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You pick up a bag of rubber bands at the store because you need them. When you get them home and start using them you find that they must have been on the shelves for a few years. Every one breaks when you stretch it to hold that fuselage together. Those darn things are getting a little costly too. Oh well, back to blue painters tape.
Jim
Main WIP:
On the Bench: Artesania Latina (aka) Artists in the Latrine 1/75 Bluenose II
I keep hitting "escape", but I'm still here.
It's been mentioned earlier but no matter how much care I take in handling clear parts, dust inevitably finds its way under a canopy!
Chad
God, Family, Models...
At the plate: 1/48 Airfix Bf109 & 1/35 Tamiya Famo
On deck: Who knows!
The X-Acto knife will always fall toward your foot. The chance of its comming down blade increases with the least amount of material covering your foot.
In case of a major diaster with your project, the greater the diaster, the more likely your kit has been discontinued and you have no back up kit or spare parts.
When the Xacto knife slips off a part, it will make a beeline for your thumb like a laser guided missile.
Dwayne or Dman or just D. All comments are welcome on my builds.
No one ever needs anything until I start working at the desk.
Speaking from my PE experiences over the last three days... No matter how far away on the bench I place my little puddle of super glue (for dabbing an applicator into), I will eventually rest my elbow on it.
On the bench: Revel 1/48 B-25J Mitchell
In the queue: Tamiya 1/48 F4U-1A Corsair
Pawel Or this one: when you trim a part (rode, wire, pipe, plank and so on) to exactly the right size, it will be too short.
Or this one: when you trim a part (rode, wire, pipe, plank and so on) to exactly the right size, it will be too short.
...and if you cut it again...it will still be too short!!!
True story....right out of my father-in-law's mouth...
"Durrrrnnn....I've cut this thing twice and it's still too short". He was not joking either!!!
Another...
As soon as you complete some crazy modification/scratchbuild/conversion to an unavaliable version of a particular subject...it will become avaliable in kit form.
No matter how careful you are one tiny part always seems to go missing.
Decals never seem to stick unless they are in a spot you dont want them in.
That tiny part that flew away should not be that hard to find on the floor.
Or this one: when you trim a part (rod, wire, pipe, plank and so on) to exactly the right size, it will be too short.
Good luck with your modelling projects!
Paweł
All comments and critique welcomed. Thanks for your honest opinions!
www.vietnam.net.pl
No matter how far your fingurs are from the joint your gluing, plastic weld will always find its way between your thumb and plastic.
Does make a nice cresant shapped indentation though.
I am a Norfolk man and i glory in being so
On the bench: Airfix 1/72nd Harrier GR.3/Fujimi 1/72nd Ju 87D-3
ManCityFanWithin an hour of hitting submit for an online purchase, you will remember that "other thing" you absolutely need to finish your current project.
Or that "other thing" that would have bumped you to free shipping.
A number Army Viet Nam scans from hundreds yet to be done:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/southwestdreams/albums/72157621855914355
Have had the great fortune to be on every side of the howitzers.
CA glue never sets while joining heavy, alignment- critical parts. To make the glue set, just misalign the pieces and get glue to ooze under your finger. Bang! The glue will fire off, cementing your finger to the misaligned parts! Or it just sets under your finger, leaving a CA fingerprint, while the pieces slide, then fall apart, causing more glue to flow outside the mating surfaces. Now the parts have CA glue all over the place, and the mating surfaces no longer fit due to a layer of partially cured glue. But the rest of the glue is still not set, so you have to wipe off the gunk, then chisel off the stuff that set. Rinse and repeat.
Sorry, just ranting about last night....
“Ya ya ya, unicorn papoi!”
No matter how much you do to prevent it, dust will always find a way to get stuck on the inside of your clear parts. A minute, a day, a week, or a month. It will always find a way.
- Mike Brindos "Lost Boy"
On the bench: Revell-USS Arizona; Airfix P-51D in 1/72
No matter how "organized" you are, building three or four kits at the same time will ultimatly lead to you accidentally gluing that ships mast into a 65 galaxy.... because you thought it was an exaust pipe!!!
Dont worry about the thumbprint, paint it Rust , and call it "Battle Damage"
After the PhotoBucket fiasco, I thought it might me nice to have a fun thread.
So....what are your Murphy's Laws of model building. Here are three right off the top of my head. I am sure working with PE will have some entries. I have not had that pleasure yet.
1) Masking tape will adhere to anything and everything (like your fingers and tweezers) before reluctantly adhering to your model.
2) A piece of lint will travel 2 miles in order to happily land on your freshly painted or clear coated model.
3) No matter how many paints you have on your rack, you will not have the "right" colors for your current project.
D
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