Black Holes & Kit BuildingIt's amazing at times what happens to a part you need or had your hands on "just a minute ago". It's not the Carpet Monster at fault this time, its the Carpet Monster's distant cousin the Micro Black Hole!
The parts were in a clear seal-able plastic bag and consisted of two MER's and twelve 500lb bombs to fir onto the MER's so the bag and it's contents are not minute nor an individual part that has gone.
I have gone through all the usual places to see if I had inadvertently misplaced the bag of bits, nada
The box for the model they are for has also been metaphorically turned inside out which was easy as there was never a great deal of stuff in there anyway.
This kind of situation, where I have not had a reason to move something from where it was stored yet the item disappears for no apparent reason, starts to fuel my self doubt and makes me think that the black hole is inside my brain and that the object in question was only in reality because I remembered it. This kind of situation makes me simply want to give up and....... do something else completely different from modelling, though saying that, the nagging thought in my brain that I simply did not look quite as hard as I should have or that I missed finding the missing part by half an inch or so will nag and burn away at me for some time and has even been known to keep me awake at night.
The stupidity of the whole situation, losing a bag of parts, not an item from a bag or a small part flying off the modelling bench when cut from the sprue or from tweezers when picking the part up to glue it to something else, it's not one of those situations which is understandable. This looks as if it has simply been swallowed up whole and gone......
Gondor
