I was tempted to contact Linden Hill and ask if they have a record of my having ordered a set.. it's not like I haven't ordered enough stuff from them to be shipped to Vt that they WON'T recognize me..

I'm STILL resisting the urge to just buy another set.

You are right, I am probably going to re-box the big Hind and play with something smaller and simpler for a while.

I suggest the stencils will be located with the missing 10mm socket, the 1/4 W spanner and the piston circlip that managed to escape from my engine rebuild!

OMG - it's not just me. I am not alone..

Cheers

Many years ago I lost the front seat from Tamiyas Sd.Kfz. 7. Searched for a few hours until I gave up and copied the seat from another box, nothing complicated. When I had painted it I continued with airbrushing the rest of the halftrack in panzer grey. Air inlet filter on the compressor was clogged by dust so I had to pull it forward and promply found the missing seat hiding behind the compressor so now I have a spare Sd.Kfz. 7 seat ...

Lost side cutter once, searched for hours and then gave up and bought a new one. Four weeks later I found it where I had put it the last time I used it. Hanging, handles downward, from the rods holding up my worklight. It was literally 5 inches from my face every evening I sat there building .....

I've had 3 parts "ping" into the vortex above my workbench and disappear this week. one I made from spare plastic but the other 2 will just not be on the finished model. PS I do not have a carpet just bare concrete flooor that once swept turn up the dropped parts, but not in this case

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I've had 3 parts "ping" into the vortex above my workbench and disappear this week. one I made from spare plastic but the other 2 will just not be on the finished model. PS I do not have a carpet just bare concrete flooor that once swept turn up the dropped parts, but not in this case

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I know how you feel, i think every one has had parts decide to go on an adventure and never come back. I work on a concrete floor as well and at least we dont have to worry about the dreaded:CARPET MONSTER!

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I've had 3 parts "ping" into the vortex above my workbench and disappear this week. one I made from spare plastic but the other 2 will just not be on the finished model. PS I do not have a carpet just bare concrete flooor that once swept turn up the dropped parts, but not in this case

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I know how you feel, i think every one has had parts decide to go on an adventure and never come back. I work on a concrete floor as well and at least we dont have to worry about the dreaded:CARPET MONSTER!

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This posting is deja ‘vu for another posting here recently. In that one, I mentioned the hand wheel from a Tamiya Sturmtiger that pinged away from my garage workbench a few years back. I used every method in the book to look for it, as I knew I heard it hit the concrete garage floor. I used the flashlight on the floor method, the nylon stocking over the vacuum hose method, etc. I never found the part, and eventually succumbed to scratch-building it. Since I park my SUV in the garage, and do a lot of woodworking in the same area, I frequently blow out the area with a leaf blower, and I’m constantly sweeping it out, and driving my SUV over the area every day. Imagine my surprise about six months later when I’m cleaning out my garage and I look down to see this tiny part sitting there, right in the middle of the concrete garage floor. I maintain there’s a worm hole over my workbench (really—all modeling workbenches) filled with pixies or fairies or whatever, who steal and return these parts at will, just to make life miserable— regardless of carpeting, concrete or whatever.
VR, Russ

Shortly after I moved into my house many years ago, I painted and sealed the garage floor. There was a choice of red or grey. Guess which one I plumped for? Yes, that's right, the one that's exactly the same shade as Dragon and Takom's plastic!

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Shortly after I moved into my house many years ago, I painted and sealed the garage floor. There was a choice of red or grey. Guess which one I plumped for? Yes, that's right, the one that's exactly the same shade as Dragon and Takom's plastic!

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Easy: The first thing to do when you open a new kit is to airbrush a thin layer of red primer over every sprue, except any clear sprues of course