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Dumbest mistake?

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I need some reassurance that I am not the only one who still makes dumb mistakes.

What brought this on was I was just masking a canopy (not one of my favourite parts of moedlling). I covered it with Tamiya tape, rubbed it down over the frames and carefully used a new blade to score the tape around the edges of the frames.

Then I just caught myself peeling off the tape from over the clear parts of the canopy and leaving the tape on the frames! All fixed now but I felt pretty foolish.

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I stuck the bomb bay of a Dambusters Lancaster around the wrong way, so you are not alone.


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I've recently put the inner undercarriage doors on Seafire on the wrong sides. Therefore the decals wouldn't fit!!. :oops:
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MarkyM607 wrote:I've recently put the inner undercarriage doors on Seafire on the wrong sides. Therefore the decals wouldn't fit!!. :oops:
The reversed serial codes on the Firebrand that you point out! ;-)
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I've also done the masking tape thing and peeled the wrong piece off! :oops:
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Thanks, folks. This helps.

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Yep; been there and done that with canopy masking......only iI went further and sprayed the canopy as well :roll:
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Put the undercarriage on a Zero back to front :oops:

Left out the engine splitters on Concorde. Only just managed to prise the engines back off before the cement fully hardened :oops:

Put a curved side window into a B-29 out of skew and had to spend ages sanding and polishing it back to profile :oops:

On same B-29 managed to push a cockpit side window through after everything had been buttoned up. I got it back out through the aperture in the end but I certainly got some experience in keyhole surgery :oops:

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dwomby wrote:I need some reassurance that I am not the only one who still makes dumb mistakes.

What brought this on was I was just masking a canopy (not one of my favourite parts of moedlling). I covered it with Tamiya tape, rubbed it down over the frames and carefully used a new blade to score the tape around the edges of the frames.

Then I just caught myself peeling off the tape from over the clear parts of the canopy and leaving the tape on the frames! All fixed now but I felt pretty foolish.

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dwomby wrote:I need some reassurance that I am not the only one who still makes dumb mistakes.

What brought this on was I was just masking a canopy (not one of my favourite parts of moedlling). I covered it with Tamiya tape, rubbed it down over the frames and carefully used a new blade to score the tape around the edges of the frames.

Then I just caught myself peeling off the tape from over the clear parts of the canopy and leaving the tape on the frames! All fixed now but I felt pretty foolish.

David
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1. Going down the 'accumulating a stash' route. Wish I'd never started and stuck to building one kit at a time.

2. I routinely build and paint sub-assemblies – radiators, engines, complete cockpits – then set them aside and glue the fuselage halves together without installing them. I've lost count of the number of times I've done this.
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I've done silly things to models everyone should be ashamed of!

A couple of the less drastic examples:

I inserted the rear pilot seat the wrong way in the Matchbox Swordfish.

I've glued the fuselage together on the Horton and didnt glue in the 2 Engine inserts.
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Reverse camouflage patterns.

Undercarriage doors back to front.

Irish flag wrong way round (on an Aer Lingus 707)
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Used to have a formica table to work on. Knocked over a full bottle of Plastic Weld and instantly glued the cutting mat and everything plastic (including a drinks glass) to it.
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Kitaholic wrote:Used to have a formica table to work on. Knocked over a full bottle of Plastic Weld and instantly glued the cutting mat and everything plastic (including a drinks glass) to it.
You should have fixed the table onto your ceiling to mess with the heads of any visitors. :ha:
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