By Professor Neurus, U.N.T.
As many modelers have noticed, resin detail parts have a
tendency not to fit where they are supposed to. Particularly annoying are
cockpit and wheel wells inserts which invariably are bigger than the space they
should occupy, in flagrant contradiction with the dictum that states that two
bodies can't occupy the same space at the same time.
A strange phenomena has been observed for years, but just
very recently clarified and given a name by a modeler from Rancho Palos Verdes, California:
the Sanding Event Horizon. This denomination applies to that particular
instance that is reached at certain point during the sanding procedure: you
measure the part and it is too big, therefore you sand a bit, still the part
won't fit; you sand more, still far from ideal; you keep very carefully sanding
quantum amounts of resin (or sometimes plastic, or wood, or whatever you use in your modelling endeavors) and after innumerable
repetitions and dry-fittings, you try once more and the part is still too big. At
this time, aware of the known and proven treacherous and unpredictable behavior
of modeling components, materials, tools and the like, you carefully sand away a
few more molecules, or even atoms. At this point, something strange happens at the level of sub-atomic particles and suddenly you reach the Sanding Event
Horizon, and the part is inexplicably too small, therefore is now rattling
around instead of snuggly fitting in the space where it should go, exactly the
same way matter, in reaching the event horizon of a black hole, is irreversibly
sucked in and can't go back. The scholars are now turning their attention to
related phenomena, like the (self explanatory) Glue Amount Event Horizon and
the I Should Push a Bit Harder Event Horizon -that caused so many fingers to be
temporarily immolated on the altar of Styrene, the Greek Goddess of
Model-making-.
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