My best was when I was just finishing a 1/72 scale Hasagawa f-16A and I was ready to attach one of the gear doors with some Superglue. I went to open a new bottle and the end was pointing right at the model when I cut the tip. You guessed it....it sprayed all over the model-wings, tail, fuselage and canopy. I decided to act like a 10year old and set it on fire on the back porch. I hadn't done that in many years...at least I got a bit of fun out of it.

stevebagley wrote:

How about dipping the paint brush in the coffee mug instead of the jar of thinners .Doesn't hurt the model , but it certainly makes the coffee interesting .

 

Mmmmm, adds that special flavor!

Oh, yeah - dumb stuff...

Everything posted here isn't any worse than the clever little idea I had...watching a friend (a house painter) use one of those paddle bladed stirrers on a power drill to stir the 4 gallon buckets of pain...worked a treat...so - I thought a smaller one might work as well - a brilliand feat of fabrication...a little "T" shaped piece of sprue, stuck into the chuck of my Dremel...I learned exactly how far, and how quickly, paint can travel when stirred at 10,000 RPM...

Or - shaking the heck out of a bottle of silver paint...and while I'm madly shaking the thing, looking around at the wall, the floor, the curtains...what the heck are all those little spots on the wall?  The looking with horror at the half opened paint jar in my hand, paint dripping from my hand and wrist...took about an hour to clean up both messes...

Or...tipping over a bottle of Tenax Weld onto my workbench...oh, man!!  Open the windows!!  But don't worry about the P-38 sitting in the middle of the puddle, quickly turning into a soft, gooey lump of styrene...that's nasty stuff...

Live and learn...

YES, my favorite band. awesome modelgeek

I've got a classic.  I've been fighting with my Iwata airbrush for the past two months now.  I've had it apart probably a dozen times during that span trying to figure out why it started spraying my enamel paints like crap.  Thsi past weekend I picked up a new can of Paint Thinner which has always works d'bomb for me.  When I picked up the almost empty can I was replacing to my horror I discovered that all this time I've been trying to spray enamel using Low-odor Mineral Spirits instead of Paint Thinner.  I must have grabbed the wrong can off the shelf two months ago and since I decant into a smaller container to keep in the paint booth I had missed it all this time.

First time back with the right thinner this weekend and all was right with the world.  I guess I should have suspected something like that since I wasn't having the same problem with lacquer or acrylic paints but it was one of those things that I kept staring at without seeing what was wrong.

J.Warnell wrote:

I glued together the two halves of the two main landing gear tire and wheels. Let them dry for a couple of DAYS. Sanded the tires down to get rid of the parting surface lines, and was real proud of the way the tires looked worn and scuffed. I went to insert a toothpick in the wheel hubs so I could paint the tires. One wheel has a hole for the axle on both sides and the other has no holes at all. DOH.

I am guilty of this one also

Mental note:

When a 1/35th scale figure is to be painted in 4-colour Woodland camo, remember NOT to glue the arms on first, especially when the fig's arms are up in front of his chest aiming a gun.

Still trying to decide what's the best approach for this one now, but it's only a practice fig, so it's no big deal if I let it go.