1/72 Scale Italeri OH-6A finished despite itself.
This is the Italeri 1/72 scale OH-6A Cayuse done up in Hugh Mill's ride "Miss Clawd IV"
I was so upset at this model, and still am about what happened. When I was putting the final semi-gloss coat of clear on it, this thing just tumbled down into a box of sprues. When I picked up up, the right front part of the landing skid that sticks out in front was broken off again! Naturally, because I was almost done, the part that broke off DISAPPEARED!!! I searched everywhere for hours, even using a nylon-filtered vacuum to try and find the missing part, but of COURSE, it is nowhere to be found! All that had to happen was for the model to dry, then remove the masks, and it would have been DONE!! But NO! I'm apparently not allowed to finish a model since this kind of thing happens to me all the time! This whole situation is so STUPIDLY AVOIDABLE and should never have even HAPPENED!!! So, after long hours of searching, cussing and furious beating on the rug, I went to my Japanese OH-6 and broke off the front part of the one landing skid on that helicopter that always breaks, and I re-glued that part to "Miss Clawd IV" JUST so I can call it done! Now I have an incomplete Japanese OH-6 but at least this one is done.
Oh, yeah, I did try the stretched sprue technique to try and fix this but didn't succeed. It was easier to just break off the landing skid on the Japanese one.
For ONCE! I'd like to finish a model without having to resort to damaging another one!
"Miss Clawd IV" is finished. She is only about four inches long from the front of her perspex to her tail. My apologies for the long angry rant. Thanks for looking and tolerating my rant.