Spending half and hour crawling on the floor trying to find a part that had pinged off before finding it had bounced down my chest into my pocket.
what's the sillyiest or funnyiest mistake you have made regarding model makeing
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Staying with the glue, getting CA on my thumb and naturally sticking the piece of PE to it, whiles't searching the floor for the piece for what seemed hours only to sit down and see it !
We won't going tracks, that's far too painful
We won't going tracks, that's far too painful
Well I think that’s SWR for the win......
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What was worse was that my wife was having uncontrollable fits of laughter,so instead of something that should have taken a few minutes turned into about twenty :smiling3:.
Reminds me of a story told by a friend of mine.....he was digging a pond in his garden, about four foot deep, and had just got the liner in when it started to rain. The rain made the thing too slippery to climb out of, so he was sliding around like Charlie Chaplin trying to get out and shouted for help....
His teenage daughter heard and came out. Seeing what was happening she said hang on, and went back in the house....he thought she’d gone to get something to help, but no! She brought out her cini camera and started filming him !!!!!
His teenage daughter heard and came out. Seeing what was happening she said hang on, and went back in the house....he thought she’d gone to get something to help, but no! She brought out her cini camera and started filming him !!!!!
Worst thing is dave , they both had the original labels still on and the bovril jar was bigger , how i got the wrong one i dont know !!
I use a 5ml syringe for drawing paint out of the bottles and putting it into my hissy stick cup. Needing 4ml of Tamiya dark gray for spraying, I decided to mix 2ml of IPA and 2ml of paint in the syringe. I drew the IPA first and then the dark gray, put the syringe on a paper towel while I fire up the compressor and prepped the hissy stick.
I then picked up the syringe and shook it vigorously to mix the 2 together to thin the paint. UHHHH, I forgot to put my finger over the tip of the syringe while shaking. A mess was made all over the kitchen………………………...
I then picked up the syringe and shook it vigorously to mix the 2 together to thin the paint. UHHHH, I forgot to put my finger over the tip of the syringe while shaking. A mess was made all over the kitchen………………………...
thing is, what i was doing with it meant i didnt need the wings....just the fuselage......so half a kit and it still wouldnt go together!! lol
YEATH I think Ralph is a winner by a mile an as for havin the missus laughin it would be more than I could stand as no doubt she'd tell her sisters an friends not to mention my m8 's
id never live it down. but that was the whole aim of this thread to have a chuckle an all cheer up as it certainly gave me some laughs good on you all for bein such good sports. It will soon be summer hooray an I hope you feel better now Ralph ALL BEST
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Been there and done that Allen. Even worse added thinner to a full bottle of tamiya phone rings so I put top on bottle and as I'm talking to my niece I started to shake the bottle to mix the paint unfortunately I hadn't tightened the lid the resulting mess was unreal there was XF-59 everywhere walls,floors and ceiling all received a nice spattering.
I spent two days looking for a part that I remembered removing from the sprue and cleaning up. Asked the wife to help me, after a couple more hours with bothe of us looking I picked up the sprue, and the was the part I was looking for, still attached!
Pete
You was lucky there then pete as ive lost parts from the tweeser ends pingin off into the unknow an the carpet monster still got them
chris
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That reminds me of another mistake of mine: not removing the little shaker ball from the bottles of airbrush-ready enamel paints that Revell used to sell twenty years or so ago. You would hear it rattling around inside the bottle while shaking it before painting, and I found the paint was good for brush-painting as well as airbrushing, so I also used it in my hobby room (I used to spray my models in the shed). Until one of the bottles just broke in my hand as I was shaking it — the steel ball inside the bottle must have hit the glass in just the right/wrong way and caused it to come apart. Paint everywhere, luckily much of it on my hand but also some on the sprues of the model I was building, plus of course the floor and various other places around my hobby room. I was not amused. And then came the realisation that I was holding a handful of broken glass at that point.
However, it’s the sort of thing that you can easily think is a fluke occurrence, so I didn’t really think much of it. Until sometime later, it happened again. From then on, whenever I opened a new bottle of this paint that I hadn’t used before, I used some cocktail sticks to fish out the little ball before doing anything else.
Apart from the glue issues and loosing parts like the rest, the dumbest thing I did was a couple of weeks ago…
Over the years I’ve developed a habit of cleaning shaping tools covered in filler with the back of my left hand, I do the same with my trusty Stanley fat-max after scraping any plastic clean but always with the sides.
That time I was cleaning up a little bit with a no.11, it was covered in dust and without thought I gave it a couple of swipes on the hand, the last one was with the business end of the 11….:face-with-head-bandage:
Good to have a first aid kit always near the bench, nothing major was hit and I never do that with a knife again, lesson learned.:rolling:
Over the years I’ve developed a habit of cleaning shaping tools covered in filler with the back of my left hand, I do the same with my trusty Stanley fat-max after scraping any plastic clean but always with the sides.
That time I was cleaning up a little bit with a no.11, it was covered in dust and without thought I gave it a couple of swipes on the hand, the last one was with the business end of the 11….:face-with-head-bandage:
Good to have a first aid kit always near the bench, nothing major was hit and I never do that with a knife again, lesson learned.:rolling:
Had the same too Jakko with their bottles of primer.
The steel ball was pretty big and a damaged or imperfect jar would shatter leaving paint and glass on ones hand and floor, with half a jar remaining….
Sounds like a painfull happening Ferando ive never seen these glass paint s are they presserised like a spray can ?
chris
Oh not really, the ball just exits the jar during shaking leaving a mess in it’s wake…
Luckily not pressurised at all, think of a Tamiya jar only more round and having the same amount of paint inside:
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As a kid a lot of my "mistakes" were due to naivety, poor equipment and just trying to put the thing together together as quickly as I could so I could play with it. I would leave pieces off regularly! I would also struggle with pieces like weapons pylons that would take ages to dry if you used normal model glue so I would sometimes just glue the missiles and bombs straight to the wing. Once I even cut the decals off and glued them dry to the plane because I had a habit of tearing them if I used them properly. I didn't have anyone guiding me for any of this stuff and learned things the hard and long way!
These days the biggest mistake I make is trying to get a build too perfect rather than just leaving it alone. This results in making it worse and sometimes even stuffing it right up. In general though I am pretty calm about my builds.
These days the biggest mistake I make is trying to get a build too perfect rather than just leaving it alone. This results in making it worse and sometimes even stuffing it right up. In general though I am pretty calm about my builds.
My 1st model was an F4 Phantom from the USS Forresteral when I had finished it I actually cut out the transfers and glued them onto the model needless to say I was only 10 and had never heard of waterslide before
And just recently I was using some pins for a simulation of buttons by cutting the heads off anyway one of the pins landed on the floor I said to myself I wonder where that went as I couldn’t find it but I did several mintues later as it sliced into my bare rh big toe anyway I found the culprit or so I though as it had blood on it that was 2 weeks ago but this weekend my toe on the bottom had devloped a lump and was painful to the touch so after soaking in the bath I squeezed the swelling between finger and thumb and out slid another headless pin about 3/4 of an inch long ouch
And just recently I was using some pins for a simulation of buttons by cutting the heads off anyway one of the pins landed on the floor I said to myself I wonder where that went as I couldn’t find it but I did several mintues later as it sliced into my bare rh big toe anyway I found the culprit or so I though as it had blood on it that was 2 weeks ago but this weekend my toe on the bottom had devloped a lump and was painful to the touch so after soaking in the bath I squeezed the swelling between finger and thumb and out slid another headless pin about 3/4 of an inch long ouch
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I just went and found one among my stuff. It’s a steel sphere 7.5 mm in diameter, with two flats on opposite sides that make it 7 mm across there. The steel is high enough quality that it hasn’t rusted at all in circa twenty years it’s been lying around in my hobby room.
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