What would a car modelers Hades be like:

[NOBLNG]

On 1/30/2024 at 11:40 AM, NYLIBUD said:

Not only must you read all the instructions,you have to memorize them too.?And after you have to take a 100 multiple choice questions exam.

The instructions are missing, so you have to download them on your PC in the house. You don’t have a printer, so you have to memorize the next step and then run out to the garage where the wife lets you build.?

Edited February 1, 2024 by NOBLNG

[NYLIBUD]

You can only spend 5 mins a day working on a model,or checking out this forum.?Oh and no tv allowed.

Edited February 13, 2024 by NYLIBUD

[Ace-Garageguy]

35 minutes ago, NYLIBUD said:

You can only spend 5 mins a day searching for models,or checking out this forum.?Oh and no tv allowed.

So you might actually get some building done? What a concept.  

Edited February 1, 2024 by Ace-Garageguy

[NYLIBUD]

I think i’m reaching now,but you have to build ALL your models with one hand tied behind your back.That would suck.Sorry if someone said that already.??‍?.

 

 

Edited February 1, 2024 by NYLIBUD

[Lunajammer]

The more parts you prep, paint and glue, the higher the parts count gets.

Every time you open a bottle of paint or glue together an assembly, a cat knocks it to the floor.

Every model you ever dreamed of is in front of you and ready to build but you can't get any of the boxes open.

...Or pretty much any Twilight Zone plot you can think of, with models.

Edited February 2, 2024 by Lunajammer

[Ace-Garageguy]

Every time you did the perfect chop, or the perfect paint job, or the perfect engine detail before calling it a night, when you got back to the bench in the morning, all the beautiful work would have disappeared.

[NYLIBUD]

6 hours ago, Ace-Garageguy said:

Every time you did the perfect chop, or the perfect paint job, or the perfect engine detail before calling it a night, when you got back to the bench in the morning, all the beautiful work would have disappeared.

Omg,thats funny.That actually happened to me just the other day.?

[stitchdup]

 being hades, your kits melt as soon as you open the box and your paints become flame throwers while your glue acts as a fuse on your nearly finished highly flamable model

[NOBLNG]

9 hours ago, Ace-Garageguy said:

Every time you did the perfect chop, or the perfect paint job, or the perfect engine detail before calling it a night, when you got back to the bench in the morning, all the beautiful work would have disappeared.

The “Groundhog Day” of the modeling world.?

[NYLIBUD]

Sorry Ace,just messing with you sir..

[NYLIBUD]

Every time you open a bottle of paint or glue together an assembly, a cat knocks it to the floor.

Yes,this happened to me all the time with four cats bouncing around..However it was really my one jet black cat,named Cole,that would not only knocks stuff onto the floor,cause i guess it was in his way.?But he was also stealing important parts right off my bench.Somehow he knew what was important to me.And leave everything else.They are all gone now.??Anyway,it was hell on earth.??Meow guys.?

[Ace-Garageguy]

57 minutes ago, NYLIBUD said:

Sorry Ace,just messing with you sir..

No worries, sir.   

[Camaro lover]

My first wife would be there letting the 4 yr old boy she’s babysitting play with my finished models. Yes in my early 20’s I built a model of the Cutty Sark. I spent months doing all the rigging for it. It was at that time the best I ever built. I came home from work to find all 3 masts broken, rigging all pulled out and one side of the hull cracked as if someone stood on it. The few cars with broken wheels didn’t bother me as much as that ship. It sat up on a high shelf so she had to get it down for him to “play” with. 
 

I’ve been to hades already. No intention of going back. 

[NYLIBUD]

Everytime you finish a build,you have to watch 100 hours of non stop TMZ,and another 100 hours of Judge Judy.A fate worse than death.?‍??.Dear lord ☠️?

[NOBLNG]

Your tweezers are the Devils right hand and launches tiny parts into the jaws of the carpet monster 4 out of 5 times that you pick them up.?

[Ace-Garageguy]

4 hours ago, NYLIBUD said:

Everytime you finish a build,you have to watch 100 hours of non stop TMZ,and another 100 hours of Judge Judy.A fate worse than death.?‍??.Dear lord ☠️?

...while listening to rap...

[Bugatti Fan]

If a couple of guys in dark suits and sunglasses turned up on the doorstep saying 'We're here from the government' when the euphemism generally used on here describing a badly constructed model that needs rebuilding flags up on their computers.

Edited February 14, 2024 by Bugatti Fan

[David G.]

Spray cans of lacquer thinner labeled as "Clear Coat".

David G.

[Ace-Garageguy]

1 hour ago, David G. said:

Spray cans of lacquer thinner labeled as "Clear Coat".

David G.

Or spray cans of stripper labeled as clear...  

[David G.]

Just now, Ace-Garageguy said:

Or spray cans of stripper labeled as clear...  

 

That would also work. But lacquer thinner has the added joy of being not only a paint solvent but a solvent for styrene as well.  

David G.

[Ace-Garageguy]

1 minute ago, David G. said:

...But lacquer thinner has the added joy of being not only a paint solvent but a solvent for styrene as well.  

So is most commercial paint stripper. Ask me how I know...  

[David G.]

1 hour ago, Ace-Garageguy said:

So is most commercial paint stripper. Ask me how I know...  

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[slusher]

Drop a part it’s gone forever. Melts insanely..

[David G.]

10 hours ago, slusher said:

Drop a part it’s gone forever. Melts insanely..

I think that that's actually happened to me! ? 

I remember working on a Mustang and I was cleaning up one of the front parking light lenses, deburring it with a file when it slipped from my fingers and just... vanished! 

I was working less than six inches above my desk, I had a cutting mat down and a magnifier light lighting the scene. As I searched for it I remember thinking "Where the futz did it go?! There's no place for it to go! It should be right here!"

Gone.

That's okay, I left the other one off and just painted the holes where they went in transparent amber. No one even missed 'em.

David G.

Edited April 14, 2024 by David G.
typo

[Ace-Garageguy]

5 hours ago, David G. said:

I think that that's actually happened to me! ? 

I remember working on a Mustang and I was cleaning up one of the front parking light lenses, deburring it with a file when it slipped from my fingers and just... vanished! 

I was working less than six inches above my desk, I had a cutting mat down and a magnifier light lighting the scene. As I searched for it I remember thinking "Where the futz did it go?! There's no place for it to go! It should be right here!"

Yup...occasionally a portal to another time-space continuum opens up either on my workbench or under it, and phfffffft...a small part or drill bit is lost and gone forever.

Sometimes happens wherever I put my keys down too, but so far, they've always winked back into existence exactly where I put them.