PLAMO: Re-WiredWolf - Plastic Modelling, Share & Learn

We all know Murphy,
that inconsiderate omni-present bum that always strikes PRECISELY when things go wrong, to ensure that the worst possible result occurs. Right?
So, I'm sure we all have our treasured 'murphy-isms' related to this hobby..you know, those things that drive you NUTZ just when you don't need them. I was thinking let's pool our collective experiences together and get a laugh out of each other's accumulated "wisdum". I'll start the ball rolling..

1) When a small kit part falls from your table, it will invariably roll under the largest immovable object in the vicinity.

2) The velocity and distance travelled by the photo-etched part launched from your tweezers is directly proportional to its importance to your build.

3) At the exact moment you have placed a fragile part on your kit with superglue and need to hold it in place, the phone will ring. It will be a wrong number.

4) Within 48 hours of spending $100++ on expensive resin conversion parts, a major manufacturer will announce that exact conversion as a new plastic kit release which will be more accurate, easier to assemble and cost 1/5 the price.

5) You will find the critical missing kit part 2 minutes after scratchbuilding a replacement.

6) When you finally decide to buy that kit you always wanted, it will be out of stock, and possibly out of production.

7) 5 days after purchasing a much awaited rare kit on ebay for big $$, the kit manufacturer will announce a massive worldwide reissue of the exact same model.

8) 10 mins after commencing the most complicated part of your kit build, your wife* will demand to talk to you urgently.
*If you are unmarried, pls substitute wife with mum/girlfriend/boss/client.

9) The time required to complete any model you like is 125% of your maximum possible attention span.

10) Your office* workload will increase in direct proportion to your desire to start building your next model.
* substitute with 'school' where appropriate

11) At the precise moment you complete a difficult paint job, you will notice an important flaw in your construction.

12) No matter how long you take to complete scratchbuilding your favourite kit conversion, resin manufacturers will launch the same after-market conversion parts one day after you finish. It will always be much better than yours.

13) The floor will be vacuumed by someone the day after you dropped a vital part and couldn't find it.

14) Any glue spilled on the workbench will fall directly onto your model. The rest of the work area will remain immaculate.

15) Even though your eyes only comprise 10% of the total area of your face, any time a piece of sprue you snip off launches out, it will always hit you there.

16) Irregardless of where you place the puddle of superglue on your worktop, your hand will eventually find it and rest on it.

17) At the most critical point of airbrushing your model, the paint in the resevoir cup will run out.

18) The tendency for your airbrush to give problems is exactly proportional to the difficulty of the paintjob you are applying.

19) Kit parts that seem highly reluctant to stick where they should will have no difficulty sticking to your fingers or tweezers.

20) When parts are attached correctly the glue usually hardens in 5-7 minutes. If the parts are incorrectly attached however, hardening time falls immediately to 5-7 seconds.

Ok, thats all my sleep deprived brain can manage for now.
Please chip in your pearls of wisdom too!

21) Possibility of airbrush problem is relative to the completion percentage of your paintjob. Usually the repair work will require the whole paint job to restart and hence another cycle begins.

22) Good creative ideas will formulate while you're doing a kit and it's always on a different kit, and most instances...a kit that you do not own.

23) Once a part lands on the floor, it'll inevitably blends itself into the background even though the floor's white and the said part is black.

24) Dust will always get underneath the final gloss coat even if you are in a clean room

25) If your modeling progress seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.

26) Whenever others see your finished competition kit and comment, "Wah confirm can win something one!!!" usually you end up not winning anything at all......

Haha...good sia! Here are a few more..

27) The clarity and quality of the instruction manual is inversely proportional to the difficulty of the kit.

28) The more effort spent to cover up a mistake, the more obvious it becomes.

29) Your satisfaction derived from completing a kit will always be 15% less than the satisfaction of the smart ass next to you joyfully pointing out your mistakes.

30) The level of support obtained when complaining about the state of your modeling is superceded only by the degree of criticism when you actually try to do something.

31) The lull in home/school/work life that precipitates your next model project will terminate once you actually commence.

32) Always when you thought you are completing the kit soon, some stupid mistakes/ problems will pop up and delaying the complete date.

33) After you spent hours to search for a missing part over the working area, someone just pop by will found the missing part within a short time.

34)You will find the missing part AFTER the competition deadline is OVER.
Happens to me EVERYTIME!

35) The more careful you are trying not to drop a single parts during painting the more likely some parts will be droppped onto the floor

How true...great stuff guys! Here are a few more..

36) The quantity of modeling supplies available at your hobby shop is inversely proportional to your need for them.

37) The modeling supply you so desperately needed but eventually had to do without will miraculously re-appear in the hobby shop shelves one week after you've completed your project.

38) That awesome Gunpla/aircraft/armor/car resource website you've been frantically looking for will be de-commed just before you locate it.

39) When you do a beautiful job putting together a very difficult sub-assembly, there will be no one around to see your triumph.

40) When you somehow manage to mess up a simple fix, it will be in a roomful of on-lookers, many with wives, children and grandparents looking on.

41) Your greatest efforts to perform an awesome build will always be diametrically opposed and usually surpassed by your spouse's* efforts to remain unimpressed.
* substitute with mother/girlfriend/sibling where appropriate

42) Your famous last words "No problem lah, this kit is easy to build one!" will inevitably come round and bite you in the ass. Big time.

Ok, time for lunch...let's see more dudes!