"The One That Got Away" Topic

So I've got four toy scorpions that I'm painting for a project. I take them to where I prep my models before spray-priming them… and one scorpion somehow jumps away!

I search, and I can't find where it's gone. (Did I mention it's RED.)

The next day, I made a more thorough search. I run physics computations in my mind to figure out where the model might have landed. I dig into open boxes of junk it might have tunneled into. No luck.

So I gave up. Three scorpions would have to do.

I walked into that area today, and the lost scorpion was sitting there in the middle of the floor, like he was ready to come home!

Are you sure it didn't get up and take a walk?

We call it the "Blackhole Theory".
These little blackholes pop up and disappear then reappear on a whimsey.
It's the only logical explanation…

It was probably looking for one of your lost socks. Did it come back with a sock?

Try having a grey carpet in a world where most mini companies mould their stuff in grey plastic. I sometimes find myself crawling on the floor feeling my way around with a headlamp looking for a lost spear. What have I become?

And this was on a hard wooden floor!

Sometimes the harder you look the better it hides…. ;-)

Are you sure it was a TOY!

And remember, you will always find your lost item in the last place you look.

As I get older, I notice that my hands are prone to drop small pieces as I paint or assemble at the drop of a hat (have never dropped a figure yet, though). Invariably, whenever I drop said part, it seems to disappear. I can literally watch it fall and think I see where it lands, but when I go down to grab it… it is gone.

I think there is some weird black hole hiding near my feet.

Carpet pixies are responsible.

"As I get older, I notice that my hands are prone to drop small pieces as I paint (…) Invariably, whenever I drop said part, it seems to disappear."

Check in the paint jar (it happens…! ;-)

Yep, clumsiness compounded by Black Holes is a monster.