Murphy's Laws of model building.

No matter how "organized" you are, building three or four kits at the same time will ultimatly lead to you accidentally gluing that ships mast into a 65 galaxy.... because you thought it was an exaust pipe!!!

No matter how much you do to prevent it, dust will always find a way to get stuck on the inside of your clear parts. A minute, a day, a week, or a month. It will always find a way.

CA glue never sets while joining heavy, alignment- critical parts.  To make the glue set, just misalign the pieces and get glue to ooze under your finger.  Bang!  The glue will fire off, cementing your finger to the misaligned parts!  Or it just sets under your finger, leaving a CA fingerprint, while the pieces slide, then fall apart, causing more glue to flow outside the mating surfaces.  Now the parts have CA glue all over the place, and the mating surfaces no longer fit due to a layer of partially cured glue.  But the rest of the glue is still not set, so you have to wipe off the gunk, then chisel off the stuff that set.  Rinse and repeat.

Sorry, just ranting about last night.... 

ManCityFan

Within an hour of hitting submit for an online purchase, you will remember that "other thing" you absolutely need to finish your current project.

 

Or that "other thing" that would have bumped you to free shipping.

No matter how far your fingurs are from the joint your gluing, plastic weld will always find its way between your thumb and plastic.

Does make a nice cresant shapped indentation though.

Or this one: when you trim a part (rod, wire, pipe, plank and so on) to exactly the right size, it will be too short.

Good luck with your modelling projects!

Paweł

No matter how careful you are one tiny part always seems to go missing.

Decals never seem to stick unless they are in a spot you dont want them in.

That tiny part that flew away should not be that hard to find on the floor.

Pawel

Or this one: when you trim a part (rode, wire, pipe, plank and so on) to exactly the right size, it will be too short.

 

...and if you cut it again...it will still be too short!!!

True story....right out of my father-in-law's mouth...

"Durrrrnnn....I've cut this thing twice and it's still too short". He was not joking either!!!

Another...

As soon as you complete some crazy modification/scratchbuild/conversion to an unavaliable version of a particular subject...it will become avaliable in kit form.

Speaking from my PE experiences over the last three days...  No matter how far away on the bench I place my little puddle of super glue (for dabbing an applicator into), I will eventually rest my elbow on it. 

No one ever needs anything until I start working at the desk.

When the Xacto knife slips off a part, it will make a beeline for your thumb like a laser guided missile.

The X-Acto knife will always fall toward your foot.  The chance of its comming down blade  increases with the least amount of material covering your foot.

In case of a major diaster with your project, the greater the diaster, the more likely your kit has been discontinued and you have no back up kit or spare parts.

It's been mentioned earlier but no matter how much care I take in handling clear parts, dust inevitably finds its way under a canopy!

You pick up a bag of rubber bands at the store because you need them. When you get them home and start using them you find that they must have been on the shelves for a few years. Every one breaks when you stretch it to hold that fuselage together. Those darn things are getting a little costly too. Oh well, back to blue painters tape. 

Jim  

The more unique the decal, the more prone it is to fold/tear as you apply it.

Common markings like national insignia will always go down without problems, but nose/tail art, kill markings & pilot's names will attempt to fold up on themselves as you apply them.

Phil_H

The more unique the decal, the more prone it is to fold/tear as you apply it.

That's why you should always copy your sheet or at least scan it, then the first one goes down without problems!

Good luck with your modelling

Paweł

Your "bargain" second hand model kit will seem less so the instant the decals hit water and disintegrate.

Acrylic paint=enamel wash

enamel paint=acrylic wash !

I can definately think of a WAY worse place than a foot that X-Acto knifes always seem to fall towards.

Well as you can see by my name I have many but the one that comes to mind is no matter how secure that tiny part seems in the tweezers it goes flying the second you hit it with the airbrush, then you spend the next 15 mins searching for it, after you finally find it your paint has dried in the tip of the nozzle 

Murphy's Law

Well as you can see by my name I have many but the one that comes to mind is no matter how secure that tiny part seems in the tweezers it goes flying the second you hit it with the airbrush, then you spend the next 15 mins searching for it, after you finally find it your paint has dried in the tip of the nozzle 

 

Wait a minute....you actually FIND those parts?

My correlary is, within two weeks of finishing a model with homemade decals, because I wanted a different livery or markings, they will release a version of that kit with that livery.  Happened to me at least twice.

ManCityFan

 

 

Murphy's Law

Well as you can see by my name I have many but the one that comes to mind is no matter how secure that tiny part seems in the tweezers it goes flying the second you hit it with the airbrush, then you spend the next 15 mins searching for it, after you finally find it your paint has dried in the tip of the nozzle 

 

 

 

 

Wait a minute....you actually FIND those parts?

 

Real G

CA glue never sets while joining heavy, alignment- critical parts.  To make the glue set, just misalign the pieces and get glue to ooze under your finger.  Bang!  The glue will fire off, cementing your finger to the misaligned parts!  Or it just sets under your finger, leaving a CA fingerprint, while the pieces slide, then fall apart, causing more glue to flow outside the mating surfaces.  Now the parts have CA glue all over the place, and the mating surfaces no longer fit due to a layer of partially cured glue.  But the rest of the glue is still not set, so you have to wipe off the gunk, then chisel off the stuff that set.  Rinse and repeat.

Sorry, just ranting about last night.... 

 

And when you do get it assembled, it will disappear into never-never land, causing you to have to order out another set of PE for the project.

That lost tiny part will never be found until your Wife walks in the room in her bare feet.

It's always the third special tool you've bought for the job that works  for you.

Long airbrush session,

in the zone,

laying down the last coat,

you feel it, this is going to be the best paint job yet...

Airbrush decides to stick and spits a wonderful little pattern of paint blobs right where it will be most noticeable.