Ramfins59 Posted February 29, 2012 Posted February 29, 2012 I'm sure that we all have a part of building a model that we don't look forward to. Some people dislike or have trouble with painting or bare-metal foiling or engine detailing. My least favorite part is starting off. Having to clean up all those mold lines, sink marks, and ejector pin marks from ALL the engine, chassis, interior & body parts. Then of course there are the seams when you glue two halves of something together (engine/trans., master cyl., rear end/axle, seats, etc..) What's YOUR least favorite part...???
martinfan5 Posted February 29, 2012 Posted February 29, 2012 That is a good question, I dont like the detail painting, I must be a really lazy modeler, the only mold lines I remove are on the body, I guess that makes me a bad modeler
Harry P. Posted February 29, 2012 Posted February 29, 2012 Painting the body, no doubt. I hate painting the body. I hate the whole process... the sanding, the painting, trying to get rid of the orange peel and dust specks, etc. I would almost be willing to pay someone to do the painting for me!
Dragline Posted February 29, 2012 Posted February 29, 2012 Sanding anything is a PITA. But I do it because parting lines annoy me more than bad paint. Filling seams is the other thing I find particularly troublesome. But this I also do. The rest is a joy to me. Bob
martinfan5 Posted February 29, 2012 Posted February 29, 2012 finishing................... next to that i hate painting red tailights.......................red painting the black part of the glass on late models too Ahh yes, dont like the painting the glass part either
Bartster Posted February 29, 2012 Posted February 29, 2012 I'd have to say finishing it. I've only done that once in the last 30 yrs. I have 13 in various stages of construction.
JunkPile Posted February 29, 2012 Posted February 29, 2012 There is no part of model building that I don't like. Some things give me more problems than others, but those areas are just areas that I need to improve in. If I hated any part of model building, I just wouldn't build models
The70judgeman Posted February 29, 2012 Posted February 29, 2012 Painting the body and detailing it out. Chrome trim, scripts, etc...
martinfan5 Posted February 29, 2012 Posted February 29, 2012 Oh yea, BMF hate doing it, thats why I try and stick with building cars that dont have a lot chrome trim
SuperStockAndy Posted February 29, 2012 Posted February 29, 2012 (edited) Sanding mold lines, and doing suspension...Oh and I hate doing BMF too Edited February 29, 2012 by SuperStockAndy
Guest Dr. Odyssey Posted February 29, 2012 Posted February 29, 2012 Gluing the friggin mirror to the inside of the windshield!!!!
diymirage Posted March 1, 2012 Posted March 1, 2012 my biggest hindrance has got to be detailing the interior i just can not get the dash to look nice, the gauges, switches, radio all that stuff dont know if i dont have the right brushes or my hands arent steady enough but that is something i allways fail at
Harry P. Posted March 1, 2012 Posted March 1, 2012 Gluing the friggin mirror to the inside of the windshield!!!! Hey, at least you do it! I see models in "Under Glass" all the time with no inside or outside mirrors. It's probably the #1 mistake made.
jaymcminn Posted March 1, 2012 Posted March 1, 2012 Masking. Masking stinks. My current build is the Fujimi 1/24 Ferrari 512bb, which has the rocker panels in satin black and flat black trim around the windows. I masked it all with BMF before shooting it with the airbrush. It turned out perfect, but masking it took longer than painting it!
Rob McKee Posted March 1, 2012 Posted March 1, 2012 BMF for sure. I have such a hard time with this stuff.
2000-cvpi Posted March 1, 2012 Posted March 1, 2012 There really isn't anything that I don't like to do. Now having to strip paint due to my half butt attempt to secure a body to my painting stand and havingkg the freshly painted body fall off.
scalemodeler Posted March 1, 2012 Posted March 1, 2012 I enjoy most everything about modeling. If I had a issue, it would be correcting something the manufacturer should have done in the tooling phase! I do a lot of the older kits, and of course, they are not up to today's standards. With the old kits, sanding, filling, scraping, fitting and fiddling is a way of life. So I'm used to it.
warra48 Posted March 1, 2012 Posted March 1, 2012 Putting in the window glass That's it for me too. I enjoy all the rest, including cleaning up mould lines and sink marks etc.
Heartattaq Posted March 1, 2012 Posted March 1, 2012 The least favorite part of model building for me is trying to get rid of all the injection mold pins, and flash and mold lines. Doesnt matter how much I sand, when it comes to prime, I have always missed some
SuperStockAndy Posted March 1, 2012 Posted March 1, 2012 how is that a mistake, maybe the builder did not want to put them on If there are no side mirrors either, slight accuracy problem there.
curt raitz Posted March 1, 2012 Posted March 1, 2012 Gluing the friggin mirror to the inside of the windshield!!!! Ditto...
Jdurg Posted March 1, 2012 Posted March 1, 2012 I can't stand fitting the body onto the chassis. That part always makes me the most nervous as I don't want to break anything I've spent so much time building, or find out that there was a hidden fit problem I couldn't notice before because it wasn't a problem until paint was applied. I just hate it because this is usually where my mistakes are made. Either having the paint job of the chassis or, far worse, the body of the car getting messed up because a fit was a bit too tight, or the glue that I had applied got onto my hands and now my paint job has a huge fingerprint or glue smudge on it. Since the body is now glued to the chassis, I can't easily strip it and repaint it. It's this part of the hobby that is so frustrating for me. The actual act of painting the body is what I like the most. I like having to spend time prepping everything, applying the primer and sanding it down, applying a VERY light top coat and sanding that to see if everything is smooth. Then applying the color coat is so great because all the prep work on the body makes the color coats go on quite easily. The end result is very cathartic. That's what makes attaching the body to the rest of it so frustrating.
brett Posted March 1, 2012 Posted March 1, 2012 Justin, how did you get inside my head? That pretty much sums it up perfectly for me too
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