Ok last post of the evening. My 11 year old wants the PC!

It seems that every time I'm nearly finsihed with a kit I make a really STUPID mistake. Tonight was no exception. I'm nearly finished with my HE-100. I was working of the landing gear and dipped the top side wing tip into super glue. I used some debonder and micro brushes to remove the glue and removed some paint. Now I have to sand that spot and touch up the paint.

Does anyone else have these experiences?

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Tom

Keep the jars, bottles and tubes of stuff away from the bench when not being used at that very second. Keep them handy, I keep mine in tool boxes and or on shelves next to the bench.

The hardest part is keeping them where they belong and not piled around the project your working on.

I tend to rush when I'm getting close to finished and something always gets screwed up. When a kit is close to done I start giggling to myself as I picture the lastest aircraft in the hanger dive bombing the dog... that's when I get impatient and start to rush for some fun time.

Paint touch-ups probably result from half of my blunders.

I'm sure we're not the only ones

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Jeremy

Thanks guys,

I feel better. I'll be out of town for the weekend so I can step away from the project and start fresh next week.

Everyone have a safe and enjoyable 4th!

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Tom

Mistakes come with the territory...the Ta-183 I just finished....for example....I had finished with the painting...natural metal finish, first time using mettalizers, done with the tail mottle and had the yellow nose done....looked great. As I continued to build next was landing gear...well SURPRISE the mounts for the gear which are molded into the jet motor visible from gear pits were in backwards!!! Left on right side and vicea versa...!!!!  ARRRGH!!!! i was about to split the fuselage halves open! Luckily the nose cone and tail cone popped off and was able to switch the sides out...but had to touch up painting.....its inevitable in a build...thats how we learn and laugh..!! and keeps it fun.

If you look closely you can see a bit of a rough edge at the tail cone..oh well...

Carlos

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FINISHED........
taking a break from Floaties...next:
"...Oh give me a home where the____roam..."

I'm with everyone else, there's always something I screw up.  I'm always rushing to finish or trying something new that didn't quite work out. 

Mike

Working on a 1:72 scale engine for two and a half days, weathering and chipping it untill it looked exactly the way you wanted it, only to forget to mask the d*mn thing while coating the plane with it's base colour....

That's what i call stupid...

Being able to solve problems (you created) is what makes a modeler good imho.

 Kermit (who has corrected his mistake since then)

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Kermit out
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"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm." - Sir Winston Churchill
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Now I don't feel to bad.  I was cleaning up around my bench tonight and found the Spit I was building for last years Weekend Build.  Thought I'd mask it and paint the Dark Green.  Finished painting and realized I reversed the camo scheme.  Just gonna roll with it, most people who see it will never know.