My F-22 is a constructive total loss.

Thanks Eric!  I'll have to put that in my bag of tricks.  You never know when it'll come in handy!  Raymond

RE: Echo. I have done that in the past but I don't have a cold enough freezer.  But I can get dry ice. I'll give it a try next week some time. Thanks.

White spirit takes glue apart, you need to spread it on the glue a few times but it seems to work for me

Seasick, I don't know what kind of glue you used but I'll relay a little story that happened to me.  I bought a model off of eBay several years ago.  It was an F-80 that the seller had just started.  He glued the upper half of one wing to the corresponding bottom half.  The only trouble was that they were a bit askew and I didn't feel like carving/sanding away all the overlapping plastic.

I remembered something I saw on the FSM forums where you could put the glued parts in the freezer for a while.  The freezing temperatures would render the glued joint brittle and you could then "snap" the parts apart.  I gave it a try and, lo and behold, it worked!  I'm not sure if you're too far along in your build to try this but, if not, what have you got to lose?  I put the wings in the freezer and left it there overnight.

Hope that helps,

Eric

Sorry bro.....I'm actually the opposite.  I use Tenax solvent glue pretty much exclusively...melts those seams right together.  

Joe

M-80s and a GoPro on the 4th it is then ;-) As was said, at least it wasn't an expensive kit.  Crap happens.  Go scream, cuss, and kick for about five minutes.  Breath.  And start another kit...  Raymond

The kit was the Revell 1/72 F-22. Something shifted around the intakes.  I must have done something wrong with the intakes. It looked OK when I put it together but the clamps shifted and gaps appeared in the wings and around the intakes. I filled most with putty but but they looked real awkward. It looks like I built it when I was 11. Its boxed up and buried in the bottom of my stash.  I found another kit and will try again in March or April.

Also sorry to hear about this misfortune.  It can be very demoralizing, but it does help one become even more determined to overcome the plastic.  

Like Don S, I gave up on solvent glues long ago--but I ruined a number of kits learning to use CA's.

Keep calm and carry on!

Many of the solvent cements take a long time to set, and don't work as well as they used to (some of the better solvents were found to be carcinogenic).  I have abandoned solvent glues except where I really need the slow setting.  Many of us now pretty much stick to various grades of CA.

X 3 on the pics.  We won't laugh I promise.  All of us have been there, Went through more M80's as a kid than I can remember.

Images man, images!! Let us see the mishap. Perhaps some wise sage will hand you an unconsidered solution. 

Crash/wreck dio????

Ugh!  Sorry to hear about the mishap.  What kind of glue was used?  Depending on the type, there might be a fix for it.

Eric

How did the parts shift? Did you use clamps?You can fill the gaps with sheet styrene fillets and use body putty to fill the gaps.Pics would help too!

sorry about that.It happens,we have all been there,take the lessons learned and move on.

Seasick, that too was my resolution for messed up model kits as a kid/teen, I also used the rocket engines....some flew, some did not!  LOL  AS Shipwreck stated, at least you have some extra parts you can use now.  Was this the 1/72 or 1/48?

Sorry to hear of your misfortune. At least it was not a $60 kit. Now you have some spare parts!

Well...  There's always model rocket engines....  Seriously, is there now way to carefully cut the seam apart, then try re-glueing?  Some sanding and re-scribing beats the H. E. double toothpicks out of the alternative...  Raymond