LDO Posted June 3, 2011 Posted June 3, 2011 That's the worst! I'm putting some detail on an old pickup model. I was going off a few pics in old magazines. I found a build thread with lots of pics on a real car site and found out I did some things wrong. ARGH! I think I'll just keep going and save that info for another, more accurate build. I want to finish this thing. I'll live with a couple of incorrect details, knowing that the next one will be better.
ra7c7er Posted June 3, 2011 Posted June 3, 2011 I have messed up some detailing but I have not really ever thought of it as a project killer.
Aaronw Posted June 3, 2011 Posted June 3, 2011 Yep, I have a US Forest Service Model 56 fire engine I was building. It is from the early 1960s and I didn't have a lot of photos to go from. I almost finished the body when I found more photos. I discovered the right side (which I had no photos of) is very wrong and I haven't touched it since. I will eventually do another but have to start over from scratch, there is really nothing to salvage.
RodneyBad Posted June 3, 2011 Posted June 3, 2011 Outside yourself who will know ...or care...... yaa, Perty much the same. Build on and finish it and do better the next time..
RancheroSteve Posted June 3, 2011 Posted June 3, 2011 I recently put the spark plug holes in the wrong location on a SB Chevy - that's what I get for being a Ford guy, right? And the build is too far along to turn back now.
Darin Bastedo Posted June 3, 2011 Posted June 3, 2011 Yeah The "slots" on mt scratchbuilt sidepipes were all wrong. They aren't supposed to be open, on the real car they are just painted on.
John E. Bowers Jr. Posted June 3, 2011 Posted June 3, 2011 Every time. I guess that's why I have several hundred kits yet to build. To keep trying to get it right...
Chuck Most Posted June 3, 2011 Posted June 3, 2011 Outside yourself who will know ...or care...... Nobody... but I won't let that stop bugging me one bit!
LDO Posted June 3, 2011 Author Posted June 3, 2011 Outside yourself who will know ...or care...... Anyone familiar with a '29 Ford closed-cab pickup may know. Depends on how much attention they pay to detail. Really it's a pretty minor thing, but I sure was annoyed when I realized it.
jsimmons Posted June 3, 2011 Posted June 3, 2011 "Wrong" is, more often than not, a completely subjective term. There are a few instances where "wrong" is actually "wrong", like when I put the dive planes on my dad's 1/72 Gato model backwards. That was "wrong". Painting an engine block the "wrong" color could be interpreted by the casual observer as "artistic license", or "quirky". I say keep going the way you are, and see how it turns out.
DanielG Posted June 3, 2011 Posted June 3, 2011 If I realize that I have made a mistake I fix it if it is going to torture me forever if I don't! Otherwise I consider it the 'potter's thumb'.
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