This is supposed to be fun/relaxing...

Bummer!  I have had those days, needing a hobby to get away from my hobby!

One experience that sticks out in my mind was while painting a 109.  I was holding it gently, then dropped it right on the carpet while the paint was wet, cracking open the wing LE seams.  Put everything away, then fixed the model.  Next time painting, I dropped it AGAIN and broke the other wing off.  It made a quick flight into the round file.  That was a long time ago before I saved parts from wrecked kits.

stikpusher wrote:

So, earlier today, it was going great. I did some minor assembly work and got another kit ready to be painted. While the parts set I wen to my paint area (the garage) and completed painting some sub-assemblies so that I could move on with construction on one and do adding the final fiddly bits on another. So far everything is going great. Then disaster strikes!!! I knock the kit while moving it and cause some significant damage to it that will take some time consuming precision work to repair. Needless to say, I was not having fun or very relaxed at that point or for some time after while I figured a way out of the disaster. Who else has had such adventures and is willing to share? And how did you deal with it?

It happened by chance, not really.  It was in the cards.  You have now developed a new prototype. 

I feel for you.  Hope you will be able to repair the damage.  Now you become a airplane body repair man.

PaPa-John

Ah, one of those. (OOP expensive kit)

Good luck with the surgery, hope it goes well.

I've had a few "incidents" in the past. Some used to really get me PO'd. Anymore I just let it go and figure "ah, heck. I can fix it, I'm a modeler".

But just a few minutes ago I was attaching a canopy that's to narrow for the area it goes onto so it has to be clamped. Had it where I wanted it when I started to gently move so I could clean up some white glue before it dried. The f$%%ing think slipped and the canopy nearly disappered into the fuse via the cockpit. I was instantly PO'd. After a few deep ones I gathered the resolve and futured the canopy. Now, it's going to get CA'd when the future dries. I win!

I too have had a few "incidents", and although I wasn't too upset my them; somehow it enfuriated others. For example-

   When I was younger, I used the kitchen table as my bench. My parents had just gotten a new kitchen table, and I knew I couldn't use that anymore. But just like any All American kid would, I did it anyways! I messed up, and spilled a brand new bottle of paint! I did everything I could to clean it, but to no avail.

Needless to say, it was a terrible night once my father got home from work

Well Heck Carlos! There's your trouble! Lousy Cold War tech!

I've heard Daywalker's story before and it ranks right up there for hilarious frustration.

As for me, a couple months ago I dropped a freshly primed SBD after tripping over my dog. The thing hit the concrete in such a way as to make one LG look like it went through a woodchipper!

After killing my dog........j/k.........a friend here sent me a replacement. (Thanks again Aaron!)

The kit is the Monogram 1/48 Sukhoi SU-25 Frogfoot in which I have invested just too much time...

Well, there's yer problem, times 2... It's 1: Soviet and B: a jet...  It's a well-known fact that all jets suck, and everything without a prop blows...

Oh wow.... Just got to thinkin'.... How do ya call in a Spot Report on a pair of those birds? Frogfoots? Frogfeet? Hmmm...

You guys are killing me! Like the dog mentioned above! Now I'm worried if JWB chimes in...

spot report- two fast movers w/BIG GUNS!

stikpusher wrote:

You guys are killing me! Like the dog mentioned above! Now I'm worried if JWB chimes in... spot report- two fast movers w/BIG GUNS!

Rest assured they are in a holding pattern for now- that is unless they've already made it to the IPDANGER CLOSE!!!!

Well I have now reapired the nose gear, but will have to add some brass strip reinforcement to make sure it will bear the weight. Oh what a pain... but in another few days or so, all the fiddly bits will be on and it will be completed...

This one is almost at the IP...

Brass reinforcements added this afternoon... now I'm back where I was at last week...

I must say that brass and super glue come in handy for fixing stuff...

stikpusher wrote:

Who else has had such adventures and is willing to share?

I once dropped a fully rigged 1/72 Sopwith Camel whilst unpacking it at the Dutch Nationals.....let just say it broke....

Here is some of the repair work. The nose wheel had broken off where the forks joined the strut. After I glued the forks back in place, I trimmed some sheet brass to fit in the channel between the raised edges and superglued it in place for reinforcement. One strip per outer side. My camera is acting up and only this image came out.

I am gonna prime it now, and paint and weather it later.

If you have not dropped an almost completed model.

You have not almost completed a model.

kirk4010 wrote:

If you have not dropped an almost completed model. You have not almost completed a model.

I've "gravity tested" a few myself.  Gravity usually wins.  And then the fun of trying to find all of the pieces.

Almost there...

The landing gear repairs worked!