Working on my Revell F-15E Strike Eagle tonight and I noticed that I somehow misplaced the left control stick for the rear seat of the cockpit. [banghead]
This is probably the smallest piece in the whole kit too, so now I am going to have to try and build another one I guess, since Revell wants $3 for shipping alone.
Mike
Sounds like a great time to experiment with some scratchbuilding techniques Mike. [banghead][banghead]
Of course us armour builders would just throw a tarp over the area. [:-^][:-^]
About 4 years ago I was finishing off Hasegawa’s Datsun 1600 Safari winner when the headlight mesh for one side flew off the workbench. I hunted all over the floor several times including vacuming the floor and going through the bag but to no avail. However about 2 years ago we moved to another city and when cleaning the model room I found it! Now if only I could find where I carefully stored the other side I could mount both the headlight meshes
How about dropping something on the floor and not realising it until just after the cat chewed it? I thought only dogs did that but it happened a couple of years ago to one of the props on my Tamiya HS 219 UHU.I can always pretend it was the result of a nasty taxiing accident but it doesn’t mean Ive forgiven the cat.
Sulo
SO TRUE !
thats what i am doing on my cromwell … long story short, some decals got ruined … camo netting and accessories will be covering the areas they are supposed to go [xx(]
Yeah it’s a real bummer. I build alot of older kits and if I lose a piece I’m on my own. Oh well where is my styrene stock. . .[;)]
Yep, us Tread-Heads would call that “Battle Damage” [:D]
it’s a pain that’s a fact!!!
I HATE it when that happens!!! [:p] It definitely stinks but it will improve your scratchbuilding techniques! [:D] I know, not what you wanted to hear, right?? Oh well, just go to it and see what you can do! Think of the pride you’ll have in knowing you built the stick from scratch! [:D]
Eric
This must be why some people prefer 1/32 scale aircraft kits.
If you drop one of those parts it is easy to find when you trip over it. [(-D][(-D]
Mike
small transparent parts are the worst.
I lost a alternator for AMT’s Dodge Stealth kit. Replaced it with a spare from a diffrent kit. 2 years later we move, and low and behold, I found it. I spent at least 1 hour looking for it!
Lee
I had some pieces drying after washing and they got dumped. I still haven’t found one of my Warhawk’s exhausts. Lost grenades(all four) of the figure I’m building. Don’t know what I’ll do, replace or omit.
Mike,
Don’t worry - I GUARANTEE you’ll find the missing control stick - AFTER you scratchbuild and install a new one.
Happens every time…
Cheers
LeeTree
Whats even worse is when you loose it inside the model you are building. I was installing some PE parts to a cockpit when it just snapped out of the tweezers . I looked everywhere and could not find it. After the cockpit was completed and installed and the kit was almost complete, I could hear something rattling around under the cockpit seat. After shaking the kit a few times I could see part of the PE part I had lost. The only way to get it out would be to remove the cockpit and seat. Yea, right. FOD in the cockpit.
I find that alot of mud works go too.
No, I don’t hate it.
I despise it.
But then again, if I am working on a tank there are a lot of possibilities that I can think of to make some kind of cover up.
[#ditto]
The problem with scratch building this part is that it is so small you can’t really hold onto it while building it. [|(]
This part is 4mm long and 2mm wide and has a certain shape to it that is tough to replicate. I made something similar to the misplaced part but it doesn’t look exactly like the other one. [:(]
Mike
Letting my son help cut pieces off the sprue in the basement, I would hear him say “Oh, oh” and the faint sound of plastic hitting the concrete floor. It’s amazing how that floor swallows pieces up – never to be seen again.