I just spilled...

Make a worm out of kid's modeling clay (not Play dough)  and wrap it around the glue bottle base....simple. cheap 

Double sided tape, the thick stuff wood workers often use for jigs, might work better than duct tape. 

Thanks, Doog. I've gotten a number of very good ideas folks have posted on this thread.

Use a small plaque--you can get small circles or squares of wood at any AC Moores--and epoxy one onto the bottom of a bottle of glue. Use that bottle as your main bottle--carefully empty new bottles into it, and it will now be more stable. I've been using this method for years, and haven't had this happen for a few years now.

Well, I have one of those Milk Frothers that you pick up for like 2 bucks at Ikea and I decided that I was going to drill a hole in a MM cap that was laying around so that way I could put the frother through.  Though to protect the frother I put some heat shrink on the shaft.  
Well last week I went to go mix up some primer got mixture right, went to go use the airbrush, and there were rubber bits all in the paint.  Apparently the heat shrink decided that it was going to rip to shreds while I was mixing it. Luckily the model was free for me...

Let's see, since February I've dropped my airbrush which bent the tip, spilled 1/4 bottle of future floor wax on my workbench and carpeted floor, dropped an open bottle of Tamiya extra thin cement while transferring it from one side of my bench to the other, oh... and I superglued my right index finger to the side of my neck.  Your in good company!

Recently got a touch n flo applicator and decided to transfer my tamiya xtra thin into a taller bottle for ease of loading. Low and behold less than a day later I managed to spill it across my desk, soaking my instruction booklet, a bamboo placemat and removing a large piece of laminate off the desk. Had to evacuate the room put on a respirator to clean it up and aim a fan out the window for a few hours. The whole apartment smelled like glue.  This is only my most recent spill, many paint pots have been tipped as well. Now I use a block of wood with holes drilled in it to hold my paint and glue to avoid accidental tipping.  

Retired In Kalifornia

 

 

Wildcatfan247

 

 

Tanker - Builder

Hmmm;

 You know this is all bringing a smile to me . How about this ? Stepped into the shower after a hard day Building a scratch steam-boat for a client . Wasn't in a good mood .

 Looked down to my Belly Button and Lo and Behold ! There's the window I had lost earlier ! Firmly glued to my skin ! I havent worn an open collared , loose shirt since !

 I was a lot thinner in those days and the shirt fit loosely ! Oh well , Live and learn . Spill Glue and Paint ? Still do fifty five years later . Ah ! It's all good though .

 

 

 

 

When I lose a part, first place I check is my shirt, pants and shoes

 

 

 

 

...rug, trash bag, underneath arms w/wo PJs on, things on table (usually find parts in paint box wedged in between bottles)...bazillion times worse when assembled & painted in folks garage, can't count how many parts lost laying on or below anything stored in it within 10 feet.

 

 

Let's not forget between your legs. I can't tell you how many times I've found missing parts there. 

Yeah, Kalifornia, my Korean War LT-6 is just about done. I'm waiting for some Testors Dullcote (should be here tomorrow) so I can give it a final protective clear coat. While I was painting the airplane, somehow one of the landing gear legs became bent(?). It's painted with Alclad Aluminum. Tried to think of a way to take out the warp without doing major surgery. Instead, I just glued on the tires, hubs and landing gear doors. I'll just live with the warped gear leg. At least after I shoot it with the Dullcote, I'll be able to unmask the canopy to see how well I did that part.

Tanker - Builder

Hmmm;

 You know this is all bringing a smile to me . How about this ? Stepped into the shower after a hard day Building a scratch steam-boat for a client . Wasn't in a good mood .

 Looked down to my Belly Button and Lo and Behold ! There's the window I had lost earlier ! Firmly glued to my skin ! I havent worn an open collared , loose shirt since !

 I was a lot thinner in those days and the shirt fit loosely ! Oh well , Live and learn . Spill Glue and Paint ? Still do fifty five years later . Ah ! It's all good though .

 

When I lose a part, first place I check is my shirt, pants and shoes

the Baron

 

 

fotofrank

...a freshly opened bottle of Testors liquid cement across my work area! The glue splashed up on the nose of the AMT P-40N I'm working on. The glue splashed across the green cutting board, and took the white ink right off, and pooled under the plastic box of my Husky needle file set. I'm really beginning to doubt my suitability for being back in this modeling hobby. The number of failures seem to greatly exceed the number of successes I'm having. I don't mean to whine, I just feel like I'm having a difficult time measuring up.

My rant is over. Now I need to finish cleaning up the mess and assess the damage on the P-40. Maybe paint will cover the glue blemish on the nose.

 

 

 

 

Don't let the setbacks get you down.  They help you learn and improve.

To this specific problem-spilling a container on your bench, I'd like to offer my tip to avoid this:  I use caps from rattlecans, and from laundry detergent bottles, to hold jars of various sizes as I work.  The rattlecan caps have an inner wall that is just about the right size to steady paint bottles, and caps from different makers have different dimensions.  The caps from laundry detergent bottles are good for larger jars or containers, like bottles of liquid glue, tubes, CA glue bottles, etc.  The flat bottoms of these lids makes it harder to knock them over.

Hope that helps!

Best regards,

Brad

 

I have enough rattle cans out in the garage. I'm going to get the caps off of them before they go to recycling...

fotofrank

...a freshly opened bottle of Testors liquid cement across my work area! The glue splashed up on the nose of the AMT P-40N I'm working on. The glue splashed across the green cutting board, and took the white ink right off, and pooled under the plastic box of my Husky needle file set. I'm really beginning to doubt my suitability for being back in this modeling hobby. The number of failures seem to greatly exceed the number of successes I'm having. I don't mean to whine, I just feel like I'm having a difficult time measuring up.

My rant is over. Now I need to finish cleaning up the mess and assess the damage on the P-40. Maybe paint will cover the glue blemish on the nose.

 

Don't let the setbacks get you down.  They help you learn and improve.

To this specific problem-spilling a container on your bench, I'd like to offer my tip to avoid this:  I use caps from rattlecans, and from laundry detergent bottles, to hold jars of various sizes as I work.  The rattlecan caps have an inner wall that is just about the right size to steady paint bottles, and caps from different makers have different dimensions.  The caps from laundry detergent bottles are good for larger jars or containers, like bottles of liquid glue, tubes, CA glue bottles, etc.  The flat bottoms of these lids makes it harder to knock them over.

Hope that helps!

Best regards,

Brad

Yeah, Hunter, two things I need to get hold of for sure: the obsession to be perfect and the very big need to be patient with what I'm doing. And yeah, spilling the cement took most of the white ink off my green cutting board.

Frank,

Buddy don't let this slow you down. I am still new to modeling and have already made a dozen mistakes on my very first build. Heck, I spilled thinner over my new Hobbico cutting mat and it removed over half of the white markings on mine LOL. This hobby is just like any other.....you have your good days and your bad. I sure would hate to see you throw in the towel over this.

Something I picked up in here real quick from everyone when I started was patience would be the number one tool I would need to really enjoy model building. So, get back to the bench and enjoy yourself.

I thought a "spam-can" was an airplane built in Wichita...lol.

Thanks, Eric. You've been in the hobby almost as long as I was out of the hobby. Your words and everyone elses are a big help to this old fart. I thought when I started up again it was going to be like right after college and I was churning out completed kits almost on a weekly basis. Way back then I did a complete series of Corsairs based on the old Hawk 1/72 scale kit. I started with the XF4U and went all the way to the AU-1. Anyway, I thought I was going to pick up where I left off so long ago. I didn't realize how much the hobby had changed over 40+ years. Fortunately, a fellow, Route62, who has been in the hobby almost as long as you, Eric, is sort of mentoring me. Mentoring uphill, whoda thought. Route 62 is almost 30 years my junior. I would say, though, that he is a master builder and he has been a big help, especially when I become impatient with a difficult build issue. Also the support of my local IPMS chapter has been great. So many years ago, I was aware of IPMS but never thought to look for a local chapter in my area.

I just want to thank everyone for their kind words and suggestions. I'm going to keep on keepin' on and building and executing hopefully really interesting models. Stay tuned.

Thanks, y'all...

Hmmm;

 You know this is all bringing a smile to me . How about this ? Stepped into the shower after a hard day Building a scratch steam-boat for a client . Wasn't in a good mood .

 Looked down to my Belly Button and Lo and Behold ! There's the window I had lost earlier ! Firmly glued to my skin ! I havent worn an open collared , loose shirt since !

 I was a lot thinner in those days and the shirt fit loosely ! Oh well , Live and learn . Spill Glue and Paint ? Still do fifty five years later . Ah ! It's all good though .

fotofrank

I'm really beginning to doubt my suitability for being back in this modeling hobby. The number of failures seem to greatly exceed the number of successes I'm having. I don't mean to whine, I just feel like I'm having a difficult time measuring up.

Hi Frank!  Your above quote pretty much sums up most every build I do.  LOL!  And I've been in this hobby for the past 39 years!!!  Seriously, I feel like this a lot but I think that's the intereting part about this hobby of ours.  

We all make mistakes.  It's a part of the very fabric of model building.  As one person mentioned, it's very possible that your P-40 will turn out to be great in the end.  I have a completed Monogram F-89C sitting on my shelf that is one of my prides and joys.  It didn't start out that way though.  The kit went together great but I really hosed up the paint job when I sprayed a lacquer over an enamel undercoat.  I completely forgot about the fact that lacquer will eat right through enamel.  The entire paint job ended up looking like the cracked earth of the Sahara Desert.  The buggered-up F-89 sat off to the side of my hobby bench for over a year before I finally got the gumption to strip the paint and start over again.  Lo and behold, the new paint job turned out better than I could have hopped for.

One thing I learned from that (and so many other similar experiences) was that in 99% of the cases, there's nothing that can happen that can't be fixed.  You might get flustered and fed up, but set it aside until you're ready to jump back in it again.  You'll prove to yourself that you're a pretty darned good modeler after all.

Best wishes,

Eric 

No more taking parts off the sprue and painting them before I need them.  3 kits in a row I've lost parts for.  Aaarggghhh

I dropped a new open bottle of thin CA on my foot and glued my flip-flop to the floor and my foot...instantly.  now i put a large worm of modeling clay around the bottle where it meets the table.

I feel for you, that stuff happens to everyone. By the way, never decant spray paint into a plastic container. Several hours later the mess is spectacular. 'Nuff said

I was in the Army and was stationed at Lowry AFB for PMEL (Army 35H) training back in '79 - '80. Still calibrating away!

I was working on the Mercury Atlas from the Man In Space collection and went to cover my decals with Solvaset. At the last minute I thought something smelled funny and realized I almost covered the decals with Testors glue. Not sure how I would have handled that......

this is such a hoot , , brightened up my day , done all the above , but I have picked a few tip's too .

littletimmy

 

 

mississippivol

Or, how about spraying flat white thinking it was the final clearcoat.

 

 

    LOLOLOL!!!!!!!!  I have done that ! only I grabbed the gloss black instead of Glosscote.

So much for $10 worth of decals. I just finished painting it black.... easyer than stripping it.

 

Mentioning decals, it just happened to be a stock car kit as well

Retired In Kalifornia

Somebody once upon decades ago made tipover resistant pyramid shaped styrene glue bottles, what happened to them I wonder?

But the Tamiya Super Thin comes in a nice chunky little square bottle.

Ya know, I don't feel so bad anymore. Anyway, the P-40 is very salvagable. Paint will cover the glue splash easily. I'm certainly going to try that 4" sq. plank under the glue bottle for sure.

Y'all have been a really big help. I think sometimes I just try too hard to do the job right. This is a hobby, not a vocation, right?

Can't count the number of Tamiya Extra Thin bottles I've knocked over until I cut a 6" square of laminated flooring that I had left over from the living room do-over and cut out a square in the center for the bottle. A piece of duct tape on the bottom of the square, sticky side up, helps too.

Jim    

It's why I stated building weathered tank Models!   Gear and canvas can do a lot of good!