10 (or less) major & small mistakes you have made as a Greenhorn :):) - Page 2

**blueeyedbear** · #11 09-03-2009, 01:21 PM

Gee, I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one who stabbed himself (or herself) in the leg by dropping the cutting tool or having it roll off the table while holding two parts together until the glue sets!

Bob, the blueeyedbear

**Wyvern** · #12 09-03-2009, 01:51 PM

Far from the only one, Bob....

I've had an Xacto roll of the table and land point-down in my foot while modeling barefoot... now I only build models while wearing boots that could stop a rattlesnake's bite.

Wyvern

**silveroxide** · #13 09-03-2009, 02:00 PM

I had my scalpel land on my thigh and I stared at it as the end vibrated and said to myself "Well I'll be dang, It is still sticking up".

**Wyvern** · #14 09-03-2009, 02:04 PM

Did you also say to yourself, "wow, that's really sharp, I hardly felt it go in" and then the pain hit?

that was my experience. Wyvern

**lee4752** · #15 09-03-2009, 02:46 PM

How about forgetting to set the pdf print scale to "none" rather than autoscale. (no, you shouldn't use autoscale even when building car models)

**silveroxide** · #16 09-03-2009, 02:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Wyvern

Did you also say to yourself, "wow, that's really sharp, I hardly felt it go in" and then the pain hit?

that was my experience. Wyvern

It was so fast that There was no pain and after a bit, it felt like a pin stab. It did bleed but a band aid took care of that.

**outersketcher** · #17 09-03-2009, 04:21 PM

I was using a cutting board while freelancing at an Advertising Agency a few years ago and managed to draw blood from one of my thumbs. As I was standing there in bemusement, one of the in-house graphic artists hurried over and instructed me to be sure to sign and date the blood spot on the board from my little accident.

I thought he was nuts. Then he showed me a couple of spots of blood that had soaked into the wood over the years. Each sporting it's own signature and date.

So I signed the scene of my own tragic mishap.

It's been years since and I still occasionally will find signed blood spots underneath cutting mats and on old cutting boards at other Ad agencies and design studios.

I guess it's some kind of secret commercial artist thing?

David

**Jim Nunn** · #18 09-03-2009, 08:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tim Crowe

7. Buying paper models that I probably will never build
Tim

I beg to disagree this is not a mistake nor a sin but a virtue and a sign of an advanced paper modeler approaching the "line"

As he looks at a 18 inch tall stack of paper models.

Jim Nunn

**dansls1** · #19 09-03-2009, 08:58 PM

Quote:

7. Buying paper models that I probably will never build

I consider myself to have 2 hobbies - building paper models and collecting paper models

**Ron0909** · #20 09-03-2009, 10:07 PM

- Leaving the soldering iron plugged in and grabbing it by the tip
- Dropping said soldering iron and garbbing for it as it falls
- Putting dried globs of glue and paint in the ashtray only to set my lit cigarette
right in the midst of it all..PHEW!!
- All the other ones mentioned here

- Giving up Cardmodels.net to the guy that joined it to Zealot (this tops my stupid human tricks).

Ron