Had an unusual experience this morning. I’m working on an Eastern Express Gloster Pioneer in 1/72. The weather is nice so I sprayed the base cost on outside and left it there to dry and release paint fumes for a bit. Minutes later I went out to get it and a bird had crapped on it! Hope that wasn’t an editorial comment-any SNAFUs for you folks?
Dan
Ha HA Ha! Sorry , reading it was just too funny. They say if a bird craps on you, to consider it good luck. Well not in this case. I doubt it would hurt the base coat too much, just wash the model off and if need be wet sand the area if the crap messed up the paint any and just reapply.
[(-D][(-D][(-D][(-D] Oh man that is a riot. Sorry Dan, just couldn’t hold that back. But as to mishaps, I was working on a Tamiya Me 262 and for some reason out of shear bad luck I had glued on the nose gear backwards. To make matters worse I used CA glue instead of the regular glue. I tried everything I could to remove it, without any luck. I had to order replacement parts. Needless to say I now double check and double check some more whatever build I am working on.
good luck depooping your plane… It is funny.
Hey-guys maybe Testors will now come out with “D-PoopER”. Also my late Bassett Hound snuck into my workshop and for some reason chomped up a FW-190 I was working on. Maybe God does not want me to make models.
PS-I did not shoot my Hound-he died of old age.
Funny story. When I was in the Air Force I built a model of an F-4E, the plane I worked on. This was back in the early 80’s and finding model paint in rural North Carolina was tough. They hadn’t come out with model master yet and I was not looking forward to trying to mix paint to match the colors on the real jets. Then one day it came to me as I was walking by a jet, “all these planes have the right colors on them, I’ll just get some paint from the paint barn”. The guys there were great and gave me a few small bottles of each of the colors. The thing I didn’t know was that “real” airplane paint is only a little less caustic to plastic models than battery acid. [:(] My F-4E became an F-4 droopy.
Being the smart kid I am, i taped newspaper to my airconditioner to use as a sort of table. I put my model on it, and painted away. Finished cleaning my airbrush and left it to dry. I come back an hour later and my model and airbrush parts were scattered across the ground. Turns out my A/C was on and the fan blew the paper off. So I ended up losing a few parts to my airbrush as well as messing up the finish on my car.
Good aim on the bird’s part I would say…
Mishap…most recent was not during construction but was in taking a photo of a kit I finished about 6 years ago…ironically to post on these forums.
It was in a plexiglass display case…Tamiya P51D with all the trimmings…as I was removing the lid of the case it slipped out of my hand and …[xx(]WHAM[xx(]…
It struck just behind the canopy…the landing gear “expolded” off the kit as did one of the stabilizers…
It has been retired from display and will be repaired someday…soon I hope…
Joe-birds are incontinent-all they do is eat and poop-I’ve got tons of House Sparrows (actually a finch) hanging around and you always must be careful.
Dan
But did the bird crap…to scale? It’s the least it could do, I would think…
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Everybody’s a crittic. Don’t you just hate it
Jerry
I had just finished my 1/48th scale AC-130 when in an unfortunate series events, an errant wall hanging fell and sheared off the left wing.
Hey Uproar! To scale it looked like a T Rex dropped it! 
Dan
Hmmm… I was thinking of spraying my 1/48th Pioneer outdoors (well - it is summer!) - think I’ll do it indoors instead after this salutory tale! Funny though.
My worst modelling mishap? Buying the Airfix 1/72nd AC-130H - SOOOO crap!
Sometimes I will put a small puddle of super glue gell on a small square of glass that I keep on my bench so I can dip a needle that is mounted in a small dowel rod to get glue in hard to reach places. Well, I was working on a Roden D-VII, and after putting the horizontal stabilizer on, I set it aside to dry. Somehow, that smal plate of glass grew legs, and moved to the center of my bench. When I set the fuselage down, it was on top of the glass plate. The wieght of the fuselage caused the glue to ooze over the side of the glass. So basically, the fuselage ended up glued to the glass, the glass was glued to the bench. And of course, I didn’t find it for about a week afterwards.
Henry
Henry
Sounds like you got yourself into a “sticky” situation [:D][:D]
[}:)]
Sounds like the bird wasa practicing pinpoint bombing!
Brian [(-D][(-D]
How about the half bottle of Ambroid I seem to spill every couple of weeks? The worst one was the assembly line of five 1/72 tomcats. Careful sanding and rescribing saved 3 sets of wings. One looked like it came from the geriatric ward.
I’m reminded of a quote from one of the early astronauts whose name, unfortunately, I’ve forgotten, but I think it was a member of one of the Apollo crews. It seems he was flying with a reporter with him, thundering along the south Florida swamps just above the level of the salt-grass, going like the proverbial hammers of hell.
“I don’t like flying down this low,” he told the reporter.
“Why,” asked the reporter, suddenly excited at the prospect that he was going to be the first journalist to quote an astronaut admitting to being afraid of something.
“Because birds crap on my airplane,” came the reply.
So much for the scoop.
TOM
Hmm…WHen I was workng on my A-10 warthog,I was in the painting stage.Everything(that needed to be was on the Fuselage.(about 15 parts).Stupidly,I was holidning it by the taped of gun barrel.I was SPRAY PAINTING it.But when I finished the last coat,the A-10 slipped off the tape and fell to the ground Strangely,every part came off the fuselage.Adn the hog got all dirty or icky.It was the revell 1/48.
-Nick