--- In [email protected], "Bill Lane" <bill@...> wrote:
>
> Having just been though rebuilding a few O Scale box cars I felt compelled
> to write some of the frustration of being a painter that is not responsible
> for the awful assembly job of almost ALL brass cars but is charged with the
> job of fixing it all because I am the last person to touch them! If you have
> seen what I have like cold solder joints or microscopic dabs of solder meant
> to hold a car together all you can do is just shake your head!
>
>
>
> In my early days of painting a O Scale I had a Precision Scale X29. I have
> always stripped off the clear coat. In this case it was particularly thick.
> This was long before I had my blast booth. I had just made my dunking tank.
> I put the car in lacquer thinner and closed it up for the night were it sat
> **all night completely undisturbed**. The next morning there were PARTS
> laying in the bottom of the dunk tank! I can't make this stuff up! The clear
> coat was holding the car together! Now this car was owned by someone for ___
> years, it came to me intact and self destructed just for my benefit.
>
>
>
> Trust me all of the below has happened to me! (:->)
>
> Here is when parts can and do fall off of cars:
>
>
>
> When I touch the box for the first time - still unopened.
>
> When I am fixing other parts that already fell off.
>
> When I am fixing a part for the 2nd+ time another part falls off
>
> When I dunk the car to strip extremely defiant paint.
>
> When it is in the blast booth making me drain and strain the blast grit to
> hopefully find the part.
>
> When the first molecule of paint leaves the airbrush headed to the car a
> part will magically fall off before your very eyes just to annoy.
>
> In the middle of painting the car. If I am really lucky the part slides down
> the just sprayed wet paint making me have to stop and strip the car again.
>
> At any time during decaling and weathering.
>
> Putting the completed car back in the box
>
> When you touch the box for the first time getting it back from me - still
> unopened.
>
>
>
> I am sure there are a few more instances I forgot.
>
>
>
>
>
> Thank You,
> Bill Lane
>
> Modeling the Mighty Pennsy & PRSL in 1957 in S Scale since 1988
I didn't delete your list because it was so comprehensive. Welcome to
'Murphy's Law', Bill. "If anything can go wrong, it will go wrong at the most
inopportune moment causing the most prominent smallest part to end up in the
most difficult to access place!"
Odds are really good that if I look at a line of all the same brass cars, that
I will buy the one that is the most weakest put together. It just happens.
Or if I buy something that ran beautifully where I bought it...I am sure you
get the picture.
Don't worry you are not alone. I am sure a lot of us have encountered most if
not all of your experiences.
My favourite one that I did was to somehow turn the heat to broil instead of
bake in the small oven I use to bake paint jobs. The semi vestubule overhang
at the rear of the cab fell off of CNR 5611 which I had just finished building
and painting! Luckily I was working at the bench and heard it happen and
quickly got the loco out before any other main details started to drop. I did
have to resolder a few things to get them straight and anything on the cab roof
had to be reattached or adjusted. It was touch and go since the loco was
painted. I believe that I had just said to myself..."Hah, a perfect paint job,
right on time and nothing can go wrong." I was getting it ready for a show.
It did need another two coats of paint afterwards which of course slowed down
the process so that I was behind schedule which caused it to miss the intended
show.
It's actually kind of interesting that the paint didn't burn. I used
Scalecoat. Lucky, I guess. Whooops! I should not have said that.
Oh and don't ever tempt the Gods of Murph by declaring that you have finally
got something right or that finally your health has returned to normal! Ask me
about that one when I see you in a couple of weeks.
Remember O'Brian's Corollary..."Murphy was an optimist!"
You are never paranoid when they are truly out to get you!
cheers, eh?
Andy Malette
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