discussion What Models have beaten you??

[Gern]

All of 'em! I've yet to produce anything from a kit that hasn't got numerous faults. Fortunately, my eyesight isn't so good nowadays so they look OK on my shelf from a few feet away!

 

[BarryW]

So far......my one and only binned kit was this,
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The plastic was like granite and there was so much flash and misalignment that after getting halfway through I just fed it to the bin!
What I found annoying was seeing others make a cracking job of the kit! I must of had a bad one:smiling5:

I loved that kit, mind you that was back in the late 70’s and I expect it was state of the art then.......

 

[Guest]

Dave,

For me it was the Dingo from Miniart and more recently the FW 190 a-8 from Eduard...
All those gaps and pieces of plastic that snapped right of in all the wrong places...
Ooooh the memories....
*sits alone in the corner rocking back and forth while sucking is thumb*

Sjors

 

[stillp]

more recently the FW 190 a-8 from Eduard...

Thanks, that's my next planned build!

Pete

 

[Guest]

Thanks, that's my next planned build!

Pete

Im sure you will do just fine Pete!

 

[Jack L]

This one was my biggest fail...could not get the deck to fit the hull no matter what I tried. Clamps worked until the cement had set, but the hull would soon spring back out of shape. I was quite young at the time. might give it another go one day...but don't have the space at the moment.

 

[Guest]

When it is a bad kit can we not send it back to the original company? After all our hobby is their business. Feedback is useful. I know some kits are remakes but somebody is responsible.

 

[Guest]

Every kit I've ever built has beaten me somewhere along the line that's why mine always have loads of upgrades or modifications to hide all my mistakes.
Pete.

 

[Dave Ward]

Sometimes, it's not the manufacturer, but the modeller! It's exasperating when you see the same model that you canned, made up by a 12 year old on his first construct!
If you have problems with a model, email them, go on their Facebook page - you never know, you might get a result, or meet others with the same problem........
Dave

 

[minitnkr]

None so far. Being a very competitive personality, I persist beyond the reasonable. Scratching or semi-scratching around the shortcomings. Not always with great result, but OK from two feet. An advantage of working only in 1/87 scale. PaulE

 

[Jon Heptonstall]

Committed a cardinal sin of splashing out on Accurate Armour's big Scimitar when I was a lot younger and a lot richer and had never made a resin model before. What a waste of a very good model.
Jon.

 

[rtfoe]

Whenever I hit a snag while building after three tries I will put it down, go for a walk, have a drink, simmer down and then go back to do it. Most of the time I find I have been fitting it upside down or followed the destruction sheet too closely when there could have been an easier way or a new part had to be scratched for a better fit. I never throw away a kit...it's like throwing away money.

Cheers,
Richard

 

[Guest]

This...

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...today.


The fiddly mechanism that holds the breach in place was all on the cock. I just couldn't be bothered with it after a few hours of messing around.
It's in the bin!
The only bonus is that I built so little of it I have all the figures & half the other bits left :rolling:

 

[Guest]

As I recall, other stuff eventually got mounted on this gun’s carriage, so if/when your scratchbuilding skills improve, you could try making one of those

 

[stillp]

I've been beaten twice by the Airfix 1/32 Triumph TR4A. Ironic isn't it, given that I fully rebuilt the 1:1 in my avatar...

Pete