Airfix 1/72 PB-Y. Mostly their fault. Although throwing it across the room didn’t improve it much.
-fish
hey stoopidfish, i bet that would have made a good diorama of a crashed plane!!??!!
The only kit I really remember butchering was an old AMT Mustang Cobra that my father got for me when I was 9 or 10. By the time I got through with it, you couldn’t even see through the windows, there was so much glue on it. The engine came out as a huge, messy blob, and everything else was even worse. On a high point, it became the featured “Guest of Honor” at our 4th of July Fireworks display. Cobras really can become airborn for long periods of time! Parts of them, anyway…
demono69
ooooo the horror…
i did the fireworks display once with a B-29…
Wow the 2 “Worst” that stick out in my mind would have to be the Hary Gant Stock car I tried doing years ago…or the !/72 P51 I did years ago…what happened??? Well I was trying to strip the paint off of the stock car so figured Mineral Spirits would do it…I gues I Let it sit to long in the tub of it because when I went back 2 weeks later I had an un recognizable plastic shape that was very soft!..The 1/72 well I glued it to my hand(read…had glue on fingers and picked it up!)…Well without thinking I started to shake my hand so the model would get un-stuck…IT DID!!! Yupp flew right into the wall and wound up in more pieces than what came in the kit!
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Holy Cow!!!
Too funny…
I’ve been thinking about this and I look back at a lot of my older projects and think that they are my worst, but at the time I made them I thought they looked great, and they did at that time.
Now if I have to pick one it would be an AMT 1/35 M1 Abrams. The kit didn’t fit right, I ran out of paint and tried over thinning it, so now my desert sand color has diffrent shades of green showing because the kit was molded in 2 or 3 colors. I have since repainted and weathered it so at least it looks OK.
Now that I think about it, there was that 1/48 Monogram (i believe) B-24 Liberator I made many moons ago (I think I was 10). I used the box art as a complete set of assembly instructions and then decided to come up with my own european theatre camo scheme. Needless to say, a few years later when I had developed actual skills, I found that Frankenstein’s monster in the basement, and decided it was time for see what the explosive power of an M80 would do to a Lib. Called it a study in battle damage techniques. Worked, too. Never flew again…
Mike
It had to have been the 1/32 Testors F-22,worping,gaps,no recessed panel lines and lotsa flash. I did not waste my time I gave it to my kid with some water colors and a paint brush. He enjoyed it.
Worst project?
My Academy 1/72 scale OV-10D Bronco.
No pilots, no cockpit detail, and a need to remove molded in plastic made this one very bad kit(at least when compared to other Academy models), and the fact that I kept stripping off the paint didn’t help! Soon, all the times I had bathed it in mineral spirits(I repainted it about 15 times, if I remember right) had destroyed the propellors, melted the wing’s recessed panel lines(which I rescribed–horribly), and fogged up the cockpit.
Finally, about a month ago, I tossed that model into the trash, I had let it hang out in my closet for too long!
Without a doubt the one I finally finished today. I finally got the nerve to look at the Minicraft 1/350 Titanic that fell off the entertainment center less than an hour after finishing. I repaired damage as best as I could, but it’s ugly. Both masts have been broke in several places, P/E all bent up, some P/E missing (crane hooks, ladders, etc) I drilled holes in base and hull and used deck screws to mount together (s-o-b won’t fall now!). Wife is happy it’s done, I did build for her. But I think it looks like hell.
I have a Pioneer 2 1/72 FW-154 that I started 10+ years ago. I got off to a strong start but when it came time to put the fusalage and wings together, it just wasn’t looking right! I lost heart, I boxed it up and quit building for many years. I guess I blamed that kit for my burn out. For some strange reason I keep it close by and look through the contents every once in awhile.[%-)]
Had to be the Airfix (if I remember correctly) 1/72 Short (on quality) Sunderland. I finished it and taught a friend to shoot a pellet gun with the Short hanging from a tree. Its life as a recognizable plane was short. Aside from that it was the Lindberg 1/400 scale HMS Hood. It shared the fate of the original. I sealed it up and blew it in half with a .22 at about 50 yards and it still occupies the bottom of a lake in rural Virginia. There were others that never got far enough to qualify as “projects”[V]
My father bought me the conversion kit for a 1/48 He111Z from KL Productions. the resin center wing from KL was beautifula s was the smaller resin parts. The problem was that I had to use the Monogram He 111. The aftermarket stuff fit better then the kit supplied parts it was a struggle from beginning to end. Finished it but didn’t like it so I took apart the center wing and after market stuff and threw out the kits. Might try again soon because it looked really cool.