Today I did something I've never done before: I Threw a kit in the bin!

[lancer]

Have done both in the past, kits 'flown' into walls. the first one that suffered that fate was the old Matchbox A10, funny isn't it? You never forget your first do you? About a dozen or so of my old its were made into targets for my old .22 air rifle.

[PR19_Kit]

Before I retired I used to LIVE in hotels and sometimes took a minmal set of modelling tools with me and worked on projects (small ones...) in the hotel rooms in the evenings.

One such job was an Airmodel vacform of the Ryan X-13 Vertijet, a lovely looking thing, but the guys at Airmodel who did the moulds for the port side of the fuselage were obviously not talking to the guys who did the starboard side. They differed in diameter by about a scale foot, well thicker than the plastic they used. I'd spent some time trying to sort this out by shaving slices out of the larger side moulding until it matched, but it still needed oodles of PSR work to smooth it all out and to get the wings to fit on top. I'd done a whole bunch of that work one night in a hotel in Sheffield, but woke up the next morning to find the PSR had deformed the mouldings so much that the model was unrecognisable! It looked more like the pizza slices I'd eaten the previous evening than an X-13.

So I took the whole model into my customer the next day and subjected it to a 'compression test' in their test system, at a load of 25 tons! I'd have to say that it failed, superbly, and it ended up around 10 thou thick!! 

Now I have the Mach 2 version of the X-13, and I'm not at all sure those Airmodel mould designers haven't moved to France.........

[NARSES2]

So I took the whole model into my customer the next day and subjected it to a 'compression test' in their test system, at a load of 25 tons! I'd have to say that it failed, superbly, and it ended up around 10 thou thick!! 

25 tonnes ? You've given me an idea. Next time I'm in Sheffield I'll visit some old friends in Sheffield Forgemasters Engineering.... I've a couple of warped resin fuselages that need fixing  http://www.sheffieldforgemasters.com/engineering/capabilities/manufacturing

[Martin H]

a few of mine have ended their days under a mini "grey goose"...thats a incoming hail of arrows out of a number of long bows.

[Joe C-P]

I binned a Revell Pine Island after the hangar came out trapezoidal, and I realized having the superstructure layers split through the portholes made them nigh impossible to make right.

There are shops just on the other side of the NJ-Penn border that sell fireworks. I haven't blown up a model since I was a kid and nearly burned my face off. 

[ChernayaAkula]

Been there, done that!  Built a German Starfighter in 1/72 and had it almost done. Tried to apply the day-glo colours on the tip tanks and the colour melted the drop tanks.  At that point, the model suffered the same fate as a lot of German Starfighters and crashed into the ground. Also discovered there and then that Starfighters have incredibly bad glide rates.

The mistake with the paint was all mine. I should have painted a white base coat for the day-glo colour. The way I did it, the paint had a snowball's chance in hell to achieve sufficient opacity on the dark green/brown plastic. So I applied too much and the solvents in the paint melted the plastic. Lesson learned!

[Weaver]

Nothing beats a good old gas blowtorch

JimB

Or if you're too young to be allowed to play with such things, a can of WD-40 and an illicit cigarette lighter will suffice. One it's lit, put a good squirt of WD down the barrel of a loaded air rifle (no don't lean over it.... ) and shoot the model at point blank range for maximum fireball effect.

Amazing what you can get away with when you've got a mate with a long garden with a small hill in the middle of it that blocks the view from the kitchen window....

[Mossie]

Never binned one, but plenty have gone on the idefinite back burner if I get too fed up with them.  Some of them have been the kit, some frustration at my own lack of skills, or just losing interest with the subject.  I nearly pitched one against the wall once, I think it was an Airfix Spitfire, I kept breaking the wing repeatedly & I picked it up to hurl it, only to gather myself back together just before things went past the point of no-return!

[Aircav]

Nothing beats a good old gas blowtorch

JimB

Or if you're too young to be allowed to play with such things, a can of WD-40 and an illicit cigarette lighter will suffice. One it's lit, put a good squirt of WD down the barrel of a loaded air rifle (no don't lean over it.... ) and shoot the model at point blank range for maximum fireball effect.

Amazing what you can get away with when you've got a mate with a long garden with a small hill in the middle of it that blocks the view from the kitchen window....

Can I have your stash after you've been arrested ?

[bobbo]

(chuckling under my breath . . . )

I just "Cleaned House" as She Who Must Be Obeyed made a comment about too many unfinished projects (the latest one was started @ 2 years ago
) so I just started throwing.  Minicraft B-1, old B-757 ( serious POS for fit!), F-89, a few I don't remember . . .  I kept my B-36B (for a Whiff), my B-58, a Bilek Il-28, a Yak 17  & my MiG 17.  And just the other day, I added an Amodel MiG 9 . . .

I'm gonna finish something one of these days!   Really, I WILL!

Trust Me!

bobbo