What Models have beaten you??

[Guest]

The only kit that has truly beaten me is that bloody Fairy Gannet. Got to the canopies and none fit. Tried the hot water trick, but they just refuse to fit. I now know why you see three or four wrecks for one complete . I wince when I think how much I ended up paying for it...

Oh Christ! I've got one of those in storage!

[Si Benson]

So far......my one and only binned kit was this,
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The plastic was like granite and there was so much flash and misalignment that after getting halfway through I just fed it to the bin!
What I found annoying was seeing others make a cracking job of the kit! I must of had a bad one:smiling5:

[dave]

The one that beat me was an Airfix ship in a bottle model of the Charles Morgan, a wooden sailing whaler.
Fought ill fitting parts, filler etc. Got all the rigging done, dry run on the mast erection. Then it would not fit into the bottle, fractionally too wide for the neck. Finally broke it trying to ease it through. Landfill for the kit, recycling for the bottle.

[Steve Jones]

Yet to be beaten Dave but I have not been modelling as long as the rest of you. However there have been a couple that have hovered over the bin and I would never touch again. Mirror Models CMP and Roden Holt 75.

[JR]

Yet to be beaten Dave but I have not been modelling as long as the rest of you. However there have been a couple that have hovered over the bin and I would never touch again. Mirror Models CMP and Roden Holt 75.

Steve.
You started the same time as me ! but you have been trained by the man from the Darkside, one Simon T of the Dales. He goes where no one dares when It comes to modeling
JR :smiling2::smiling2:

[Gern]

All of 'em! I've yet to produce anything from a kit that hasn't got numerous faults. Fortunately, my eyesight isn't so good nowadays so they look OK on my shelf from a few feet away!

[BarryW]

So far......my one and only binned kit was this,
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The plastic was like granite and there was so much flash and misalignment that after getting halfway through I just fed it to the bin!
What I found annoying was seeing others make a cracking job of the kit! I must of had a bad one:smiling5:

I loved that kit, mind you that was back in the late 70’s and I expect it was state of the art then.......

[Guest]

Dave,

For me it was the Dingo from Miniart and more recently the FW 190 a-8 from Eduard...
All those gaps and pieces of plastic that snapped right of in all the wrong places...
Ooooh the memories....
*sits alone in the corner rocking back and forth while sucking is thumb*

Sjors

[stillp]

more recently the FW 190 a-8 from Eduard...

Thanks, that's my next planned build!

Pete

[Guest]

Thanks, that's my next planned build!

Pete

Im sure you will do just fine Pete!

[Jack L]

This one was my biggest fail...could not get the deck to fit the hull no matter what I tried. Clamps worked until the cement had set, but the hull would soon spring back out of shape. I was quite young at the time. might give it another go one day...but don't have the space at the moment.

[Guest]

When it is a bad kit can we not send it back to the original company? After all our hobby is their business. Feedback is useful. I know some kits are remakes but somebody is responsible.

[Guest]

Every kit I've ever built has beaten me somewhere along the line that's why mine always have loads of upgrades or modifications to hide all my mistakes.
Pete.

[Dave Ward]

Sometimes, it's not the manufacturer, but the modeller! It's exasperating when you see the same model that you canned, made up by a 12 year old on his first construct!
If you have problems with a model, email them, go on their Facebook page - you never know, you might get a result, or meet others with the same problem........
Dave

[minitnkr]

None so far. Being a very competitive personality, I persist beyond the reasonable. Scratching or semi-scratching around the shortcomings. Not always with great result, but OK from two feet. An advantage of working only in 1/87 scale. PaulE