Good Ol' Murphy and his brother Frank

[jayhkr]

Well it was such a beautiful day today I decided to take my '32 Ford outside to paint up the body and fenders. There was no wind, birds were chirping, sun was shining, what could go wrong. Started painting and all was going great. The final few coats were going on and it was really looking GOOOOOOOD. Then I look down and Mr Murphy decided to toss a baby gnat into the wet paint. Right on top of the hood. To add insult to injury just moments later his brother Frank decided to puff up just a tiny bit of wind and knock one of the fenders onto the ground from the table. Yep, right where it shouldn't had. So what's the moral of the lesson? Don't forget about Murphy's siblings.

So I will wait till the paint is done drying, sand and repaint and pray that the color blends and all the Murphy's stay away next time. Can anyone throw out some suggestions on the best way to deal with the spot sanding and repainting? I'll get some pictures here shortly of what I'm dealing with.

Thanks.

[Sam Cates]

Next time watch out for his other brother Darrel!

[Jon Cole]

Sometimes, that "Murphy" can be such a jerk! Sorry for your spat of bad luck. Maybe it was just bad luck? I would think the overspray would chase them little buggers off... but who knows?

I used to spray outdoors, and yeah, that has happened to me as well. But at least it was the exception. I used to spray off the edge of the deck, then walk back inside between coats. Verrry careful not to kick up dust, works best when no one else was home.

So, a lose part blew off? Can you attach them to something with weight? When I spray, I use a stand made from the old style cloths hanger, with the cardboard tube removed. Dremel off the tip of the hook, and spread the two wires to form "feet". A nice, heavy vice grip forms the third leg of the tri pod paint stand. Can you use a vice grip to weigh down the base?

[Pete J.]

You missed Murphy's corrilary- If mulitple things can go wrong they will, in decending order of difficulty and in such a way as to inflict maximum damage.

[jayhkr]

Jon, fortunately nothing came off the model, the fenders were painted separately but one of them fell to the concrete floor thus inflicting damage to the fresh paint. I just need to bite the bullet and get those threaded nipples that Donn uses and someone else here suggested the base that they screw into. Either that or one of those model holder spinny things I see everyone use. Good thing I work crappy hours today and tomorrow. Gives me all afternoon Monday to fix my screw up.

Glad I'm just getting this out of the way as my next project is the one I'm really looking forward to, but shhhhhh, don't tell any of the Murphy gang.

[Pete J.]

I like making my own fixtures for holding models. That way I can make one specifically for each task. It only takes a couple of minutes, some foam core poster board and a hot glue gun. This lets me hold the model in the way that is most advantagous to me. Here are a couple I made for my 935 build.