This is what happens when frustration gets the best of you

[Big Daddy]

Well i started a few weeks ago by opening the revell sox and martin gtx as i opened the bags to inspect i noticed the body was warpped like you wouldn't beleive, so i figured okay i'll soak it in a tub of warm water for a couple hours, after bringing it out of the soak and putting it on bench i put some light weight on it thinking while the body cools it will retain it's normal shape , it worked , well it was 85% better than when i started, i figured when it came time to put the interior pan in it will straighten up well let me tell you after much cursing and grumbling it wouldn;t after a lot of choice words i can hear my wife in the next room saying Put The Model Down and Walk Away well berfore you know it this is what happened

Bam it happened so quick the fist down on the body ,i was pissed at the time, but i did feel much better afterwards,, the wife thinks i need some anger management classes lol

[Chillyb1]

I don't have the slightest idea what you are talking about....

[Big Daddy]

at least i'm not the only one this happens to

[bigphoto]

One word to help through tough modelling situations!!.............. Scotch!! and if drinking it doesn't help then pour a little over the model and torch it!! outside of course prefferably in a safe place!

[Badluck 13]

One word to help through tough modelling situations!!.............. Scotch!! and if drinking it doesn't help then pour a little over the model and torch it!! outside of course prefferably in a safe place!

HAHAHAHAHA....as I am trying to get the coffee out of my nose.....should have known better than to read something like this and drinking at the same time .....good thing it wasn't Scotch ......as for the anger....my friend I have been there before in the past...enough response to this,I gotta a mess to clean up....friggin coffee everywhere.......

[Scuderia]

I've fist-downed a couple in my day. Thankfully they were nascar kits where i could find a replacement body easily.

[JollySipper]

When I feel myself getting frustrated, that means its about 4:20 ( can't elaborate as to what that means, its insider talk for "time to cool down" ) By the way, I have a '67 GTX body that is perfectly straight, just a little damage to the cowl and is very repairable. Tried to remove the windshield and chipped the cowl.....

[SuperStockAndy]

I've got like the worst temper, however I just try to smash the air, not the model. I never have smashed a model, but I've been close a few times...

[espo]

I feal that its pretty hard to not get upset sometimes when you have done everything right and the model just fights you all the way. What I have done in the past is partout the good stuff ( Hemi - Wheels & Tires - Whatever ) then give the body to the dog to chew on.

[Ryan S.]

Look on the bright side, now you're one step closer to making it a convertible!

[warra48]

I know the feeling.

About 20 years ago I taught my then lawnmower who is boss. I took to it with a log splitter.

Man oh man, the wonderful feeling of calm which came over me, after I'd killed the darn thing, was amazing.

[DanielG]

That is why some builds sit for a while before continuing, as for torching a model with perfectly drinkable Scotch, well, that is just barbaric!

[Ben]

LOL, I remember doing that to an MPC Pinto wagon but I crushed mine in my hand like you crush an aluminum can.

[BOSWELL891]

I did it to a 64 gto ripped the whole body up like paper and felt really stupid after it

[Mercman]

Took a 3 lb. hammer to the Aluma-coupe quik build kit. Only the tires, and rims survived. They are on a 65 Riv.

[george 53]

In over 50 years of modeling, I have NEVER smashed a model. I like them too much. I've blown 'em up with firecrackers, rolled 'em down driveways INTO oncomeing traffic, and flat out set them on fire,even, but i've never lost my temper at one and smashed one. Even as a kid, if it got on my nerves and it wasn't going the way I wanted, I just walked away and came back later. I just couldn't/can't see smashin something I paid good money for. But hey, that's just me, an you all already know I'm weird!

[martinfan5]

I did smash up models in my younger years, sometimes for fun to, I have wanted to so many times though, more then I can count.

[250 Testa Rossa]

This happened to me with my MFH 250 GTO kit a while back. It took me ten months to get a new body for it. I now know to keep my model car bodies in a safe place, and to keep a small pillow near my workbench.

[Big Daddy]

In over 50 years of modeling, I have NEVER smashed a model. I like them too much. I've blown 'em up with firecrackers, rolled 'em down driveways INTO oncomeing traffic, and flat out set them on fire,even, but i've never lost my temper at one and smashed one. Even as a kid, if it got on my nerves and it wasn't going the way I wanted, I just walked away and came back later. I just couldn't/can't see smashin something I paid good money for. But hey, that's just me, an you all already know I'm weird!

that don't make sense you pay good money that you won't smash them,but yet you've set them on fire and blown them up

[Jordan White]

I don't think I could ever willingly smash a kit, even if it was giving me the worst of trouble. Either I'd put it away for later, or just dismantle it and use the parts for something else.

[heatride]

There is no way I could do that , I would feel like it won . I would beat it if it took 20 years and 15 of those years it

was sitting in the box . I get frustrated like everyone else , but I walk away from it when I can't concentrate .

[MyBradKeselowski]

If I have one that causes me trouble I simply set it aside and start another one. I'm not the type that can be abusive to plastic.

I guess you can call me weird... LOL

[rmvw guy]

The last one I smashed was an airplane. That's why now I just build cars and trucks.

[Guest Johnny]

that don't make sense you pay good money that you won't smash them,but yet you've set them on fire and blown them up

Yes it does! Read " I have NEVER smashed a model" add in anger and you have what he was saying.

I'm the same. I have never smashed one because I was pissed off at it, just walked away if I was frustrated. I even have a couple that sat 20+ years before I ever got back to finish them.(a couple still waiting even longer)

But as a kid blew up my share! Had a friend lived on a busy street and had a driveway with a nice slope to it. We would make a car roll easy douse it with lighter fluid ignite and send it down and out into traffic! Some time adding a couple black cats to the back set so they would blow up about the time they hit the middle of the street!.

When my friend passed away a couple years ago went to visit his mom and on the shelf in his room was a once metallic blue and very flat 37 Chevy! I could remember the day he did that one like it was yesterday!

[philo426]

I don't do that although I must confess I have been tempted on several models over the years.The best method I use is to put it aside.call it some nasty names and go upstairs and do something else.I then will get back to it the next day in a calmer state of mind conducive to finding a logical solution to the modeling problem.Works well for me !