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I have had either a really bad day (hey look, it's only 2:45pm EST) or Revell makes horrible models.
I was working on a P-61 Black Widow. The directions were bad:
For example - paint a part of an engine without pointing to that location. Something like "paint the cylinder heads Dark Grey." Which part of the engine is that? I didn't know I was supposed to
research this!
And then I these fuel pods where side "a" was larger than side "b".
I'm an amateur when it comes to getting rid of seams, but under a swivelling turret?!?
Lastly, those external fuel tanks again. If I wanted to build the Black Widow version I had to punch out holes in the wings. I'd punched them out before looking at how the tanks were fitted. It was a slot and a pinhole, but I was instructed to cut out two long slots
![Angry [:(!]](/FSM/CS/emoticons/icon_smile_angry.gif)
I suppose I should have done dry fitting first, but the directions should have been way better.
I had a model truck that drove me to frustration too. What a suprise, made by Revell. Things didn't fit, bad directions, etc.
I finished neither. Both got broken when I took my frustration out on them.
Yes, I could have gone slower. Yes I could have looked at the directions more carefully to see the faults. Yes, I could have dry fitted things first. (In some cases even that didn't help.
I've built plenty of models, but I have not felt so frustrated that I had to snap them in half (temper temper).
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Okay, I feel a little better.