Modelling Nightmares!

Mine has to be the trumpy P-38 i cut one engine boom apart to show the engine and made it miss aligne with the wing i also bought the verlindon set for it and the the head reast didnt evan fit, the oil coolers are six eprite parts and didnt fit right leaveing 1/4 inch gaps trying to fill them  and that didnt work. So i went on to put the gun bay in  and found out it was real tail heavy and had to yank the gunbay out and fill it with lead pellets and seal up the nose that wasnt enough so i also added more to the booms and filled with CA and found out i had leaked. then procceded to paint it and found out that i didnt sand it good enough and it looked like some draged it acrossed a gravel road and it was still tail after a 1/2 of a pound of lead  i put it up for about a month, then decided to finish painting it and the paint started to rub off made me so mad i snapped into peaces and chucked it.

Thats my storie and iam stikin to it.

the worst I have seen so far is a "pimple effect" during an airbrush session. my AB was spraying fine until the mist just stopped. I cranked the power up to full and let a blast out. well silly me I forgot that the booth in which I was pointing my AB into still had my model in it...

SPLAT and I have not touched that car in a while...

oh yeah.. I just remembered that the above occurance was NOT the worst. I got my first armor kit from my daddy-o and then a year after I built it, I decided to fix the mistakes I made...

so off goes the turret and luckily, the Testors tube glue's holding power degraded after a year, so the pieces began to pop apart easily. Im proceeding along merrily *pop* *pop* *pop* *snap*... what was that?!?! I look at the thing in my hand and well I basically wrecked the tranny. After I took 2 weeks more than intended to fix that, I decided to bend the fender up some. so I sawed off one the fenders and realized that not a single thing I had could not replicate the fender... ARRGHH so at this point, I dropped the project. Mind you, I had a bunch of things pulled apart and I was going to order some AM stuff but gave up...

this is usually how most of my repair projects go.

Well, let me tell ya. Never, never, never NOT shake the living snot out of a can of Testor's Flat prior to spraying on a model. . . I almost cried.

Don

lone wrote:

it was terrible,it seems that no two peices were to the same kit,,,,or maybe the fit was just THAT bad

lone wrote:

my worst had to be when i opened the  box to a RM P-38,,,finished step one and threw it away

Reminds me of a F-14 Monogram Hi-tech kit I had years ago, every piece of of the airframe plastic was warped, apart from the cockpit nothing else would fit together properly. In my fustration I binned it. Not touched a monogram kit since. 

Everyone seems to have a bad RM story,and I am no exception!

I purchased the RM Pro modeler F15E. When it says ProModeler on the box they are assuming you will be forgiving of their errors and omissions and make the kit anyway. Mine was boxed without an entire sprue! In contacting the RM site to receive a replacement I was told RM no longer provided "free replacement parts without proof of purchase". So I snail mailed the box UPC and an explaination of what was wrong. The response? Send $3.00 for EACH PIECE I 'wanted'. As that was about Six to Eight pieces, I pointed out they would be better off sending me an entire kit, which is what I ended up doing, buying another kit, as I was on a time line. Lesson learned right? Then a week later I got a box from RM in the mail. . .Packed neatly in bubble wrap was ONE piece of the missing sprue and a note telling me I would have to pay $3 for any additional piece required. I laughed it off until a few days later I got another box with the SAME piece in it and the same $3 ransom note!!!                                                      This would be a funny story if it ended there but no, Within the next two weeks I received two more boxes with parts wrapped in bubble wrap. . .one wasn't even a part for the F15E kit, and the other was a part I had!!  Needless to say I avoid RM kits unless I feel real lucky and attempt to win the RM Lotto. . .

Don

I have left the cockpit out and had to rip off the wings to get it in... twice.  A few Tenax fingerprints on wings and fuselage sides.  Lost countless pieces of PE and other tiny pieces that have tweezer-pulted into oblivion.  No rudder pedals on a P-51.  Rolled over my 1/72 Fw canopy with my chair...

I am sorry... I can't go on.... just too painful... all the memories

wing_nut wrote:

I have left the cockpit out and had to rip off the wings to get it in... twice.  A few Tenax fingerprints on wings and fuselage sides.  Lost countless pieces of PE and other tiny pieces that have tweezer-pulted into oblivion.  No rudder pedals on a P-51.  Rolled over my 1/72 Fw canopy with my chair...   I am sorry... I can't go on.... just too painful... all the memories

There, there.........its OK Just think of all the little Fw-190's that you've helped find modelling perfection.

lone wrote:

my worst had to be when i opened the  box to a RM P-38,,,finished step one and threw it away

I'll second that motion! Their P-38 and their B-26 was the worst. I about ditched both of those. No more RM for me .........ever!

Andy 

eizzle

I build rotors last...it helps!

 My worst was when I had aLMOST finihsed with my 1/35 scale Blackhawk around 1AM the night before the BIG CONTEST upstate..........i dropped it and busted the windsheild!  Took weeks to get a replacement and I didnt have a replacement....

David 

the P-61 blackwidow gets my vote for worst. The molds are so old and so shot, nothing lines up and the glass parts are larger than the fueselage halves---the molds are just shot.  I trashed the kit, not something I normally do.

David

PatlaborUnit1 wrote:

eizzle I build rotors last...it helps!  My worst was when I had aLMOST finihsed with my 1/35 scale Blackhawk around 1AM the night before the BIG CONTEST upstate..........i dropped it and busted the windsheild!  Took weeks to get a replacement and I didnt have a replacement....   David

I pinned one of the blades with 1/16th diameter styrene rod, it held, the other ones broke off, well except 1! I now see why you build them last! I will have to remember that one. Thanks David!

PatlaborUnit1 wrote:

the P-61 blackwidow gets my vote for worst. The molds are so old and so shot, nothing lines up and the glass parts are larger than the fueselage halves---the molds are just shot.  I trashed the kit, not something I normally do.   David

I DESPISED THAT KIT WITH A BURNING PASSION OF A THOUSAND SUNS!!!!!!!!

the only thing that I got out of it was two or three 1/48 figs and a horrible but doable fuel drum