Laws of modeling

Here are a few things I have noticed over the years.....

The butttered bread law....
If you drop a piece with wet paint or glue on one side, it will always fall wet side down.

The Superglue Law....
Superglue will always dry on your finger faster than on the two parts you are gluing.

The easiest way to get an obscure subject in kit form is to spend hundreds of hours scratch-building it. Shortly thereafter, it'll come out in kit form. (This is especially true of aircraft and armor models.)

We all have at least one friend that doesn't model but absolutely has to pick up and touch our finished models while we cringe.

The chances of a puttied seam cracking increase during final sanding.

Dog and cat hair have mysterious properties that attract themselves to wet paint and glue.

"Clict" --- The sound your tweezers make when that tiny, irreplacable detail part flies out of them, never to be seen again.

The chances of dropping a part are in direct proportion to it's size and color match of the carpet you are working over.

Anybody that says model cars can't zoom down a track, model airplanes can't fly and model tanks don't go "boom" has never had one of their models within reach of 5-year-old hands.

Never, ever model naked.

And, finally.....

If you're going to raid your wife's lingerie drawer, ask first.
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OMG that is SO TRUE!! Those modeling rules OWN me

[QUOTE=PRIVATEER]"Clict" --- The sound your tweezers make when that tiny, irreplacable detail part flies out of them, never to be seen again.QUOTE]

Haha I don't know how many times I've done this while paint distributors.

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So True !!!

These are all so true. But this one I am not quite understanding. Did you have a bad experience modeling naked? LOL

Never, ever model naked

probally relates to the glue drying to skin faster than to the plastic..

probally relates to the glue drying to skin faster than to the plastic..

I can vouch for those being closely connected rules ... :uhoh:

Those rules cannot be more true!

one more; don't model while having a hangover, or you 'll have paint hanging all over the place, and parts everywhere.

Olivier

If you're going to raid your wife's lingerie drawer, ask first.
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lol, i was wondering about that :iceslolan

at least the seat looks good :)

"Clict" --- The sound your tweezers make when that tiny, irreplacable detail part flies out of them, never to be seen again.

That's the most dreaded sound at my workbench. Happens all the time. It happened yeterday, in fact, with a photo-etch harnass buckle. "Clict!" zing-- its gone. But beleive it or not, I found the part. On top of my computer monitor, which is more incredible since I have a flatscreen. That's the first time I've ever found a part that "clict"ed out of my tweezers. It was a great feeling.

Excellent read, it is all so true! Well except for the modeling naked bit, don't see the problem myself...

Excellent read, it is all so true! Well except for the modeling naked bit, don't see the problem myself...
Mmmmh... I think I've read this story somewhere here. Maybe a link to this thread should be added! lol!:biggrin:
Maybe there's only one law, including all, in modeling (in life too!...): the law of the maximum trouble. :icon16:

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And, finally.....

If you're going to raid your wife's lingerie drawer, ask first.
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.....you have worried about this bit :cwm27: :cwm27: :cwm27:

The butttered bread law....
If you drop a piece with wet paint or glue on one side, it will always fall wet side down.
-law of physics, heavier

The Superglue Law....
Superglue will always dry on your finger faster than on the two parts you are gluing.
-law of heat, dries

The easiest way to get an obscure subject in kit form is to spend hundreds of hours scratch-building it. Shortly thereafter, it'll come out in kit form. (This is especially true of aircraft and armor models.)
-law of customer complaints

We all have at least one friend that doesn't model but absolutely has to pick up and touch our finished models while we cringe.
-law of ppl who want to, but are too cheap to try

The chances of a puttied seam cracking increase during final sanding.
-law of.... paint seeping into putt, and cracking?

Dog and cat hair have mysterious properties that attract themselves to wet paint and glue.
-law of static

"Clict" --- The sound your tweezers make when that tiny, irreplacable detail part flies out of them, never to be seen again.
-law of murphy (or was it stpeter?)

The chances of dropping a part are in direct proportion to it's size and color match of the carpet you are working over.
-law of plastic being like insects, and have colour changing capability

Anybody that says model cars can't zoom down a track, model airplanes can't fly and model tanks don't go "boom" has never had one of their models within reach of 5-year-old hands.
-law of death

Never, ever model naked.
-law of nudist colony

And, finally.....

If you're going to raid your wife's lingerie drawer, ask first.
-i gota get a girl friend and see what effect this has....

interesting read btw.

I compltely agree with the superglue and tweezer parts they ahppen to me every night i sit at my desk

haha! So true. So true.

Ever drop an Xacto knife modeling nakid? Yikes! You know 99 out of 100 times, it's going to hit your (*&^*@ with the sharp side down. Bobbitized!

J. Barry

The reason your painted part lands painted side down has nothing to do with weight. Drop any object (besides your cat) and it will rotate as it falls. The time of rotation is related to the size of the object, and unfortunately our hands are about the right height from the bench so that it has time to rotate a half turn before landing. Just like toast and the height of a counter. Get on a ladder and drop toast, it will land jelly side up. Stend up over your bench while building....

Superglue does indeed dry faster on your fingers than the parts. Nothing to do with heat, though. Cyanoacrylate adhesive, which superglue is, was actually developed by the US military during the vietnam conflict. It was developed as a first aid tool; it would be sprayed into a wound that couldn't be easily bandaged. It is specially made to bond strongly and quickly to flesh. That's why it bonds so quickly (and painfully) to skin.

You forgot a few other laws.

The more desirable a kit is to you, the more it will inevitably cost and the harder it will be to find. (Law of You Can't Get It)

Every kit you buy as a collectible will be reissued three years later. (Law of SSP)

Resin costs a lot. (Law of Resin Costs a Lot)

Cheap Resin causes headaches. (addendum to Law of Resin Costs a Lot)

Profanity improves fit of parts. (Law of Frustration Venting)

All cuts and modifications work and look great during mock up and measuring. (Law of Inevitable Headaches)

Fewer parts does not mean better fit. (Law of AMT/Ertl)

More parts does not mean better fit. (Law of Enthusiast Series)

Your "to build" stack will always be larger than your "completed" stack. (Law of Kit Building)

No new tool/technique/material/adhesive/paint is any good the first time you use it. (Law of "Things were better the old way")

And finally.

No matter how bad you hear a kit is, you'll always pick it up at least once in the hobby shop and think it over. (Law of Modeling)

lets not forget.............spilled paint/glue always flows toward finished parts.....

Thought of another one.

The better the paint is turning out as you're wet sanding, the more likely it is you'll burn through the paint to the primer. (Law of Get The Paint Right The First Time)

(...)The Superglue Law....
Superglue will always dry on your finger faster than on the two parts you are gluing.(...)

It also dries faster when you try to remove it with some kind of dissolving liquid. This counts for multiple kinds of glue on as well the original as the scratch built front window you've made because the original window was covered in glue and broke in 2 ugly pieces. After that the scratch built second window also breaks ...

Another rule:

Things only work at the 3rd attempt.

lol, all so true.....especially "your to do stack will always be bigger then your completed stack."