Your worst mishap with a model?

[Guest]

Hi

Has anyone had mishaps or blunders when making a model, I have not long started into this new hobby : ) but when I was building the academy Tiger with interior I had it all finished inside and thought wow pretty good as I was holding it for some silly reason I was stretching over to grab the remote for the tv and still holding the model in one hand.......and before I lifted the remote the Tank was on the floor with all the small bits everywhere Nooooooo words like dam and goodness me came from my mouth : ). Talking about all picture and no sound and that was the wife..... It took me about 30 mins to get all the bits and luckily enough I got it all back together again. It was not to bad but I am sure u guys have some stories to tell.

Robert

[Guest]

Easy to answer that one Robert.

First was thinking I was going to be the best model maker in the world.

The second not throwing my first model a Typoon Tiffy in the dustbin.

Third still having Tiffy on show.

Laurie

[Ian M]

I still think the best one I have done is glueing a fuselage up, fixing the seams, primed and painted it as well. I thought it was rather good. Then I saw the cock pit staring at me from the desk.....

Ian M

[Guest]

I seem to have a mishap everytime i model (with the odd exception of course when it all goes well) they range from sticking a fingertip to a building with super glue and then going to reach for something...dragging the complete diorama across the bench - to very often knocking over pots, glue, jigged up model parts that i have "just right" after 20 minutes of setting it up.

The worst would be sitting on a completed ERTL 1/48 "airwolf" helicopter after i put it on my chair whilst getting the table in the shed set up to spray it with a halfords rattle can matt black back in the mid 80's.

I ranted, raved, threw everything out my pram including the quilt and was mardy for best part of the day.

[Guest]

This is better than the Joke section lol. Boy I have tears laughing I am getting all these pictures in my head of models bouncing of bins and the poor cockpit... But Colin omg you have had it bad the sitting on your model I am still crying with laughter sorry I am sure it hurt at the time your bum I mean : )))).

[Guest]

Rotor blades find their way into crevices i'll tell ya ..... i laugh about it now but it was a tad different when it happened ... glad it gave you a laugh mate

[Guest]

Recent one was my wife finding me on all fours bum in the air on the floor with my magnifying glasses on & a light in one hand looking for the smallest thing in the model world.

To be greeted by "what on earth are you doing". What a stupid question !

Laurie

[AlanG]

Just about to finish my FW190 D9 for the GB, went away for the weekend. Came back to find the ceiling has fallen in on top of it when a water pipe burst. Was gutted

[Dave W]

My biggest cock up was trying to tighten a fishing line antenna on a Henschel 129 by holding the model close to a hot spot light.I'd had a few beers and got it too close and melted the fuselage!.I'd spent the best part of a month building it including a total rescribe.So i wasnt very pleased with myself.Have kept it as a reminder of my stupidity and not to be a 'w***er' again!.

[john i am]

my best 1 was knocking an open bottle of wilkinsons brush cleaner over onto a not long finished sherman tank it was my best weatherd worn finish to date lol

[Guest]

Finished Jaguar XJ220 - Bro's birthday present - after gluing the wing on - it slips off, drags a glue scar all the way across the boot..... again, words like Damn, oh dear me and such like came flooding out.

Breaking a minigun off an AC-47 then having to prise the fuselage open to retrieve it, glue it back on and re-gluing the fuselage!!!

And many many more.....

[stona]

Too many to tell!

In recent years,dropping a 1/32 scale Ju88 onto its nose with predictable results for all that clear "glass".

Posing a completed Bf109 for a few piccies only for the backboard to fall down,smashing it into the base.

Both got fixed but the air took a while to clear.

Cheers

Steve

[Guest]

When I first started I stupidly decided to dry some sprues I had just washed on the radiator...I came back later to find virtually every piece warped in a dali'esque manner,

I still squirm when I think about the "how-could-you-be-so stupid" look the wife gave me. lol

[Guest]

one of the first kits i built after returning to the hobby was a tamiya hanomag i photographed it put it out of the way on a chair only to sit on it. it will be used in a dio later.

Scott

[Guest]

i had a mishap yesterday, Chuckie my Amazon parrot decided to crash land on my 1/72 Spitfire, only minor damage done (undercarriage snapped) which ive been able to fix.

Now thats what i call "birdstrike" :P