- The most important piece is always missing.
- A seam is never on any known panel line.
- Within a year after your completion of a major conversion or scratchbuilt, someone will release it in a kit form.
- The part with the most mold flash will always be the most delicate.
- The odds against finding the part you just dropped are directly proportional to its importance.
- A decal will only silver where it is most visible.
- Gloss paint will always run.
- The latest kit will always be the better kit.
- A seam will always be in the worst place possible to fill and sand.
- The worst fitting joint will always be located where the most detail can be damaged or destroyed.
- If a manufactures should mold a part in one piece, they will mold it in six.
- If a manufactures should mold a part in several pieces, they will mold it as one.
- A discontinued kit will always be re-released, but only after you have paid three times the price to a collector.
- A model you like will never do as well in a contest as a model you dislike.
- There will always be decals on an aftermarket sheet that drawings make no reference to.
- The markings you hand-painted will be released on a decal sheet the following month.
- The decals that shatters into a thousand bits is the one you needed the most.
- Kit decals are always off register.
- The guy who writes the articles always makes it sound easy.
- There is no such thing as an easy vac-form kit.
- Matchbox plastic will never match any known FS color.
- You will only find out that the new kit has been released after it has sold out.
- The kit you saw somewhere last week will never be there when you return to purchase it.
- The kid eating the greasy French-fries will always choose your model to pick up.
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