Mistakes when Building

[Dennis]

How many here have built a set following the instructions and found something has been put backwards, or the wrong place, or the wrong gear, etc? Sometimes the instructions are not always clear, or you have not followed them clearly? or if you had they where printed with a slight error?

It is so frustrating when you build a certian stage and found you put something backwards, etc and have to backtrack, so how common is it to do something wrong? and how many have had this problem?

Do you get better with each model you make? etc? I am just basically starting out building Technic sets

[backbone]

Only one, in 8297 model - something wrong with back of jeep near shock absorbers, i didnt remebmer details of this mistake.

Do you get better with each model you make?

I think this is true.

[Jetro]

my mistakes are not because the booklets are unclear (although colour identification is sometimes a problem) but because I build too fast and skip/forget/misplace one or more elemnts and then have to correct later on. I don't mind. Actually it can even be fun at times.

[Big Cam]

I've messed a few times, but I think its always my fault, misreading the instructions.

[Darth Legolas]

If I recall correctly, the telehandler not only had an instructions fluke, but rather an overall design fluke. There are instructions everywhere on how to fix that, though. I believe it was a problem with the steering.

To me though, most of the mistakes are my own. I kind of like fixing them though, as long as they aren't little things in the model that I have to rip a whole side off to get to, and then take out the gears, and so on and so forth.

[prateek]

I mess up sometimes, either my own mistake, or color printing issues in the book, but overall, I don't have that many mess ups.

[Tropy]

or if you had they where printed with a slight error?

I agree with Jetro reply.

As a matter of fact I would appreciate some malicious error sometimes put here and there in the instruction on the bigger and most complicated technic sets.

Don't you think would be even more challenging and fun?

If i'm not wrong some competitor of TLC use to put fake errors on instructions just to get the building more fun, and there was also a warning on the first page!!

[Anio]

Please, delete my message.

Actually, I misunderstood what you were talking about.

Edited February 28, 2010 by Anio

[dr_spock]

I mess up from time to time. It is no big deal for me to back track. It's part of the fun of building.

[CP5670]

It happens to me occasionally, and is usually just my own fault. I tend to do it more often with modern sets. The tiny instruction steps almost encourage you to try and do multiple steps at once to keep the build interesting, but that also makes it easier to mess up on something.

[vmln8r]

If i'm not wrong some competitor of TLC use to put fake errors on instructions just to get the building more fun, and there was also a warning on the first page!!

I'm pretty sure Meccano did this.

I've made simple and easily fixable mistakes when rebuilding my older sets which involve many more pieces per step than the new ones.

[JunkstyleGio]

Sometimes it's is hard to read the buildinginstructions correctly.

Most of the times that is my own fault (being to stressy to finish the model, but sometimes there is room to question the instruction!

[Jetro]

It happens to me occasionally, and is usually just my own fault. I tend to do it more often with modern sets. The tiny instruction steps almost encourage you to try and do multiple steps at once to keep the build interesting, but that also makes it easier to mess up on something.

spot on!

[Ronan Dragonov]

My most memorable: When I first got the 8480 Space Shuttle I built the alternate submarine model first - I was on a big submarine kick then. I got something wrong with the gears that open the bow hatches for the little wheeled ROV and I could never get the top hatch to open. This particular feature didn't really interest me so I didn't try to hard to fix it.

[Front]

Usually when I build Technic I don't rush it and take my time.

I remember speed-building the Bionicle Xalara in 105 minutes (kind of a semi-complicated Technic set), and 1/3 of the way through I realised that I made a mistake. Instead of taking the set apart, which really was needed, I could pull the beams apart, and kind of adjust the mistake.

[Ras_Al_Ghul]

I've never had any major functional problems when building, but being slightly colorblind already, I hate trying to tell DBG apart from black.