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Alberta, Canada
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Posted: Saturday, July 29, 2017 - 02:21 AM UTC
I have knocked over multiple bottles of Tamiya extra thin thus melting my cutting mat and numerous model pieces. Plus, I have a bad habit of maneouvering my airbrush around to get into nooks and crannies of whatever I am painting....forgetting that the paint cup has no lid!
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Posted: Saturday, July 29, 2017 - 02:49 AM UTC
Vigorously shaking paint bottle with ball-bearing inside ... forgetting the bottle was glass ... cleanup of office wall and window area ... priceless!

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Posted: Saturday, July 29, 2017 - 06:23 PM UTC

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How about dropping the modelling knife, point down, into my foot, on more than one occasion?


Ive done that from a standing position, barefooted !!!!
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Posted: Saturday, July 29, 2017 - 06:25 PM UTC

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Not as umcommon as you may think.
I've knocked over paint bottles before and that's really irritating. But the worst is the liquid glue. I knocked one of those over once and ruined a build. Since then, I glue the bottle down to a piece of plywood so that I can't knock it over.



great idea !!!
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Telemark, Norway
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Posted: Saturday, July 29, 2017 - 06:56 PM UTC
After having knocked over two bottles of Tamiya Extra Thin and a brand new bottle of solder flux, I finally got around to find sheets of dense foam (packaging material), cut a suitable hole in the middle and insert the bottle. Problem solved. Luckily I haven't ruined models, but my cutting mats look funny and the hobby room stank.

Arild
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Sofiya, Bulgaria
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Posted: Saturday, July 29, 2017 - 07:04 PM UTC
Solder flux!!!
Lost half of bottle to my mat...Still finding oily spots when cleaning up
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Posted: Saturday, July 29, 2017 - 08:13 PM UTC
I always superglue my bottle of liquid cement to a 4 inch square piece of cardboard. Since I began doing that I have not had a spill. Even when I left the cap off of the brand new bottle of Tenax 7 overnight...
The empty bottle was still upright the next day.
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Posted: Sunday, July 30, 2017 - 04:16 AM UTC
I've been lucky about knocking things over. I am one for getting paint or glue on my fingers then transferring it to my almost finished kit. Always in an obvious spot and sometimes in multiple places before I notice.
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Posted: Sunday, July 30, 2017 - 04:33 AM UTC
These days I do all my model photography indoors (with appropriate lighting). However, I remember a time when I used to work outdoors. On one occasion, I had laid out all the components of a 1/76-scale Centurion tank, ready to photograph them for a step-by-step article ... a sudden gust of wind, and they were scattered over the garden, many of them never to be seen again!
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Posted: Sunday, July 30, 2017 - 07:58 AM UTC

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These days I do all my model photography indoors (with appropriate lighting). However, I remember a time when I used to work outdoors. On one occasion, I had laid out all the components of a 1/76-scale Centurion tank, ready to photograph them for a step-by-step article ... a sudden gust of wind, and they were scattered over the garden, many of them never to be seen again!


Ah yes, I can relate to that
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Posted: Sunday, July 30, 2017 - 08:10 PM UTC
I've had my fair shares of mishaps: glue fingerprints, dropped knives (all missing me) milliput drying on my knife, losing parts, spilling half a bottle of thinner in the living room etc...
But here's a one in a million one for you, the guy at my local model shop was casually airbrushing, when all of a sudden his airbrush clogged. Inspecting it, he found a tiny spider had come down from the ceiling, and into the open paint cup, poor thing!
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Posted: Tuesday, August 01, 2017 - 04:02 AM UTC
Do not use open to creates to cart model's to shows,
my friend had some and droped me off after the show,
opens the boot for me to take my boxes out the wife opened the door of the house and the dog (Labrador) came out and did the hello to everyone and seen the open boot and deposited himself in the boot on top of the award winning model's,

Dave was not a happy chap. The dog thought he was going for a walk.
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Posted: Wednesday, August 16, 2017 - 12:10 AM UTC
I know it in a sense. I often use Revell's glue that I use.
Then the needle is clogged very often. Or suddenly there will be a gigantic drop
Out. You are not the only one.
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