Did this ever happen to you?

Hi Oggy
That is known as "Murphy's Law" in modelling. I did that a long time ago with an Otaki P-51 D Mustang. I built a proper dog house for the radiator and did the plumbing and everything for the drop tanks, dropped the flaps, I went nuts on the interior and then Monogram comes out with their P-51 D which blew the Otaki away. The Hasegawa and Tamiya both come out with P-51 D's that kept raising the bar. "Murphy's Law of Modelling".
Put me down for a 1/48th scale Spitfire T9 conversion kit. It is about time that someone woke up and saw the need for a model of that odd version that will fill in a gap in the Spitfire line.
Cheers
Bob S.

Is there another way to spell aluminium?
Dai

sorry Dai, wrong bulletin board .
I would like to think that companies are monitoring these boards and listening to our suggestions.
I will certainly be getting one of those T9's, Dutch or Indian Airforce, I wonder which one?

Only ever happened once to me... Converted an Airbus A300 into the Beluga Super Transporter and bang, Revell released its just after mine was completed...

QUOTE: Originally posted by Dai Jones Is there another way to spell aluminium?

Actually, it looks like it can be spelled either way.

aluminium or aluminum

Aluminium is the UK spelling
Aluminum (no second "i") is the US spelling

The change dates from a mispelling in the USA at the turn of the 19th century that stuck.

O yeah it did happen to me .Years ago I was converting the old monogram me262 into a nightfighter it took about five months to build.The day after I applied the flat coat Dragon announced its kit for it

So I know how you must feel now.But I think that has happened to other modelers as wel

cheers

rob

Oh, yeah. I know that feeling.

I was working on Revell's 1/32 Mig-21, correcting its deficiencies for a long time. I got far enough with it that it would have been a waste to quit when the Trumpeter kit hit the shelves.

02-11-03
Well, well har har har, Oggy! Red faced Yeehah here to say I was fit to spit when I saw the announcement by Brigade! After all the crap we went through (cutting, sanding the Aires cockpit to fit it's new location, searching for, finding and modifying a suitable canopy for the rear cockpit) to get this to look right and Brigade bring out a 1/48 scale version that may also have the Irish Air Corp decals with it, too.

I felt as sick as a dog. But, the article says that canopies with the Brigade release are Vacform, so there might be two, one of which will find it's way onto my build.
The plus side is, once I buy hte Brigade kit ( and i will buy it ), I'll have two Tr IX's, one alu, one green.
Begorrah.
Liam

I once spent countless hours detailing my Monogram B-17, putting in new structure, oxygen bottles and even scratch building bomb bay doors and flaps from scratch... then Verlinden came out with its B-17 detail set. It had almost everything that I scratch built. The worst was the number of hours I had spend on the ribing for hte bay doors which are not just simple styrene strips, but rather complex curves mind you and each one is only about 1" by 1/16" in size. I actually considered buying the conversion kit anyway, just so I don't have to build the second door.

The Revell 1/32 scale RF-4C did not have any detail at all in the cockpits. I scratch built the side consoles and area behind the seats. Added wireing for the rear instrument panel. I just finished all of the work when Verlinden released the up date. I bought the up date because I had another kit of the same model. The work I did looked better and had more items added, not included in the Verlinden kit.

Add me to Murphy's list. I had been working on the Revell F-8 Crusader. This thing had already consumed a ton of my time and would have long ago found itself in the trash if I didn't like F-8s so much. I scratch built a cockpit. Added custom plumbing in the wheelwells and the refueling probe housing. I was only a day or two away from paint when I learned Hasegawa would be releasing a 1/48 Crusader.


The straw on the camel's back.....when I removed the jigs I had made from the wingtips to keep them straight while gluing, the wing sagged because the glue had not totaly set. As soon as that happen, after all that had already gone wrong with the kit, I just tossed it into the trashcan. I didn't even salvage parts off it for the spares box. It was probably the most disgusted I have ever been with a model.