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QUOTE: Originally posted by shrikes Okay, do you guys remember the YF-19 models that monogram and testors issued as a sort of smokescreen for the F-117? Well, I was putting the final coat of semi-gloss black on the Testors one when I remembered hearing about how potters use heat to cure a glaze on pottery and figured I could do the same thing. (Give me a break... I was 9. ) So after brush painting the underside (i haven't discovered rattle cans at this time), i took a desk lamp with a 100 watt bulb, and put it right over the plane. I got back 4 hours later to a large melted sinkhole on the model's underside. it was as if I had left it on the stove! I was so upset that my dad had to buy me another kit of the same plane...

Yep, done that too, except it was with a prop blade. I was building Hasegua's 1/32 F6F for a school project. It was the night before it was due, and I was in a hurry. I painted the yellow tips of the blades and put it up by my lamp that was on my desk to speed the drying time up. I look at the TV for a second, look back, and there was a 90 degree angle 2/3 up the blade. I was able to unbend the blade, but it was bent and kinda twisted, if it was a real plane, it would not have been flown. Oh well!

My first modeling disasters occurred in the mid '70s when I was just getting into modeling. I was building the AMT Star Trek Enterprise, and I neglected to put in the supports that hold the warp engine nacelles in place. So I ended up with a sub-light Enterprise.
Another disaster was also with an AMT Star Trek kit, this one being the Galileo shuttlecraft. It was my first time doing decals, and instead of cutting out each individual decal, I soaked the WHOLE sheet in water! I was able to salvage some decals with quick hands, but most of my shuttlecraft looked blank.

DJ

Okay, do you guys remember the YF-19 models that monogram and testors issued as a sort of smokescreen for the F-117? Well, I was putting the final coat of semi-gloss black on the Testors one when I remembered hearing about how potters use heat to cure a glaze on pottery and figured I could do the same thing. (Give me a break... I was 9. ) So after brush painting the underside (i haven't discovered rattle cans at this time), i took a desk lamp with a 100 watt bulb, and put it right over the plane. I got back 4 hours later to a large melted sinkhole on the model's underside. it was as if I had left it on the stove! I was so upset that my dad had to buy me another kit of the same plane...

QUOTE: Cats go any where. I learned the value of keeping a door closed.

Yep, I know it. My cats were always tearing up my saved instructions from past kits and taking my dragon figures around the house. I learned the value of closing my door when they took my vynill treads! That finally worked and the door is closed!

I had just finished a Walker Bulldog. Put it on the shelf with the other armor, looked great. Went off to the bowling alley. Several hours later I came home to a snub nosed M-41. My cat ate 3/4 of the barrel. Cats go any where. I learned the value of keeping a door closed.

Okay, luckily I haven't faced this problem yet... but.... I don't know if this problem faces anyone else, but I build in my room....and it is a store house of possible fire excelerants.... Plastics, paints, airbrush propelents, glues, spraycans, ect....drum sticks, manuscript paper, drums and drum heads, ect.... if there was ever a fire, my room would be the down fall of my house!!!! So, I'll just pray it never happens!!!!!Yikes!

First real build back from 20 years away is a Tiger I'm doing right now. Had to wait about two months to start (studio not set up) so had plenty of time to plan and research. Decided to do Carrius' first-issued VI. Read 'Tigers In The Mud' as well as studying Jentz' book. This is Tamiya's 1/35 RC so some details (the first outer roadwheels that weren't installed) had to be skipped. The FIRST thing, the VERY FIRST part of the build is the gearbox and drive sprockets. Well here's where your idiotic modeler puts one early production sprocket on one side, late production on the other. So much for the eleven PM gluefest.

I am building trumpeters F-105g wild weasel for somebody and I messed up on the tiger teeth decals in the front! I scraped them of and ended up hand painting them! Was realy bad! I've also super glued my lips to the model I was working on! I put the part up to my lips to dry the glue and I was going to blow to help dry the glue when I couldn't speak anymore! Yeah, you can imagine the world of pain I was in afterwards. It was pretty bad. I've glued my hobby knife in my hands. super glue was on my desk and the knife was rolling around and I picked it up and sqeezed it really hard to cut out a certain part that wouldn't come out and when I was done it would come out!

One of my first models that I ever built (actualy I think it was the first) was a kit of the space shuttle, complete with the large fuel tank, two solid rocket boosters, a launch pad, and a detailed cargo full of stuff. I don't know who the kit was by, but i'd LOVE to be able to find it again. It was plastic injected. If ANYONE has any ideas please let me know.
Anyways, I had toiled with it for two or three weeks, and since I was a kid, I had built it all using white school glue (YOU try it). It took FOREVER to dry and stay in place. Anyways, after I had finished it, I went to swim (we had a pool nearby at a friends house) while my parents were entertainig some guests, which to my worst of luck days, had with them a very young (and curious) child. Suffice to say, when I came home, I had found the kit in total ruins, with half of it broken into pieces. I was crushed....
And now, I'm completely jealous and selfish of my models. Absolutely NO ONE touches them!! The years since then have softened the blow, but it still pains me.
I'd really love to be able to find the kit again, this time to build it right!

It took me two models to realize that my ideas are greater than my skill.
First I tried to build a helicopter and block some windows. No matter what I did it looked like a big piece of plastic over the window area. And then I couldn't get the plastic apart. Broken model #1
Then I tried to make this Sci-Fi Tank turret have two main guns. After it was glued, I realized that certain movable parts would not clear my new turret. That one is becoming the equivalent of a modern APC (no turret).

No dog stories or falling objects. All of it is skill or lack there of.

I was about to put decals on a Hasegawa FW-190 and my step-daughter left the door to my studio open. Our Bassett hound chewed up the FW-he was fine the plane wasn't!

I have never had anything go wrong. All my models proceed exactly as planned with perfect and expected results.

Whew, I didn't even think I could type that without a mistake certainly without a straight face.

QUOTE: Originally posted by Michaelvk I had a 1:32 and 1:48 huey fall out of my 1st story bedroom window..

It couldn't autorotate?

I just finnished building and rigging a Constitution, only to find after putting it on the shelf, that the masts were in backwards.

I had a 1:32 and 1:48 huey fall out of my 1st story bedroom window..

Had just finished a beautiful model of a 1:48 HE-111 with a leopard style camo pattern, stretched sprue antenna wire, perfectly masked and painted canopy, super detailed the undercarriage, and managed to somehow drop my hardcover edition of Lord of the Rings right square on top of it. This is all three books in one edition mind you - pretty heavy.

Squash. A few cuss words, then off to the trash can she went. Needless to say, I've never attempted another HE-111 again! :)

B~

never had anything bad happen, unless you count the time i spent 12 hours working on a paint job for an a/c and then got up out of a chair and sent it flying. was four years ago and i am still looking for parts.

joe

This happened last night
I had a 1/72 resin figure that I wanted to lower the arm on. I cut a little piece out of his arm. I am all ready. I turned on the lighter, hold the figure over the flame, waiting to see visible signs that the arm is ready to move. All of the sudden there's a "crackle" and "WHOOSH", this whole arm is up in flames. I blew it out quickly before the fire covered me and more importantly my model. Luckily, there was very little, if any damage besides a burn mark on his arm, which I was then able to lower. Everything worked out all right, after I got the sh*t scared out of me!

I am building my Sherman calliope and I am using Aber PE for the first time. I was bending a brass strip to replace molded track skid and the brass strip broke. I am lucky because I was about to remove the plastic from the boggie assembly.
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