that “oh no” moment

[ashley needhamParticipant @ashleyneedham69188]

[ashley needhamParticipant @ashleyneedham69188]

While building a Type 22 to follow the carrier around, I though I would eze-cote and glass cloth the interior, the bottom balsa being thinnish.

 

I had used ordinary pva, after initially sticking the shell together with supergle.

 

I poured a drop of eze-cote in the hull, so I could spread it around, working into the small cracks as you do and washed the brush up.

 

To my horror all the PVA had turned white and when I squezed the hull gently all the bits were moving NOOOOOOOOO I shouted and rushed to dry the hull out over (near) the wall heater.

 

Well, the eze cote is water based…I just didnt think !!! next time I will be a bit more sparing with it as a first coat.

 

Happily it dried out ok, and the glass mat went down no probs…. a close shave !!!

 

Ashley

[neil hpParticipant @neilhp]

I regularly have those “OH NO” moments ashley…….usually from the moment I wake in a morning.

I like to experiment with different materials when modelling, but being bottom of class in science as a kid, they seldom work….should have listened to teacher all those years ago, lol.

 

sometimes they do, and those eureka moments make up for all the failures in life.

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