Modelling Mishaps

[Jimster]

No injury but I once spent many hours painting and weathering an HO scale Shay logging locomotive kit and when I was about to spray on a protective flat clear coat I accidentally grabbed gray primer and ruined one side.

[Schultzy]

No injury but I once spent many hours painting and weathering an HO scale Shay logging locomotive kit and when I was about to spray on a protective flat clear coat I accidentally grabbed gray primer and ruined one side.

Talk about an “oh no” second!!!


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[Son of a gun-ner]

No injury but I once spent many hours painting and weathering an HO scale Shay logging locomotive kit and when I was about to spray on a protective flat clear coat I accidentally grabbed gray primer and ruined one side.

Oh wow. That by far worse than an injury.

[Jimster]

Yes. I would rather have sliced some bacon off my thumb with a dull Xacto #11 blade.

[Mic]

Reminds me of the melting finger prints into plastic with plastic glue.. How many models have been ruined by my own stupidity!

[Son of a gun-ner]

Reminds me of the melting finger prints into plastic with plastic glue.. How many models have been ruined by my own stupidity!

Oh yeah, I remember doing that as a lad. But I learnt not to do it again lol

[Model Builder 4]

A couple of weeks ago while using a very fine needle like screwdriver to remove a small stubborn screw on my 222 it slipped entering through the side of my thumb and exiting through the top luckily it just went through the skin and didn't enter the fleshie bit it took a second for it to sink in while I sat there with a screwdriver hanging out of my thumb

Cheers, Lee.

[Son of a gun-ner]

Ok, I give in, let's tell you about something REALLY dumb I once did. . . .

To cut a long story short, imagine a very hard piece of metal (stainless spring type steel) backed up by a very soft bit of plastic. And you only need an 1/8th inch hole in the metal. The item is a weird shape to support, got no vice available, I know, let's hold it in my hand. . . .

Yep, you guessed correctly what I did to the webbed part between thumb and forefinger

[jarndice]

And to think they shut all those mental hospitals in the 70s and 80s when this forum alone could have filled a couple of wards quite easily

[Mic]

Ok, I give in, let's tell you about something REALLY dumb I once did. . . .

To cut a long story short, imagine a very hard piece of metal (stainless spring type steel) backed up by a very soft bit of plastic. And you only need an 1/8th inch hole in the metal. The item is a weird shape to support, got no vice available, I know, let's hold it in my hand. . . .

Yep, you guessed correctly what I did to the webbed part between thumb and forefinger

Did you cry?