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10-28-2003, 05:53 AM
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What do you hate most about building a kit ?
This was done along time ago but i'd be keen to hear people's view's again.
For me.......Painting/masking clear windows, i hate pissing around trying to mask them all up and then painting them and trying to get them to look perfect  Seems to take forever to do, and it's always the last thing i do on a kit as i hate it so much
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10-28-2003, 05:58 AM
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I agree P-Man but the thing that really p....s me off is when you don't have a workshop or a bench where you can just leave your kit until you have time to do some more and the missus comes along and cleans up just so you can't find something. They are bloody awesome at it!
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10-28-2003, 06:01 AM
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Re: What do you hate most about building a kit ?
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10-28-2003, 06:08 AM
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My mum does the exact same thing, I haven't actually gone one kit without losing a part!
Masking windows is a pain because mine always leaks. Basically I hate anything that goes wrong and it always does! I lose all motivation.
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10-28-2003, 06:13 AM
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At least you guys can build kits at the mo . . . im stuck in halls at uni and all my modelling stuff is 150miles away back at home . . . im really tempted to go and buy a cheap kit just so i can have summat else to do apart from surfing the web all bloody day- might get some odd looks spray painting outside though
 So stop moaning and get on with your models!!! 
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10-28-2003, 07:08 AM
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Ohhh, there's a lot of thing that can go wrong...
- when you just cut a piece from the three and it went airborne and fly across the room to end in your dirt t-shirt pile. Forget it... it's gone ! - When the mask leak... anywhere anytime... it just suck ! - When you break the windshield after weeks of repair to remove the stupid scratch it has when you bought the kit. - When you prime the surface to the perfection and when you put your color on it, the primer tend to ripple and do that very nasty thing in front of your eyes... then you know you'll have to redo the process all over again. - When the color is applied and the body virtualy finish and you drop it on the ground. - When you try to acheive that wet look but fish eye appears. - When you're almost done with a kit, the only thing to do is window trimming... so you mask, do the trimming part, everything goes alright until you remove the mask to find out it leave a VERY dull, damage paint underneat !!! - When you try to put the body in place and the only wheel you don't look isn't exactely at the right place... so you try to pop the body in place and "ping"... the wheel is gone... probably in that T-shirt pile ! Beleive me, I can go on and on but that would be missing the point. I just hate when all this happen on the same kit ! But when a good kit is finish... I'm very please with the vision of having my own Enzo in the living room... then it's all worth it ! I forget the pain.
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10-28-2003, 08:10 AM
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I will admit to not enjoying painting the inner window sections black...unless it's a Tamiya kit w/masks. It's not only hard to freehand paint, it's hard to lay masking tape down on those surfaces, to line up w/the frosted edges.
 I love old cars w/lots of chrome. I hate applying all that bare metal foil! It's great stuff, but you have to be ultra-clean, ultra-careful w/it so it takes a lot of time to get it looking proper. Gotta be in a good mood, no coffee to keep the fingers from shaking!  I hate models that have suspensions that require re-engineering so that the car sits level. I hate having to take hours to fix Fujimi misdeeds. 
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10-28-2003, 08:39 AM
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10-28-2003, 09:09 AM
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I agree with P-man, out of all the things that you have to do painting the insides of the window frames sucks the worse.
My second biggest peeve is having to scrape the extra plastic off the parts. Scott
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10-28-2003, 09:14 AM
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You can always take up knitting Bob! I think painting (in all applications) is the most annuying for me coz so much can go wrong with it, stray specks of dust, orange peel, runs, masks that leak, overspray, spitting airbrushes etc etc. Then its still not over when the paint is dry, particularly with a car body. Coz then you have to sand and polish it and do your best not to sand too much, or a splash of thinner/glue finds its way onto it even though it was no way near it!!! It certainly becomes alot easier with experience but, in my experience, if anything is going to go horribly wrong then it will be when you're painting.
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10-28-2003, 10:05 AM
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10-28-2003, 10:09 AM
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This is easy for me...
Cleaning my bloody airbrush!!!! Well actually cleaning up in general. I'm a lazy guy and I like modeling at night and just sometimes cannot be bothered to clean everything up, especially if I'm using non-waterbased stuff. I also hate flash and mould lines (thank god for Tamiya!). Cheers Farrokh
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10-28-2003, 10:19 AM
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My least fav. part is when you get a nice coat of paint down only to discover you have filled in all body lines on one side of your car even after scribing them deeper. I also don't like window masking cuz it leave that bloody dullness to your windows that never seems to come off and windex only makes it worse. Lastly i hate it when your holding that nicely painted part with tweezer and you hold it to tight and it flies out from the tweezer and A)ruins the paint B)you lose it and will never find it again or C)both A and B.
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10-28-2003, 11:05 AM
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Dunno, w/my temper at times I'd be using those needles to gouge out somebody's eyes... BTW, I did my favorite work this weekend...bodywork...using your Nismo kit on the 350Z...nice stuff, I took my time cutting the parts off the Z (unlike my rush job on my Celica that required molding them in place and rescribing everything) and it made a big difference...parts fit very nicely. The resin seems cleaner than the C-West as well...only one little pinhole to fill by a side marker. I did have to look at the website to see just how the #&^% to position the rear spats!  Felt like an idiot after trying what I thought was ever combo possible...
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