Danno Posted June 6, 2014 Posted June 6, 2014 A friend of mine was a judge. He always said divorce was too expensive for men. His recommended resolution was to strip naked, paint yourself up with fingerpaints in wild patterns, drench yourself in citronella, wear a pirate's hat, and shoot the beeotch. Then run down the middle of the street singing polka songs in Swahili with a southern accent, waving your arms in circles . . . until the police pick you up. You'll spend a couple of months in confinement for evaluation. You start out talking gibberish and nonsense, but gradually over a month or so begin talking more rationally. The mental health experts will be so proud of themselves for curing you that they'll certify you are no longer a danger to society and recommend you for release. Quicker and much cheaper than divorce, and more final. Do I need to point out that his "advice" was tongue-in-cheek humor? And usually dispensed after a few Jacks-n-Cokes at select cocktail parties.
DodgeAddict Posted June 6, 2014 Posted June 6, 2014 know why divorce is so expensive? because its worth it. I woulda shot the bit*h on the spot, d*a*m*n the police jb The Fluidampner for my B1 was propping the door open & I started to pick it up & go to work on those feet & hands but figured it would be no use Should have though as she went on to stalk not just me but my oldest daughter & first wife too
Brizio Posted June 6, 2014 Posted June 6, 2014 Other stories that came out about woman around me and my models. The woman are my mom and my sweet half... My sweet half respect my hobby, and she is very careful with my models. Last year we went to a model car show, the models (8) were in a cardboard box in the back seat. She was driving, and when we arrived we saw the speed bumps too late... The box was on it's side... Luckily only two models need some easy fixing, that I was able to do a the show, and enter them. About my mom... Well, sometime she cleaned the room where the models are, parts were missing, sometime some broken models, and in one case one went MIA... After I told her that I will clean that room, and since that no other disaster happened. This is one of my oldest disaster story that I can remember, late 90's... I scratch built a Iety, a 4x4 car made by a very very small company in Itali in teh 70's, it had 4 wheel drive, and 4 steering wheels, with the possibility to chose if you want the front, back or all 4 to steer. It also had a soft top, and the body was made in aluminum, and soft top. It was small, kind of a old Fiat 500, and it used Fiat parts. Pretty cool little machine that can go anywhere in the mountain. I scratch built one for my dad in 1/20 scale, and when I painted I put it in front of a door that goes out in a terrace thinking that if somebody need to go out will see it (big mistake). My dad go out and CracK!!!! He step on it!!! But I was able to fix it.
Tom Geiger Posted June 6, 2014 Posted June 6, 2014 Fabrizio jarred an old memory with that last post! Back when I was 11 or 12 I was allowed to build models in my grandparents' basement. And being a kid I did so on the floor. My grandfather was mowing his little backyard with his electric lawn mower. He didn't look when he tossed his extension wire into the basement... dead center on my brand new '71 Cougar that I was painting. He smashed the body, and pretty quickly took me to Two Guys to get another one. They didn't have another Cougar so I got something else. Move forward 30 years and I'm in charge of selling the house after my grandfather died. I'm cleaning out the basement and what do I spy on the floor? A blue spray paint outline of that Cougar body on the floor!
Agent G Posted June 6, 2014 Posted June 6, 2014 I was about 11-12 and had a basement workshop. Bored as pre-teens usually are I decided to take target practice in the basement. Well dad had set up a BB trap for my amusement but naturally I just had to shoot that "empty" can of purple spray paint. That empty can spewed purple spray paint like you wouldn't believe spinning and taking flight across the basement. Did I mention that purple spray paint went everywhere? Fast forward 30 years, mom was moving and I found remnants of purple spray paint on the wall. G
jbwelda Posted June 6, 2014 Posted June 6, 2014 Lest anyone take my last post too seriously, I was totally kidding. I would probably just stake her to the ground and let the ants do the rest. KIDDING!!! jb
tbill Posted June 6, 2014 Posted June 6, 2014 pretty funny stuff fellas, amazing the things we do sometimes. in all seriousness I think my biggest modeling disaster was the 20 years that I spent NOT building. I find it amazing how much I really enjoy it. I know I loved it as a kid/teen, and love it now, and upon reflection, I have no idea why I stopped doing it for so long. Sure, life/wife/kids/work happen after the carefree teen years, but heck, you still have hobbies right? Anyway, just so glad I got back into it again, made winter this year bearable, and I have met some cool people thru this plastic addiction, and now that summer is upon us, I won't hate the rainy days so much
Agent G Posted June 7, 2014 Posted June 7, 2014 Lest anyone take my last post too seriously, I was totally kidding. I would probably just stake her to the ground and let the ants do the rest. KIDDING!!! jb I found that ignoring the ex's and moving on was much more satisfying. #3 apparently cannot stand the fact I'm remarried and oh yeah, HAPPY! G
Tom Geiger Posted June 7, 2014 Posted June 7, 2014 Lest anyone take my last post too seriously, I was totally kidding. I would probably just stake her to the ground and let the ants do the rest. KIDDING!!! jb I guess you heard the black helicopter hovering over your house?
Art Anderson Posted June 7, 2014 Posted June 7, 2014 #1: Back in the spring of 1969, while finishing up my bachelor's degree, I decided to tackle two of the then-new MPC 1968 Gurney Eagle Indy cars. One was to be the Rislone car (Bobby Unser, 1968) and the other Bobby Unser's 1969 Bardahl 1 Special--a '68 Eagle painted in the then-current Bardahl black & yellow checkerboard pattern. I got both of them to the black paint stage, and double disaster! When pulling the masking tape away after doing the black on the Rislone car, it didn't just pull the red lacquer (automotive lacquer) off, it PULLED a layer of the plastic off as well--apparently a bad batch of styrene that day? I also had sprayed all the black squares on the Bardahl car, removed the masking tape, and put the "tub" in between two study lamps with 75W light bulbs in them--something I'd done countless times before with no problem. I glanced at that car after about 15 minutes or so, only to be horrified to see that every black square had softened, warped inward--while the yellow squares were just perfect. Not a good day. Art
DodgeAddict Posted June 7, 2014 Posted June 7, 2014 Lest anyone take my last post too seriously, I was totally kidding. I would probably just stake her to the ground and let the ants do the rest. KIDDING!!! jb Her own life is catching up with her & the Ex Partee order stays current At one time I welcomed harm upon her as she destroyed other things that were dear in my life too My life has changed & I feel like she needs help Other than that it's just been the disrespectful people who just reach & grab,parents who can't control their kids with paint reaction or Joyriding ( when it rolls off that shelf or TV that has nothing to stop it) thrown in No one cares for your models like you do except another like you who is as anal as you are about their own I learned this with my very first model car
Agent G Posted June 7, 2014 Posted June 7, 2014 Art I believe that's the first and only time I have ever heard of the plastic coming off with the tape. Masking tape must have been a bit different then? G
James2 Posted June 7, 2014 Posted June 7, 2014 Small details bring big problems at times. After spending way to much time cutting, fitting and sanding. As I was walking from the booth to the bench, this body decided to go it's separate way. Hitting the floor and separated again. My first reaction was to stomp on it, but I resisted and fixed/finished the build. I'm glad I did...
Art Anderson Posted June 7, 2014 Posted June 7, 2014 Art I believe that's the first and only time I have ever heard of the plastic coming off with the tape. Masking tape must have been a bit different then? G More like the first time I ever saw styrene plastic do that, as it had never happened to me before, and never in the 45 years since (and it was good, old-fashioned 3M masking tape, same as I use still). Art
Tom Geiger Posted June 7, 2014 Posted June 7, 2014 There was the time I was transporting my '32 Vicky across the model room, holding it securely by the roof edges. All of a sudden I hear a 'CRACK' and I realize all I'm holding it the body! The rest of it had tumbled down to the carpet. The good part was that no painted parts broke. It pretty much just unassembled itself. So I took the opportunity to get some good interior shots and such since the model was built before digital cameras. I was upset so I did let it languish in a box for ten years or more. I just couldn't look at it, and thought the damage was much worse than it actually was. I also thought I'd be doing some upgrades when I repaired it. Then I posted some old photos of it on the boards with the story and guys encouraged me just to put it back together. So I did and it wasn't that bad a deal. A week of careful evenings and we're back on the shelf...
DodgeAddict Posted June 7, 2014 Posted June 7, 2014 Tom thats the most dangerous thing I worry about as I don't glue mine solid so I can clean them or rebody down the road I had some stolen once by kids & was mad for a minute but knew they were putting them together so you can't really call that a disaster
ScaleDale Posted June 8, 2014 Posted June 8, 2014 I sprayed this guy with thinned Humbrol and it flipped off the stick thing coming back out of the garage last winter. I live in the Northwest, so it landed in a pile of pine needles. Dunk, sand, repeat. Dunk, sand, repeat. Learned all I need to know about paint removing. Sorry, no disaster photo... And I haven't built a Supercar since. Dale
Belugawrx Posted June 8, 2014 Posted June 8, 2014 This is turning into more of a 'NICE SAVES'!!! topic Way to go guys Cheers
DodgeAddict Posted June 8, 2014 Posted June 8, 2014 A friend on another model forum had kind of a double disaster with a Dodge monster truck recently After finding out he over paid (he had bid against me without letting me know) it rolled off a high shelf landing destroying almost all of it's suspension two weeks ago or so He's getting all the parts to build it back so yes this thread is turning towards "Nice Saves"
PeeBee Posted June 9, 2014 Posted June 9, 2014 I guess my biggest disaster was in 2009 when a fire gutted my cave, to which it was confined, fortunately. About 500 kits, all my tools, supplies, benches, cabinets, books, magazines, etc., were immolated. My airbrush compressor, which had been on the floor, survived. Kits included 10 MFH Ferraris (irreplaceable now), a bunch of Tamiya and Fujimi kits, Heller, Etzel's, miscellaneous resin (HRM, Lemans Miniatures) and white metal (Wills Finecast), and a bunch of 1/25 American muscle, annuals, hot rods and on and on. Nobody got hurt, and it's just stuff, but still a really lousy thing to come home to after work. Oh, well.
Deathgoblin Posted June 10, 2014 Posted June 10, 2014 pretty funny stuff fellas, amazing the things we do sometimes. in all seriousness I think my biggest modeling disaster was the 20 years that I spent NOT building. I find it amazing how much I really enjoy it. I know I loved it as a kid/teen, and love it now, and upon reflection, I have no idea why I stopped doing it for so long. Sure, life/wife/kids/work happen after the carefree teen years, but heck, you still have hobbies right? Anyway, just so glad I got back into it again, made winter this year bearable, and I have met some cool people thru this plastic addiction, and now that summer is upon us, I won't hate the rainy days so much I know exactly how you feel. I gave up cars for other subjects, but cars are my first, best love.
DodgeAddict Posted June 11, 2014 Posted June 11, 2014 The only time my models loose time now is when my real cars are getting my attention
metalhead Posted June 11, 2014 Posted June 11, 2014 I finally managed to get a good paint job on my Revell Lightning. I used Testors wet look clear and sprayed the bed and put it aside to dry. I must have a really short memory because I picked the bed up and managed to get some really lovely fingerprints on it. And they were deep. Deep enough to have to strip the entire bed and start over.
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