BA Armor Survives the Wife Test

[Vogless]

SO,

I was greeted to a worried looking wife on my return from work this morning.

Like a DUMMY, I place a foam tray of BA armor on the washing machine in a rush home from a game the other night with the ASSUMPTION that IF anyone was doing laundry, they would move the tray....

Once again, assumption bit me in the rear!

Well, 3 Stugs, a Tiger, 2 Shermans, and Panzer IV's went flying, scattering them to the floor . Amazingly, the casualty list was: 2 slightly bent barrels on the Shermans (76's), 1 decapitated tank commander and hatch on a Panzer IV, and 1 shurzen broken off the other Pz IV. WHEW!!!

Thank god for metal barrels! I can not believe how tough these models are! 10 minutes witht the super glue and it's like nothing ever happened.

Moral? No more tanks on the laundry machine.... And stick with BA tanks .

[Big Al]

What was the wife's excuse? I bet it went something like "Well! You should have put them away, shouldn't you!"

[Vogless]

Oh no....

We were WAAAAAYYYY past THAT point!

Somehow I managed to keep the fireworks inside.

[Comte Michel]

Hoho, break something of the wife's and it's, 'You're a clumsy idiot!' and revoked bedroom privileges. She breaks someting of yours and it's, 'Well they're just toy soldiers anyway, it's about time you grew up!'. We poor blokes just can't win :p

Good job restraining the fireworks Vogless, it could only have ended badly.

[Big Al]

[Piers]

My wife refuses to go in my room... Too many toys.

Oddly though, my kids go in all the time (5 & 1) and they pay bugger all attention to the stuff unless Im painting. Then they climb on me till they get a go...

Touch wood, so far, my kids aint destroyed anything... Unless you count the paintjobs my daughter did aged 2 on 'her' 6mm Soviet T-55s... They actually look cool in pink.

[Vogless]

Well, it IS my fault. That little voice said to me, "that's not a good spot!", which I ignored. It just was a painful lesson. Thank God Warlord makes their tanks, well, tanks!

I have several 15mm Soviets on a stick which I now use as weights. My 5 year old did them up in blue and red. Sharp!

Both boys are itching to paint, it's just hard with school and all. Hopefully this summer break.

[grant]

[Johnnie]

Dropped my PaK 40 while I was about to do the last work on it. Put on a coat of matt and protective spray. The fall cracked the base which resulted in basing materials coming off and a part of the shield came off. The rest held though. Thank goodness