Gaaaaarrrgh!

[Nick]

So there I was last night, preparing a model or three for Milton Keynes on Sunday when I learnt something about the properties of Plastic Weld.

PW melts plastic. When you knock a full bottle over it pours out quite fast. It acts frighteningly fast. And it stinks.

After the initial 10 second 'Ooooh Shiiit' moment where you jump up and start grabbing things off your workbench to save them, I realised that I had nowhere to safely put the stuff that was slowly melting in my hands without sticking them to something else.

After 30 seconds I watched the puddle of PW disappear from my green 'self-healing' cutting mat. The green plastic then shrivelled up like the evil witch in the Wizard of Oz. I now have a hand-sized hole in the top of my workmat.

At this point I realized I'd missed one thing. I'd saved the 2 Hawks and the Eurofighter, the various tools and brushes and instruction sheets, uprighted and sealed the PW bottle, but there was one piece of plastic sitting in the puddle.
It is now part melted and rather unusable. It happens to be the canard from the Eurofighter which had taken a lot of work to replace as it was missing when I bought it.

Thoughts:
Don't model when tired as you will knock things over.
Get a different type of instant glue that doesn't need a brush.
Don't swear so loudly that you wake your mother up. :zzz:  :dum:

Nick B)  

[Rafael]

The three above.

I ask: Can you duplicate, scratchbuild the lost canard?

It would be fun. maybe it won't be the exact equal to the other one, but, under a coat of paint.....

Rafa

[Martin H]

ok what scale was the tiffy?  if its 72nd scale i can help. let me know before sunday nick

<EDIT>  parts problem solved!!  Replacement cannard to be delivered at Milton keynes.

[Nick]

It was the Airfix 1/72 jobbie. Bit annoying but sure there's ways around it.

Just means I need to be more careful especially as I've been feeling tired all week.
Might go out Saturday to look at prices for another board before I get one at MK.

Nick B)  

[Rafael]

Gaaaaarrrgh!, Me, too.

Just minutes ago, Nick, after postin in your thread, I was extracting my cast from its mould. It was a plaster mould and the subject was a 1/72 forward foselage (I like how that sounds) of an "undisclosed fast jet". The first half of the mould came out perfectly, and when I popped the cast from the other half, it came off with a big chunk of plaster adhered to it!!!!. I still can't  figure a way to clean it, the resin being so stuck to the plaster.Apparently, I didn't get to all the surface with the demoulding agent (baby oil). So, please don't hear my advice. I better heed yours and go to bed.
Thank U.
Good night.
Rafa

[cthulhu77]

Wait for the resin to dry completely ( a day or so), then soak it overnight in water with about a cup of vinegar in it. Plaster will just crumble away.

[Riksbar]

Don't model when tired as you will knock things over.
Get a different type of instant glue that doesn't need a brush.

Been there done that.

After that I used an old 1/144 kit box with an appropriately sized hole cut in the bottom.   The box goes upside down on the bench and the plastik weld goes in the hole.  It's a lot harder to knock it over then.

HTH

[Mossie]

Sorry to hear that Nick, nearly had the same problem yesterday with some Humbrol poly, luckily the bottle is nearly empty & none came out by the time I'd up-ended it.  I've had a another accident in the past that wasn't so lucky, seriously damaged an A-10 I was building, rather more bizzare though!

[Leigh]

I am always knocking my micro-sol and micro-set over, stupid tall thin plastic bottles that you put a brush in, now I always put a big wad of blu-tac around the base and fix it to the bench, saving so much money now that I can make a bottle last more than two decals.

[Ian the Kiwi Herder]

Thoughts:
Don't model when tired as you will knock things over.
Get a different type of instant glue that doesn't need a brush.
Don't swear so loudly that you wake your mother up. :zzz:  :dum:

Nick B)

Decant the PW into a more steady bottle - those old Humbrol square ones are great. I keep a few to avert just this sort of thing.

Ian

[Radish]

I have a modelling tray.
I balance it on my knee when modelling, so spillages are an obvious damger.
I blu-tacked an aerosol can top to the tray corner, and in that resides the glue bottle. Easy to take out if modelling elsewhere, replace, etc.. but also nowt gets spilt.

But I did laugh            

[Aircav]

Hi Nick
I did the samething about a year again and it doesn't half melt the green plastic layer on cutting mats          

[Nick]

Thanks chaps!

My responses are as follows......

All praises to Our Glorious SIG Leader for valiantly providing a replacement part for my Eurofighter.

Radish: You laughed? You git! You deserve a slap with a kipper!  
(Unless you'd enjoy that. In which case, don't. If you know what I mean. )

Ian: What a tip-top idea! I actually have some of those bottles in the box so might do that.

Aircav: Great, ain't it? At least the mats are cheap, about £5 last time I looked.

Leigh: I have near full jar of Micro-Sol and a near empty jar of Micro-Set cos I know just what you mean. :dum:

Nick B)  

[Radish]

Nick, a mackerel will give a better "slap" than a kipper.
Will I need to dress up?  

[B777LR]

Nick! Do your Eurofighter as a delta winged aircraft!  or with stub canards!