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Title: What do you hate most about modeling?
Post by: Des on November 06, 2012, 03:16:49 PM

My pet hate is waiting for paint to dry, it's like watching grass grow, seems to take forever.  :(

Des.

Title: Re: What do you hate most about modeling?
Post by: gcn on November 06, 2012, 05:27:04 PM

Sanding and seams. I thought I'd cracked it but my Bristol build had a seam that never went after half a dozen attempts. I should have used cement.

Title: Re: What do you hate most about modeling?
Post by: Ian from Doncaster on November 06, 2012, 05:43:20 PM

Trimming and tidying sprue gates...... So frustrating when I want to start glueing and painting!

I sometimes use a hairdryer to accelerate drying times.

Title: Re: What do you hate most about modeling?
Post by: Adam on November 06, 2012, 06:25:04 PM

Gluing the upper wing to struts.  >:(

Adam.

Title: Re: What do you hate most about modeling?
Post by: bobs_buckles on November 06, 2012, 06:39:32 PM

Paying for the model!  ;D

Cleaning flash from fiddly bits - hate it!  :-\

Von Buckle

Title: Re: What do you hate most about modeling?
Post by: Dekenba on November 06, 2012, 10:24:14 PM

Join marks - painting a part only to have to sand and repaint.

Des - get some acrylic paints!

Title: Re: What do you hate most about modeling?
Post by: Chris Johnson on November 07, 2012, 12:17:11 AM

Super glue.

Cheers,

Chris

Title: Re: What do you hate most about modeling?
Post by: Bluesfan on November 07, 2012, 04:04:30 AM

Glue. All of it, every kind :)

Title: Re: What do you hate most about modeling?
Post by: LindsayT on November 07, 2012, 06:18:06 AM

Paint fumes, and more specifically, thinner fumes, and more specifically-er, laquer thinner fumes. I know, it's a problem of my own making, and I could easily solve it by going to acrylic (which I think I'm going to have to) but the nausea from huffing fumes really makes me want to do a poor job of brush cleaning. The thought of wearing a face mask with an organics filter just doesn't conjure up images of relaxing hobbies to me.

Title: Re: What do you hate most about modeling?
Post by: WarrenD on November 07, 2012, 11:06:03 AM

- Trying to clean up a sprue gate that is right next to some detail I know I can't adequately replicate from what is an otherwise beautifully molded styrene part.
- Having p/e or scratch-built small parts disappear into oblivion.
- Improving a part to make it "just that much better" only to improve it to the point I ruin it.
- Not having enough time to model since changing careers right after I got back in the hobby and almost started to actually develop some skills.

Warren

Title: Re: What do you hate most about modeling?
Post by: Whiteknuckles on November 07, 2012, 12:10:04 PM

Not having the time or space to do any modeling (at the moment :'()
When I do have the time I tend to get frustrated with a lack of skills ::)

Andrew

Title: Re: What do you hate most about modeling?
Post by: pepperman42 on November 08, 2012, 02:17:02 AM

Seams, lack of time, seams and then probably seams in that order...

Steve