This was the model about 30 minutes ago.
After a brief trip from the table to the floor, please now remove the tailplane, re-locate some of the interior details to other parts of the cabin, and also subtract the front canopy which, by the way, now has shattered and has multipe cracks in the glass.
Bugger.
The only two saving graces are that it was going to get another coat of paint anyway after a bit of sanding, and I have another canopy.
NTM
Spraying all of the transparencies of my 1/72 B-36 with Tamiya clear smoke acrylic, not liking the results, forgetting it was acrylic, dipping them in lacquer thinner to clean them off, and watching them dissolve.
My biggest foul up was that I actually believed the Aires F-8 Crusaser cockpit interior set for the Hasegawa kit actuallly fit the Hasegawa kit, not knowing that the Hasegawa kit they meant was the old tooling picked up by Revell. Turns out the old tooling had a wider fuselage.
So I started grinding away the interior of the new Hase fuselage and the Aires cockpit tub until I realized I could never remove enough material for it to fit before grinding all the way thorough the fuselage or into the cockpit detail. So now I have a complete, expensive F-8E Crusader kit–minus the fuselage halves–in the spare parts bin, and a fuselage tub too narrow to fit in the Revell F-8E.
I just logged in to start a “Biggest foul up” thread and saw this, i needed to vent because of what just happened to my RAAF Mirage IIIO.
Got up this morning, waddled up to my work bench, only to find that during the night, the worklamp that is on an arm so you can move it around had come loose and crashed down on top of the cockpit of my mirage, shattering the fragile resin wheel bay and cockpit i installed yesterday into 4 or 5 pieces. So i pry the nose apart to try and retrieve them and accidently snap that left fuselage off just forward the intake spike. I manage to retrieve the resin bits that are busted and get them back together (luckily they were nice clean breaks), re-install the front wheel bay and then discover that the cockpit tub has now warped, which i think is due to heat from the lamp being so close to it all night, drying it out. So i have un-installed the wheel bay, moved it back 3 or so mm to get the cockpit tub on top of it and now have an aweful jagged break on the fuselage to fill, which is also going to mean i will have to sand off the raised panel lines on the forward fuselage to repair the damage and fill the hole left by moving the wheel bay… so now i have a major panel line re-scribing job (the italeri kit has raised detail, and i will probably have to do the whole aircraft) to boot, as well as a difficult compound curve to fill and sand to get the profil back and having to make replacement gun ports as one of them has gone missing during the whole fiasco
Not happy…[:(!]
Bushy, you have a lot of patience to keep working on that. That would have hit the wall or be in the trash can if it was mine. [V]
Its not actually going to be that bad (in the end) but i reckon the fuselage is 30% tamiya putty [}:)]
Tell you the truth, i might not have bothered if it wasn’t for the fact the resin cockpit tub can be pretty tricky to find
Starting this crazy hobby in the first place.[banghead] I would say the worst foul up was, when I spilled some CA, and went to clean it up, and answer the phone at the same time. You can guess the rest. Took 1/2 and hour for my wife to get the phone out of my hand in between the giggles, and out right laughing, and my cussing about it. I don’t answer the phone while building anymore. I have a three year old for that when the nine year old doesn’t want to.[:D]
CA glue on the hands…yep, did that. Frosted the model by spraying a flat coat without adding gloss…done that too. Dropped the model breaking it into little bitty pieces…guilty as charged. The one that really frosted my hide was this:
I had spent days, I mean DAYS (spread out over several weeks) assembling AFV’s T83E1 tracks for an M47 Patton. These things took forever to clean up, are fragile as heck and they were already pushing my patience to the limit.[:(!] Finally got them assembled, painted and on the vehicle when I decided to apply an oil wash to further enhance them. I KNEW that the paint thinner might be too hot for the tiny, fragile pins holding all the links together, but like a complete moron I did it anyway. Within hours pins start to dissolve and the tracks start falling apart. Every time I tried to fix one, another would break. [banghead] The boiling point had been reached and I very nearly commited hara-kiri as the model itself was practically done…all I had to do was finish the tracks and then add some dust.[xx(] Fortunately the breaking stopped (??) and I managed to repair enough links to keep the tracks together, but a few links are still broken:
I should try to fix this as I don’t know what’s holding them together, but I’m afraid if I do they’ll turn to dust!![(-D]
I’ve got two of them…
I realized that I had used the wrong color on a camo scheme, so I used some paint remover on the body of the vehicle. I must have used to much, because it also melted a large portion of the plastic that the paint was sitting on. Ended up calling Tamiya for a replacement part.
I decided to bore out the barrel on Walker Bulldog resin update. Drill speed was too high and I melted right through everything in about two seconds. Goodbye, $32.
This is pretty stupid:
It was winter and I was spraying in the garage where its not wonderfully warm. So I was warming the paint up, and I thought it a good idea (at the time) to warm up the model itself. I used a heat gun. Was going great until I knocked something over and caught it mid air with my other hand. What I didn’t realize was that I was keeping the heatgun in the same spot when this happened. Was quite proud because the falling object would have landed on the model. I looked down and well… Bit of cussing. One very oddly shaped FM Tie display stand.
Just out of curiosity, steelrudi, was it a telemarketer on the other end?[swg]
That would havetobe a toss up between dropping my almost finished 1/35 Blackhawk the night before the big contest and busting the windshield in half, or trying to speed dry the escape tower for the Merucry Capsule with a hair dryer the prior year (again, nigiht before the contest, same contest venue!!) and warping it helplessly into a mass of twisted plastic.
I dont go to that contest anymore.
David
Mine is kinda an old crew chief habit. I was trying to do a little detailing with a brush, but as worked progressed, i found it more difficult to hold onto without smearing paint all over the place. Without thinking it fully through, i whipped out my gerber and used that to hold onto the landing gear strut i was painting. Only to discover the uniformed ripples in the plastic. It really didn’t set me back that bad, but i should have known better…[#oops]
OK, both my stories involve pets. When I was about 10 we had a toy poodle called penny - penny used to jump on tables to check out what there was to eat. One day when I was at school, I had left my Airfix Skyraider suspended by it’s wings in the box whilst the undercarriage dried. Penny jumped on the table and knocked a full jar of thinners over the kit. When I got home, the Skyraider looked like a prop off Sesame Street where they say "can anyone see the letter U in this picture ? "
This didn’t happen to me, it happened to a Mate and he swears it’s true. It involved their elderly cat called Candy. My mate was about 12 and building a prized kit - the Airfix “Eagle” from Space 1999. The kit was all laid out while he was working on it, Candy was stretched out nearby , and she had some sort of seizure or epileptic attack which caused her to pee into the air , and all over … the kit decals ! this was about 1980 and no such thing as after market decals, I don’t know if he wrote off to eAirfix for replacements…
My biggest screw up was when I was painting the large transparency at the rear of an Millenium Falcon kit - it wasn’t mine I was doing it for the Mate who used to own Candy ( he likes Sci Fi kits as you can see ). The spray can was supposed to be electric blue, but I had accidentally picked up a tine of “Ocean gray” needless to say the effect was sort of spoiled.
This happened to me years ago when i first started out. I was never tought about the differences is spray paints, nor did i realize that there could be adverse affects between plastic and certain types of spray paint. I was working on a model car (I forget which one because this was as far i got with it before it was tossed) and sprayed it with some paint that my dad had around the garage. Needless to say my car turned into a warped mess that made it look like it just came out of the oven. Maybe one day i’ll try to find the similar model and go for round 2.
I don’t know what the worst thing I have done…but here what I have done.
Got the plane together and saw what looked like a bad seam where two parts came together. Well out came the filler and the sand paper and went to work, got that seam to disappear. Then I looked at the plans again and found that it wasn’t a seam but an actual panel line. [banghead]. Tried to rescribed the panel line but I ended up just making a miss of it. It looked okay but the mistake just ruined the project for me.
Joined the fuselage together and while looking over the directions noticed that I forgot one thing…no not the cockpit…but the tail wheel. The tail wheel was to be glued on one side before joining the fuselage. Tried to insert it anyway but seeing the locating hole turned out to be next to impossible. And of course the glue dried so well that pulling the fuselage apart would have destroyed the model. Didn’t feel like cutting it open or making a wheels up model so back in the box it went for another try sometime in the future.
Before going to bed I test fitted the cockpit tub, and fuselage fit… Every thing seemed to line up…went to bed with the cockpit where it was. Next morning glued the fuselage together, let glue dry and came back to move on to the next step. Picked up plane…hear something drop and rattle inside the closed fuselage. Looked at cockpit tub…its gone!! I forgot to glue the cockpit tub into the side wall, now the cockpit sat at the bottom of the fuselage and back from the cockpit opening. While trying to pull the cockpit tub forward and up the joystick snapped off, then the dashboard, so all that was left was the seat and the tub and of course the tub would not move into position, ended up giving up and putting model back in box.
Lastly working on a Me 410, something wasn’t going right with something…I don’t remember now what it was…got angry and threw the completed cockpit against the wall. Cockpit ends up in several pieces that I never did all of.
All of these happened years ago so I might be better now, but there actually might be more that are more recent but theses all that I seem to remember for now.