Murphy's Law As Applied To Modeling

[unclescott58]

I can spend years hunting for that certain kit. As soon as I find it. And pay big bucks for it. A model company will announce they are reissuing it in the next month or two. At a lot less money than I paid.

[drummerdad]

You decide to build car X in your favorite scale. You need a special part to make it what you want, but the part is available in EVERY scale, except the scale you decided to build in. So, you search google, local shops, forums, ebay, the amazon jungle, and the moon to find a picture of the exact part you want...but its out of production, or custom made by some wizard using black magic, and you cant get it.

[Mr Stock]

You save up for ages to order a bunch of parts from Modelhaus for a load of projects you have, and they shut the website..........

(Its ok I know the reasons why, and I will be patient)

[Lizard Racing]

There's an old 1:1 car rule:  Any tool or part dropped on the ground will automatically roll to the exact center of the car.  If it hits the ground at all.

Usually when looking for something around the house, I usually find it looking for something else.

Ain't life fun?

[69NovaYenko]

  On 2/20/2016 at 11:25 PM, Snake45 said:

If you've wanted a particular make and model for some time, and go to some effort to scratch build or create one by elaborate, expensive conversion, a new kit of that subject will be announced within  60 days.

ong.

Yep..been there done that. Was attempting to upgrade the old AMT `67-`68 Camaro kit by putting the nicely detailed Revell `69 SS/RS chassis  under it. Sent several evenings with  a Dremel grinding out the AMT molded in inner fenders to accommodate the Revell chassis. A month later Revell announces the release of their newly tooled `67 Camaro. with a well detailed under chassis. But I must admit the new Revell tool is far  better kit than the older AMT kit.

Edited February 24, 2016 by 69NovaYenko

[DaveM]

If you order the decals first, you can't find a kit at any price.  If you order the kit first, the place making the decals goes belly up.  If you order them at the same time, one, but NOT both will be out of stock and never come back.  

[69NovaYenko]

You order era correct paint for a specific project. The entire project comes to a abrupt halt as you patiently await the arrival of the era correct color. Several weeks later it finally arrives. You get your airbrush rig fired up, fill the 2 oz color cup and as your preparing to place the top back on the open bottle so you can begin spraying you accidently tip the bottle over and lose 3/4 of the color...leaving you without enough to paint to complete the project . So your back on-line reordering the color again. 

Edited February 24, 2016 by 69NovaYenko

[69NovaYenko]

If your at the hobby bench and or working on a  Sunday or a holiday and the LHS is closed you will invariably run out of something glue, paint, masking tape, break a drill bit etc...

Edited February 24, 2016 by 69NovaYenko

[Russell C]

  On 2/21/2016 at 4:07 PM, bobthehobbyguy said:

The part you are trying to glue keeps falling of. You finally get it glued and its crooked. Now dynamite and a crow bar won't move it. Its also very likely a part that isisn't easy to replace.

Wait, Murphy says there's more:  miraculously succeed in prying the part off and the spring action in your Xacto blade sends it flying off to some multi-angled surface where you can hear it ping off there, but in an utterly indeterminate direction. Search until the length of time is 1.5 times longer than it would have taken to re-scratchbuild the part, then re-make the part, get it glued on straight .... and find the lost part 1 inch outside of your widest search radius. Impossibly behind some small barrier you never thought to look behind. Topper is that your first part looks way better than the replacement. Don't even think of prying off the second one - it'll disappear the same way despite all precautions to prevent that, which would be no huge loss, but when you now reach for the first part, you will not be able to remember where you set it down.

[bobthehobbyguy]

You're building a quick slumpbuster project and the paint is flawless and needs little polishing.  Your model you've spent a year building will have dust bunnies and insetcs and looks like a sunkissed orange.