Gah lost my temper... and my model paid

Well I never put enough effort into my builds for something to go horribly wrong and frustrate me to that point. When I do get frustrated though I do something crazy like shave my head or bleach my hair hahaha.

smeagol the vile wrote:

Well, these should be your steps 1: follow the tiny bug paint footprints 2: capture the bug 3: put bugon cutting board 4: introduce bug to your modeling tools...

Well, these should be your steps

1: follow the tiny bug paint footprints

2: capture the bug

3: put bugon cutting board

4: introduce bug to your modeling tools...

Heh, when I get frustrated with something it gets tossed aside.  I did that with a few kits, after a while they do become test kits.

Right now, the kit that is a test kit for me, and if you remember this kit, you will know why, is my 1/144 GM sniper, my very first kit I ever did with paint, the biggest piece of crap I have ever built, my god how bad that was, now its a color pallet

I've always toyed with the idea of taking out a model with one direct hit of a sledgehammer...

thankfully I havn't done it yet, any takers?

Yea, theres been one kit that I was just completely fed up with and at one point I just got so pissed at it that I took it apart with my bare hands. Sadly it was the Dragon 1/35 Late Tiger 1, the first line produced, with the original box art and everything. It was my first try at zimm, but the tedious assemblies on the rear deck and hull frustrated me so much that I destroyed it. Heres what it used to look like.

I had ALOT of problems with this area, they may not be visible but there were glue stains and missing/broken parts everywhere, especially with the exhausts..

Here it is after I painted it.

I dont have any pics, but it is now serving as my target practice piece(test piece for anything new)

Hey well glad I'm not the only one! ( I already knew I wasn't)

I'm normally a very mellow guy and I never really lash out in anger. It's out of character for me and I get frustrated with models all the time and I simply do it later. Most models I hold in higher regard than that absolutely awfull dash 8 though. I simply wasn't having fun with it and it was dragging on and on. I was forcing myself to work on it so I think when it broke that last time all I saw was even more time and I just sort of snapped then and there!

I felt silly afterwards but good at the same time.  Wait untill I lose my temper with this stupid macbook that keeps on having USB and bleutooth issues. I think it would be fun to snap the screen off the body. A $30 model is one thing... but a $1300 laptop??? 

Max Power:

Take comfort in the fact that the model you ripped apart was one barely worthy of being built in the first place. The old Hobbycraft Dash 8 was a disapointment to all modelers with all but the most passing familiarity of the type. I still keep hoping a proper 1/72 Dash 8 will be molded one day, and a Dash 7 to go with it.

As for my own aggressions taken out on kits:

I smashed up a Hasegawa 1/72 Mitsubishi Mu-2 once.

I was at the kitchen table working on it and trying to make an important phone call. I had the local yellow pages to one side of my work space and was working on the kit's wing tip tanks, which were just about the most ill engineered tip tanks I've ever encountered (both are divided into six sections!), between trying to get through on a constantly busy phone line.

The tip tanks were just shy of impossible to properly align lengthwise because of the overdone parts breakdown and were really starting to grate on me.

I picked up the phone and tried again and finally got through only to be told that the person I needed to talk to, who knew I'd be calling and knew it was important, had called in sick that day and there was nobody else in the office to help me! That did it!

I slammed the phone down as hard as I dared without breaking it, picked up the yellow pages and slammed them down, hard as I could, on my model. Totally demolished beyond hope, but I felt better for it.

As I said Max, don't feel bad, much better kits in your stash survived because of your Dash 8's selfless sacrifice to appease your anger that day. 

A few days should not be a problem unless the stuff gets too warm, especially if applied over paint, flat or gloss. Parafilm's "adhesive" is a waxy substance, possibly related to parafin (hence its name).

I once made the mistake of leaving a Parafilm canopy mask on for several years—nearly welded itself to the canopy. 

Triarius wrote:

smeagol the vile wrote: parafilm, every time I use the stuff the edge of the film sticks to the model on the edge of the paint and I have to scratch it up, and its a massive mess and it looks horrible. Sounds like you are leaving it on too long, or you are letting it get too warm at some point. It should be applied, painted over, and then removed as soon as the last coat of paint is tack-free.

I normally keep it on for a few days because of the large area that I need to paint and how many coats it needs.

Does recreating the Midway battle with most of your IJN fleet and a heavy dose of firecrackers and black powder count? well, it WAS many many years ago... ;)

smeagol the vile wrote:

parafilm, every time I use the stuff the edge of the film sticks to the model on the edge of the paint and I have to scratch it up, and its a massive mess and it looks horrible.

Sounds like you are leaving it on too long, or you are letting it get too warm at some point. It should be applied, painted over, and then removed as soon as the last coat of paint is tack-free.

BlackWolf3945 wrote:

I bounced an F-86 offa the wall once... I was about 13 years old... doing an RCAF 439 Sqn jet... full tiger scheme. I was having all sortsa little problems with it, but nothing I couldn't handle by putting the model down for a day or so. Then, after painting the stripes, I pulled off the last piece of tape (this was lo-o-o-ong before we had anything other than good 'ole masking tape) and half the paint on the wing came with it. I stood there for a second or three, and then tossed it with a tad-bit-o-force clear across the shop... thirty feet or so... It was dark over at the point of impact, and I didn't even bother to look where it was going or where it wound up. I figured that the debris field was somewhat sizable by the sound, but didn't investigate until a couple weeks later. I was still finding parts here and there a few years hence... After the launch, I calmly boxed up what was left on the bench, and pulled another kit outta the queue...  That's about it...   Fade to Black...

I think modeler's invented the 'flat spin'!

I bounced an F-86 offa the wall once...

I was about 13 years old... doing an RCAF 439 Sqn jet... full tiger scheme. I was having all sortsa little problems with it, but nothing I couldn't handle by putting the model down for a day or so.

Then, after painting the stripes, I pulled off the last piece of tape (this was lo-o-o-ong before we had anything other than good 'ole masking tape) and half the paint on the wing came with it.

I stood there for a second or three, and then tossed it with a tad-bit-o-force clear across the shop... thirty feet or so...

It was dark over at the point of impact, and I didn't even bother to look where it was going or where it wound up. I figured that the debris field was somewhat sizable by the sound, but didn't investigate until a couple weeks later. I was still finding parts here and there a few years hence...

After the launch, I calmly boxed up what was left on the bench, and pulled another kit outta the queue... 

That's about it...

Fade to Black... 

Revelle B-17 G......hit the wall....HARD!

Building it for a pal's Dad who was a radio/gunner in the 8th AF. He wanted all that interior detail to show by 'hot knifing' the port side of the fuse. I tried it AFTER the fuse halves were joined. Stupid! Fortunately they only cost $12 back then.

Irony: My then-GF's 12 year old brother picked up the pieces and finished his version of the job!

.....and did NICE.....I loaned him glue and putty and he made it look OKAY!

No. Never. Not once. You should get therapy.

And if you believe that, I have some lake front property in the Gobi Desert I want to sell you at a very reasonable price…

We used to call that a "Poznecki kitbash," after the highly skilled, but occasionally impatient modeler who invented the term. With aircraft, you fly them into a nearby wall or the floor; with vehicles, you stomp 'em; ships make great .22 targets… 

"In a fit of pique, I had that (insert inanimate object here) in more little bitty pieces than you can count."

This hobby is supposed to be a relief from the frustrations of everyday life. Sometimes it isn't.

And for those who misguidedly think that such expressions of anger are "inappropriate" or some other such politically correct (and completely erroneous) garbage: I'd like to knock some sense into their heads …       

  Yup! Way back when I was building a 57 chevy, cant remmember if it was Monogram or Revell. Used a rattle can to give it a coat of gloss black and left it to dry. Next day finger prints all over it ,dont ya love little brothers.    I was so mad and since I wasnt allowed to strangle him I just karata chopped the car. Bad move ended up having to go the hospital to have a one inch piece of plastic removed from the heal of my hand.

I used to call that "meeting the boot".

I haven't "stomped" one in a while, but back around 1986-87 or so, when I really was just starting to build seriously, a couple of tanks that "frosted" on me from dull coating them after they were 100% finished! That was it--ruined completely. 

Get on the ol' Doc Martens (back then, I mean...) and....crrrruUNCH! 

"Cured" me of using final coats of lacquer ever since, too.