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Offline nmroberto

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Have you ever done something realllly dumb?
« on: May 12, 2014, 10:51:01 AM »
Dumb, as being stupid.

I'm building a 1/48 Eduard Pfalz.  Glued on the bottom wing, drilled holes for rigging, put on the turnbuckles, filled and sanded the gaps and primed ready for paint. 

Only then did I discover that for some reason Eduard included two bottom wings with the kit, without mentioning this fact in their instructions, and I had installed the wrong frigging one.  Fortunately I removed the wing this morning with little damage, so here I go again..  sigh.....

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Re: Have you ever done something realllly dumb?
« Reply #1 on: May 12, 2014, 12:44:29 PM »
Yep, got married........
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Re: Have you ever done something realllly dumb?
« Reply #2 on: May 12, 2014, 12:58:24 PM »
Incessantly!
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Re: Have you ever done something realllly dumb?
« Reply #3 on: May 12, 2014, 02:41:53 PM »
All the time.  ;)

Glad you got sorted though

Keith
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Offline justin1980

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Re: Have you ever done something realllly dumb?
« Reply #4 on: May 12, 2014, 04:00:20 PM »
What, like not checking the instructions and placing a radiator upside down?  But managing to glue it that well it won't come off!  Yep that would be me!  ::)
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Re: Have you ever done something realllly dumb?
« Reply #5 on: May 12, 2014, 04:11:17 PM »
A day hardly seems complete without having done something really stupid.

In modelling terms, a high spot was trying to remove some paint I wasn't happy with from the entire length of a top wing using a solvent which attacked the plastic as well, leaving it a sticky, gooey mess. It rendered the whole thing unusable. At the time I remember thinking how nice the SE5a might have looked as a monoplane!

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Offline Ian from Doncaster

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Re: Have you ever done something realllly dumb?
« Reply #6 on: May 12, 2014, 05:17:46 PM »
Quote from: nmroberto on May 12, 2014, 10:51:01 AM
Dumb, as being stupid.

I'm building a 1/48 Eduard Pfalz.  Glued on the bottom wing, drilled holes for rigging, put on the turnbuckles, filled and sanded the gaps and primed ready for paint. 

Only then did I discover that for some reason Eduard included two bottom wings with the kit, without mentioning this fact in their instructions, and I had installed the wrong frigging one.  Fortunately I removed the wing this morning with little damage, so here I go again..  sigh.....

With every model, at least once!  The upside down gun on my Nie 17 for starters.  Botched paint or glue marks that mean I have to do more weathering than usual, and of course the dreaded "glue finger"..

Most are repairable, and I haven't had to bin a model since the airfix constellation over 3 years ago, that didn't survive a botched paint job...
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Re: Have you ever done something realllly dumb?
« Reply #7 on: May 12, 2014, 07:31:38 PM »
Dumb? I wouldn't be Bob without acting dumb... Keeps me sane!   :o  ;D  :)  ;)

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Re: Have you ever done something realllly dumb?
« Reply #8 on: May 12, 2014, 08:23:54 PM »
Now you're well aware that Pfalz D-III and D-IIIa have different lower wings... :)
Mistakes can always be useful to something.

As for me, a few days ago I put the crosses before the rib tapes on the upper wing of my Albatros...As a result, I had to waste hours cutting very small rib tape bits to rebuild them around the crosses... :(
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Offline IFF1418

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Re: Have you ever done something realllly dumb?
« Reply #9 on: May 12, 2014, 09:33:07 PM »
My most stupid thing was that I didn't start modeling 50 years ago! And then the usual dumb, daily things.

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Re: Have you ever done something realllly dumb?
« Reply #10 on: May 12, 2014, 10:00:25 PM »
Roberto, I have been doing dumb for 65 years.  I am quite good at it now. ;) ;D
Yours is nothing! ;D

Cheers,
Ernie :)

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Re: Have you ever done something realllly dumb?
« Reply #11 on: May 12, 2014, 11:28:10 PM »
There was two different D IIIa an early with lower wing from the D III and the later one  with rundet ends.
Martin
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Re: Have you ever done something realllly dumb?
« Reply #12 on: May 13, 2014, 12:46:23 AM »
I have done the same with my 1:48 Pfalz but I discovered it late, so I opted for the Karl Dagelow's white stag/black aircraft, that had the early type of lower wing :)

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Offline lcarroll

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Re: Have you ever done something realllly dumb?
« Reply #13 on: May 13, 2014, 01:05:11 AM »
Quote from: Ernie Parsons on May 12, 2014, 10:00:25 PM
Roberto, I have been doing dumb for 65 years.  I am quite good at it now. ;) ;D
Yours is nothing! ;D

Cheers,
Ernie :)

    Maybe it's an age related talent; like Ernie I've done every dumb move listed here at one time or another, and still going strong! Why, just a few days ago I was thinning some S/G black Enamel for the airbrush, managed to do so with the liquid cement that was in the same type of bottle as my enamel thinner; caught it right away but a little messy.................. ??? or just as good, mix a thinned batch of Acryl Clear Coat for airbrushing, then pour the unmixed original into the colour cup and wonder why it's spraying (thankfully on a test piece) like confetti!?! :(
   Take raw courage into your hearts, Guys, it will only get better with time!
Cheers,
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Offline IvotB

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Re: Have you ever done something realllly dumb?
« Reply #14 on: May 13, 2014, 01:25:19 AM »
Getting married, having 4 kids in stead of the convenient number 2, having kids at all, as it drastically reduces your time for modelling, having a stash of kits for which I have got to reach the age of 200 in order to get them build, losing parts to the carpet monster over and over again: no I have never done anything dumb in my life :)

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