couldnt find one of the headlights to the Silvia....but as Chris said...its bound to be in the last place you look :mad: :mad:

Jay you've lost a windshield too??

i always seem to lose the parts that are most important

I'll list them...
I've lost :
5 Windshields
8 turn signals
3 corvette wheels ( i found them though;) )
and about 100 rearview mirrors (actually 20)

im so stupid

I have lost a few pieces also but what really pissed me off was when I was building my Revell ITR I lost both side mirrors, both taillight lenses and the strut bar. I eventually found the strut bar about 2 months later and the rest of the pieces were gone forever. :zx11pisse

Originally posted by SilverLotus340R
Jay you've lost a windshield too??LOL. :( Do a search for "S2000 windshield" ... :cry:

*cries* Thanks all for the support, I LOVE YOU GUYS!!! ;)

Anyway, think I'm gonna just scratchbuild it. I've searched everywhere and no luck (really bugs me, it is REALLY big compared to most modeling pieces too) oh well

maybe its not the floor gods/demons. It could be the almighty vacuum cleaner. Thats what takes most of my parts.

dagger *ripping apart the vaccum cleaner*

Originally posted by primera man
...its bound to be in the last place you look :mad: :mad:

of course its in the last place you look, why would you keep looking if you have already found it?.





Still can't understand how JAY lost a windscreen tough:eek:



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Originally posted by SilverLotus340R
Jay you've lost a windshield too??

i always seem to lose the parts that are most important

I'll list them...
I've lost :
5 Windshields
8 turn signals
3 corvette wheels ( i found them though;) )
and about 100 rearview mirrors (actually 20)

im so stupid

:eek: :eek:

Hmm, good luck on scratch building it.

But there is a possiblity that maybe a bug moved that piece? :rolleyes:

But there is a possiblity that maybe a bug moved that piece?


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http://mywebpages.comcast.net/kaiyao1/spider.jpg
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/kaiyao1/spider2.jpg
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/kaiyao1/spider3.jpg

The house hasn't been vacuumed for at least a week any how :(

what a nasty little critter.

Follow him and find the stash of hidden model parts:D

LMAO!
:hehehe: Rof lol... :hehehe:

Where is the spider taking that parts to? :evillaugh

tazdev... i know im pathetic..i think they know me by name and credit card # @ revell lost parts..:(

the worlds first "model part stealing floor searching dagger angering " spider..