Mine would be leaving the only bit of armour I’ve ever tried to build on a seat. I was about 10 years old at the time. I’m not sure what it was, but it was some half-track truck with a big sort-of turrety dealy on the back (as you can see, I know my armour jargon). Well, I’d finished the turrety dealy and was very proud of it. Not because it was well painted, but because I’d managed to get all of those tiny bits glued on there (without sticking my fingers to it, I might add).
Now, this is where my brain went on strike for a few minutes. I left my prized turrety dealy on a seat. What happened next…well, you can sort of guess can’t you? My brother decides to walk along and plonk his fat arse down on top of it.[BH]
The only consolation I got was that the sharp gun barrels did what sharp gun barrels do when sat on[:O]… I think it ended up getting thrown at him too (along with whatever else I was holding at the time.)[censored]
And that was the last bit of armour I ever attempted. I learnt a valuable lesson though that day…If you ever leave a model on a seat, make sure the sharpest bit is pointing upwards (you’ll atleast get to laugh at whoever sits on it.).[(-D]
Not taking a picture of the B-52G a friend and I did for an Aerospace class project in 8th grade. We spent ALOT of time on that joker. As far as I know it is still hanging up in Mr. Sanders’ classroom. Maybe I’ll get back home sometime and see him.
Ryan
[banghead] My moment was a loss of self control. I was working on a Roden Sopwith Strutter 1 1/2 and it had just given me lots of trouble. Parts breaking, stuff not lining up - sigh. I got to the point where the upper wing had just gone on and two of the strutts came out, and then the carbane strutts fell over. This was after very carefully using super glue. In a fit I tossed it across the desk and into the wall. The unfinished model now sits in my cabinet as a reminder to me of an unacceptable loss of self control. I will not allow another model to beat me!
Cheers,
Eric
i’ve had quite a few of them, one in particular sticks out in my mind. it was 89’ or so and i was moving from germany to come back stateside , and i had a box full of model aircraft carriers,planes etc. when i moved into my house and i opened the box there was nothing left but tiny pieces all over the bottom of the box, i couldn’t tell which part went to which model to try and fix em. i learned the hard way that bubblewrap is your friend. The other only happened a couple years ago as i had built Blackbeards pirate ship which i was rather proud of, i went so far as to enter it in a contest, so i had everything set up and i went to go browse and see if there were any kits on sale and to look at the competition, and to this day i dont know how it happened but someone wrecked my pirate ship. i dont mean accidently knocked it off the shelf or anything, more like snapped off one of the main sails, needless to say i wasen’t a very happy person about that either. but i did learn to stay close to what you build.
being to lazy to buy an airbrush for the first 3 years of modeling until i found FSM
i just hate to think of all those models and money i wasted using really thick testors paint that i didnt mix
so i would like to apologize to all the 1/72nd scale p51a/b/c/d’s all of the fw-190s,
the bf 109s, and the b17s
im sorry
wow its good to get that off my chest thanks David
Not saving atleast 1 of my models from when I was a kid… I would really like to have 1or 2 of them. Mostly the ones when I first started before I had very many paints.