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    Things That Make You Say "Arrrgggghhh!"

    Although model railroading can indeed be fun, it can often be frustrating at times. Thought of this topic after releasing a long stream of expletive deleteds while at the workbench this morning....

    Don't you just hate it when.....

    Your fingers holding the part in perfect alignment stick to it better than the glue does....arrrrghhhh!

    Your wife smiles and tells you that the intricately detailed, accurately modeled, exquistely weathered model you just spent a hundred hours building is "cute". Arrrrgggghhh!

    Your twenty-something old son who isn't the least bit interested in model railroading unfortunately knows how devastating it can be to randomly switch rolling stock around on your car card layout....arrrrgggghhh!

    Trying to look UP with bifocals.... arrrggghhh

    I'm sure there's enough creative minds....and unexpressed frustration out there to keep adding to this thread...

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    I hate it when I lay a small part down and is pulled past the event horizon and into the Black Hole that is living on my work table.
    Scott, from the wilds of Carroll County, Ohio

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    • #3
      I love it when I go to use a can of Floquil spray paint, and it doesn't spray, but instead nicely paints your trigger finger only!
      Mike

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      • #4
        As a corollary to Scott's post:

        Twelve months after said part has passed the event horizon it will reappear on the workbench. Naturally, this is after waiting eleven months for Walthers to get said part in stock but not before having searched the area in, under and around the workbench (and most of the house) for hours. After said part arrives it takes a mere 3 minutes to finish the project.

        Drew

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        • #5
          That's my favorite!

          quote:

          harsco said...

          Your wife smiles and tells you that the intricately detailed, accurately modeled, exquistely weathered model you just spent a hundred hours building is "cute". Arrrrgggghhh!

          Karl Scribner-Curmudgeon

          Cedar Swamp
          SW of Manistique, MI

          Avatar image by Savannah Lyn Burgess 7-15-2022

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          • #6
            How about when you have just managed to contort your various fingers (because no possible combination of clamps will work) to hold some complex structure together while the glue sets up and the dreaded 3rd call for dinner comes (having already ignored the first two because you're concentrating and didn't hear them). :erm:

            Brian Smith

            p.s. Oh yeah, I just got the "its cute" routine about 5 minutes ago!

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            • #7
              Trains that run flawlessly for hours on end when operating solo. Let the first visitor appear and they all want to jump the rails simultaneously. ARRRGGGGHHH!

              Tom

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              • #8
                Now we're cooking! Here's a few more favorites of mine:

                1. You've just managed to finally position a decal in just the right spot after ten minutes of poking and prodding......then the first drop of setting solution blows it into ten thousand tiny pieces.....arrrggghhhh!

                2. One that keep repeating itself like a bad dream: picking up a tiny part with your tweezers, carefully applying glue to it, then as you approach the mating part....TWING!...off it goes into Scott's proverbial Black Hole. Double Arrrggghhhh!

                3. Also: ever notice that your workbench light is never quite postioned correctly when you're holding your breath and trying to glue or paint some half-hidden part or area? Happens to me all the time...

                4. Have you ever (in exquisite frustration) saturated a small plastic part with enough liquid glue to actually transform it into a shapeless blob of hydrocarbon? I have....LOL

                As a second collarary to Scott's post: said part will magically reappear mere nanoseconds before your vaccum nozzle passes close enough to suck it up....

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                • #9
                  This just in: touching up a finished model, then while picking it up to admire it, smudging the just touched up area with your big, fat, thumb (otherwise referred to as a senior modelers's moment)

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                  • #10
                    IIIII woud likke to ad to the llist b t my finggts ar suerp glud togeethe

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                    • #11
                      Your model goes to gether wonderfuly and your finally weathering screws up the finish.
                      Chuck Faist

                      Burlington, Ontario

                      Enjoy yourself it is later than you think!

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                      • #12
                        It is good to know I am in the like company of folks with 10 thumbs :erm: , the nick name "el blindo", purchased the same part launching tweezers, and vial of glue/paint with the un controlable nozzle option.
                        ~Jeff

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                        • #13
                          I think it's a tie between Larry and Chuck....ROFLMAO. Have been there, done both!

                          Mark F and Steam will verify......I have what's known in baseball as "the bad hands", a term used to describe someone who just can't seem handle anything without dropping it at least once. Around here, an engine isn't considered "done" until it's endured the Harsco Drop Test, a hoary old tradition that goes back to my fledging years when I dropped, then tripped and fell on a Lightning P-38 model that my father had spent countless hours building for me. It's all been downhill since then...no wonder my poor father gave up model building after that......

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                          • #14
                            Excellent entries! I can relate to them all! Who can't! And yes, having known Harsco for many years now, I have witnessed my friend experience many of these fine moments first hand and in person, but the best is what he calls the 'Harsco Drop Test'! Yup, it's really happened.

                            But this one is better yet and I'm surprised he didn't mention this one. When you place that newly finished locomotive, custom detailed, painted, decaled and weathered, to include scratchbuilt PRR trainphone antennas, on the layout to proudly send it on it's maiden run. You proudly park it in the yard, in it's own spot, in an effort to show it off to visitors, when all of the sudden, your then 12 year old son accidently throws his basketball and it lands on Dad's layout, on his newly finished locomotive, custom detailed, painted, decaled and weathered, to include scratchbuilt PRR trainphone antennas! :erm:
                            Mark

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                            • #15
                              quote:

                              Originally posted by MarkF

                              Excellent entries! I can relate to them all! Who can't! And yes, having known Harsco for many years now, I have witnessed my friend experience many of these fine moments first hand and in person, but the best is what he calls the 'Harsco Drop Test'! Yup, it's really happened.

                              But this one is better yet and I'm surprised he didn't mention this one. When you place that newly finished locomotive, custom detailed, painted, decaled and weathered, to include scratchbuilt PRR trainphone antennas, on the layout to proudly send it on it's maiden run. You proudly park it in the yard, in it's own spot, in an effort to show it off to visitors, when all of the sudden, your then 12 year old son accidently throws his basketball and it lands on Dad's layout, on his newly finished locomotive, custom detailed, painted, decaled and weathered, to include scratchbuilt PRR trainphone antennas! :erm:

                              Thanks Mark...there goes ten years of therapy out the window......LOL[:-censored]

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