discussion Frivolous Rubbish

[Guest]

These are (some) of my worst model making habits or annoyances.

1.Time & again will I learn. Blowing dust sanding dust from part of a model I am working on. Only to find about 10 light weight pieces disappear into the ether. Then spending 30 mins on retrieval.

2.Touching wet paint. A speciality.

3.The exciting moment of removing masking after airbrushing the fuselage. To find that there is a large blue splodge on the white where I have stupidly missed masking tape.

4.Total annoyance when cutting a piece from the sprue to find it has special exceptional spring qualities & disappears through the door into the back garden to join my tomatoes.

5.Great displeasure to find after loading the airbrush that there appears to be a blockage. Remove paint. Break the brush down only to find I have not tightened the needle after cleaning.

6.Complete insensitive dopey remarks by wife about “how is it going” when everything is going wrong. Then after a muted reply by me “not so good then” from her. £&?%@~

7.My youngest son arranging children’s farm animals all over my airfield. My elder son rearranging the little description boards on my airfield. A Lancaster suddenly becomes a Messerschmitt etc.

8.The wings drop off the fuselage (yesterday) due to not mixing the two part epoxy correctly.

9.Going to bed miserable due to no 8.

10.Realising at times no8 leading to the realisation no9 that I can be so stupid.

Good news. Number 7. Next time I visited my eldest son’s house I secretly rearranged about 15 bits of furniture ornaments etc around the lounge. Phone call in the evening. You know when you were here did you re-arrange things. Only Paula is convinced we have poltergeists. She did as well. O yes a winner.

Laurie

 

[papa 695]

Nice one Laurie i think we all suffer with or do some if not all of the above list. With number5 i allways test it with water or airbrush cleaner befor i load it up with paint. But i realy found your Good news very funny

 

[Guest]

Excellent Laurie, Gave me a laugh ...... i associate with number 4 particularly .... and i'm keeping the "good news" idea as back up in case any rearranging goes on here.

 

[Andy2035]

I can relate to nearly all of them, the exceptions are 6 & 7, no wife or children...

I could add another if I may,

11. Thinking it could do with just one more coat and it all going pear shaped...

 

[Ian M]

Nice one Laurie. I too liked nr 4 and nr 6

How about nr 12:

Blowing sanding dust off the kit you are making whilst the other kit you are doing has just been painted of varnished and has yet to be covered up... /¤"#"#/¤

Ian M

 

[Guest]

Andy I am a bit wise to that one now. I know it is going to go wrong but still do it !

Not done that one yet Ian but I have no doubt give me a bit of time & I will get around to it though I have not scheduled it in yet.

Laurie

 

[Guest]

Have certainly tried variations on the first four - but one of my personal favourites is to do a dry fit, convince myself I know how it all goes together, disassemble everything, dispense with the instructions and glue it together in the wrong sequence leaving one part impossible to put in. I have found that this can also apply to real cars although somehow sometimes they seem more forgiving of not having all the parts.

 

[Guest]

i have one.

I left a figure hanging around instead of putting it away and our parrot got hold if it and chewed all his extremities off

 

[Guest]

Mine:

1.No matter how many times I read the instructions, there will be a very important bit I've overlooked or should have done first.

2. If I lose a part, it becomes a trend on the next kits. HUDs and reflector gunsights a speciality. I've even stopped counting now.

3. If I drop a small part I am in the middle of painting, it will fall on my clothing.

Keith

 

[mossiepilot]

Yes, Yes, yes and yes to no's 1 to 4, don't have any visiting children to mess with my kits so the last lot ain't applicable. but the going to bed miserable when things aren't going to plan, happens more often than I'd like.

My contrbution would be - trying some new technique and it all going horribly wrong, even though I followed all the advice I could find. I get so discouraged when that happens, and have to "gird my loins" (can I say that?) to carry on.

Tony.

 

[Guest]

I left a figure hanging around instead of putting it away and our parrot got hold if it and chewed all his extremities off

Ouch



I have a law in my house, "if a part can be glued the wrong way round or upside down then it will be done" This is generally followed by frantically removing the solidly fixed part with a bent screwdriver whilst trying not to destroy everything else and then sanding everything back into shape before fitting the damn thing upside down again aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrggggghhhhhhh :fool:

 

[Guest]

Yes, Yes, yes and yes to no's 1 to 4, don't have any visiting children to mess with my kits so the last lot ain't applicable. but the going to bed miserable when things aren't going to plan, happens more often than I'd like.My contrbution would be - trying some new technique and it all going horribly wrong, even though I followed all the advice I could find. I get so discouraged when that happens, and have to "gird my loins" (can I say that?) to carry on.

Tony.

Yes Tony but these sons of mine are 48 & 36 & still have not grown up ! And still trying to annoy their father. Despicable.

Yes Girding Loins is OK. A loose meaning would be to pull up your drooping under pants.

Laurie

 

[Gern]

What!? Nobody else leaves gluey fingerprints 'cos they've used so much glue trying to make sure the joint doesn't leave a seam?

Gern

 

[flyjoe180]

Haha, all of these I can relate to. And Dave, your fingerprints with glue are a speciality of mine. Sandpaper time!

 

[Guest]

What!? Nobody else leaves gluey fingerprints 'cos they've used so much glue trying to make sure the joint doesn't leave a seam?Gern

oooooh yes, I have a special knife called the FP scraper

 

[BarryW]

Mine:1.No matter how many times I read the instructions, there will be a very important bit I've overlooked or should have done first.

2. If I lose a part, it becomes a trend on the next kits. HUDs and reflector gunsights a speciality. I've even stopped counting now.

3. If I drop a small part I am in the middle of painting, it will fall on my clothing.

Keith

How I relate to that..... specially small lost parts like the gunsight reflector, the one for my Martlett has disappeared!!!

 

[Guest]

How I relate to that..... specially small lost parts like the gunsight reflector, the one for my Martlett has disappeared!!!

I partially solved that affliction Barry. Try, if I can remember, to put a piece of tape on small pieces they are then easier to find. I leave just one end stuck on the piece & fold over & stick just short of the piece to make a tab to hold.

Laurie

 

[Ian M]

Yes Tony but these sons of mine are 48 & 36 & still have not grown up ! And still trying to annoy their father. Despicable. Laurie

Now that makes your original post so much more amusing... There We where thinking you refered to small children.

Ian M

 

[Guest]

How I relate to that..... specially small lost parts like the gunsight reflector, the one for my Martlett has disappeared!!!

If they fall off the sprue or if I take them off for painting etc, I put them in a tin with a lid that I keep especially for that purpose and they still manage it!

Keith

 

[Ian M]

What!? Nobody else leaves gluey fingerprints 'cos they've used so much glue trying to make sure the joint doesn't leave a seam?Gern

I tend to take care of them with one of them fiber glass pencil things for cleaning metal before soldering. Real good for removing glue marks and the like.

Ian M