You know you've done enough for one night when. . .

When you go to bed only to find out that it's time to got to work.

QUOTE: Originally posted by paulnchamp ........................................And then I dunk an X-Acto knife in my bottle of Micro-Sol instead of the paintbrush I'd been using. That's when I knew I'd done enough for one night.

Usually when I dunk the my exacto knife into the end of my finger ![:0][:0][:0]

Usually when I'm touching up a part, and I paint the spot where I had touched-up the night before the wrong color......DAMN, now I have to re-touch-up the touch-up!!! Hate that!!!

QUOTE: Originally posted by Dwight Ta-ala When you go to bed only to find out that it's time to got to work.

And you show up at work with a part from your pe set stuck to your forehead.

When I start seeing the figures on my desk starting to move

Usually, it will be something really obvious, like gluing right-side parts on the left or vice-versa. However, I've also done the touch-up black, touch-up white, touch-up black again, touch-up white again, routine many, many times...bedtime for Bonzo!!!

Robert

i get the stares.

Then I spill stuff.

Usually it's the birds chirping that gives me a hint.

QUOTE: Originally posted by J-Hulk Usually it's the birds chirping that gives me a hint.

And the extra light from the sun begining to shine through the window.

When my alarm clock goes off and I haven't been to bed yet.

When you here a BBC radio announcer say...."Good morning. It's 04.30 and here is this morning's news."

When my wife turns off the power to my workshop........

When you have just finished the decals on a US fighter, and then stand back to admire you work when......you discover that all the stars & bars are upside down!

When you hear a stange buzzing noise from under the work bench and you find that the compressor has over-heated[:0][:0]

When there's blood on the bench

On the next day:
When everyone at work asks "What's all that paint on your hands?"

When everyone at work says "You need some shut-eye mate! Stop working so hard.....

Late night kit bashing-You gotta to love it!!

You nod off at the bench and your forehead gets stuck in the superglue ...

QUOTE: Originally posted by TANGO 1 When you have just finished the decals on a US fighter, and then stand back to admire you work when......you discover that all the stars & bars are upside down!

Hey! I've done that when I was completely awake on a weekend afternoon!

I remember several years ago, I was up one night (pulling an all nighter for college,) I was trying to come up with an idea for an illustration and I decided to do some modeling while I thought. This was at about 1:30 in the morning.

Anyway, I was painting a camoflage pattern (Two greens and a tan) I grabbed a bottle of tan and started painting those sections, I already had one of the greens down. I got it done, did my college project and didn't bother going to bed because my clock was set for half an hour from that point.

I took my shower, went out to the bus, had my day at college and when I got home I made a straight line to my workbench to admire my painting from the night before.

Intead of the tan, I grabbed the other green shade and painted with it. I could have sworn I saw tan go down on the plastic! Was I painting in my sleep? was my mind and eyes showing me what I wanted to see instead of what was?

It was sort of like the modeling equivalent of road hypnosis I suppose. Your mind tells you that something is, weather it is or it isn't and thats what you believe.

Just glad I wasn't driving

Very funny stories. Unfortunately, my regular work on models look like I was drunk or sleepy. Yes, I tend to glue hatches on tanks shut even though I plan to put a driver in.

Go figure...

When my hand starts shaking and fine painting becomes impossible. -All those push-ups are kiling me! When my eyes start to water and vision gets blured, then I am physically not able to continue, so I take off the magnification headset, cap all paints, turn off the light, and hit the hay. When I awake myself in midair when I'm about to fall on the desk and accidently paint something with my paintbrush in hand!

When I stick the paintbrush in my mouth and my cigarette in the paint ...

When you paint with your exacto knife.. same style as airbrush

Aircraft? oh, those things that float in water

when your paintbrush can cut thru photoetch

when those aftermarket decals you bought turn into a pile of carbon

when your too old for carbon 14 dating

wheres the keyboar... OW

Hmmm.... lemme see where I put this little guy (ant)

I know I have been at it too long when I am actually gettin stuff done... I don't usually get tired working on these. More often than not I just run out of things to do so I go to bed and let the glue or paint dry. Since I have a dedicated shop that is in the house its easy. I have been know to model while the shower water heats up or the coffee makes before work...sand a little here and there just to move along. I usually try to stop before i get careless and sloppy...

This winter: when my fingers went numb and I couldn't hold my knife anymore

Now: when my wife gets home from work (midnight...and I've been in my workshop since 6pm)

When my paintbrush roles in super glue and I pick it up and glue the paintbrush in my hand (it's happened) and when I blow dry a super glued part, get it too close to my mouth, and glue the part to my lips (Also happened before...). When I turn out the light and want to brush my teeth with my airbrush/paintbrush/toothbrush. I trip over the chair and can't find my way back to the bed.

Two days in a row - idicoy run rampant on my part!

Day one - spray painted Stuart and lost dude who was supposed to be on top. Found him in the back yard. He's okay but not painted yet.

Day two - spray painted JagdPanther and left it outside. It rained (hard). The Ubertank is now in the kitchen drying off.

ownage!

Supper glueing main landing gear leg of Ar555 on backwards.

That sucker is never coming off now

Karl

....it takes you about five minutes of staring at the tool in your hand to remember what you were going to use it for....

After about a month of gearing up to do my first build in over 20 years, researching this thing to death (a 1/35 RC Tiger I), I finally, FINALLY get to work on it one night. At the end of the session, I glue two different production drive sprockets to the gearbox. Upside is, you can only see one side at time. right?

It takes longer to paint than to make love

The isn't much you can paint in 15 seconds.....

..........shouldn't have said that!


Karl

O Nooooooooooooooooo! Kaths been talking

when you wake up in your modeling den with the alarm going off for work and you have a hangover from the thinners fumes.
Greg

When you wake in the early hours to find your head has flopped forward onto the bench and your newly varnished pride and joy is irrevocably attached to your hair!!