Sadly, I Have Broken My Cursed Sopwith Yet Again!!!
...Time To Wave The White Flag?
I've been very slowly trying to retrieve/repair my broken Airfix 1/72 Sopwith Pup model. After two previous accidents (wobbly hand incidents) I thought I'd try one last time to see if I could assemble the kit... Mostly out of sheer bloody mindedness! (I didn't want to be beaten).
I knew that this would be a shoddy build as some of the breakages were apparent, even after some careful restoration and repainting. But during this morning's session where I was carefully trying to reattach the broken wing spars I suffered yet another had spasm and I think I have finally lost my patience with this one....
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| Above: This doesn't look that bad, but it was more of the final straw that broke the camel's (Pup's) back! This is the third time my freaky had problems have broken the wings just when they were nearly complete. I am not sure I have the heart at the moment to go through a forth rebuild. |
I think I have only admitted defeat with a model once of twice before, and they were mainly due to the model itself being of such poor quality (both Russian I might add) that however determined I was the darn things would not go together.
A third came close with mu infamous 1/72 ZEBRANO <shudder> YAG-6 truck. A model so bad that it came close on several occasions to being thrown across the room in the direction of the trash can! 😂
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| Above: Zebrano's YAG-6 still sends shivers up my spine when I remember the tortuous experience I had making this model. How it turned out looking half way decent is a mystery as it so nearly was a candidate for my trash can! |
However, I again dug my heels in and managed - by doing some cunning scratch building - to complete the model. And I am glad I did because I got some very flattering feedback about the quality of the modelling from some online scale model forums. (I'd even go as far as to say that if I did enter my models in some club competitions that this YAG-6 might have scored me a rosette!)
BUT...
That was before my stroke and when I was a lot more adept at making scale models. I just do not think I have it in me to climb that mountain again in my current condition. 😟
SO... I am consigning the Sopwith to a box of shame which will go onto a shelf and maybe one day I *might* take another crack at it (I already have come up with a plan that might fix the main stumbling points, i.e. the very flimsy wing spars. We shall see.)
Ah well. You can't win them all!
Onto the next project.
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