what do you find more comical(after the clean up)???

You mean besides building a model that looked so bad it made everyone laugh (done that quite a few times!!)?  

One thing I did do that DID NOT make my ex laugh was spill Tenax 7R all over her brand new wood kitchen table. That stuff took the finish off faster than a piece of sandpaper on a belt sander.

A friend of mine and I were driving to a model club meeting once, and he was holding my newly-built Tamiya 1/48th F4D Skyray on the way there, and managed to break one of the wings off at the folding point. I can see how someone else would've thought that was funny. I laugh about it now sometimes when I think back on it. That was about 13 years ago back when I lived in Indianapolis.

Funny?

You mean "hah-hah" or "OH S***!

I'd been trying to get a long time friend interested in modeling.  We were both in the same profession and he'd retired.  Since we wouldn't have work stuff to relate to each other anymore, I thought getting him to the bench could be a good thing.

I bought him a kit or two and some beginning tools for Christmas and kept hitting on him to take the plunge.

He'd started to weaken and came by as I was finishing up a 1/48th Lunar Module.

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I'd put a piece of stock tube in the engine bell and mounted the model on a piece of brass rod into the tube.  This supported the model during the last stage of construction and would be the final mount for the completed build.  This was important because once all the little antenna mounts, etc., were attached it would be very difficult to hold the model without breaking something off.

He was next to the bench as I was about ready to put on the last finishing touch when…

the tube inside the bell broke at the glue joint and the module rolled off into my hand!  I couldn't sit the model down, I'd break it.  I couldn't super glue the tube with the rod still inside with one hand!

My blood pressure and anxiety began to spike!

He wouldn't touch or hold the model, "I'm not getting involved in this problem," he said.

Somehow through adroit juggling, creatively applied profanity and pure luck, I was able to get everything back together with little appreciable damage.

"You want me to start doing this stuff so I can RELAX?!?!" my friend asked.

Well perhaps the delicate nature of that kit was not the best choice to introduce your friend into the world of scale modeling.A tank might have been better!

I can't think of anything that would make others laugh. I have plenty of examples of the opposite though.

Steve

I had one really, REALLY bad kit...some "off-brand" 1/72 F-82.

So bad, and frustrating, this kit was...I went to my garage, grabbed a shovel, dug a hole in the back yard and buried that S.O.B.

One time when I was a kid my friend and I built this enormous B-17 Enola Gay I think it was.

When it was finished we affixed screw eyes to the top of the model went out in the woods and strung some fishing line between some trees with a little slope in the line.

We put the lines through the eye hooks so the model would slide down the line.

Then we would take turns sliding the model down the line and shooting at it with our BB guns. It actually took a long time to finally 'destoy' the model.

Good times!

When we were very young and stupid, my friend had a Comet balsa wood / tissue paper model that was really a mess.  He wound up the rubber band motor good and tight, lit the tail on fire, and sailed it out the third floor attic window.  Made a spectacular  flight until it crashed on the roof of his garage, out by the back alley.  Luckily it burned itself up and didn't damage the garage.

all awesome thanks!!! :)

ha-ha and the o snips, what i wanted to hear, thanks all, i can laugh agin!!!

i dropped a new xacto knife and tried to catch it with my legs, unfortunately it fell parallel to the floor. when i looked down it was sticking into my left thigh. that left a mark.

Okay here is a good one that happened just last night.

I was airbrushing some flat white, got done, cleaned the air brush and cup and put them up. At this point I noticed my glasses were a little smudgy so I grabbed one of those 'moist wipe' thingys ripped open the package and cleaned the glasses.

When I was done I put the glasses back on but noticed it seemed 'foggy' in here. It was only then I noticed that I still had some 'wet' white paint on my hands it had transferred itself to the wet wipe and then a nice thin film on my glasses.

Damn Tamya paint really sticks!

I knocked over a jar of MM Metalizer a few nights ago all over my bench.........and I found it not funny at all..............

I have already told the story about jerking an airbrush with a full cup of orange fluorescent paint out of the holder with my headphone cable.

Messy!

I had an old Spitfire model, my first model ever, my dad helped me build it. Over the years all the parts broke of so all that remained were the wings and the fuselage. So a friend and I chopped of the tail part, stack a rocked motor into it and fired it off.

Probably the one and only rocket powered Spitfire in the history of aviation.

The "Rocketspit" as we named it, flew for few seconds, twisted and turned before spectacularly crashing into the ground. We were both kids in early teens, so we played rescue team, had a fire extinguisher, and we wore helmets, a German and American from WWII. 

Cheers...

Hmmmmm.

    What I find funny in this is the inside story . Humper , like most folks didn't know how damaging that accelerator can be to surfaces , and yet you can put a little on a surface and get the C.A. to set and it doesn't do a thing except cook off the C.A. Go Figure .

What was funny is how he explained it to me over the phone .  T.B.         P.S. I have had the same kind of accident with the same stuff , only the bottle was sitting on the model's deck ! Yuck !        

castelnuovo

I had an old Spitfire model, my first model ever, my dad helped me build it. Over the years all the parts broke of so all that remained were the wings and the fuselage. So a friend and I chopped of the tail part, stack a rocked motor into it and fired it off.

Probably the one and only rocket powered Spitfire in the history of aviation.

The "Rocketspit" as we named it, flew for few seconds, twisted and turned before spectacularly crashing into the ground. We were both kids in early teens, so we played rescue team, had a fire extinguisher, and we wore helmets, a German and American from WWII. 

Cheers...

Do kids, these days, even have any imagination?!!!

Aside from very small children (3 to 6-ish), I have not been witness to any demonstrations of imagination/play...they ALL have their faces buried in their phones.

Sad but true Fermis. Kids nowadays don't know how to have fun anymore. I'm just lucky I have my son who's still likes to play catch and baseball. His little league team is heading to the semi-finals Wednesday. He's having a great season.

Yo Fermis !

  Humper told me you had checked in . I think some kids do have that imagination .Today at the Museum . ( No , it wasn't a scheduled day ) I ran across a kid that signed up for our modeling club .

 He was a walking encyclopedia of History of trains of the U.K.  He is good too . Had to vet him on knowledge and following rules , and approve his membership . Did so gladly , I might add .    Tanker - Builder

referring to the forum title, working with a scalpel and seeing drops of red on the model and thinking "when was i painting red?" before realizing it was blood. and then it started to hurt.

Fermis ;

Just back re-reading this thread . Did you see any new plants where you buried that kit ? LOL.LOL.LOL.

Waynec ;

  Isn't it funny though ? You don't hurt even after seeing the red stuff , Until you see it's yours and coming from something you shouldnt have done or thought you didn't