ChaosCossack
A Fixture
Edward, sorry to hear about this incident.
I, myself, am very new to the model show experience (just attended my third one last week) and it amazes me how cavalier people can be around other peoples things. I'm sure the shows I have been to here in Canada are miniscule compared to the UK/European shows but they still get pretty crowded. As I stood near the tables, I watched people with bags, backpacks and cameras coming perilously close to wiping out swaths of figures without blinking an eye or standing near displays chatting, waving arms around and leaning on tables... you'd think they were at a cafe not a model show. I spent the entire day fairly puckered up, waiting for disaster to happen.
What I gotta know... don't these fancy new digital cameras have a zoom function? Why do people insist on holding the camera an inch away from something so fragile that doesn't belong to him?
Before the model shows, for years I was a regular at custom motorcycle shows. I can just imagine some klutz knocking over some biker's handbuilt chopper... quickly standing it back up and touching up the gouge in the gastank with his wifes nailpolish. Financial compensation would be expected... as soon as the offender was released from hospital
... or from the offending party's estate
I guess for the person who made the mess in this instance, they're lucky figure painters are a more civilized lot. I hope, if this ever happens to me (knock wood) I will be able to remember I'm not at a bike show
Colin
I, myself, am very new to the model show experience (just attended my third one last week) and it amazes me how cavalier people can be around other peoples things. I'm sure the shows I have been to here in Canada are miniscule compared to the UK/European shows but they still get pretty crowded. As I stood near the tables, I watched people with bags, backpacks and cameras coming perilously close to wiping out swaths of figures without blinking an eye or standing near displays chatting, waving arms around and leaning on tables... you'd think they were at a cafe not a model show. I spent the entire day fairly puckered up, waiting for disaster to happen.
What I gotta know... don't these fancy new digital cameras have a zoom function? Why do people insist on holding the camera an inch away from something so fragile that doesn't belong to him?
Before the model shows, for years I was a regular at custom motorcycle shows. I can just imagine some klutz knocking over some biker's handbuilt chopper... quickly standing it back up and touching up the gouge in the gastank with his wifes nailpolish. Financial compensation would be expected... as soon as the offender was released from hospital
... or from the offending party's estateI guess for the person who made the mess in this instance, they're lucky figure painters are a more civilized lot. I hope, if this ever happens to me (knock wood) I will be able to remember I'm not at a bike show
Colin
