Re: Stripping?

At 02:12 PM 8/22/00 +1000, you wrote:
>G'day,
>
> >But yeah, goggles would have been a smart move.  Of course, we could
talk
> >all day about the various modelling screw-ups I've experienced. 
There was
> >the time I sent a GZG building shooting across the room with a belt
sander,
>
>Not trying to be unfeeling John, but this is the hardest I've laughed
in a 
>long time - I'm gonna have the giggles for the rest of the day (mainly 
>because it sounds like the kind of thing I do.. at which point they'd
be a 
>disgusted "Beth!!" from Derek and a rather quite "Oops" from me). Derek
was 
>so appalled at my ability to lose 5mm scale biplanes in the backyard 
>(they'd zing off as I tried to drill stand holes in their belly) that
when 
>it came time to mount my GZG fighters he just quietly took the drill,
went 
>away and came back with the finished product ;)

Well, it's worth noting that the building shot across the room at high
speed, bounced off a stone wall, and bounced several more times on a
concrete floor...and suffered only a scuff mark or two as a consequence.
I'm not sure what KR casts those buildings out of, but it's good stuff.  

John X Crimmins
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