What's Your Most Useless Modeling Purchase?

So far its all the unbuilt models in my stash-I haven't done anything with them!  One day I hope to make them all into useful purchases though.

Jeff

Funny thread concept!

The digital calipre that I bought, thinking it would be useful for scratchbuilding?I just never dig it out for that!

It's great for measuuring piston ring gap in my race bike, though! LOL!

As a self professed tool - aholic I can't think of any modeling or automotive tools I have bought that were uselesssome have worked not as well as expected but.... I mean in my modeling room I have 4 dremel tools one cordless one flex shaft and 2 corded one I think model 275 was my grandfathers ( I bought a bench top vari speed for it years ago) that still the one I grab most.  I have prob $100,000 worth of automotive tools I have aquired over the years alotta race car fab. tools and crazy stuff for building race cars..

John

The aquisition of my wife Cut my modelling by 90%

 But I'd never trade her...........

.....Till she's 40. Then I'll trade her for a pair of 20's

Some of my most useless modeling purchases have been paints. Yes paints, because for some reason I decided to buy colors I'm probably never gonna use. For example: MM Russian Topside Blue, MM Russian Topside Green, MM Insignia Red, MM Graphite Metallic, Testors Sea Blue, Testors Flat Yellow, and Testors Beret Green.

UGH I just hate thinking about the money I wasted on these paints. The majority have never been opened, and the rest have only been used once or so to test the color. What a waste.

mg.mikael wrote:

UGH I just hate thinking about the money I wasted on these paints. The majority have never been opened, and the rest have only been used once or so to test the color. What a waste.

I have a jar of Tamiya gloss white enamel, which I bought when they first hit the market here, maybe some 20 years or so ago. I bought it to test and see if the coverage was any better than their gloss white acrylic. Well, I never did get to test it, and it now sits as a hard lump in the bottom of the jar on the shelf where I put it when I bought it.... Meanwhile, I have jars of Gloss white acrylic which are older than that and are still perfectly usable.

Anything to do with diorama building (like figures, EZ water, scale bricks, clay, static gras, etc)

By the time I finish a model I want to start a new one, not build a diorama with it.

Borg R3-MC0 wrote the following post at 03-02-2009 11:38 AM:

Anything to do with diorama building (like figures, EZ water, scale bricks, clay, static gras, etc)

By the time I finish a model I want to start a new one, not build a diorama with it.

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. Hey Rob, I'll send you my address, you'll never build those!!!I'll send you sum-m back!!!

At the moment, it would appear to be all of them.  No interest whatsoever in attacking the stash, or in finishing the 5 or 6 models I've started over the past two years.

As Willie Wonka said, "The suspense is unbearable.  I hope it lasts."

Jim Barton wrote:

The commercial products meant for filling seams such as Testor's Contour Putty. I hated that stuff and finally found a product that works to my satisfaction, although it might be tough for other people to find and probably won't be to everybody's taste: Doc Farwell's Seal n' Heal. It's a product meant for sealing pruning cuts after cutting off tree limbs, but a totally different formula from the black stuff you usually see. Doc Farwell's is a tan-colored product and it sands smooth and accepts paint beautifully. It shrinks when it dries, but I've learned to work with that trait and use it to my advantage.

You don't like Testor's Contour Putty, meanwhile I on the other hand love it. Yes, it takes time to get used to the ins and outs of this putty, but I find it to be a valuable modeling tool. So I guess the sayings true, "it's all in the eye of the beholder."

Ha! What a Title for a thread!

Dremel motor tool. I got one years and years ago before "cordless"... It got dropped the first day and vibrates quite a lot now unless you grip it like King Kong. I thought I'd be thinning plastic with it to make battle damage more scale. I tried it once... what a joke! by the time I put on all the safety gear, I could've scrapped it with modified #11 Xacto blade to perfection.

The numerous jars of paints I have bought over the years. During a recent house, or rather "cave" cleaning I had to throw out 50% of the paint I had acquired, as it was either dried up or was a sticky, gooy mess.

Jim

FSM Magazine..

Hans von Hammer wrote:

FSM Magazine..

 Don't let Aaron, Matt or Kelly hear you say that.

mg.mikael wrote:

Hans von Hammer wrote: FSM Magazine..  Don't let Aaron, Matt or Kelly hear you say that.

Burna-burna-burn... for me, I use almost everything I have because my tools arn't great in numbers. I did buy a couple of cheap scribers though. They've been used once, and not to much success.

mg.mikael wrote:

Hans von Hammer wrote: FSM Magazine..  Don't let Aaron, Matt or Kelly hear you say that.

I don't think they care as long as the check clears, lol...

Hans von Hammer wrote:

FSM Magazine..

Naughty Hammer. Just Naughty!

But frick'n hilarious.

I LOVE my Dremel tool!! It's got a cord which is fine with me. Must have for all my resin figures and detail parts.'

Now get this- I have an airbrush that I've only used once! The Abrams I built. Worked great... just... so much prep time, so much paint mixing time, so much test time getting the spray right- and it was just one color! Just didn't do it for me. Hopefully one day I'll get the hang of it and start using it for some cool camo patterns and stuff... but in the mean time it's a waist of a tip and a compressor...

All those "How to" articles FSM puts out on airbrushing that everyone complains about fascinate me hahaha

as a high school modeler with a meager alowance i am veryu conserative with my money and rarely buy all this useless stuff, my painful confession is that i don't even own an airbrush, but hey my freehand's getting better.

Yeah I hear you! My free hands not bad at all! Comes in handy when doing these crazy WWII German camo uniforms and modern digital stuff. I do want to learn how to get the nice feathered edge stuff on German armor though... maybe one day...

(Painted a whole 1:35 scale LAV in three tone NATO freehand and after the clear coat you can't even see the brush strokes lol)

Edit- I'm a college student by the way, most of my model goodies are from xmas and bdays, now that it's starting to come out of my own pocket I'm with you on concervation