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                        STUPIDEST MODELING THING YOU EVER DONE

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                        Anonymous
                        • Member since
                          November 2005
                        STUPIDEST MODELING THING YOU EVER DONE
                        Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, December 18, 2003 1:50 PM
                        I JUST MADE A BID MISTAKE ON MY AIRPLANE,WELL AND I DONT WANT TO FEEL LIKE IM THE ONLY ONE WHO MESSES UP,Disapprove [V]
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                        cassibill
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                          February 2003
                        • From: Indiana, USA
                        Posted by cassibill on Thursday, December 18, 2003 2:08 PM
                        I constantly lose stuff. Somewhere near or on my desk is a severed hand with a .45 in it. I had to hunt for spare grenades and shermanfreak was nice enough to send some.
                        What'd you do? It can probably be fixed.

                        cdw My life flashes before my eyes and it mostly my life flashing before my eyes!!!Big Smile The 1/144 scale census and message board: http://144scalelist.freewebpage.org/index.html

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                        dubix88
                        • Member since
                          March 2003
                        • From: Maine,USA
                        Posted by dubix88 on Thursday, December 18, 2003 2:08 PM
                        HEY,
                        I cut the body in half on accident when i set my motor tool down, my cat stepped on it, turned it on, and it hit the mody and cut it all up.(not quite in half but close)

                        Randy
                        THATS MY VOTE "If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there is a man on base." -Dave Barry In the words of the great Larry the Cable Guy, "GIT-R-DONE!!!"
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                        cassibill
                        • Member since
                          February 2003
                        • From: Indiana, USA
                        Posted by cassibill on Thursday, December 18, 2003 2:13 PM
                        what did you do to the cat to make it so angry? Mom got a mouse in the shoe after whipping Mooch for being on the counter.
                        Come on panzer what did you do?
                        I'm sure Randy has you beat.

                        cdw My life flashes before my eyes and it mostly my life flashing before my eyes!!!Big Smile The 1/144 scale census and message board: http://144scalelist.freewebpage.org/index.html

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                        scottrc
                        • Member since
                          December 2003
                        • From: 37deg 40.13' N 95deg 29.10'W
                        Posted by scottrc on Thursday, December 18, 2003 2:31 PM
                        I glued myself to the cat.

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                        cassibill
                        • Member since
                          February 2003
                        • From: Indiana, USA
                        Posted by cassibill on Thursday, December 18, 2003 2:58 PM
                        that'd do it.

                        cdw My life flashes before my eyes and it mostly my life flashing before my eyes!!!Big Smile The 1/144 scale census and message board: http://144scalelist.freewebpage.org/index.html

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                        Anonymous
                        • Member since
                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, December 18, 2003 3:13 PM
                        MINE cant be fixed,messed up while putting on putty,all kind of white stuff on the bottem,tried sanding,there is still some on,and ,,,,,,, Sign - Ditto [#ditto]
                        cassibill,i lose alot of my parts,of my p-61 black widow,missing some ,and the box was messed up some 2,
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                        cassibill
                        • Member since
                          February 2003
                        • From: Indiana, USA
                        Posted by cassibill on Thursday, December 18, 2003 3:19 PM
                        To paraphrase my mom if you can't get rid of it disguise it. What's it on?

                        cdw My life flashes before my eyes and it mostly my life flashing before my eyes!!!Big Smile The 1/144 scale census and message board: http://144scalelist.freewebpage.org/index.html

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                        mark956
                        • Member since
                          February 2003
                        • From: USA
                        Posted by mark956 on Thursday, December 18, 2003 5:22 PM
                        Touching wet paint.
                        mark956
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                        djmodels1999
                        • Member since
                          December 2002
                        • From: United Kingdom / Belgium
                        Posted by djmodels1999 on Thursday, December 18, 2003 5:24 PM
                        Ever tried molted lead as ballast in the nose of an airplane..??? I did. I was 11 years old. Poor little Skyhawk...!
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                        Anonymous
                        • Member since
                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, December 18, 2003 5:31 PM
                        If it can't be fixed destroy it further and make it into an accident Diorama or similar. Tongue [:P]

                        Got one mucked up Bike model that will sit in the workshop of a Bike Shop Dio I am planning. It will be up on the work table as if it is in mid-repair.

                        Sometimes it is fun to figure out how to "break" your models further.

                        Don't give up and despair become creative.
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                        cassibill
                        • Member since
                          February 2003
                        • From: Indiana, USA
                        Posted by cassibill on Thursday, December 18, 2003 6:17 PM
                        the only mistake are ones that don't look intentional.

                        cdw My life flashes before my eyes and it mostly my life flashing before my eyes!!!Big Smile The 1/144 scale census and message board: http://144scalelist.freewebpage.org/index.html

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                        qmiester
                        • Member since
                          May 2003
                        • From: Central USA
                        Posted by qmiester on Thursday, December 18, 2003 7:05 PM
                        You mean besides getting into modeling?
                        Big Smile [:D]Big Smile [:D]Big Smile [:D]Big Smile [:D]
                        Quincy
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                        Anonymous
                        • Member since
                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, December 18, 2003 7:07 PM
                        well ,,my dad told me ,when he was young ,he blew up his models,or shot them with a bb gun,all because there wast enough room.

                        I DONT THINK I WILL.that model was about 33.00 bucks,half off,15.00,i got lucky,surprised me!!!AND IT WILL BE THE FIRST MODEL I WILL EVER COMPLETE,NOT COUNTING FIGURES!!!Zzz [zzz]
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                        upnorth
                        • Member since
                          December 2002
                        • From: Canada / Czech Republic
                        Posted by upnorth on Thursday, December 18, 2003 9:03 PM
                        Well, here's a tale of my own stupidity from my early years in the model hobby:

                        I was eight or nine at the time and I had a 1/72 F-101 Voodoo on the go. I had run out of glue and didn't want to walk to the mall a few blocks away to buy a new tube, I just wanted to get on with the model building.

                        In typical, impatient eight or nine year old fashion and a whole lot of not thinking, I took my fuselage and wing (still two separate components at the time) outside. I held the two parts together and held a magnifying glass between my model and the sun.Evil [}:)]

                        I got the wing on, but the resulting weld seam made it look like it was on the losing end of a Star Trek phaser battle.Disapprove [V]

                        Would have taken Voodoo to recover the kit from that technique.Big Smile [:D]
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                        Anonymous
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                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, December 18, 2003 10:17 PM
                        Isn't it illegal in some states to glue yourself to a cat?
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                        Anonymous
                        • Member since
                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, December 18, 2003 10:35 PM
                        I was helping one of my three sons build a snap-tite car kit one Christmas. He was going to paint it himself. First I was going to prime the body. I applied a coat of primer using a spray can. Got the primer on too thick and it ran in a few spots. Used oven cleaner to strip the primer off. All the primer came off except in one little stubborn spot. So I dipped the body into a container of lacquer thinner instead of paint thinner. Well it was sort of cool to watch styrene melt in front of my very eyes. The lacquer thinner was too hot for the unprotected plastic. Needless to say my son wasn't too happy with me. I went out and bought another kit and we then proceeded to make the model without any further mishap!!

                        Glenn
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                        Anonymous
                        • Member since
                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, December 18, 2003 11:04 PM
                        Well, I have had a lot of blunders, but I'd say that throwing the model against the wall is hard to beat for sheer stupidity. Strange to say, I felt better afterward. Some models don't deserve to live. Sometimes you simply have to WALL 'EM! (Actually, I've only been mad enough to do this once.)
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                        shrikes
                        • Member since
                          November 2003
                        • From: Manila, Philippines
                        Posted by shrikes on Thursday, December 18, 2003 11:13 PM
                        I got a nice (cheap) 1/72 B-25 once (actually it was the naval version)... This is the kind of kit that asks you cut out all the windows from the fuselage, right? I cut the wrong one. and it's bigger than the clear piece of plastic that was meant to go in it... i i was about to throw it away when i figured i may need the spares one day or i may want to build a crashed plane, etc... Smile [:)]
                        Blackadder: This plan's as cunning as a fox that used to be Professor of cunning at Oxford University but has now moved on and is working with the U.N at the high commission of cunning planning
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                        scottrc
                        • Member since
                          December 2003
                        • From: 37deg 40.13' N 95deg 29.10'W
                        Posted by scottrc on Friday, December 19, 2003 8:49 AM
                        My cat had a habbit of sleeping on my table while I worked. The dog at my feet, and all is well. Anyway, the cat was getting in the way and I went to give him a shove, not knowing I had CA on my hand, I adhered my hand to his rear. To say the least, he lost some fur and I lost some blood when he woke up.

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                        Anonymous
                        • Member since
                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Friday, December 19, 2003 10:05 AM
                        Took the cap off a tube of glue and it spurted out onto my index finger.
                        Don't know what I was thinking when I licked it off my finger.
                        This was the small tube that came with an Ertl diecast , tasted like oranges but the tip of my tounge was numb for a couple of hours.
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                        M1abramsRules
                        • Member since
                          June 2003
                        Posted by M1abramsRules on Friday, December 19, 2003 10:19 AM
                        shook a can of paint without realizing the lid wasn't on.
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                        shrikes
                        • Member since
                          November 2003
                        • From: Manila, Philippines
                        Posted by shrikes on Friday, December 19, 2003 1:33 PM
                        QUOTE: Originally posted by sisco
                        Took the cap off a tube of glue and it spurted out onto my index finger.
                        Don't know what I was thinking when I licked it off my finger.
                        This was the small tube that came with an Ertl diecast , tasted like oranges but the tip of my tounge was numb for a couple of hours.

                        LMAO!!! Laugh [(-D]Laugh [(-D]Laugh [(-D]
                        That's just too funny!!
                        Blackadder: This plan's as cunning as a fox that used to be Professor of cunning at Oxford University but has now moved on and is working with the U.N at the high commission of cunning planning
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                        Anonymous
                        • Member since
                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Friday, December 19, 2003 1:41 PM
                        my p-61,black widow,i thought i was going to complete that,but ,i dont read the steps that good,and i messed up,i cut a part inhalf,like it sayed,but that was b=version,and i done that hole plane with a version.it looks messed up,my favorite airplANE,tobad.that was just 1 out of like 4 mistakes,sanding all over.and losing stuff[#opps]

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                        Anonymous
                        • Member since
                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Friday, December 19, 2003 1:45 PM
                        QUOTE: Originally posted by M1abramsRules

                        shook a can of paint without realizing the lid wasn't on.


                        ooo,,,that just sucks,that hapened to me before,and i was painting,(i just bought a bottle of brass paint that day)i spilled me new bottle of paint,lucky, there was still some left
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                        M1abramsRules
                        • Member since
                          June 2003
                        Posted by M1abramsRules on Friday, December 19, 2003 2:01 PM
                        the paint is only worth 2 bucks, so I asn't worried about it, it was my ref. book that I had laying on my desk. luckily it wiped off fairly well.
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                        Anonymous
                        • Member since
                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Friday, December 19, 2003 11:03 PM
                        QUOTE: Originally posted by scottrc

                        I glued myself to the cat.

                        Did you read that thing in the Darwin Awards about the guy who super glued his hand to a rhinoceros's butt? Got dragged all around the pen in front of the other tourists; the animal got severely annoyed and voided its' bowels all over him ... Hilarious!
                        (But that is just my warped sense of humour)
                        Bruce
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                        Anonymous
                        • Member since
                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Friday, December 19, 2003 11:05 PM
                        QUOTE: Originally posted by mark956

                        Touching wet paint.
                        mark956

                        A friend and I hung a "Dry Paint" sign on a bench once ... no-one sat down and almost everyone touched it!
                        Bruce
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                        Anonymous
                        • Member since
                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Friday, December 19, 2003 11:09 PM
                        QUOTE: Originally posted by M1abramsRules

                        shook a can of paint without realizing the lid wasn't on.

                        I tested a tip from a woodworking magazine that said to shake up small bottles of paint tape them to a jigsaw blade and give 'er!
                        But I forgot to allow for the required clearance to the shoe of the saw and there were pieces of bottle and paint every where (Gip, if you read this you were right!).
                        Apart from that it shook the paint up just fine ...
                        Bruce
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                        Anonymous
                        • Member since
                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Friday, December 19, 2003 11:10 PM
                        I spilled an almost full can of wood stain all over my Taig lathe and it took 2 days to strip it down, clean it up, reassemble, and recalibrate it ...
                        D'OH!
                        Bruce
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