My personal mandala

Modeling Subjects Aircraft
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Tibetan Buddhist monks spend weeks working on this beatiful form of art, adding one grain of colored sand at the time, and when is finaly complete they destroy it.

the purpose but the message their destruction and scattering represents is a central Buddhist tenet: the impermanence of all being, even things of great beauty

The monks say that it is all right to feel sad when the mandala is destroyed, and that the sadness proves that “when you feel more, it shows that your heart is functioning, rather than like a stone”

well, today I have to “broke” a model that was ready to paint, I had spend a great deal of time on this skyhawk, and I was happy with the way the model was turning, but I realize I didn´t follow one of the most important things of modeling:

READ THE INSTRUCTIOSN CAREFFULY!!!

I glued the front landing gear bay backwards, and I have to “unglue” my model. Testor´s plastic glue gets an A+ because all the parts were glued rock hard, so when I try to separate them I warped some of them… here is a pic

but as the monks I will start all over again and I just had joined the fuselage halves, I hope to fix this thing soon.

best regards

Jeremias

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That’s a big OUCH ! Hope you can salvage the kit.

Regards, Rick

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[#ditto]I hate it when that happens…

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Oh… I can relate.

For my first builds in 10 years, (very close to being done too) I used JB Weld two part epoxy to glue a lot of the big parts on the two airplanes. When I did a progress check on the dry-time, I noticed my clamps had mashed the living daylights outta the wings. Totally warped with major-general, huge dimples. I was able to pry one airplane apart successfully, but the second one had set too hard already and I only got one of it’s wings to come apart. I spent something like 2 months going back and forth with filling, sanding, feathering primering… over and over again and again… to fix it. Dang.

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Bummer about the Scooter! Hopefully all will be well in the end. I do that kind of stuff too, forgetting to add the blasted radiator in my P-51D Mustang. Kit was all ready for a NMF and after prying it apart, wrecked one of the wings. [sigh]