G'day guys and gals
Well ive just sat down to the computer after spending a short while absolutley kicking myself for a complete modelling brainfart...
Putting 4 sets of beautiful Hudson & Allen Rank insignia decals upside down on my latest figures. I totally zoned out due to the sheer excitment of applying decal after decal, by the time i realised my mistake, they had already set with softener and were lost. lest we forget
Anyway, it got me thinking, what other major doozies have we all done out there? Im sure theres some big ones
Cheers
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lestweforget
Victoria, Australia
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Posted: Thursday, December 18, 2008 - 12:57 AM UTC
calvin2000
Colorado, United States
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Posted: Thursday, December 18, 2008 - 02:39 AM UTC
I put a turret mount ring on upside down once did'nt notice till it was time to mount the turret.
kelly
kelly
treadhead1952
Nevada, United States
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Posted: Thursday, December 18, 2008 - 03:41 AM UTC
My list is long and far too painful to reiterate. Probably neverending as well.
Posted: Thursday, December 18, 2008 - 03:49 AM UTC
Tried to 'force dry' a wash coat on a T-34/85 with a100 watt light and took my attention away for several seconds............................
C.
C.
capnjock
United States
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Posted: Thursday, December 18, 2008 - 03:58 AM UTC
Sealed up a chassis then realized that the taillights are installed from the INSIDE!!
capnjock
capnjock
BobCard
Florida, United States
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Posted: Thursday, December 18, 2008 - 03:59 AM UTC
For some reason I thought that the drive sprocket on a Cromwell was just like a Sherman, in the front. Didn't figure it out until after all the weathering and placement on a diorama
As with Jay probably won't be the last mistake I ever make.
Bob
As with Jay probably won't be the last mistake I ever make.
Bob
Posted: Thursday, December 18, 2008 - 04:17 AM UTC
Buried a #11 blade deep into my index finger's tip heading towards my wrist. after stopping the obvious leak and cleaning up, I took a lunch break and came up with a differant way to hold the piece I was working. When I tried it after lunch, I promptly buried the same blade just as deep into the middle finger next to the wounded digit. Sober as a judge,too. Left the bench alone for about a week or so............
Rick
Rick
mat
Limburg, Netherlands
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Posted: Thursday, December 18, 2008 - 08:03 AM UTC
spending hours on the nylon wire rigging of a 1/350 battleship and then trying to tighten it with a lighter. I found out there's a very fine line between tighten and melt.....
airborne1
Queensland, Australia
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Posted: Thursday, December 18, 2008 - 08:07 AM UTC
Dont drink 2 bottles of wine and 3 stubbies of beer
and thennn ,do some modelling .
Worked on the m40 suspension and put all the bogie assemblies around the wrong way .
and thennn ,do some modelling .
Worked on the m40 suspension and put all the bogie assemblies around the wrong way .
GVoakes
Manitoba, Canada
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Posted: Thursday, December 18, 2008 - 08:29 AM UTC
Applied the flat coat (polly S - the fairly opaque white stuff) - started spraying....
And then noticed it was flat white....
And then noticed it was flat white....
jba
Rhone, France
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Posted: Thursday, December 18, 2008 - 08:48 AM UTC
A bit like Rick, stuffing an X -Acto with n°11 blade in a trousers pocket and as usual putting my hands in the pocket while talking a few minutes later.
pouring a very expensive transparent resin down thinking it was the same pot filled with water that stood near because there was a beautiful cat in the garden.
And recently making a 1 cm mistake on some measurements for a diorama
etc..
pouring a very expensive transparent resin down thinking it was the same pot filled with water that stood near because there was a beautiful cat in the garden.
And recently making a 1 cm mistake on some measurements for a diorama
etc..
Grumpyoldman
Consigliere
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Posted: Thursday, December 18, 2008 - 09:45 AM UTC
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Applied the flat coat (polly S - the fairly opaque white stuff) - started spraying....
And then noticed it was flat white....
And I thought I was the only one who ever did that!
Fitz
Minnesota, United States
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Posted: Thursday, December 18, 2008 - 11:34 AM UTC
Far too many to recall. I screw up something on every build.
cyclones6
Illinois, United States
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Posted: Thursday, December 18, 2008 - 01:37 PM UTC
It is regular for me to spill tamiya liquid cement all over and get super glue everywhere when putting on PE
RSingleton
Kentucky, United States
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Posted: Thursday, December 18, 2008 - 02:16 PM UTC
First time using photoetch, and spilling the superglue and bonding all five fingers with it. Hours of cold water and loosening the fingers to finally feel freedom. All that just to make a support rod to hold a walkway.
Richard
Currently building: Trumpeter Karl (Initial and late hull kit)
Richard
Currently building: Trumpeter Karl (Initial and late hull kit)
Silantra
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Posted: Thursday, December 18, 2008 - 02:26 PM UTC
Cigarette glued to fingers after getting some excessive ca drop on the same fingers... lucky the cigarette butt didn't stick to my thick mustache.
calvin_ng
United States
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Posted: Thursday, December 18, 2008 - 02:44 PM UTC
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me too !!!! im a sherman addict so i didnt even pay attention. For some reason I thought that the drive sprocket on a Cromwell was just like a Sherman, in the front. Didn't figure it out until after all the weathering and placement on a diorama
As with Jay probably won't be the last mistake I ever make.
Bob
captfue
Texas, United States
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Posted: Thursday, December 18, 2008 - 04:17 PM UTC
Back in the days when you needed to buy two or three kits to make a sherman conversion finished the project and painted the tank. Thought it would dry fast on top of the water heater. got a nice blob of plastic.
AndyD
New South Wales, Australia
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Posted: Thursday, December 18, 2008 - 04:32 PM UTC
My biggest mistake would be sending a mate free sets of Hudson and Allen decals only to have the nimrod put them on upside down...
I have some more in the stash Dave - let me know if you need them.....
I have some more in the stash Dave - let me know if you need them.....
flyfort17
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Posted: Friday, December 19, 2008 - 05:41 AM UTC
Gluing the fuselage of a jet together. Coming back an hour later to find the cockpit sitting next to it.
Posted: Friday, December 19, 2008 - 05:55 AM UTC
Severed all the tendons to my little finger in my left hand while trying to remove a burr from an aluminium rod with a stanley knife, blade went in one side and out the other. Never again.
mauserman
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Posted: Friday, December 19, 2008 - 09:36 AM UTC
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Tried to 'force dry' a wash coat on a T-34/85 with a100 watt light and took my attention away for several seconds............................
C.
Did the exact same thing except it was on the interior paint job on a Dragon Tiger. By the time I got back to it the hull was so warped that I had to scrap the kit.
integraguy95
Tennessee, United States
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Posted: Saturday, December 20, 2008 - 03:59 PM UTC
chopped the tip of my left pointer finger off trying to remove the right side bow fender from my Tiger I. Also on the same project glued the top deck on and forgot to put the idler shaft in through the side...damn Academy.
bmill25
Pennsylvania, United States
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Posted: Monday, December 22, 2008 - 07:49 AM UTC
I once thought i could do a better paint job and after i soaked the thing well i was rubbing off the paint the entire model snapped in half.
Removed by original poster on 12/23/08 - 01:29:02 (GMT).