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This one's on me.

I've just spent months - on and off - building the Genestealer Malstrain Alpha. Several false starts and the occasional finger or two superglued together. LOVE the model. Last night, glued the final limb in place, then noticed that a piece of the thorax underside had dropped off.

Grey resin fallen on to same tone grey carpet. Not under the desk, shelves, bed.... the model's only BEEN in three places.... not in any of them. May have used naughty words.

Looked again at the parts list.... no piece missing.... may have used further relieved naughty words.

Any other self inflicted dumb offerings?

End of March I built a box of LI Marauder Destroyers.
Very nice kit.
So I'm sitting there at the shop building away & BSing with other gamers at the table we use for building/painting.
I'm building these things sans instruction sheet. I'm finishing up #2 when someone asks me:
Q: "How can you do that without the instructions?"
A: "It's pretty easy, I know what airplanes look like...."

3rd person: "So why are all four wings on backwards*?"

Me, looking down at my handywork, done with quick setting plastic cement: " !"

(if you put the wings on backwards - meaning upside down in this case - the jets underneath don't line up right & stick out from under the wing oddly)

Therre's no real salvaging these two errors. So they're scheduled to become crash terrain/objective markers.

I did NOT repeat that error when I built 3 full scale Marauder destroys for 40k the other week

My superpower is building every crotch that can be built back to front back to front. Titans, Dreadnoughts, Crisis Suits... all end up walking butt first.

ccs wrote:
End of March I built a box of LI Marauder Destroyers.
Very nice kit.
So I'm sitting there at the shop building away & BSing with other gamers at the table we use for building/painting.
I'm building these things sans instruction sheet. I'm finishing up #2 when someone asks me:
Q: "How can you do that without the instructions?"
A: "It's pretty easy, I know what airplanes look like...."

3rd person: "So why are all four wings on backwards*?"

Me, looking down at my handywork, done with quick setting plastic cement: " !"

(if you put the wings on backwards - meaning upside down in this case - the jets underneath don't line up right & stick out from under the wing oddly)

Therre's no real salvaging these two errors. So they're scheduled to become crash terrain/objective markers.

I did NOT repeat that error when I built 3 full scale Marauder destroys for 40k the other week

On larger scale miniatures and depending on the cement used it could be possible to rip the things apart, but LI is pretty damn small...
I mean, my wife recently crashed a Klingon Bird of Prey model I built about 20 years ago and most parts just broke along the glued lines. But it’s possible that due to that age the glue dissolves a bit.
So, what can you take out of that? Just wait 20 years, then throw your marauders on the floor and see if you can glue those wings on the proper side .

Sgt. Cortez wrote:

ccs wrote:
End of March I built a box of LI Marauder Destroyers.
Very nice kit.
So I'm sitting there at the shop building away & BSing with other gamers at the table we use for building/painting.
I'm building these things sans instruction sheet. I'm finishing up #2 when someone asks me:
Q: "How can you do that without the instructions?"
A: "It's pretty easy, I know what airplanes look like...."

3rd person: "So why are all four wings on backwards*?"

Me, looking down at my handywork, done with quick setting plastic cement: " !"

(if you put the wings on backwards - meaning upside down in this case - the jets underneath don't line up right & stick out from under the wing oddly)

Therre's no real salvaging these two errors. So they're scheduled to become crash terrain/objective markers.

I did NOT repeat that error when I built 3 full scale Marauder destroys for 40k the other week

On larger scale miniatures and depending on the cement used it could be possible to rip the things apart, but LI is pretty damn small...
I mean, my wife recently crashed a Klingon Bird of Prey model I built about 20 years ago and most parts just broke along the glued lines. But it’s possible that due to that age the glue dissolves a bit.
So, what can you take out of that? Just wait 20 years, then throw your marauders on the floor and see if you can glue those wings on the proper side .

That's not going to happen.