Biggest Pain In The Ass Model

The cars I have made both have rather wonky axles... :cry:

 

Once I tried to make a 1/72 Gotha G-1 bomber from WW1... As if piecing together what was a huge aircraft on such a tiny scale wasn't hard enough... the entire thing was covered in gigantic Lozenge camouflage decals and I went insane trying to put them on without crackling them... When the 30cm long wing decal snapped, so did I

 

No, no, no!!! That's when you cut the f&%$er in half, and show it going through a stream!!!

 

I was once modelling so late at night, that I chopped the AA machine gun on top of a tiger in half.

The next morning I succeeded in fixing it though. Quite a relief.
There's a lesson for all of us! :lol:

 

Pain in the ass model?

An Me-262 1:48 scale. The wings just couldn't fit to the fuselage as the openings were too narrow for them. After much frustration and an accident with the knife finally they fitted. After that, i was about to put the engine in it's place -- and it was a good looking engine! I discovered that the plane was so unbalanced that kept leaning backwards with the tail touching the table.By that time i conncluded to only one solution :cry: ... I ripped up the engine and stuffed the compartment with pieces of lead from the spare box and plasticine. After so much frustration i decided to switch from planes to artillery...

 

Funny of you to mention this, I had exactly thesame balance problem with my ME262 on 1/72 scale. I wonder how they fixed that in the real plane...

 

Sticking four 30mm cannon and ammo in the nose. It helps.

 

And the actual weight of those monsterous engines may have contributed. Just a thought

 

The worst 'tail sitter' model is the Canberra - no matter how much you pack into the nose it dosen't counter-balance the huge tail assembly. The Airfix kit actually comes with a little pole that you use to prop up the tail!

 

another tail sitter is the b-24 by revell, i had to put 3 big bolts inside to balance it, and now i do not know if the landing struts will hold the plane!!!!

 

maybe you can use another bolt...?

 

Ricky:
THe Grumman F7F Tigercat was a notorious tail-dropper.
Thankfully, it was common for ground-crew to stuff a 50gallon drum and a sandbag under the tail. Looks strange... but historically accurate.

The "monkey-on-my-back" is all the individual track-links for a 1/35 Dragon Vc Firefly. With duckbills, we're talking 3 parts per individual track-link. There are 86 track-links per side. It's a nightmare.
For the time-being, I used a pair of vinyl tracks from an M-36 Jackson kit. I'll have to be in an especially tedious-mood to tackle that project anytime soon!

Tim