Bruno Posted November 8, 2009 Posted November 8, 2009 LOL! I once had a cat that would steal parts off my table. I thought I was just losing stuff or misplacing it, till one day I moved the bed to shampoo the carpet and found her little stash of parts. The things animals do! LOL, I have two of those too. When a part falls on the floor, I gotta find it quick, before they do...
Scott Colmer Posted November 8, 2009 Posted November 8, 2009 Good thread. Here's some... I should be able to lay that mild Tamyia clear lacquer over the one hardware store poo green enamel I got from by brother in law. Oh...maybe not. L:ooks like El Mirage. Sand it, reshoot it with primer. More cracks. Resand, reshoot. Tell a friend. Get called a rookie. Shoot gloss white enamel instead of white primer on an uber rare kit. Think fast!! Wipe it off before it dries. Think too fast and use lacquer thinner and wipe off critical molded in detail. Spend another week recreating the removed items. Stay up to 2am finishing a year long build just in time to make a contest the next day. Drilling out the radiator for the coolant hoses and then feel the drill go through to the bench top - which also means it went through the painted grill shell. There's more, but I am trying to keep them repressed. Scott
Harold Posted November 9, 2009 Posted November 9, 2009 oh boy, lemme see here... My dog has knocked a few pieces into another dimension with her tail over the years (headlight assembly for '85 Celica, grille for a Lindberg Ford 4x4, spindle and tie rod for a '53 Stude). Looking for an hour for a spindle for a Trumpeter Monte Carlo. An instrument decal I cut off the sheet two minutes earlier. Having similarly sized cans of Dupli-Color lined up, and grabbing the wrong one to paint the hood. Your measurements suddenly don't line up.
salsalvage Posted December 4, 2009 Posted December 4, 2009 how about hittin 40s got over 200 kits an now no ambition ta build anything.............
Porky Posted December 4, 2009 Posted December 4, 2009 How about when you go to spray mold release on a mold you are making and grab the can of spray adhesive instead. Don't laugh. How about mixing part A from one type resin with part B from another type resin and not catching it until it has total ate up your best selling set of molds when you have only made about 15 pulls from them, 4 molds in the bottom of the trash can,,,what a doofusssssssssssssssssssssssss
Flymeister Posted December 5, 2009 Posted December 5, 2009 1. Carefully holding down that small yet crucial part whilst the glue is drying... pulling your fingers away and realising you glued it to your fingers....right ...lesson #1... use tweezers 2. Airbrushing the body you carefully labored over for weeks.....and realising the paint thinner you used got water in it.... lesson # 2 - check thinner first before mixing 3. putting the (black) model down on your (black) seat to go answer the phone (one of those #&#% sales calls) ....get back and sit on it.....lesson #3... always CHECK where the model is first 4. lesson # 4 - DO NOT continue building on a bad build night ;-)
Abell82 Posted December 6, 2009 Posted December 6, 2009 You know your having a bad night... When you're trying to save a previously glue bombed chassis from an UBER COMMON kit, by cutting the well glued interior from said chassis. A replacement that would have cost only $15-20.00 to replace the WHOLE kit, and instead you slice right through your finger, causing 7 stitches, $350.00 in medical bills, and permanent nerve damage. Not to mention 2 hours in the emergency room, completely missing dinner with the wife's friends, and the blood stains on the carpet.... I think I win!
charlie8575 Posted December 6, 2009 Posted December 6, 2009 When you can't hold a blasted thing, either manually or with the assistance of a mechanical device...while painting...with a wet part going under the sofa. Oh joy, oh joy...tra la tra la tra la... Fortunately, I was able to get enough of the schmutz off that I didn't have to strip it. Just primer anyway. Charlie Larkin
Brandon05l Posted December 6, 2009 Posted December 6, 2009 (edited) You know your having a bad night... When you're trying to save a previously glue bombed chassis from an UBER COMMON kit, by cutting the well glued interior from said chassis. A replacement that would have cost only $15-20.00 to replace the WHOLE kit, and instead you slice right through your finger, causing 7 stitches, $350.00 in medical bills, and permanent nerve damage. Not to mention 2 hours in the emergency room, completely missing dinner with the wife's friends, and the blood stains on the carpet.... I think I win! heck i was at a derby one night not to think and my dumb self hit my brothers car and wire went in my hand freaked me out i could see tissue when i opened my hand went to the hospital there was no body there :::::::: this morning going to put a drivetrain in a race car i had it last night got up and it was gone Edited December 6, 2009 by Brandon05l
randx0 Posted December 6, 2009 Posted December 6, 2009 when your working on an old metal axle kit just when you think almost there the axle is almost through your thumb .
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