RMweb Premium Torper Posted April 27, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 27, 2014 I've spent quite a large part of today threading Exactoscale chairs onto metre lengths of rail. This has been extremely tedious, as well as taking much longer than I thought it would. It was not helped by the fact that when I lost concentration I managed to put quite a few on the wrong way round and had to do them again. Are there any other tasks in modelling that are as or even more boring than that? DT Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ginger j Posted April 27, 2014 Share Posted April 27, 2014 Some may say ballasting......although personally I find it to be quite enjoyable. I suppose I might say wiring is pretty boring (although this could be my impatience showing through!!) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Ian Smeeton Posted April 27, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 27, 2014 Scribing acres of cobbles has to be among the top two or three. Regards Ian Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcm@gwr Posted April 27, 2014 Share Posted April 27, 2014 Waiting for paint to dry? So you can get the next colour on. Jeff Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Abel Posted April 27, 2014 Share Posted April 27, 2014 Soldering droppers to e v e r y l a s t p i e c e o f t r a c k i n s i g h t <sigh>... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Heggs Posted April 27, 2014 Share Posted April 27, 2014 Fixing hundreds of pieces of styrene strip on bridge truss assemblies? No Cutting them all first is Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philip Jackson Posted April 27, 2014 Share Posted April 27, 2014 Soldering droppers to e v e r y l a s t p i e c e o f t r a c k i n s i g h t <sigh>... I was lazy and bought peco fishplates with the wires soldered on Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted April 27, 2014 Share Posted April 27, 2014 Pressing rivets. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AngryMeerkat Posted April 27, 2014 Share Posted April 27, 2014 Waiting for glue to dry! When you've got some good ideas, and you've got time, and you've got motivation, you make a start then have to stop because the glue is wet! It's taken me 2 days just to build half of a tunnel entrance, probably an hour of modelling and the rest spent waiting for glue to dry! And nothing else can be done on the layout because everything is based around the location and angle of this tunnel entrance! Mark Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Brunel Posted April 27, 2014 Share Posted April 27, 2014 Further to a few posts on this thread - I'd say that the simple task of waiting is the most boring. Waiting until you've got enough time to do something; waiting for paint or glue to dry; waiting for something to arrive in the post; waiting for some all-important product to be released; waiting until you actually have enough money to buy the product... I always hate the long periods of inactivity when I'm unable to do something (or don't have the necessary enthusiasm) and end up being forced to wait. Be it a few hours or a few weeks... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold LH&JC Posted April 27, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 27, 2014 With 16mm coach kits like these it's filing & cleaning every single edge of the overlays that gets me. Although waiting for the glue to set as the roofs are stuck to the body is also a painfully boring time. The somewhat sadistic thing is I want to expand my coach fleet soon, plenty more filing for me! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Fitness Posted April 27, 2014 Share Posted April 27, 2014 At the moment, as I'm on a 12 hour night shift, the most boring job's earning the money to pay for it! JF Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
davefrk Posted April 28, 2014 Share Posted April 28, 2014 Adding all the pipework to a kit built Standard 5, 9F, Britannia or Clan.... Yes, I've done more than one of each. Dave Franks. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kenton Posted April 28, 2014 Share Posted April 28, 2014 Pressing rivets. Counting them I'd say that the simple task of waiting is the most boring. Oh no, I use any waiting time to get started on the next kit/project - often at the expense of not finishing what caused the wait in the first place. I find as one gets older time is one of the most precious commodities, it is never about having nothing to do and being bored, it is far more about wondering why is it taking so long to do when I could be busy doing something else/more interesting. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted April 28, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 28, 2014 I've spent quite a large part of today threading Exactoscale chairs onto metre lengths of rail. This has been extremely tedious, as well as taking much longer than I thought it would. It was not helped by the fact that when I lost concentration I managed to put quite a few on the wrong way round and had to do them again. Are there any other tasks in modelling that are as or even more boring than that? DT Actually I found that quite therapeutic, and putting the odd one around facing the wrong way is not a problem as that happened sometimes on the real railway. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PatB Posted April 28, 2014 Share Posted April 28, 2014 A year or so ago I was tempted to attempt a townscape of rows of terraced houses, as a backdrop to full length T-gauge HSTs, inspired by the approach to Newcastle through the Bensham area of Gateshead. As an experiment I bought the Scalescenes terraced house PDF and started building. Oh dear. Well, it looks good in my head but my sanity would not survive building enough of them to look convincing. Unless I buy a laser cutter . Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Fitness Posted April 28, 2014 Share Posted April 28, 2014 TBH the most boring modelling jobs I've done are either glazing rolling stock or building something I'm not really interested in for a customer when I have something really interesting waiting for me on the workbench!! Jon F Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
marc smith Posted April 28, 2014 Share Posted April 28, 2014 Wiring the layout up is a task I usually find a bit tediousIt always takes longer than I anticipateI agree with the OP's sentiments re threading chairs onto railbut I've had to "trim" the tops off C&L chairs, after track laying....that was pretty tedious too!marc Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim V Posted April 28, 2014 Share Posted April 28, 2014 Sitting in traffic jams on the way to/from an exhibition with the layout, knowing that turning up half an hour/one hour later means I will be even more knackered than I would have been without the jams. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-UnitMad Posted April 28, 2014 Share Posted April 28, 2014 Correcting people who are wrong on the Internet can get pretty tedious..... Note: written very much tongue in cheek, before the outrage strikes..... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Barry Ten Posted April 28, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 28, 2014 Putting the chains on Spratt & Winkle couplings. And they call this a hobby???? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold DaveF Posted April 28, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 28, 2014 Tidying up the left over debris and putting away the tools after finishing some work on the layout. Guess what I've spent the afternoon doing. David Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TonyA Posted April 28, 2014 Share Posted April 28, 2014 Tidying up the left over debris and putting away the tools after finishing some work on the layout. Spending a couple of hours trying to find the tools that I did not put away last time. Tony Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hornbyandbf3fan Posted April 28, 2014 Share Posted April 28, 2014 Ballasting (surprise surprise), applying static grass can be annoying, especially when it doesn't go right. I'm still yet to really start on my kit though... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted April 28, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 28, 2014 I've spent quite a large part of today threading Exactoscale chairs onto metre lengths of rail. This has been extremely tedious, as well as taking much longer than I thought it would. It was not helped by the fact that when I lost concentration I managed to put quite a few on the wrong way round and had to do them again. Are there any other tasks in modelling that are as or even more boring than that? DT Hi Torper One club I was a member of use to get potential new members to thread what was in them days Alan Gibson (K&L then C&L) chairs on to rail. It was quite surprising how few came back the next week. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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