Car Modeling peeves

[nugundam93]

-having people around in the house who love cleaning stuff up and you discover missing parts from the kit
-having people who keep putting my workbench stuff away, making me lose some disassembled parts
-my mom complaining on how the tamiya acrylic smells but her nailpolish stinks even more. gah.

[freakmech]

drying time of paint and glue

I have such little time for modelling and its taken up waiting for things to dry.

[Chuck Kourouklis]

1) That gorgeous, Olympic-caliber somersault a minuscule piece takes as it pops out of your needle-tip forceps. You get on your knees and find sand grains, dust bunnies, and insect droppings, all about 10% the size of the already tiny part you lost, all to no avail. That hood ornament/radiator cap/door handle has vanished into the ether, gone in the way of the dodo and that missing sock, all in a singular perversion of the time-space continuum invented just for you, the poor sap trying to "relax" with his hobby.

2) The flying leap from your paint stand. You can use packing tape. You can bind it up like the very mummified remains of Thutmose. You can arc-weld the damn part to your hanger or paint stirrer, but in the end, it just doesn't matter. If you're using a slow-setting paint over a particularly grungy patch of ground (carpets are even better), the butter-side-down rule dictates a geometric escalation of the odds that a microburst of humidity will strike, the bindings will split, or the weld will break, smacking your still-wet piece with the maximum possible impact into the nastiest patch of real estate in a fifty-foot radius - of course, with the most visible side down.

3) The "it worked in rehearsal" paint phenomenon. Go ahead. Slop some clear lacquer over that aqueous acrylic base. Feed it from a garden hose if you can. Will it craze? Not if you're just practicing on a plastic spoon. But go one-tenth of one percent over the recommended dose on a dehydrator-cured lacquer basecoat - particularly when you have a deadline - and decals will crinkle, shines will mummify, and the Seven Plagues of Egypt themselves will each take a turn playing havoc with any metallic pigment in your base. And Brother, you ain't lived till you've tried to buff out the locust footprints.

Come to think of it, what do all of these peeves have in common? Why, the bad judgment of the hobby practitioner himself.

So I guess my dearest pet peeve is my own dumb-assitude.

[daklunk]

^^^

1 and 3 I've experience, I have yet to drop a fresh painted body Knock on wood.

[Lownslow]

Originally Posted by nugundam93

-having people around in the house who love cleaning stuff up and you discover missing parts from the kit
-having people who keep putting my workbench stuff away, making me lose some disassembled parts
-my mom complaining on how the tamiya acrylic smells but her nailpolish stinks even more. gah.

yeah i got bitched out because of tamiya but they cant say nothing now that i switched to auto air i even leave my door open when i paint

[porschenut]

Peeves hmmm
Ah yes,
1) having my airbrush propellant run out on me, half way through laying as near to perfect paint job as is possible whne your 14, and having it ruined by the fact that you dont ahve enough money for a compressor.
2) Having a younger brother who thinks your models are cheap diecasts for playing with, (bye bye rear dif of a nissan skyline).
3) Just as you get really into a project having someone clean your room, and ending up with fingermarks on your semi dry paint.
4) My local hobby store never having ANY photoetch in stock, and having to order it from abroad.
Thats a few, (i can go on for a long time)
Euan

[Realystic]

Originally Posted by porschenut

2) Having a younger brother who thinks your models are cheap diecasts for playing with, (bye bye rear dif of a nissan skyline).

same here

[daklunk]

My brother knows he'll lose an arm if he touches mine

Although he did launch a heavy pillow at me a while ago, blew a bunch of little exterior pieces off an Eclipse. It's all good, guess who's buying me a new one?

[porschenut]

Originally Posted by daklunk

My brother knows he'll lose an arm if he touches mine Although he did launch a heavy pillow at me a while ago, blew a bunch of little exterior pieces off an Eclipse. It's all good, guess who's buying me a new one?

Yeah, I had him buy me another skyline, and he nearly lost his arm (not my fault though) He was running away, when i found the dif and back wheels on the floor, and a LARGE crack in the roof...
But I got another one. so like you its all good. But a shame, because you've spent a long time on it, and thats the most fustrating thing about having a model trashed, (i have yet to find a SECURE solution to storing the projects...) (Any ideas PM me!!!)
Euan

[Jay!]

Originally Posted by Chuck Kourouklis

1) That gorgeous, Olympic-caliber somersault a minuscule piece takes as it pops out of your needle-tip forceps.

2) The flying leap from your paint stand.

3) The "it worked in rehearsal" paint phenomenon.

Come to think of it, what do all of these peeves have in common? Why, the bad judgment of the hobby practitioner himself.

So I guess my dearest pet peeve is my own dumb-assitude.

Guilty on all four counts.