Warning the Carpet Monster has mutated

[JamesPerrin]

One of the labs at the uni has tack mats as you walk to cut down on dust. Maybe this the way forward for us?

[splash]

It’s just got worse, the shelving beast is working with the carpet monster, whilst trying to get a book from the shelf they all slid along and crushed my Spitfire with the German nose smashing two prop blades and one main wheel.

I was quick enough to recover the two blades but two slow to stop the carpet monster eating the wheel and undercarriage strut.

Dam they are so quick, what chance do we stand if they are now working in pairs?

Do you think that Airfix package them in with the kits, just to make us buy more kits to use as spares?

Or are they just natural scavengers?

They really are starting to annoy me.

Regards
Splash

[arni]

All this talk about taming carpet monsters is old stuff!

I have gone all high tech with a pair of trained bats,pip sits on my left shoulder and squeak on my right.Both are trained to locate flying plastic and to catch it on the wing,when they return to me they are rewarded depending on what they recover.

If it is a bit of sprue or scrap plastic they get a small bug,a larger bit of plastic such as a valuable one off scratch built part rewards them with a nice juicy moth.

Pip is my favourite though,she knows that any shiney or chrome bit caught airborne is worth a nice big juicy mayfly,or for a really special part a dragonfly!!

[splash]

Arni

Would they react if you tried to build a tiger moth or dragonfly?

Do they work in the daylight?

Regards
Splash

[arni]

No worries there Splash,they are trained to retrieve plastic what ever the subject,so a plastic moth is just plastic to them.

Day or night doesn't matter to them,as they work on radar!!!

[MerlinJones]

Tell me that's sonar, Nigel...or have you got them carrying little power packs and stuff!?!

Clearly, many of you haven't read the Glossary entry on the critters.

Regards,
Bruce

[glen3312]

not one to boast but i bet my carpet monster is bigger than yours !!! i recently bought the Italeri 1/35 Landing Craft and have lost a WHOLE sprue c/w parts attached i can not find it anywhere
one small tip i did pick up is to attach a piece of blue baize (or similar) to the underside of your desk/bench and let it drape over your lap to catch any dropped pieces, it works a treat

[Dirkpitt289]

not one to boast but i bet my carpet monster is bigger than yours !!! i recently bought the Italeri 1/35 Landing Craft and have lost a WHOLE sprue c/w parts attached i can not find it anywhere
one small tip i did pick up is to attach a piece of blue baize (or similar) to the underside of your desk/bench and let it drape over your lap to catch any dropped pieces, it works a treat

Ouch, that's gotta hurt

[MerlinJones]

That's a new concept, though...Carpet Monster Envy!

Regards,
Bruce

[flakmonkey]

There is no carpet monster. Parts dropped from the bench in fact travel to a parallel universe, where they are highly sought after by collectors and can be found on ebay at exorbitant prices. To maintain equilibrium between the two universes, once an appropriate mass of kit parts has made it across the dimension gap, a traffic cone crosses over to our side to appear in a random spot somewhere on our roads. Occasionally entire gangs of traffic cones materialize in groups, giving the impression of part of a road having being coned off with no workmen in sight.

[arni]

Tell me that's sonar, Nigel...or have you got them carrying little power packs and stuff!?!

Clearly, many of you haven't read the Glossary entry on the critters.

Regards,
Bruce

Yea sonar that's the one Bruce,but the idea of bats with jet packs for extended range appeals to me.

[carlos kgr]

Does Vinyl floor applies for Monster Tales? If so I just lost the landing gear of my Esci 1/72 crusader...

[AndrewR]

Occasionally entire gangs of traffic cones materialize in groups, giving the impression of part of a road having being coned off with no workmen in sight.

Occasionally?

Cones or pylons (as they say here) tend to materialize in groups along large highways. In area where corn fields are prevelant, the cone immediately inflates to a large size, crushing the crop in a circular pattern, and then vanishes.

Every time you drop a bit on the floor, a crop circle appears...

[JohnRatzenberger]

In our neck of the woods, we have gotten past mere traffic cones ....

http://craziestgadgets.com/2009/06/15/barrel-monster/;

[flakmonkey]

Yikes! It's the carpet monster's bigger meaner brother!