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Post by Calvin on Dec 1, 2009 22:24:27 GMT -5
What are some of the most stupidest things you have done in Model Building?
Let it out.....come on.....be a man.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 2, 2009 12:09:46 GMT -5
Got a brand spanking new set of decals from Micheal. I was dying to put them on and they were out of the envelope for 10 minutes tops. Grabbed my clear coat (or so I thought) and preceded to spray my brand new decals silver.  |
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Post by indycals on Dec 2, 2009 16:11:58 GMT -5
Man, I've done so many stupid things it makes my brain hurt just thinking about it. Recently - as in about 3 years ago, I cut my finger bad enough that the xacto blade sliced through my fingernail. As for non-mutilation related stupidity, when I was about 13 I got the 1/12 Lotus 78. I had just finished decaling it when I decided to clearcoat it. Not realizing that decals dry to the touch weren't necessarily dry, they all wrinkled up when the clearcoat hit.
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Post by herk56 on Dec 2, 2009 16:33:56 GMT -5
Yeah, I've done that before, too, Michael. I've become very anal about how long I let paint and decals dry before clear-coating now, probably wait way longer than you really need. My mutilation story is: After using scalpels for many, many years with only minor cuts and scrapes, I got lazy one night and started setting the scalpel on my thigh rather than way over there on the bench (inches away!). Summer time, dressed in shorts. The scalpel decided to slide off my thigh and proceeded to lodge in my calf for a second before falling to the floor. It didn't really hurt at firs, then some blood appeared, so I grabbed a clean paper towel and applied some pressure for a few seconds, thinking that would be it. NOOOO, it bled furiously, altho not quite like a severed artery, for a loooong time. My wife was alarmed to see me walk downstairs all hunched over with one hand clamped around my leg! Can't even see the scar now. I still catch myself starting to set the scalpel on my leg occasionally, but usually only once before I go "Oh yeah, bad idea"!
Brian
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Post by Deleted on Dec 2, 2009 16:47:30 GMT -5
Oh Brian....I have mutilated myself many times!
One I was working on an old Monogram Kingfisher Air-Float kit that required you to bore out holes in the wings so the floats can be glued onto the underside of the wing. (That's what I get for building an aircraft model!!!)
I was sitting there with my recently new x-acto knife and the freaking wing broke and I stabbed myself in the mid-thigh section of my right leg. At first, I sat there and look at my leg thinking..."Wow, that doesn't hurt that bad...." Then the pain hit! As I removed the knife it started to bleed badly...then I remembered what an old Army Medic told me about Super Glue. It was originally invented and called "Liquid Suitcher" and I used it on my leg to close the wound. It stung like all get out!!!!! It also worked and I sopped bleeding. I still use Super Glue when I cut my fingers.
Best to you!
Russ
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Post by indycals on Dec 2, 2009 16:58:25 GMT -5
I can back you up on that Russ - Superglue is indeed a wound sealer.
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Post by bicv8 on Dec 2, 2009 19:23:56 GMT -5
i left a box on my porch on day.... it was a mint 300 dollar mario indy winner...... it grew legs and walked off....... and ups said tuff (expletive deleted)
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Post by macsparty on Dec 2, 2009 20:15:32 GMT -5
Every time someone brings up using Super Glue on a cut, I think of one of my old roommates in my younger days. He was a fellow modeler, and we had a model room set up in the basement of a house we were renting. Anyway, he cut himself with an Xacto one night, and knowing about Super Glue as a suture device, proceeded to apply liberal amounts. All was good - until he figured he could accelerate the healing process with some Zap kicker! Yeow! Hello, exothermic reaction.  He said that hurt worse than the original cut! |
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Post by Patrick on Dec 2, 2009 20:52:25 GMT -5
Ah, I knew Russ and I had something in common. The old knife in the thigh trick. Only I didn't have any Xactos so...I used a box cutter! All the nurses at the hospital came in to get a good laugh!
Speaking of super glue...I had just finished a Ferrari 512 BB the yellow Le Mans car and proceeded to glue my thumb to the front hood!
Then there was the time I wanted to hurry the drying time of my Airfix 1/32 Mini-Cooper so I popped it into the oven...yep, it was a plastic body!
DUH!
Patrick
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Post by Calvin on Dec 2, 2009 21:15:12 GMT -5
One of the things that I did..... I was clear coating a car outside on the gravel, holding it at the end with a squeeze clamp.....it came loose and the freshly painted car had rocks sticking all over it.  It was the 1988 Miller car believe it or not. |
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Post by lance on Dec 2, 2009 21:46:10 GMT -5
While working on a 35 miller, I had an xacto blade enter at the knuckle nearest the nail of my left index finger, it went to the bone and then turned north and headed up my finger to the next knuckle, creating a nice fillet. I applied direct pressure as recommended in the Boy Scout manual but two hours later it was still spurting blood when pressure was released, time to go to the E.R. The doctor informed me I had severed a nerve in my finger and how it was really important to have surgery to reattach it so I would have feeling restored to my finger tip (I was all for just stitching it up and going home). After the surgery , the first words from the doctors lips was "now there is no guarantee that this is going to work" , he was right , still tingles to this day. As for super glue , I find a layer of paper towel laid into the glue over the cut helps hold everything together nicely. Lance
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Post by indy on Dec 2, 2009 22:13:29 GMT -5
I have three words for this crew
CUT RESISTANT GLOVES
I work at a corrugated box plant and the safety program gives these glove to anyone using a knife and they are required when the blade is out.
Jordan
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Post by Calvin on Dec 2, 2009 22:39:43 GMT -5
Man....talk about a blood bath of a thread  |
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Post by stonecold44 on Dec 2, 2009 23:10:22 GMT -5
I played hockey for over 30 years and didn't get that many cuts. You guys play rough.
As for the dumbest thing I ever did while modeling; Happens everyday. I get started and before long it's 1am. And I get up at 4:45 every morning. Sleep deprivation galore.
Or it could be the Space Shuttle model a friend and I built. We wanted to re-create the Challenger explosion (don't flame me. I was a twisted 20 something then) so we put a fuel bladder in it filled with some sort of flammable liquid and attached the model to 4 big bottle rockets. Upon take-off the whole thing tipped and the Shuttle flew under my truck. Thank God the bladder didn't ignite or I would have had a hard time explaining to the insurance adjuster why my truck was on fire.
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Post by mrindy77 on Dec 2, 2009 23:31:58 GMT -5
I stripped paint of a pre-painted 1/43 Bugatti tank by JPS.....I used aircraft stripper...works great paint came of in seconds...unfortunately it also attacked the resin....it ate of most all of the detail...got it out in time and nuetralized it in water before it completely disintegrated. It was a bear to fix but I rescribed everything and machined the louvers back in. The customer never knew.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 3, 2009 15:32:20 GMT -5
Wow, let me think......... ;D Worst cut was back in 1971 when I stuck an x-acto carving blade in my left inner thigh while removing a piece of sprue from a 1/32 airplane wing. About 3/4" deep........... no ER trip, I was a 20 year old college linebacker, couldn't go there! LOL!!
Using acetone to wipe down a paint job on a model one night, instead of prep sol, was a non injury disaster!
Just recently I found out that Naptha will remove ALPS decals the hard way............
But the list is MUCH longer! LOL!!
Mongo
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Post by stonecold44 on Dec 5, 2009 23:23:50 GMT -5
DOHHHH!!! I just did a major league screw up.... I have two cars going, both black, both going for the last coat of paint. As some of you have read, I painted one of them in Testors enamel. Guess what comes next. Yep, I used Tamiya for the last coat and I suddenly have a bubbling mess on my hands. The only thing that disturbs me about that is my total carelessness. I have heard that you dont spray on one type of paint over the other. It has something to do with the base of the paint. Oh well. Now I have to wait til this car dies (edit: or dries ) then do the unenviable task of sanding, smoothing and re-painting. And yes, sniffing more fumes. I'm almost drunk and I haven't had a drink tonight. |
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Post by Calvin on Dec 5, 2009 23:29:59 GMT -5
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Post by stonecold44 on Dec 5, 2009 23:45:30 GMT -5
Oh no. We know your pain Come on. No one else has ever done that, have they?? |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 5, 2009 23:47:39 GMT -5
DOHHHH!!! I just did a major league screw up.... I have two cars going, both black, both going for the last coat of paint. As some of you have read, I painted one of them in Testors enamel. Guess what comes next. Yep, I used Tamiya for the last coat and I suddenly have a bubbling mess on my hands. The only thing that disturbs me about that is my total carelessness. I have heard that you dont spray on one type of paint over the other. It has something to do with the base of the paint. Oh well. Now I have to wait til this car dies then do the unenviable task of sanding, smoothing and re-painting. And yes, sniffing more fumes. I'm almost drunk and I haven't had a drink tonight. Well....I hit the wall too! As you know, I have been woking on Old Calhoun and I was masking off the pearl white paint to paint the blue nose; all I had to do was move the tape a little...now mind you that I was using Tamiya's low tact masking tape..and it pulled the pearl white paint off of the body. Back to square one! I let the Tamiya Paint dry for a day and ahalf......next I dry sand the body and start the painting all over again...and now here comes the rain to "Sunny" Southern Californa for the next three days...weee... Like I said, if it were easy, everyone would be doing it! I know your paint Gregg and best to you all! Russ |
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Post by Calvin on Dec 5, 2009 23:51:46 GMT -5
Gosh guys! There must be oil on the track, hope no one else is hitting the wall! Attachments:
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Post by stonecold44 on Dec 6, 2009 0:11:30 GMT -5
I didn't hit the wall. I drove right up into the catch fence. Ironically, when I had my mishap, it couldn't have been more than 30 minutes after I got off the phone with Russ. He just got done telling me what happened to his Old Calhoun.
As I said, I'm more angry at my carelessness.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2009 11:52:46 GMT -5
I join the X-Acto in the thigh group. Put it on a table and it rolled toward the edge. Probably would have been okay if I didn't try to catch it (with model parts in hand, naturally). Turned it JUST enough that it fell off blade down. Well, you know the rest----
However, I also know of someone who had an insulin syringe full of accellerator while working on restoring a raceway display. Slipped a bit, stabbed thumb instead of model. He said it hurt worse than pretty much anything else he had done. Must be true--he hopped and jumped all over his garage - Dancing With the Stars would have given him First Place!! ;D
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Post by indycals on Dec 10, 2009 12:21:25 GMT -5
I didn't hit the wall. I drove right up into the catch fence. Ironically, when I had my mishap, it couldn't have been more than 30 minutes after I got off the phone with Russ. He just got done telling me what happened to his Old Calhoun. As I said, I'm more angry at my carelessness. On the plus side, you'll never make that mistake again. If you use cans, stick with Tamiya throughout the whole process. Paint brands are made to work with themselves and as you've seen can adversely affect the finish when brands are mixed - this can happen even if they are the same type of paints (ie, lacquer over lacquer, enamel over enamel, etc), due to different formulations from one manufacturer to another. The only exceptions I make is that I will use Testors clear over Tamiya paints (dullcoat and semi gloss). The main reason is that the Testors are simply less expensive, but a side benefit I noticed that when I did my Leyton House that Testors was much easier on my carbon fiber decals than the equivalent Tamiya clears. I also use Testors Model Master Metalizer paints - they are quite good, but I usually just apply those over unprimed plastic. BTW, I came across the issue you had with the black TS14 coming out more of a semi gloss - just buff it up with some wax and it will shine up nicely. In my case I think it was due to painting in too low of a temperature. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2009 13:00:41 GMT -5
However, I also know of someone who had an insulin syringe full of accellerator while working on restoring a raceway display. Slipped a bit, stabbed thumb instead of model. He said it hurt worse than pretty much anything else he had done. Must be true--he hopped and jumped all over his garage - Dancing With the Stars would have given him First Place!! ;D Not fair you telling stoies, even if they are true! Almost best to you...sorry about your leg Tom Russ |
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He said that hurt worse than the original cut!
