Murphy was right!

[Pete J.]

Murphy's law of similar bottles- If there are two bottles sitting side by side with different substances in side(like paint and thinner), you will invariable grab the wrong one!

How do I know? Was clear coating a body with an airbrush.  Emptied the brush and grabbed a bottle to refill it.  Air brushing wet clear coat with lacquer thinner is not a good thing!

[Tom Geiger]

49 minutes ago, SfanGoch said:

Then, there's the hood for that body with the best paint job ever. Somehow, after you set it aside, it gets sucked up into the interdimensional space-time vortex and is never seen again. The hood for a '70 Coronet Super Bee mysteriously vanished after I repainted the body following the sneaky sneeze incident. Never did find it.

and of course no replacement hood will ever have matching paint!  

[Tom Geiger]

31 minutes ago, Pete J. said:

Murphy's law of similar bottles- If there are two bottles sitting side by side with different substances in side(like paint and thinner), you will invariable grab the wrong one!

Also works with spray cans...   You go for a final coat of candy apple red and you reach for the spray can... and only notice you picked up the wrong one once you squirted flat black onto the body!

[Snake45]

2 hours ago, Pete J. said:

Murphy's law of similar bottles- If there are two bottles sitting side by side with different substances in side(like paint and thinner), you will invariable grab the wrong one!

 

Commonly done in Model Airplane World with Solvaset and some kind of super liquid cement. ALMOST did it myself once. 

[Joe Handley]

Was stripping the paint off the mirrors of the Revell Snap-Tite New Beetle I'm working on and lost one down the drain...............this is also the one I needed to wet sand and re spray the roof on...........

 

[TomZ]

On 7/9/2018 at 12:54 PM, Cornpatch said:

What did the cat think about you getting paint in his litter box???

I'm lucky no cats were nearby when I dropped the car. They would have promptly buried it! As it turned out it wasn't too hard to sand out the rough spots and repaint. The paint's thicker than I would like but it's a fair trade for my own clumsiness.

[Lizard Racing]

On ‎7‎/‎14‎/‎2018 at 10:20 AM, Pete J. said:

My guess is that you know what this is and how to use it.  I still have mine!

Fond memories!  I was so glad when I was finally able to use CAD.  For the last few years, I was the only one in my group equipped to do "ink jobs."

Even 30+ years later, I could still feel my old teacher looking over my shoulder. 

[jeffdeoranut]

a few additions to murphys law:

the amount of any material(glue, paint, wire, etc) needed to finish your project is greater than the amount of said material on hand.

in the case of paint...after agonizing over the color choice for your best build ever you will run out of paint only to discover that you used the last can/bottle of that color in existence.

when you locate another can/bottle of the same paint it will not match.

any part that test fits perfectly will not fit during final assembly.

lets say you have two parts such as valve covers. you glue one on correctly, the other you glue on backwards: the correct one falls off while you are attempting to remove the incorrect one which is now permanently bonded to the head.

if you finally decide to pay big bucks for a kit the same kit will show up on ebay 2 days later for 10 bucks.

if you sell a kit its value will instantly double.

if the body must be glued thoroughly to be held in place you will not notice you forgot to install the steering wheel until the glue has dried.

you will only have enough wire of a certain color to make 7 plug wires on a v8.

the photoetch part that inevitably flies into space will be found 2 weeks later by impaling  your bare foot.

if you buy an extra set of decals you will not need them; of course if you don't you will.

if you mix superglue with liquid cement to allow a few seconds to exactly position a part it will bond instantly.

any decal positioned perfectly will not dry; conversely any decal needed to be nudged into place will dry instantly.

if a kit comes with extra parts in case you lose one, either of the following will happen: you will not need any spares or you will lose more than the number of spares provided.

if you ONLY build cars or trucks any kit you receive as a gift will be of an airplane or ship.

no matter how many miniature drill bits you own you will need one of a different size.

your parts box will only contain sets of 3 matching tires or wheels.

your parts box has 25 hemi valve covers-no two will match.

any kit or decal set you find and decide to wait to purchase will become impossible to find later.

you own a kit evidently made of a special plastic that no known adhesive will stick to.

[magicmustang]

The carpet monster works for Murphy.

[Snake45]

51 minutes ago, jeffdeoranut said:

any decal positioned perfectly will not dry; conversely any decal needed to be nudged into place will dry instantly.

 

Similarly: A rare or expensive decal will not stick, or will flake or fall off later; conversely, if trying to remove an unwanted decal and save the underlying paint, no known method will remove it without also damaging the paint.

[Oldcarfan27]

Good ones guys, very funny!