[WWI] Disaster Contest

[Douglas Anderson]

I did something similar once. I was tired, had been working on my thesis, so decided to take a break and work a bit on one of my models. Used bluetack to stick the wind down, used the same as a jig to hold the strust in place while the glue dried, and went to bed
  the next morning I had rather an unpleasnt surprise; the Bristol Fighter had the struts glued to the upper surface of the top wing!

Joel Christy <jbarchristy at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
  

This happened last summer; a big rogue pidgeon invaded our loft and crapped all over my collection of models and caused general havoc for three days before I finally had to force it out of the hatch. Once downstairs I threw a towel over it and released it outside. Aside from the mess it made only a few undercarriages and top wings were damaged; IT COULD HVE BEEN WORSE! I even have pictures of the beast!

Another time I was doing the wing celluel of the Roden Felixstowe; I'd stuck the top wing to the work board with Blue Tac and then glued the the bottom wing and struts to it. After all was dry I picked up the whole assembly.......arrgh, it was still stuck to the work board!! Doh!

Cheers,

Joel



David Vosburgh wrote: My oldest son got back into WWI modelling after seeing 'Flyboys' (see? I 
*told* you guys some good would come of it even with all the inaccuracies) 
and recently drove home from Pittsburgh to get all his kits, which have been 
in the attic for about six years. He started working on the 1:72 Revell 
D.VII and got it strutted up, then set it aside to dry on the windowsill.

Unfortunately, his girlfriend's cat (rumoured to have a slight amount of 
brain damage) got up and paraded around the window for a while, then slipped 
and - you guessed it - landed on the top wing of said D.VII, squashing same.

As disasters go, it wasn't much, he's going to re-do the struts with plastic 
rod and she'll be good as new. But I got to wondering about other's 
experiences along these lines... so here's the deal: post your worst 
disaster and the winner will get the bits of the 99% finished 1:72 Camel I 
worked on for two months, and which then got smashed to atoms when a fan 
fell off the table onto it.

DV
Contest Co-Ordinator

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