{"id":14994,"date":"2023-01-16T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-16T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/?p=14994"},"modified":"2023-01-16T08:37:59","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T11:37:59","slug":"the-monpole-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/16\/the-monpole-accident\/","title":{"rendered":"The Monopole Incident"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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No, you are not seeing double. The photo above is also not a half-assed clever trick of photography. I really do have two X84. And why would somebody buy two units of the exact same model? Because that somebody is clumsy and <\/em>stupid \ud83d\ude23. I bought the first X84 #52 in early November last year, and was very happy with it. As usual, as soon as it arrived, I removed it from the box for inspection and placed it on my display shelves. A few days later I got it out from the display to photograph it. Just like I always do. Just like I have done for years and years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Interestingly, NO damage to the paint anywhere else, only where the resin cracked.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

And that’s when disaster came to town. While setting it up for the first(!) shot, I dropped it \ud83d\ude2b. Almost 20 years collecting models and I dropped a model (no, really<\/em>). I was paying attention to the camera and not the model, and I placed it to close to the edge of the track diorama. Physics being physics, it fell off and crashed to the tiled floor about 100 cm below. Meanwhile, I looked on dumbfounded, torn between smacking myself once or smacking myself twice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If I was any good with full-body painting, I’m confident it could be repairable. Alas, I’m not…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Since it is a resin model, as you can see on the pics above, it cracked in the middle. The seats snapped off, as did the number plate’s lights on the side. The seats I recovered, yet I never found the lights. I thought about fixing it, however that would demand a full repaint. And that, unfortunately, is outside of my (meager) modeling skills. Besides, I would also have to fabricate new lights somehow and buy or fabricate decals. With all that, I decided against it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My second X84 #52 is safe and sound.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

So I had two options: bin it and forget about the X84 #52 or get a new one. I really liked the model, and I already had done all the research and written the review. So I went back to eBay and fortunately found a second one<\/a>, also brand new. And as painfully expected, more expensive than what I payed on the first one \ud83d\ude24. As always, stupidity doesn’t come for free, it always<\/em> has a price.<\/p>\n\n\n

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So there you have it, kids. Pay attention (don’t be stupid) or pay the price \ud83d\ude23.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Published 01\/16\/23 No, you are not seeing double. The photo above is also not a half-assed clever trick of photography. I really do have two X84. And why would somebody buy two units of the exact same model? Because that somebody is clumsy and stupid \ud83d\ude23. I bought the first X84 #52 in early November … Continue reading “The Monopole Incident”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collectors-corner","category-le-mans"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14994"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15031,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14994\/revisions\/15031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}