The Little World

No politics – this is the story of a collapse in a scale model storage cabinet. In finitely more distressing than anything that happens in Canberra.

A call at my studio discovered the bad news – a glass shelf in one of my IKEA cabinets had dropped on one end and crushed to scale models. I hasten to add that it was not he fault of the shelf or the IKEA design – I had fabricated shelf supports that were too short and eventually temperature changes and shelf creep pulled the glass down past the metal pins. It had already happened on another IKEA cabinet and I was not smart enough to make new pins straight away.

That will be remedied in a half hour in my workshop – they are cut-off nails covered in rubber sleeving. I checked all the other cabinets in the room and need to make 8 pins to solve the problem.

The aircraft models are another thing; one has the nose neatly sliced off and one has extensive wing and wheel fractures.

This is the point where my advice to others about damage control becomes advice to myself. There will be a period of re-cementing, gluing, and pinning. All the wayward fragments have been collected.