Pet hates in modelling

[stona]

One of mine is, holding a part/model waiting for the glue to take hold and not noticing that the glue has taken hold of your fingers at the same time making me part of the model...

Thin superglue is very good for this......ask me how I know

Steve

[mossiepilot]

Losing a small part INSIDE the model.This can be made worse if the little beggar already has glue on it as it will undoubtedly stick in an inaccessible void. Earlier today a landing light lens dropped inside the wing of my DC-3. Several heart stopping moments and much vigorous shaking later I managed to retrieve it.

I know what you mean, I did this with a 1:72 Hurricane. I had to fashion a soft copper fishing rod thingy to extract it. I still got it as I have every expectation it'll happen againhno::shoot::death: !!!!!

Tony.

[aaron]

Mine pet peeve is painting 1/35 scale figure faces.So hard to get right especially the eyes.

[colin m]

Losing a small part INSIDE the model.This can be made worse if the little beggar already has glue on it as it will undoubtedly stick in an inaccessible void. Earlier today a landing light lens dropped inside the wing of my DC-3. Several heart stopping moments and much vigorous shaking later I managed to retrieve it.

Cheers

Steve

Yes, I've made rattles in various scales, 1:72, 1:48 ..........

[Guest]

I left this thread untill i could think of something profound ...... (unusual for me as i'm usually ... errmm ..oh yeah... a prat! )

So ... my pet hate is that my eyes and hands don't operate the same as they did 20/30 years ago, modelling takes a bit longer and in shorter bursts before i have to recharge.

If i knew then what i know now and had fully functional body bits i'd be on a roll i'll tell ya

[Guest]

More to come Colin. My brain has problems with most other parts of me. Or is it just the brain ? Yes that must be it !!!

Laurie

[saguy]

hi there .... for me it is the building of the landing gear for aircraft .. no matter how hard i try and how careful i am i just do not seem to get them right ... always look off to me ......lindsey

[Guest]

I know what you mean, I did this with a 1:72 Hurricane. I had to fashion a soft copper fishing rod thingy to extract it. I still got it as I have every expectation it'll happen againhno::shoot::death: !!!!!Tony.

I had to actually break open the fuselage join on an Italeri AC-47 to retrieve a minigun from between the floor and the wingroot. I was not impressed at having to do this