Is there something that you overlook?

I never forget antannas!!! when I finish my model, i look at it and think what will make it look better? so first goes on the antenni.

I forget my name if I sleep between now and then so I ususally forget something. Not always the same thing though.

Eric

I do a different stupid thing every build. Never the same thing twice, though!
On the E-100, I neglected to paint the insides of the armored exhaust covers, which I didn't notice until the model was on display under the harsh lights at the Shizuoka Hobby Show last year. Whoops! Fixed that as soon as I got it home!

On the BMP-3 I just finished, once I thought it was all done, I sat back to admire my work for a moment. Then I noticed I had yet to remove the liquid masking agent I had applied to the searchlight to keep it nice and clear! After peeling that off and touching up the bezel around the lens, I could finally say it was finished.

Well, I guess one thing I often overlook is the ocassional sink hole, ejector pin mark or parting line.
You think you've gotten them all...everything's absolutely perfect...then right after you apply the final flat coat, you see it: some putty has shrunk a bit and exposed a flaw...
At that late stage in the game, I just accept it. I learned a long time ago that trying to fix something like that only leads to further destruction! Plus, there are always tarps and nets to take care of those problems, right?

I usually forget where I put the kit I'm either working on or want to be working on.

Bill

Now Bill, that's a pretty serious problem!
Is Stately Bill Manor so vast that you forget where you put your models?

Whao... now here is a fun topic...

LQ2, I did the EXACT same thing on my Panther project.. I spent days filtering the uper hull, wheels, turret ect only to flip it over one day and see the lower glacis plate just as pretty as a picture....AHHHHH[:0].........hhmmm MUD!!! So like ya'll say there are ways around actually fixing things properly... This isn't the only time this has happened but its the most recent... Oh on the last panther I for some reason never bothered to paint the road wheel tires and didn't even notice until about half way through a presentation for about 300 students and teacher in which that panther was the opening display... oops...

I forgot what I was going to say . . .

. . . oh yeah! We are all probably very detail oriented, otherwise we wouldn't last long in this hobby. But, I always forget to do something, sometimes intentionally at first, then I go back and "Oh crap!" - it's glaringly obvious now, I forgot to . . .
To the scrutinous eye of myself and other modellers things like that look very bad and very obvious, but I wonder if anyone else would ever notice these things, I know most of my friends don't.

I always forget antennaes and machine guns..!

I think the most frequent place we tend to forget is the inside of the drive sprocket. This area is always clogged with mud, or at least very dirty. I used to always forget about it until I put the tracks on and then it is difficult to correct. Now I paint this area a dark blackish-brown before I put the tracks on.

just like J-Hulk, I do a different stupid mistak every build... and once i manage to remember to do one thing on the next project, I forget to do something i remembered on the last project.

I always forget to weather the hull behind the road wheels,bogies, sprockets, etc. Always looks way too clean for what should be the dirtiest part. I don't put antennaes on because they immediately get knocked off!

Well at least I don't feel so bad now. I've done the road wheel thing myself, except that I had them glued together and on the tank and realized I forgot to paint in between them. About the hardest thing to correct so far was not putting on the tracks before the top hull on the 1/72 jagdpanther. One of those screw ups where more things got messed up to fix one mess up.

QUOTE: Originally posted by lizardqing2 I just happened to look up at some of my builds from a different angle and realized that on almost everyone of them I had forgotten to weather the bottom of the front hull. I also seem to always overlook antennas until someone reminds me. I was just wondering if anyone else has something that gets overlooked on alot of builds that you have to go back rectify?

Something I consistently boob up? Sure, and here it is.

No interior, open hatches.

I always tell myself that no one will notice, with the mini-man poked into the tank and all.

I build the tank. I build and paint the mini-man. I put him in.

He looks like he's in a giant empty plastic tank.

It never fails! And am I doing it again with my panther build-up? YES!

What, you want the list? Are you ready for something the length of War and Peace? What gets me most is when I find something lacking once its in print (as in an FSM article or review)! That happens all too often no matter how careful I am. A mold line here, a sink hole there. A star on crooked. ARGH!

I was just thinking about this today. When I was high school age, I made models like crazy and was always sure that what I did was right... even if it wasn't. Now, I find myself second guessing myself, running for resources or photos, picking at this or that and sometimes even taking the fun out of what I'm doing. Is that nuts or what??

I've sent many a tank back to the 'shop' to be stripped of paint, redone and improved. I have an M60 (a model of my old tank) waiting for an overhaul right now. It needs a better main gun, better tracks, and other improvements. I really do enjoy doing that from time to time. It's a way to improve on what I've already done and it makes me feel as if I'm making a cool old build better.

The end.

Ron

Much like Erik and Jordan have already said, I almost always forget something, but it's not usually the same thing.

Usually skip through the instructions and realize that I should have painted something the base color or whatnot and it wasn't glued on the chassis yet. So rather than being airbrushed, it gets the brush treatment.

Everyone forgets something. One of my first few armour models, Tamiya's M41 walker bulldog, after i completed it, if realized i had put one of the tracks on backwards! whoops

Been adult modeling for 20 years! Long ago I came to the conclusion the what seperates the 'average' modeler from the 'above average' modeler is his or her ability to recover from mistakes, or hide them, sometimes in plain sight! So whenever I 'see' something on what I thought was a 'finished' model I do some internal thinking about what can I do or not do to 'fix it'. Most times I can 'fix it' to where I'm satisfied. Stay away from the 'perfection' trap! Seek excellence!!

Glenn

Every now and then it happens and when you least expect it, too. Just recently, I did a Panther D for the Group Build. It was almost finished except for the scratchbuilt fender extension which is just an add-on. But wait when I posted the pics here, it was noticed that the seams between the commander's hatch shows. Probably the putty has sunk exposing a line that showed under heavy lighting.

I guess when we are about to finish, we get so excited that somehow we tend to forget some small things that unfortunately could be noticed by others.

Well, that's life! He-he-he.

Just about always .... not usually the same thing twice.
But now that I've gone and said that ......

I've made so many mistakes on so many different models that I have
convinced myself that it will always be this way; the paint smudge, glue print , forgotten part(s), etc., becomes part of the model and it's personality!

Regards, Dan

After putting a completed model away for a while, I always see something that I missed before. Ever looked at a figure months later and realised the pupils of the eyes aren't there? How about missing guards over headlights.

The more you look at a model the less you see. After looking at it so much, you only see what you expect to see, not what is actually there. One of the guys at my club gave me a good idea. He uses a small mirror to look at his 'finished' work. He reckons looking at it in reverse breaks the 'expectation thing'. I've tried it once and it worked for me - especially for figures

I've forgotten many times that my fingers are not made of steel

and jabbed an exacto knife in them, across them and through them

QUOTE: Originally posted by Build22 I've forgotten many times that my fingers are not made of steel and jabbed an exacto knife in them, across them and through them

I done that a few times.
mark956

I'll have to try that mirror trick. The one model I have built that I would really like to redo is the Bradley I build for my first armor kit. To bad it's glued down to a base.

I like to step outside and look at the model in direct sunlight. Helps look for flaws like gaps or something thats missing; but more of the former.



BT6

taking pictures w/ a digital camera and looking thru them on my PC has helped me find some problems.
the harsh light of the flash, and the different angles expose things that i missed.
like continuing the camo onto the lower part of the front hull of my Panther.
(where it is on the undercut side)
completely out of view to the 'Modeler Ed' but right in front of the 'Photographer Ed'

ed.

Ed, ha haha .... Photoshop to the rescue....!!! You know how much faster you could add a crows foot arial in Lightwave or photoshop.....about 20 times faster than you can make one from plastic.... But that would be dishonest......

I systematically forget one final thing.. Its like a trademark, almost. Like on my Panzer IV, there are no markings..