[WWI] Disaster Contest

[Douglas Anderson]

I had a decent collection that included all of my passions; WW1, Flying boats and float planes, and racing aircraft. My mother has this maid who is able to do what the entire German airforce was unable to do. All my models were on the book shelf in the study. There was some dust on them, admitadely, so she decided to dust them. All aerials, guns, undercarriage, bracing wires, props etc I discovered in a neat pile along side upper wings and other sundry bits and pieces. The remains of the aircraft were put back nicely in place on the bookshelf.

David Vosburgh <dkvosburgh at hotmail.com> wrote:  My oldest son got back into WWI modelling after seeing 'Flyboys' (see? I 
*told* you guys some good would come of it even with all the inaccuracies) 
and recently drove home from Pittsburgh to get all his kits, which have been 
in the attic for about six years. He started working on the 1:72 Revell 
D.VII and got it strutted up, then set it aside to dry on the windowsill.

Unfortunately, his girlfriend's cat (rumoured to have a slight amount of 
brain damage) got up and paraded around the window for a while, then slipped 
and - you guessed it - landed on the top wing of said D.VII, squashing same.

As disasters go, it wasn't much, he's going to re-do the struts with plastic 
rod and she'll be good as new. But I got to wondering about other's 
experiences along these lines... so here's the deal: post your worst 
disaster and the winner will get the bits of the 99% finished 1:72 Camel I 
worked on for two months, and which then got smashed to atoms when a fan 
fell off the table onto it.

DV
Contest Co-Ordinator

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