STUPIDEST MODELING THING YOU EVER DONE

the list is endless.
inverted colors in a two tone scheme, us insignia in the wrong side of the wing (excused since the instructions were wrong and I was in the age of inoccence...!!..lol),
tools that curved trough flesh when i thought I was cutting plastic, sanding down to oblitaration of details and shape...

ya,i stabed myself before,and it hurt,deep in

locking me keys inside the car, twice in a day.

what haven't i done to mess something up.......
impatience caused me to handle a freshly primed 1/72 F-4J
........& frustration caused me to wall it not 20 seconds later when i realized how stupid that was.........
...too much liquid gule on a seam line
...[:0]....too little airpressure and a wrong paint mix on the prime coat of the Silver Surfer
loss of photo-etch parts relatively consistently........lmao
the list is long and distinguished.........however, what i try to do is not repeat the same dip-stick behaviours......
or just go back to snap-tite kits..........
since it's plastic.....the real challenge might be to fix the boo boo and forge ahead

wow,im glad im not there when u go crazy,throwing your models,u could kill me.

this sounds like you; id just put it in the box,take it back,and say,like 20 model parts are missing,and change it , that happend twice,a figure set.

i learned my lesson

Where do I start?

Sliced top of left index finger with a craft knife.

That took a trip to Accident & Ermergency (ER) and several days to stop bleeding!

Most recently, ie last weekend, dropped new compressor off of table, completely trashing the motor mount.

I nearly cried!

And those are just the ones that I am prepared to admit to!

Karl

Well let's see here:

Like Karl I cut my self wide open with an Xacto....5 stitches and a nice scar!

About 2-3 weeks ago I was gluing some parts and put my Floquil Applicator in my mouth then took a deep breath in and oops at the same time sucked and got a mouthful of Ambroid Proweld! Some nasty tasting stuff, it immediatly got spit out without swallowing any thank GOD!

about 4 nights ago I popped open a MM jar to stir the paint, put the lid back on then proceeded to shake until I felt something wet on my hand......hand wasnt that bad the jeans and shirt.....well thats a different story....

These are just a few incidents....Im sure theres plenty more...

I think the most recent stupid thing I have done is, I had a DML borgwar demolitions vehical that came with my MIII panzer, (an unwanted bonus) that I was converting to a munitions carrier. I had scratch built the interrior and was ready to paint it. (At this time I was suffering from phnomonia and was on some medication that makes it very easy to get angry). I was in the cellar attempting to air brush the interrior ( I had mixed the paint too thin) and it began to run..... I was sooooooooo .... that I picked it up and smashed it into the table .... I did this with so much force that nothing was recoverable I waisted two or more weeks work....

That was so unlike me

how is this one try building 3 afv kits for use as training aids in the army here in australia have it all ready then rember that you left your notes in your car and only to come back to find the new guys trying to drive your kits around and leaving little bits all over the table dumb of me to leave them alone with them

Stupid thing,ok here goes.
One Saturday night after enjoying a couple of refreshing beers ,I was working on a wooden sailing ship [Artisania Latina clipper,can't remember the name right now], and I'm running a thin bead of cyano glue down the length of a very bendy piece of timber prior to fixing it along the hull.Going great until I get to the end of bendy timber.Glue tube runs of the end of timber,bendy timber straightens out ,flicking bead of cyano glue into right eye.
Instant panic.Frantic rinsing of eye under sink followed by fast trip to casualty. Told by Dr that if I'd taken much longer to get to hospital I'd have finished up with a permanent blurry patch.Spend the rest of the week burying my eye in ointment and being Long John Silver with an eyepatch.
Don't do this .Very painful,verrry dumb.
Jeff

OOOCH.....that is nasty......

I air launched my freshly finished Heinkel III (with V1),
Had the bright idea of holding my just painted Schwimmwagen close to a lightbulb to dry quicker and melted it, (it looked like someone had driven it through downtown Hiroshima, circa 1945).
And many many more!
Never mind, Gotter.

The supidest thing I've ever done (available on video and DVD - Volume 1, Volume 2 (abridged) and Volume 3 - there are just so many) usually stars a bottle of paint, glue, knife blades or polyurethane casting resin.
There are too many to list.
The funny thing is, I never seem to do the same stupid thing twice, so I guess I must be learning, but just not quickly enough.
Cheers
LeeTree

That must be where I am going wrong, I regularly make the same mistakes.

The first one being opening my tool box.

Glad I'm not the only idiot.

It doesn't make me feel better, just less lonely.

Karl

QUOTE: Originally posted by sisco Took the cap off a tube of glue and it spurted out onto my index finger. Don't know what I was thinking when I licked it off my finger.

ROFL

I've done some stupid things but one that really sticks out (no pun intended) involved a roach and some super glue. Stupid equals I saw Dad/Mom do something and they laughed therefore we kids can do it. I was building an A-7E one day when a roach happened by my bench. It started up the shelf support and I took my toothpick loaded with super glue touched the support and let gravity do the rest. A little later I showed the kids and we all had a great laugh. Several days later the wife came home from a short trip home to see her mom and the kids were playing in the dining room over in one corner and having the time of their life. Of course, me being a preoccupied male, I had no clue. I was in my modeling room. Well I got a clue real quick when the wife stated yelling. I ran to the dining room and there on the wall were several insects that the kids had brought in from outside and super glued to the wall. I was wondering where that other tube went! And all the kids were saying was that daddy showed us how to do this!!! Oh, did I mention that we lived in military family housing.

QUOTE: Originally posted by 207xx3ssmitty I've done some stupid things but one that really sticks out (no pun intended) involved a roach and some super glue. Stupid equals I saw Dad/Mom do something and they laughed therefore we kids can do it.

Similar story; my dad told me about fly powered airplanes so I had to try it ... take a very small and thin balsa wood splinter sort of airplane shaped, rub some fly paper paste on it, and affix one large housefly.
Release in a high school classroom on a hot spring afternoon for best effect ...
Bruce

Trying to carve out the doors of a Tamiya German halftrack with my xacto. Hand slip and I buried the blade to the hilt just above the right knee. Reminded me of the movie scene of Gene Wilder in 'Young Frankenstein'. Took 3 stiches.

I have 2. I spilled superglue on my leg, wearing jeans, and by the time I took my pants off, I I lost a good patch of hair and some skin. The other was trying to unclog a airbrush bottle of future by blowing in the tube. I learned the hard way that future does not taste very good. Too many paint fumes I guess

When I was younger, I allowed my nephews and their friends in my room where my model collection was. Then I had to go somewhere else, leaving them unsupervised...

QUOTE: Originally posted by cassibill I constantly lose stuff. Somewhere near or on my desk is a severed hand with a .45 in it.

I'm not surprised somehow..

You're still scaring me..

QUOTE: Originally posted by Michaelvk QUOTE: Originally posted by cassibill I constantly lose stuff. Somewhere near or on my desk is a severed hand with a .45 in it. I'm not surprised somehow.. You're still scaring me..

I found it by the way when I was cleaning up my desk. Now with a new set of drill bits I can pin it back to his arm.

It would be pretty hard to lose a .45 (1:1). Course I misplaced my cross bow after cleaning and putting it away for the winter...

This is a full size cross bow?

Two things I have learned from my stupidity. 1. My coffee WILL clean my brushes and 2. Laquer thinner takes coffee stains out of my teeth.

I was cutting a section of sprue to make a pintle mount for a helo MG. I positioned the part and #11. Looked at it and thought this could be really bad if it slips. Repositioned (to the same position) and slipped. The blade went through my left middle finger tip leaving a calssic U-shaped avulsion and stuck hilt deep in my right thigh. I looked at eh finger tip, met nicely exposed as the blood stared to ooze. I was quite rellieved there was no arterial spurting happening. A dozen stitches later...It took over 10 years for the nerve endings to fully return to normal. The helo model didn't even turn out that good.

Yeah scott full sized cross bow. I cleaned it and reblued the metal and put it and its bolts back in the case I made for it in Oct. when it got too cold to target shoot outside. It must have been misplaced when Mom cleaned the closet. It wasn't there when I went to it when I heard a noise outside.

Courtney:
Since you found your crossbow, remind me to sneak up on you quietly!
Bruce

Stupidest thing I've done lately; see my post in the 'Worst Part About Modeling ...'

I spent 3 hours last night scaling two hull plates off a drawing cutting them out, embossing over 300 rivets, and then I ver carefully lined them up and glued them
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wait for it!
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Onto the wrong side of the hull!

I once put an X-acto through my left hand because the piece I was cutting was in my hand instead of on the cutting board.

After washing a fuselage I had just assembled after 20 hours on the scratchbuilt cockpit. I decided to dry it with my heat gun on just air setting and inadvertantly turned on the heat and watched as it quickly became a modern art sculpture. Had to go to confession after saying what I said after that.

I was once cutting a piece off of a sprue and thinking, "If this thing cuts through too quick then I am going to be hurting"...and about that time it finally cut through...very quickly...and I ended up with a nice "U" cut to the bone on my left index finger between the first and second joint from the tip of my finger. I was really amazed when it didn't start to bleed yet and you could see the bone...then it turned into a gusher! I am reminded of the quote from Calvin and Hobbes (I think), "I have common sense, I just choose to ignore it."

Jerry