What did you screw-up today??

[TransAmMike]

No screw-ups today??  You guy's are good LOL???

[Tom Geiger]

2 hours ago, TransAmMike said:

No screw-ups today??  You guy's are good LOL???

It’s still early! ?

[NOBLNG]

On 3/13/2021 at 3:12 PM, thomascoffey1959@gmail.com said:

       I have a 1st aid kit, on the shelf right in front of me, as it's the most frequently used tools on my bench.   someone needs to invent a bandaid wrapper you can open with one hand.

Better yet...You need one of those heavy desktop tape dispensers with a roll of bandaids in it! ?
Hey, maybe I should patent that idea??

Edited March 15, 2021 by NOBLNG

[ewetwo]

Screwed up paint on a caddy, comet and gremlin. Not a good day.

[TransAmMike]

Huh!!! Just realized I lost the gas cap for my '66 Mustang ?

[TransAmMike]

3 minutes ago, ewetwo said:

Screwed up paint on a caddy, comet and gremlin. Not a good day.

Good lord, 3 in one day?!! 

[thomascoffey1959@gmail.com]

         THAT is progress in motion, great  idea, 

[thomascoffey1959@gmail.com]

    My mishap for today was discovering the repaint on the repainted 58 chevy , still hasn't cured,,,,,, It's been 48 hrs, Same brand I prefer,,, if its not good to wet sand tomorrow ?   strip it 

[Snake45]

2 hours ago, NOBLNG said:

Better yet...You need one of those heavy desktop tape dispensers with a roll of bandaids in it! ?
Hey, maybe I should patent that idea??

I've seen sillier ideas get deals on Shark Tank. 

[Scott Colmer]

I have a couple of real good ones from a ways back, The best being the time I was finish sanding the primer on a custom body when it slipped out of my hands. My legs instinctively (modeler's reflex) snapped shut. Crunch!

More recently, I have been making a door latch. I got one side made and functioning. All I had to do was make a mirrored latch arm for the other side. Not matching the first sample is harder than I thought . One of the two roughs on the right is headed for the trash. Focus!

 

 

[Snake45]

1 hour ago, Scott Colmer said:

I have a couple of real good ones from a ways back, The best being the time I was finish sanding the primer on a custom body when it slipped out of my hands. My legs instinctively (modeler's reflex) snapped shut. Crunch!

That's not a modeler's reflex, that a male reflex for some reason. Mark Twain even wrote a story in which this fact was the centerpiece. 

And it could have been worse. You wouldn't believe the number of times I've read a similar story on HyperScale involving not a model body but an Xacto knife. 

[Tom Geiger]

I pretty much did that with my 53 Studebaker... had just finished the body, fumbled it and my reflex was to capture it between my arms and chest.. crunch A pillars!

 

[slusher]

6 hours ago, ewetwo said:

Screwed up paint on a caddy, comet and gremlin. Not a good day.

That’s an easy fix David, strip and retry...

[slusher]

5 hours ago, thomascoffey1959@gmail.com said:

    My mishap for today was discovering the repaint on the repainted 58 chevy , still hasn't cured,,,,,, It's been 48 hrs, Same brand I prefer,,, if its not good to wet sand tomorrow ?   strip it 

I had to let them sit a week or two. What did you paint you model with?

[Kromolly]

Same problem, '40 Ford coupe.  Primed and then painted metallic gold base coat before the final metallic color.  I think I didn't let the primer cure.  I was able to scrape the paint and primer off of the body, could even gouge it off with my fingernails.  What are people using to strip?  I can't get a decent oven cleaner in my area (used to use Mr. Muscle and it worked great).  The Super Clean doesn't seem to touch paint or primer.  Brake fluid is really slow and marginal results, not to mention slimy and messy.  I'm testing a painted scrap piece in drain cleaner.  

[thomascoffey1959@gmail.com]

Tamiya. only brand I used for this project. Primer, coral blue oops, gold ts 21.

[Snake45]

Worst paint-drying problem I ever had was the old Pactra Odds N Ends enamel Hunter Green, thinned with naphtha and airbrushed. That stupid model was tacky for almost two years! (That paint dries fine thinned with lacquer thinner, but pretty pebbly/orange peeled. Testor enamels thinned with naphtha flow out to a nice shine, I've discovered.) 

It did eventually dry, and I was able to polish it out and finish the model (as a BOYD project) years later. 

[ewetwo]

18 hours ago, slusher said:

That’s an easy fix David, strip and retry...

Yes Mike. 3 ugh. They are soaking Carl but not much is letting loose. New purple pond also, 2 were fine until I clear coated. The Caddy. I think it might be lacquer paint. It’s weird. One was primed, painted. Looked fine. Sprayed the clear coat and it crinkled right up. But only in certain areas. Live a learn. 

[Snake45]

Some lacquers that are untouched by Super Clean come right off in 92% rubbing alcohol. 

[TransAmMike]

None today for me....unless you count my Proton 275 airbrush needle stuck from evidently not cleaning it good enough last time I used it. But then again I guess you can also count me knocking the open bottle of Stylenez primer over. Luckily bottle is only about a third full, probably lost enough to prime a whole body tho?

[Kromolly]

On 3/15/2021 at 6:57 PM, Snake45 said:

That's not a modeler's reflex, that a male reflex for some reason. Mark Twain even wrote a story in which this fact was the centerpiece. 

And it could have been worse. You wouldn't believe the number of times I've read a similar story on HyperScale involving not a model body but an Xacto knife. 

DOH!  OK, that made me pucker!

[Kromolly]

Well, unlike the rest of you, I didn't screw anything up today.  I stayed out of the hobby room and had a Lime-a-Rita on the deck in the sun with my wife.  ?

[keyser]

Need a like button for the lime-a-rita. 

[Lownslow]

Found out this color matched the primer i spray on my parts.

[thomascoffey1959@gmail.com]

  While I screwed up the Impala paint job and  wet sand,  I had been distracting myself with a scrap parts build of an early jalopy, there is no plan, it'll go where it will, so I CAN'T screw THAT up. The last monstrosity created this way is a hot rod fiat topalino(?) with vw fenders,34 ford flat head, and mg wheels n tires. Truly an ugly little troll. pics coming soon ?