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General Modelling Forum => General Modeling topics => Topic started by: Aircav on April 12, 2007, 02:00:51 AM

Title: The Carpet Monster Strikes Again
Post by: Aircav on April 12, 2007, 02:00:51 AM
Just been up in the loft to get some new engines for my Sunderland, come down stairs and one of the engines is now on the missing list, bloody carpet monsters eaten it!!!!!!!!
Had four in the loft now only have three, Noooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
:angry:  :angry:  :angry:  :angry:  :angry:  :angry:
Title: The Carpet Monster Strikes Again
Post by: Radish on April 12, 2007, 02:22:58 AM
Trimotor then :lol:  
Title: The Carpet Monster Strikes Again
Post by: B777LR on April 12, 2007, 07:47:19 AM
Shorts trimotor! How about finding 4 german engines, and doing it up as a luftwaffe/kriegsmarine plane?
Title: The Carpet Monster Strikes Again
Post by: Aircav on April 12, 2007, 08:33:07 AM
I've already decided to do the next one a Luftwaffe machine but this ones for the Perth show and I still havn't found the missing engine, were's me gun......... :unsure:  :(  
Title: The Carpet Monster Strikes Again
Post by: PanzerWulff on April 12, 2007, 08:50:04 AM
What version the one with the pegasus or the R-1830 twin wasp radials if the wasp I have a spare Engines & things R-1830 in the stash
Title: The Carpet Monster Strikes Again
Post by: PanzerWulff on April 12, 2007, 09:21:44 AM
CORRECTION!!! I have 2 R-1830's in the stash (Leftovers from a Catalina Project) they are 1/72 in scale
"Panzer"
Title: The Carpet Monster Strikes Again
Post by: Aircav on April 12, 2007, 09:48:10 AM
Panic over, I've just found it, it was hiding down between the skirting board and the carpet, god knows it got there.
Phew  :P  :dum:  
Title: The Carpet Monster Strikes Again
Post by: Captain Canada on April 12, 2007, 11:11:21 AM
Good job, Stevie ! The eyeball wins again.......bloody carpet monsters.

:cheers:  
Title: The Carpet Monster Strikes Again
Post by: Aircav on April 12, 2007, 11:22:09 AM
Wait until you see the Catalina I'm doing Toadie, you may just like it  ;)  :D  :ph34r:  
Title: The Carpet Monster Strikes Again
Post by: Captain Canada on April 12, 2007, 11:47:04 AM
Can't wait !

:cheers:  
Title: The Carpet Monster Strikes Again
Post by: Rafael on April 12, 2007, 04:00:10 PM
I'm in line, too!!!
Rafa
Title: The Carpet Monster Strikes Again
Post by: NARSES2 on April 13, 2007, 01:13:35 AM
QuoteGood job, Stevie ! The eyeball wins again.......bloody carpet monsters.

:cheers:
It's an amazing beast the Carpet Monster. Managed to drop the top off a bottle of Tamiya clear red yesterday. Fell on a beige carpet, no problem, right ? Wrong ! Took me 15 mins to find it, the bugger had managed to roll halfway across the room and under a cabinet !!!  :ph34r:

Glad you found it Steve

Chris

PS - In Terry Pratchet's "Hogfather" there is a wonderfull description of the Sock Monster - next time I see Terry at the Convention I'll mention this sibling to him  ;)  
Title: The Carpet Monster Strikes Again
Post by: Aircav on April 13, 2007, 03:06:16 AM
We had the same ptoblem when I worked in a garage, you'd drop something and it would vanish and turn up way across the other side somewhere, we were convinced that what use to happen was that as the object got to with in 6 inches of the floor, stop and the fly off at 90 degrees for a random distance.
Title: The Carpet Monster Strikes Again
Post by: Radish on April 13, 2007, 04:25:22 AM
Does your monster growl or go "wuff, wuff"??

Grrrrrrrrr :lol:  
Title: The Carpet Monster Strikes Again
Post by: Aircav on April 13, 2007, 04:39:32 AM
He just lurks silently under you feet waiting, waiting..................... :ph34r:  
Title: The Carpet Monster Strikes Again
Post by: Captain Canada on April 13, 2007, 04:56:29 AM
That's just what he wants you to believe, Steve....they're actually much more sinister ( and stealthy ) than that. Keep an eye on your parts sometime, and note their position on your workbench. If you're really keen, you'll notice how some pieces ( usually wheels and canopy parts ) seem to magically work themselves to the edges of the work surface.
Title: The Carpet Monster Strikes Again
Post by: Aircav on April 13, 2007, 05:30:37 AM
I love the way the carpet monster manages to put the canopy you just dropped under your foot when you stand up.......... :angry:  :unsure: