...Or any other form of hobby "Modeling" Is The "Glueing" !! :tb-mad: I dont care if you are building your benchwork. Glueing down foam. Glueing together a building. Glueing down trackbed. Glueing down track. Glueing down ballast. Glueing together a kitbash. Glueing a broken part. Glueing a tree together. Glueing detail parts to a locomotive. Glueing down scenic stuff. Glueing drives me N U T S !! Its not so much the actual glueing the parts together...NNnnnnoooooooooo...its the waiting time for the glue to dry !! Even with Super Glue ( CA ) there is a waiting period before its safe to handle the item ! You all have heard the saying "A Watched Pot Never Boils" ?? Watching glue dry is even more agonizing !! Yes... I know I could just leave it set and move on to something else. Yea...and I could just chew off all my fingernails waiting for the glue to dry too! I smoke more cigarettes waiting for glue to dry then I do fitting parts together and getting the small dab of glue in there and the part to stick to begin with ! Then after what seems like hours (but really only 20 seconds)...you grab the parts glued together because you just know its gotta be set by now....NOPE...the part falls off! Scrape off the messy CA and start over! Do this a few times and the pieces and parts start looking like something a 5 year old made for show and tell in kindergarden !!! Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. I think along with all the other obvious warnings on a glue bottle there should be one more warning: "This Product NOT Intnded For Use By The Impatient !" Now...back to scraping off the soft yucking CA and melted plastic on this railing...and trying this again *SIGH* :tb-wacky: .
The hardest part for me, is seeing an awesome locomotive, or rolling stock you been waiting for, drooling over it, then walking away because you can't afford it right then... Just sayin....
I think the hardest part for me is masking for painting. Its easy on smooth surfaces, but on on edges and other irregular surfaces... I just can't master it!
Being punished for my self inflicted pain, like having to rip up two sections of track and two turnouts because there was a slight height difference in the two legs of the turnout causing the front wheels of engines to not go where intended. Then redoing it and THEN waiting for the glue to dry.
For me Finding "SPACE" for the layout and a design that works within those limits... :tb-sad: :tb-sad: :tb-sad: :tb-sad:
Hardest part for me is, and always has been, the wiring. I seem to have a mental block when it comes to wiring. :tb-err: I'll jump right into other facets of modeling, but I seem to "go dense" every time wiring comes up. I don't so much hate watching glue dry, as figuring out the right glue to use in the first place.
Staying/getting off of TrainBoard and going out to the train building. :laugh::laugh2::rn-laugh::eh-laugh:
Probably one of, if not the most difficult aspects of modeling is masking for clean crisp paint lines on a locomotive. I have always had great respect for a custom modeler who can recreate a factory type paint job. This, I believe take the most skill, dexterity, steadiness, visual skill. There are very few who can do a paint job that matches the crispness of a factory job. Some even go beyond with the detailing, but the smooth straight paint application is enormously difficult. fatalxsunrider43
Making the time and space to do it. I've got the locos I've got the cars I've got a bunch of track I've got a few ideas I don't have the dedicated place or time as a father of 3 teens (well one is 12, but...) So, a few loops, playing with making the locos run better, trainboard and the occasional show, are working for now. The second hardest is, we leave on Saturday for 2 and a half weeks in Germany (family reunion and sight seeing). I will get within 3 hours of Miniatur Wunderland, but no closer
All very interesting issues which I can also relate to. But... I'd have to say that the BIG MO... as in MOTIVATION... and maintaining the focus to carry a project to completion. Way too often I've stalled at different points in layout development. Presently I'm stall for no good reason other than I'm not able to focus and sustain the motivation. Perhaps its the fear of failure... perhaps it's 'male modeling menopause'. I guess I'll have to wait for the development of a 'little blue pill' to take care of that problem.
MOTIVATION, the desk is full of projects going from missing a few lift rings to having one or two molded on grabs shaved off... Also LAYOUT PLANNING:tb-err:
The Hardest part for me is choosing the perfect combination of Era,Location,Railroad, and Theme for my layout. BTW, shouldn't this thread be in the Inspection Pit?
Mt coupler conversion kit a nightmare I have to pay for half the time the couplers don't work when Iam finished! Jay:thumbs_down:
That's exactly why my worktable is such an incredible mess. I'm doing 10 projects at a time on it--because I don't want to go away and wait until the glue dries. So of course 10 pieces of rolling stock are on my table, along with all the parts and materials I'm using on each, along with all the tools I need for each, along with all the paints and glues I need for each, along with all the reference photos I need for each... It's a wonder I can find anything.
I am poor at laying tracks and turnouts. Removing and relaying causes lots of frustration and consumes plenty of time. Cheers,
Glue is the problem...too slow? What are you using? Elmers? the kind that is safe for kids to eat at school? I accidently (unknowingly) get a small teeny tiny bit of Instant Jet on a finger, roll object/project through hand and in less than a second....Then I have to remove large unwanted detail (ME) from my project which usually involves extensive touch-up work.:tb-ooh::tb-err::tb-hissyfit: The hardest part...I need someone to do my scenery, maybe I should try it myself first...I don't even know where to start.
