What is your 'hell' part?

Tracks and small PE parts. When you cut the tiny PE part and it needs just a tiny bit of sanding 'cause you didn't get the piece cut flush.

Owl-

Sanding and decals.

Sanding because i'm no good at rescribing panel lines that i sand away.  Hopefully experience will slowly change this.

Decals because i'm too lazy/not smart enough to create a decent jig which will enable me to position the model for easier access whilst decaling.

Haven't done much with photoech yet, but from what i hear, that may be a nightmare in waiting.

Chris.

Chazzer

Tracks and small PE parts. When you cut the tiny PE part and it needs just a tiny bit of sanding 'cause you didn't get the piece cut flush.

...clamp the piece in your p/e bender with the stub hangin' out ,then file it off...

What is your 'hell' part?

None, really...  I have more of a motivation problem than a part or process problem... Once I get to a stopping-point on a kit, it's usually not gotten back to for some time because I started on something else and have to get to a stopping-point on THAT... 'Course, the first one ain't ready yet, so I start on ANOTHER kit, and so on, and so forth... Which is why I have around 30 WIPs, I reckon...

But no... No "Hell parts"...  Been building models since 1966 or so, so I don't have any problems with any kits... 'Cept actually getting it done in a timely manner, or at least before a cat destroys it... 

Teeny, tiny parts. Like last night when I was working on Bronco's 1:48 Predator. There was a part that was about 2mm x 2mm that needed to be attached near the bottom of the landing gear. How am I supposed to pick something this small up with my fat fingers? And don't even suggest tweezers because I know I would have just launched the part across the room.

Had to think on this. The one consistent thing that crosses my ski tips is the deal where a prop spinner is designed to glue to the face of a back plate. Worse, when the back plate has half of the holes that the prop blades stick out through. Getting that seam to go away is the hardest damn thing to do.

I'm also firmly of the school that all those parts in that box don't need to get put on the model. Someday I'll get an extra kit out of it all.

ARMOR MODELS---tools and PE tool holders. Ugh.

Putting th indy track links on in one unbroken piece after weathering them.

Lights on US tanks. PITA.

CAR MODELS---Getting car tires to sit in their wheel wells properly. SO many car models are so poorly engineered in this department that I can't understand it.

Also, getting the body to sit on the chassis properly and get he right "sit". I ALWAYS seem to have trouble in this area.

Did I mention painting a good hi-gloss finish?

Most of those seams are supposed to be there, B-man...

But some are pretty big, I'll grant you that... Rescribing them after filling and sanding is a chore, to be sure...

For armor, it is roadwheels...I hated doing them so much I eventually switched full time to aircraft.  For aircraft, it is decals, but it does not grind on me like roadwheels had.

I circle template and a black Sharpie can make pretty short work of roadwheels, Hutch... I don't think it ever takes me more than 15 minutes to knock out the painting with a rattle can and the marker...  'Course, that's for a "factory-fresh" look.. Taking out chunks of the "rubber" and weathering them is a bit more tedious, but I generally weather them as a unit, rather than one at a time..

MAJ Mike

 

VanceCrozier:

 

Hey that hurts.  No, really, it hurts pulling superglued PE off of a hairy elbow. just sayin,...

 

 

That's an image I really wish I didn't have in my mind.

Better than Cube Manny's speedos....

Overlooked, ultra thin seams.

I usually use a separate, hand held  light held at\ different angles to the work to check for seams.

Hans von Hammer

Most of those seams are supposed to be there, B-man...

But some are pretty big, I'll grant you that... Rescribing them after filling and sanding is a chore, to be sure...

 

bondoman

Hans von Hammer:

Most of those seams are supposed to be there, B-man...

But some are pretty big, I'll grant you that... Rescribing them after filling and sanding is a chore, to be sure...

 

 

DOH!!!!

Today's beef, moving parts.

I build static models, STATIC, they are not toys damn it. I wish they would dispense with moving parts that serve no real function in as much as movable is concerned. Often the part being 'movable' only equates to it being of weak construction and inadequate strength of attachement.

I have a couple of parts from hell..  Not due to loss potential, but because the stupid things ALWAYS break off after being firmly attached, and break in such a way as to make reassembly impossible.  They arell

1.  Revell 1/32 F4U-1 Corsair Wing Hinges...  Whoever designed these things should be flogged to within an inch of their lives...  They are cheap plastic,  and not nearly strong enough to support the weight of the Corsair's wings...  Especially after a couple of coats of paint and some glosscoat...

2.  Monogram F9F Panther 1/48 scale front landing gear torsion spring.  It always breaks and even a bit of glue will sometimes dissolve it.

3.  Monogram 1/48 P-39 Airacobra front landing gear dors and wing gear struts.  Too thin, and too fragile.

There are others but these are my top three.

Rich

HisNHer Tanks

Juuuust working on a Dodge 1.5 ton which is after having worked on a 3/4 ton and a staff car (vehicle is all same company so the same front end basically).

I hate headlights, really I do!

I lost track of how often I dropped the left side outter light. Grrrr.

And it is not always on the floor, sometimes they escape behind something on the desk, but of course you figure it is on the floor first so you just keep looking there till your endurance gives up and you resolve to live with a missing part. Then you find it on the desk and you smile thinking 'I can find anything'. 20 seconds later you have dropped it again. This time you know it is on the floor, yet its not there. Then you check if anyone is looking and you wonder is it in my clothes somehow? Learned real early to have something on while making a model that didn't permit parts going down there.

Headlights have to be about the most irritating things to hold on to while trying to put them on a model. And when they escape the tweezers, they defy all the laws of physics.

Hell would be doing nothing but put headlights on fenders.