ccmatty  | 25 Jul 2017 8:25 p.m. PST |
So I was building my fifth and final T-72 for Team Yankee and while I was holding the search light to mount it to the gun, it flipped out of my finger tips and into the great abyss of my carpet/rug. I have taken a flashlight to the floor searching…you can only imagine the words that my wife uttered when she saw me crawling on the floor babbling like an idiot looking for the damn search light… I can't find it. How big of a deal is it? I certainly don't want to order an entire sprue… Ugh. |
| emckinney | 25 Jul 2017 8:35 p.m. PST |
Get the vacuum cleaner out. Take the hose/wand attachment and put a nylon stocking over it, securing it tightly with a rubber band. Carefully go over the carpet. You'll have to clean off the stocking several times, unless you're a lot neater than we are! (Obviously, don't use one of your wife's good stockings; and fishnets are right out!) |
| ccmatty | 25 Jul 2017 9:04 p.m. PST |
Thank you for the tip. I will try it. |
| Vostok17 | 26 Jul 2017 2:01 a.m. PST |
Hello, ccmatty! If the searchlight (I understand this is the "Luna", which is to the right of the gun) is not found, then one can be removed from another tank and copy it (a plaster form is made for tin soldiers, and the soldered solder from the nearest building store is poured in) . You can do anew (pick up a suitable piece of plastic – for example, a ballpoint pen with a diameter from the searchlight, from which you can then saw off a suitable piece with a fine saw, and then finish with a self-hardening mass for molding and pieces of polystyrene).
After the new searchlight is made, glued and painted, be prepared for the fact that the missing searchlight will immediately be found (unfortunately, this often happens). |
| freerangeegg | 26 Jul 2017 3:09 a.m. PST |
I too lost one of the searchlights from my T72s. I think there is a miniature tank factory somewhere in my house the number of parts that have vanished when I dropped them.
I just cut a bit of the sprue (the rounded bit where it attaches to the parts is best) shaped it slightly and glued it on, when it is painted no-one but me has noticed. |
| ccmatty | 26 Jul 2017 4:18 a.m. PST |
That's a good idea Freerange. Thank you. Usman – thank you as well… |
| Old Wolfman | 26 Jul 2017 7:12 a.m. PST |
I've dropped a few fiddly bits myself, on the kitchen floor(made of wood,BTW) and sometimes had quite the challenge finding them. I usually did. In one case,my wife Linda,found a missing piece of mini I dropped a week after I thought I lost it,while cleaning the apartment. |
 Saber6  | 26 Jul 2017 7:33 a.m. PST |
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| Dwindling Gravitas | 26 Jul 2017 12:25 p.m. PST |
Wait until night, turn the lights off and search with a torch. |
| JMcCarroll | 26 Jul 2017 4:38 p.m. PST |
Swear I spend more time on the floor looking for parts then painting them. |
| ccmatty | 27 Jul 2017 4:05 p.m. PST |
Well, lo and behold, I turned off the lights, grabbed a flashlight, got down on the floor…one last pass with the flashlight and FOUND the searchlight…LOL I was so excited that I attempted to stand up while still under the desk, cranked my head on the underside of the desk, dropped the searchlight piece again, only to find it after a mini-coronary… Unbelievable. Thank you all for the sympathy, empathy, suggestions, and I am sure a couple of good laughs at my expense… |
| Old Wolfman | 04 Aug 2017 7:12 a.m. PST |
And recently ,I had to replace the MGs on two T-64s,as the barrels had snapped off. Luckily,I had some spares on the sprues,and was able to detach the gun from the turret hatch,clear the space and reglue the new gun on. |
