What's your worst modeling disaster?

My worst disaster?  Check this:

Before:

After:

Six foot flight, straight down.  First, last, and only flight. 

I had a similar experience to Desert Rat's, except that it was an old table, in the basement. I was about ten or so. I spilled a bottle of Testor's liquid cement. It at the finish on the table and damaged two floor tiles. It took my father all of fifteen minutes to replace the tiles, and the table was inconsequential.

I was forbidden to build any more plastic models. That hiatus lasted until I was a sophomore in college, when my second room mate was a scale modeler. I think the first thing I built was the old Aurora XB-70, or maybe it was their MBT-70 tank.

I still have the top of that table, in my workroom. The finish is in much worse shape, now.

It's never too late to have a happy childhood!

 

jeaton01 wrote:

Now I'm afraid to go out to my workshop.  Not only do I have to fear the rug monster, apparently there is another worse mosnter you guys have seen that I have yet to confront!

It is called:

The Beast Within.

Fear it!

I was at the final stages of finishing a Raiden Jack. Finish and weathering looked great. I managed to dump a 3 oz. bottle of laquer thinner right on top of it. The finished pretty much melted and plane fused to a paper towel it was sitting on at the time. So, needless to say the whole project was a bust.

Andy

Mine happened when i was a kid. Back then, i was doing all the work on the kitchen table. My mother at the time had recently gotten a new table, so i wasn't allowed to do anything messy like that- i had to take it elsewhere. Well, during one afternoon my folks were gone and i was at home alone, so i figured i would do a little painting. (at the time my project was an ERTL F4U) It was too much trouble to take it all in the garage, so i thought i could get away with it. During the session, i had knocked over the bottle of paint, and by the time i noticed my transgression, it had already soaked into the wood! Well, when my parents came home and saw that rather large navy blue stain on the table, i got the biggest whooping! Even to this day, i still hear about that incident

Now I'm afraid to go out to my workshop.  Not only do I have to fear the rug monster, apparently there is another worse mosnter you guys have seen that I have yet to confront!

OUCH!  Sorry to hear 'bout all of these disasters.  Makes mine pale by comparison.  I was putting on the finishing touches on a Tamiya 1/48 P-47 in NMF.  Future clear, decals, more Future, masked the OD panel on the nose and DISASTER!  Gently pulling up the tape removed parts of the Future, decals, paint, etc...

Hurled the model into the round file, then decided to pull it out and try to save at least some of it.  Trying to pull it apart, the now-sharpened styrene on the broke-in-half wing punctured my hand.  Three stitches later, I managed to save the office, prop, and canopy.

As my sigfile at ARC says: Some days, the styrene wins…

My worst was when building the acrylic stand for my P-39. Used a mini circular saw to sever the tendon in the tip of my left index finger.

You think grease is hard to get off a model? Try removing dried blood!

Gee, and I thought I was having a bad day yesterday. 

I have been having all sorts of fit issues with the engine mount and cowling on a hase 1/48 jug (I guess the price to pay for scratchbuilding and modding).  So as I was trying to get the mount aligned (again) I snapped off the tail wheel (again) and one of the wheel flaps. 

Then as I was trying to build a spacer to keep the cowling from falling off, I slipped with my exacto knife and went straight through the front of my finger into the underside of the nail.  At which point I dropped the plane and snapped off the other wheel flap.

This build is getting to be more of a hassle than it's worth.

-Fred

 

This is sad to be sure. Had  you been drinking a lot before you began your project yesterday? I have recently purchased to Panthers. One on of my favorite planes. I have not yet assembled them.

 

Peewee