How stoopid can you get?

[dannyboy]

We have all heard of and probably learnt from, the old saying 'measure twice and cut once'. I have another one for you - 'look twice and glue once'. I am in the process of scratch building two buildings for 'Averingcliffe', (the Unofficial Secrets Act forbids me from saying more until all is revealed in the relevant thread  ). I am using brick card facings and as we all know, bricks courses are laid horizontally - don't we? I have just realised that a wall on one of my buildings has vertical brick courses!    . Fortunately I can get away with sticking a new piece of card on top of the wrong one.

Please tell me that I am not the only one to make such a stoopid error. 

[guest311]

you could claim you had the plans the wrong way round 

[ntpntpntp]

Is deliberate, for artistic flair 

[BobB]

We moved to Saratov in Russia a few months ago and looked at lots of buildings when deciding what to buy. Some bricks are vertical in the old buildings but they are surrounded by horizontal ones. No help to you at all !

[Newportnobby]

Please tell me that I am not the only one to make such a stoopid error. 

You're the only one
To be fair, though, you did fess up to it.

[port perran]

Corrugated tin roofs for eg outbuildings have been my downfall in the past.
Several times I have had the grooves running horizontally rather than vertically.

[tutenkhamunsleeping]

Manuel: "Orelly men"

[PaulCheffus]

Hi

I was quite pleased with myself last week as I managed to get the transfers on the wagon I'd painted and only one of each was supplied. Checked the wagon the following morning to make sure the transfers had settled into the planks and noticed one of them was upside down  :'(.

Now waiting for replacement transfers so I can finished the wagon.

Cheers

Paul

[guest311]

ok, I will join the confessions 

I was recently adding transfers to a unit of wargames vehicles, and decided to do them as a batch...

all had the front markings and number plates added, then the tactical numbers on the turrets, very careful to ensure the same on both sides, then just the rear markings and number plates 

all finished, matt varnish applied to seal the transfers, then started to add weathering .....

oops noted that I had somehow moved the vehicles around on the workbench, and not one had the same numbers on the front and rear number plates  :'(

[dannyboy]

Well that would certainly confuse the enemy.

[railsquid]

If it's any consolation I was applying running numbers to a bunch of Japanese Tomix coaches (Tomix like to sell their passenger stock with a choice of user-appliable numbers) and after carefully working out the correct height-above-solebar I realised I'd been doing them offset one window to the left of the one they should have been under.

Fortunately each coach came with a generic transfer sheet with all the numbers for that particular genre of coach, so replacements were at hand.

[Invicta Alec]

Please tell me that I am not the only one to make such a stoopid error. 

Sorry mate, but no actually, I can't. 

That really WAS stoopid.

All the rest of us fellows on this forum are exemplary modellers.

You're on your own I'm afraid.

Alec. 

[dannyboy]

You're on your own I'm afraid.

Nice to know I have got friends on here. 

[daffy]

Now come on folks, David is not that stoopid, as vertical coursing is known in some buildings  - beyond the soldier or sailor coursing often seen above windows etc.

Here's a prime example of the vertical coursing art:

https://www.brick.org.uk/bulletin/expanding-education

Of course ( pun intended ) the building is not all vertical brick courses, so, granted, it's still a half-stoopid thing to do. Sorry David.

[dannyboy]

Thanks @daffy  (I think). At least I now know I am only half stoopid