Bad Luck Build

Been there, done that a few times. LOL!

Yeah, I think I had a "jinxed" build with my MiG-17F.  This was my first Hobby Boss kit. I hit the first “snag” soon after I started. I had to repaint the seat several times to get the effect I wanted and stopped construction for several weeks. The I took up the gauntlet again. The plastic in this kit was sort of odd; in some places it seems quite soft but it also seemed very brittle at times too. I broke several parts just removing them from sprues, and this sure wasn’t my first rodeo. The fore and aft sections of the fuselage presented the next challenge. There was a terrible fit between the two sections. After I had them together, I found that it looked like “a bear’s *ss sewed up with a grapevine” (old sheet metal saying there…). Out came the Bondo and I went to work evening things up. Next step was re-scribing all the lost detail. The wing to fuselage fit sucked too, and I spent a few sessions wrestling that into shape. Then, I somehow lost one of the front gear doors and had to make another one. Painting the scheme I wanted intimidated me too, and I had several false starts with that.  It was a great relief to finally call her done, and it left me with a less than great impression of Hobby Boss.

When I have repeated problems with a buld, I will sideline it. Move on to another and when the urge for this build returns, pull it off the sidelines and see if the moejoe flows to a smooth finish.

Hey, Jibber, quite a time you're having. Sorry to hear it. Sounds like a candidate for a heavy weathering finish. :-)