What was your worst modding mistake?
When I started customizing during last year I made some mistakes that costed me a lot of time.
So my question to you is what was your mistake that costed you something.
Discussion
1. Go to spray the clear coat on not realizing it was primer.
2. glueing my weight in and getting a strand of it in the wheel
3. Tapping the post of my body while not using lube and breaking it inside of it. Garbage and start over because the break happened in the post so I couldn't unscrew it
- I did the paint fu in a 1/24 scale super modded pro mod semi, I used laquer paint and it cracked all the layers of paint and exposed lower layers, I only did half of it, let it dry realized the paint job, though strange, sorta worked, and painted the rest of it to match, and magma was born — dr_dodge
- always put the cap back on the paint can...lol — dr_dodge
Man I've dropped some really fast cars on the day I was mailing them
- probably was still faster then my stufff...lol — dr_dodge
- Yeah this one gets me too. — Milestone_Racing
- Probably made them Faster : ) — Bent_Rod_Racing
- I did that once. My family heard me yelling from in the garage. :) — G4DiecastRacing
Racing against BlueLine.
- Haha, I think we’ve all fell victim to this. When you see blueline on the track you already know the chances of you winning go down into the negatives — Kingjester
- Lol Well I always look at it as at least Hopefully my Car looks good being Blown Away by Blueline! — Bent_Rod_Racing
- Convince him to take up softball and join a bowling league. That should decrease his availability for racing. — LobotomyScam
- Hahaha, Though about that But Numbskull just seems to get better after a Martini! — Bent_Rod_Racing
Thinking I have to get the Max into this Tiny little car to be competive on certain track and mess up trying to be ( ingenious and squeeze in weight ) where it shouldn't be, if something comes loose it drops right on to the front Axels, And I am assuming that's exactly what happend. Resulting in D.N.F on time trials, Resulting in Flushed face and slight embarrasement. But Learning from it and Hitting the Drawing Board again!
My biggest mistakes were:
Using the wrong spray paint to make the rust effect.
Spraying a coating too thick.
Using superglue and then the chassis won't fit the body because of the superglue.
And finally not covering the salt chipping or the masking tape well.
One of my biggest fails was thinking I was the genius "modder" who discovered tungsten putty. I had never heard, up unitl that point, of anybody using it in their mods. I went crazy with it and put it into about 6 or 7 builds. I was so proud of myself for being a pioneer in this hobby. Fast forward 3 months later.... the putty leaks.
Everything I built sucked. Some made it to the races I sent them to before melting and the cars did ok, but I had a Ford Shelby GT500 modern classic that cost me about 25 bucks to buy, did a decent wheel swap to it, only to watch it sit on the sidelines at the Diecast Dudes track because the wheels were seized up by the putty. The smile on my face when I was boxing it up was huge. I was so proud of it and it was a rocket on my track at home. I was sure this was a winning build. This would be the car to catapault me into the diecast racing history books..... I hope to one day get that car shipped back to me, since I did send return shipping money, so I can fix it and rebuild it with my newest find. Liquid Mercury!!
- I have stayed away from the putty because of all the horror stories. — dr_dodge
- Oh man! That is a bummer! I have some putty but use it sparingly because of this! — G4DiecastRacing
- Apparently putting a thin layer of white glue (like Elmers) over the top of the putty helps to seal it in kind of a cocoon, so it doesn’t melt and leak all over. I’ve tried this technique and it actually seems to work. — SpyDude
- Sounds like a lesson I'm about to learn! — Fat_Dad
I've definitely made all the mistakes already mentioned and many more when I first started in the hobby. One that I can laugh about now is that I used to use superglue gel to fix my axles and I glued my thumb to the car body once. Lol! I wrote an article here about it.
www.redlinederby.com/topic/how-not-to-glue-axles-a-cautionary-tale/4340
We were all rookies at some point! :D
not me, but someone I know,
broke a bit, and drilled their hand instead, then it got infected,
he lost 4 weeks out of work, surgery, and copays
just because the cars are tiny doesn't make them any less dangerous
(the guy is fine now)
my big screwup: worked for 2 weeks on a car, almost done
only to find, after revisiting the rules.
I was using the wrong casting for EP's race (assigned cars)
gave me 2 weeks to get it done, and the paint kept going goofy due to high houston humidity (aarrggghh!!)
I painted, and stripped that car 4x and barely made the ship date!
was my 3rd build
always re-read the rules (over and ....)
dr