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Some taboo in kit modelling?

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Some taboo in kit modelling?
Posted by Harshman II on Saturday, July 3, 2010 12:00 PM

Hi, I always enjoy people post about their modelling progress, telling all of us how you go thru so many steps to the final finishing mode.

But seems like I have bad luck regarding this issue. Whenever I take photo of my kit progress. Some sh*t will happen and make my modelling process so frustrating.

I have a Mig-29 in progress and I wanted to show you all the process. But I dare not. Maybe once I take photo and show on line. Bad things will happen.

I have bad experience will some previous model but worst is my recent 1/700 Bismarck kit which I took photo of the progress. Before that, everything is smooth sailing but after the half way photo session. Bad things happen..

Any odd things you believe you shall avoid  when modelling?

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  • From: Winamac,Indiana 46996-1525
Posted by ACESES5 on Saturday, July 3, 2010 1:34 PM

My wife comes in the man cave and yells at me and that microscopic part in my tweesers go flying across the room                      aceses5Bang HeadOops

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Posted by fermis on Sunday, July 4, 2010 8:38 AM

I have the opposite problem, well, not PROBLEM!  If I post a WIP from the get go, I tend to do a much better job, I know people are watching. Makes me go the extra distance instead of taking the easy way and saying, eh, good enough. My builds have improved tremendously in the past year and a half since I've been here, because of doing WIPs.

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Posted by philo426 on Sunday, July 4, 2010 12:35 PM

Not a taboo but it does motivate you to complete your project!

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  • From: Iowa
Posted by Hans von Hammer on Monday, July 5, 2010 9:32 AM

The trick is to photgraph the mistakes and problems and how you overcome them...  That's what makes for interesting reading...

But then we all have our solutions to our personal bug-a-boos too... For instance, I was in a pretty bad helicopter crash years back... Killed a couple guys, everyone else was injured...  The morning of that flight, I didn't have clean flghtsuit, just the cleanest dirty one I'd been wearing for the last 6 days, hadn't had a real shower in 8 days...  Anyway, I obviously was one of the survivors....  Since then, I've flown  hundreds of hours in both military aircraft and warbirds, and wore that flightsuit if I had the oppourtunity... I've had several "incidents" in-flight, but they all came out ok... I ain't saying that I'm superstitious, but to this day I haven't washed that flightsuit...

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  • From: Crawfordsville, Indiana
Posted by Wabashwheels on Tuesday, July 6, 2010 7:26 AM

Hans, do you have an idea of the number of hours on that flight suit?  As interesting a conversationalist you must be, I can't imagine the guys lining up to sit next you for that upcoming flight.  Rick.

 

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  • From: South La
Posted by Ti4019 on Tuesday, July 6, 2010 7:53 AM

I once knew a pilot that had a hard landing in Grenada, he had his Garfield stuck behind him on the cockpit window. His son had given it to him just before he left for Grenada. Never flew without it again.

On a personal note my wife and i work in the same room, she a gamer, me a modeler. Usually she will die and slam her keyboard right on her desk just as I am laying in the final touches on an anime girls eye....

If you aren't having fun, you're doing it wrong! Build to please yourself and they will flame you every time!

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  • From: Iowa
Posted by Hans von Hammer on Thursday, July 8, 2010 8:51 AM

Wabashwheels

Hans, do you have an idea of the number of hours on that flight suit?  As interesting a conversationalist you must be, I can't imagine the guys lining up to sit next you for that upcoming flight.  Rick.

Usually, I'd just let it follow me onboard and grab the seat next to me...  Besides, in a Blackhawk or Sh*thook, EVERYBODY stinks...

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  • From: Georgia
Posted by Screaminhelo on Saturday, July 10, 2010 7:12 AM

Hans von Hammer

 

 Wabashwheels:

 

Hans, do you have an idea of the number of hours on that flight suit?  As interesting a conversationalist you must be, I can't imagine the guys lining up to sit next you for that upcoming flight.  Rick.

 

 

Usually, I'd just let it follow me onboard and grab the seat next to me...  Besides, in a Blackhawk or Sh*thook, EVERYBODY stinks...

I hear ya Hans!  Not as dramatic as a zoombag, but I still wear the same flag that saw me safely through the last trip and I will wear it until it the last thread dis-integrates!  Though it is a bit tattered, you can still distinguish colors and the Old Man doesn't bug me too much about it.

BTW, I thought that a flight suit was still wearable until it started fighting back when you put it on Whistling

 

Mac

I Didn't do it!!!

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  • From: Iowa
Posted by Hans von Hammer on Saturday, July 10, 2010 8:36 AM

I actually need to hang that thing up on the wall in my War Room... Before it escapes and hurts somebody.....

 

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Posted by tankerbuilder on Monday, August 16, 2010 8:39 AM

I don,t know.I do know that if I talk about my build before it is halfway done it for some reason NEVER gets finished. What,s up with that???There are probably self induced taboos in place for everyone.I for one will not fly commercial aircraft. WHY??? Well,I was one of a few that walked(figure of speech) away from one that took 129 other folks out of this world.If I am NOT in the front office(COCKPIT) I will not even board the bird.I guess thats fear ,but,thats my taboo in the real world. and talking about a half built model is the miniature one.        tankerbuilder

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