(I can make bits disappear and reappear at will!)
Yesterday while working on my old school Chimera I was assembling the tracks. For those of you that have had the pleasure of trying to glue on the tracks of the original Chimera you know that there are no guides to slip the tracks into to make sure they fit correctly. You just try and do your best to line them up and hope when you get to the starting point the two track lines touch and appear complete (mine do not, there is a gap I have hidden on the bottom of the Chimera). I laid out all the track units into two piles making sure I had all the needed pieces. As I was dry fitting the tracks onto the Chimera I pushed too hard and made some track pieces pop off and bounce about my work station. Panicking I noticed that I was missing one of the small 1 track pieces. Stand up slowly and watch for falling bit. Nothing. Get down on hands and knees and examine the carpet for the missing bit. Nothing. Take the couch cushions apart and search in the sofa cracks. Nothing. Scan the coffee table and surroundings for the missing bit. Nothing. Give up. Continue gluing on the remaining track pieces. Almost done and then realize that the 3 track bit sitting on my work station is really a 2 track bit with the missing 1 track bit attached to it. Whew!
While cutting Adeptus Mechanicus cogs from the GW etched brass sprue I watch helplessly as the cog falls end over end, hits my shirt and slides down my body and disappears over the horizon that is my fat belly. Repeat all of the steps mentioned in the previous paragraph. Nothing. Give up. Finish adding doo-dads/geehaws to my newly arrived SHADOWSWORD. Flash forward to this morning. Get up and put on yesterday's shorts (black Dickie's, they are my favorite ::shrugs::, sue me I'm a nerd). Ask my dog "Wanna Go Outside?" She answers "YES!" Let dog out of kennel. Put my cell phone in my left shorts pocket. Dog bounces all over the apartment. Discover something sharp that may scratch my cell phone screen in my shorts pocket. Pull out what I assume must be a piece of pecan shell only to magically transform it into my missing brass Adeptus Mechanicus cog bit! Cue Applause. Full bow. Exist stage left...
