Yes, there I was, applying decals to the airgroup of my Trumpeter Hornet. Dozens of teeny planes with hundreds of even teenier decals. My eyes are starting to cross. And then I dunk an X-Acto knife in my bottle of Micro-Sol instead of the paintbrush I’d been using. That’s when I knew I’d done enough for one night. [V]
How do the rest of you know when you’ve done enough for one night? This could be interesting. . . [:p]
When you go to bed only to find out that it’s time to got to work.
Usually when I dunk the my exacto knife into the end of my finger ![:0][:0][:0]
Usually when I’m touching up a part, and I paint the spot where I had touched-up the night before the wrong color…DAMN, now I have to re-touch-up the touch-up!!! Hate that!!!
And you show up at work with a part from your pe set stuck to your forehead.[:o)]
When I start seeing the figures on my desk starting to move [:D]
Usually, it will be something really obvious, like gluing right-side parts on the left or vice-versa. However, I’ve also done the touch-up black, touch-up white, touch-up black again, touch-up white again, routine many, many times…bedtime for Bonzo!!!
Robert
i get the stares.
Then I spill stuff.
Usually it’s the birds chirping that gives me a hint.
And the extra light from the sun begining to shine through the window.
When my alarm clock goes off and I haven’t been to bed yet.
When you here a BBC radio announcer say…“Good morning. It’s 04.30 and here is this morning’s news.”[:D][:D][:D]
When my wife turns off the power to my workshop…[V]
When you have just finished the decals on a US fighter, and then stand back to admire you work when…you discover that all the stars & bars are upside down![V]
When you hear a stange buzzing noise from under the work bench and you find that the compressor has over-heated[:0][:0]
When there’s blood on the bench[B)]
On the next day:
When everyone at work asks “What’s all that paint on your hands?”[?]
When everyone at work says "You need some shut-eye mate! Stop working so hard…[:D][:D][:D][:D]
Late night kit bashing-You gotta to love it!![:D]
You nod off at the bench and your forehead gets stuck in the superglue …
Hey! I’ve done that when I was completely awake on a weekend afternoon![:D]
I remember several years ago, I was up one night (pulling an all nighter for college,[;)]) I was trying to come up with an idea for an illustration and I decided to do some modeling while I thought. This was at about 1:30 in the morning.
Anyway, I was painting a camoflage pattern (Two greens and a tan) I grabbed a bottle of tan and started painting those sections, I already had one of the greens down. I got it done, did my college project and didn’t bother going to bed because my clock was set for half an hour from that point.
I took my shower, went out to the bus, had my day at college and when I got home I made a straight line to my workbench to admire my painting from the night before.
Intead of the tan, I grabbed the other green shade and painted with it. I could have sworn I saw tan go down on the plastic! Was I painting in my sleep? was my mind and eyes showing me what I wanted to see instead of what was?
It was sort of like the modeling equivalent of road hypnosis I suppose. Your mind tells you that something is, weather it is or it isn’t and thats what you believe.
Just glad I wasn’t driving[:)]
Very funny stories. Unfortunately, my regular work on models look like I was drunk or sleepy. Yes, I tend to glue hatches on tanks shut even though I plan to put a driver in.
Go figure…
When my hand starts shaking and fine painting becomes impossible. -All those push-ups are kiling me! When my eyes start to water and vision gets blured, then I am physically not able to continue, so I take off the magnification headset, cap all paints, turn off the light, and hit the hay. When I awake myself in midair when I’m about to fall on the desk and accidently paint something with my paintbrush in hand!
When I stick the paintbrush in my mouth and my cigarette in the paint …
When you paint with your exacto knife… same style as airbrush
Aircraft? oh, those things that float in water
when your paintbrush can cut thru photoetch
when those aftermarket decals you bought turn into a pile of carbon
when your too old for carbon 14 dating
wheres the keyboar… OW
Hmmm… lemme see where I put this little guy (ant)
I know I have been at it too long when I am actually gettin stuff done… I don’t usually get tired working on these. More often than not I just run out of things to do so I go to bed and let the glue or paint dry. Since I have a dedicated shop that is in the house its easy. I have been know to model while the shower water heats up or the coffee makes before work…sand a little here and there just to move along. I usually try to stop before i get careless and sloppy…
This winter: when my fingers went numb and I couldn’t hold my knife anymore
Now: when my wife gets home from work (midnight…and I’ve been in my workshop since 6pm)