Beaten by a bad kit
I build bad kits. I enjoy the challenge and seeing the history of how scale modeling got to be where it is today. It is very rare that a kit beats me. After all, I've finished a Frog Sea Venom, and a Matchbox F-86A Sabre. Matchbox F-86A - Montana Air National Guard Frog Sea Venom FAW.21 - Fleet Air Arm, 1956 I've even taken 1st place at a local contest with a converted Matchbox kit! Matchbox Leyland Retriever with scratchbuilt Mobile Photo Lab body This time, however, I admit defeat. Oddly enough, it's not the 50+ year old 1/144 scale Revell kit of the first generation Boeing 727 that did me in, but rather some distinctly modern high end finishes. More on that toward the end. I have certainly found the Revell 727 to be a challenge, but in a good way. I pretty much knew what I signed up for before I began. I've shown the fuselage modifications to bear the weight of the mounting stand previously in my Adapting to the circumstance