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What BONE HEAD thing have you done in this hobby?

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Posted by plasticjunkie on Sunday, January 22, 2017 11:00 PM

Gosh after hearing your stories I feel better. I guess we all have our moment.

Patrick

I was EXTREMELY surprised when the ab worked. I expected it to be locked up.

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Posted by Keyda81 on Sunday, January 22, 2017 9:23 PM

There's been several for me, but the one that sticks out most in my mind was when I went to open a bottle of paint, I unscrewed the lid slightly then got distracted by something for a few seconds, picked up the paint again, and shook it to mix up the paint.Surprise  The paint went just about everywhere.  Most of it landed up on me.  All over my hand, and somehow on my neck.  I spent the next hour in the bathroom scrubbing it off.  Confused

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Posted by Real G on Sunday, January 22, 2017 8:21 PM

Painting an entire model Panzer yellow, only to come inside, turn on the light, and notice I had grabbed Afrika Korps brown.  That was the last time I painted in the garage.  The light was feeble, the glare from the street was too much, so I didn't notice the color until too late.

Another incident is more of a "too weird to be true" thing.  I tried blowing some excess decal solvent off a model, and somehow the decal lifted, went airborne, and applied itself to my overhead light fixture.  I searched high and low for the missing decal, but could not find it.  A friend who came over some hours later found the decal in seconds.  But it had already dried and conformed to my light fixture.  Just-like-paint.  I still cannot figure out how that happened.

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Posted by patrick206 on Sunday, January 22, 2017 6:51 PM

PJ, paint in the AB from the day prior and no problems????? That's the luck of the Irish.

My big dummy moment was a slight mask overspray leak, at the top of a 32nd F-14 canopy. Went to clean it with some 71%, didn't look closely enough and used lacquer thinner. Thanks to Revell customer service the replacement came through quickly. Big thanks to them.

Patrick

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Posted by ecotec83 on Sunday, January 22, 2017 6:20 PM
Most of my goofs involve watching netflix while building models. Most often its either a missed step or a part glued before it should be due to my attention being split. Tamiya xtra thin cement is near impossible to break apart once it dries.
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Posted by hogfanfs on Sunday, January 22, 2017 4:15 PM

Bish

I think my biggest Bone head mistake was taking up the damn hobby in the first place. Big Smile

Beyond that, i'll have to think on it, just so many.

 

Ditto

 Bruce

 

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Posted by mississippivol on Sunday, January 22, 2017 4:12 PM
Welllll, there was that time I thought flat white would make a good clear coat...
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Posted by goldhammer on Sunday, January 22, 2017 3:49 PM

I glued up the fuselage on an SBD, only to find when I put it back in the box at the end of the work session that the assembled cockpit was still in the box, not the fuselage......ended up using the fuselage as AB practice piece.

 

Bish - all I can add is an "AMEN"

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Posted by Bish on Sunday, January 22, 2017 3:45 PM

I think my biggest Bone head mistake was taking up the damn hobby in the first place. Big Smile

Beyond that, i'll have to think on it, just so many.

I am a Norfolk man and i glory in being so

 

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What BONE HEAD thing have you done in this hobby?
Posted by plasticjunkie on Sunday, January 22, 2017 3:34 PM

Well I was having an excellent time yesterday shooting some gray paint in my air brush. After doing a ton of house chores today I decided this afternoon to fire up the compressor and shoot some Aqua Gloss on a Raptor I'm doing to prep it for decals.

When I went to pick up my air brush to pour some AG what did I see!! :scream:

The freaking paint was still in the AB cup from yesterday morning!  :cry2:    :smack: 

Over 24 hours had passed but the air brush was not clogged and actually sprayed as usual. My luck was that it was enamel and not acrylic paint which dries super fast and would have locked up the needle in the tip. All it took to clean was some lacquer thinner to shoot thru and it was all good. I didn't even have to break down the AB for a heavy cleaning so I continued on with my air brushing.

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