Final paint and detailing. I kinda have to agree with erush.
The nail polish remover trick? If it’s the one I’m thinking Domi uses: Rather than put putty into a 90 degree angle (for example) and try to sand it out, you wait about five minutes for it to set up, then (I use straight Acetone) moisten a Q-tip with the solvent and swipe it through the putty. It pulls the excess out, and leaves a nice, even putty line. Depending on how much putty you use, it may take a couple swipes. It’s also good on wing/fuselage joints. The only putties I use are DuPont’s Lacquer Putty and Tamiya putty. I only use the Acetone trick with the lacquer putty.
Gip Winecoff
Boy, I don’t have any problem with that finishing stuff…I LOVE to weather, and love to put on all those small parts…
BUT…
I HATE ALL THE [censored] FLASH!!! Seems like I spend SO much time trying to fix parts that are covered with it, and then trying to fit together parts that are like a square pegs in a round hole!!
oh, and trying to restore concave spaces between canvas winged aircraft spars…grrrrrrrrrrrr
Guess that makes my least favorite superhero the Flash. Bummer. [;)]
My least favorite part of making models is removing the mold seams from cylindrical parts. Landing gear legs, pitot tubes, etc. Its only when the lines are removed that I realize that the part was molded out of round.
Removing ejector pin marks has to run a close second with me. Especially when they’re in a place that’s visible & unreachable. Drives me batty sometimes.
My least favorite part… I just finished a 1/12th motorcycle and when trasporting it back to my office, I DROPPED the darn thing. Nothing worse than re-gluing parts you thought you were done with, LOL!
It has to be cleaning the Airbrush[tdn][|(] Alongside it and guaranteed to make you reach for the beer in the fridge is finishing your beautiful 18th Century sailing ship,i.e…Constitution or Victory and knowing that now you have to start the rigging!!!
Yeah,I’m with you,Chem man.I can be painting and weathering and all the stuff and be so close to finishing and then think “This model isn’t nearly as interesting as it was 5 minutes ago”,and then going onto something else.
I should say painting though.I’ m probably the worst painter in the world,and everytime I stuff a paint job ,maybe a bit thick,or a bit too streaky,tahts when I put it back in the cupboard until a nonexistent rainy day
Sulo
For me also it is mostly filling and sanding. Especialy when you get into odd and difficult shapes like wing roots and engine cowlings.[banghead]Also I can never seem to get through an entire project without starting five others.
I HATE little parts the sproing out of your grasp and disappear in the carpet. I will admit that this forces me to improvise my own replacements out of scrap, which provides a little satisfaction to counter my flub.
I also hate cleaning the airbrush. Water based acryics solves some of that.
I really really hate canopy painting. I also have a problem with losing interest in a model halfway through building it. It makes me want to either stop and start a new one or i just take a break from modeling for a week or so until I decide to work on it again.
But then there is my whole corsair curse. It is my favorite plane and anytime I try to build one it turns out bad or something goes wrong.
I hate it when kit instructions want you to put a part on and then you later find out it was easier to install later (stupid BT-5 fenders.) I also hate snapping small peices or losing them into the carpet.
Styrene is right with the nail polish remover/seam filling trick.
I use Squadron putty or the automotive Bondo Glazing & Spot Putty to fill seams. Depending on the size of the seam I might wait a minute to a couple of minutes, experience is the key to determining when to do the next step. Now I prefer to use cut up tee shirt material and moisten the material with nail polish remover. Use the remover WITH ACETONE in it. The other stuff won’t work. Just rub the tee over the seam area and the putty will soften then wipe away leaving only the seam filled with putty. What took hours of sanding time is now down to minutes.
I’ve been doing seam filling this way for years. Can I say I actually enjoy seam filling without getting hit on the head with paint bottles?
You know I thought I was being clever putting an old tablecloth on the floor beneath the work area; until I sent a piece flying across the room from my tweezers.
So it has to be itsy bitsy parts. I can live with the other problems, but having to then fashion a new part from scratch (if I can)