We’ve all had those moments. You spend hours perfecting a scene… only to drop a bottle of glue right on it. Or maybe your brand-new loco took flight off a curve you swore was stable.
But sometimes, those mistakes lead to creative fixes, unexpected improvements, or even better realism.
Ever had a layout disaster that turned into a win?
What’s the funniest or most frustrating thing that’s gone wrong while modeling?
How did you recover—or did you just embrace the chaos?
Glued my own hand to the baseboard once trying to hold a tunnel portal in place knocked over a whole jar of ballast at the same time. Track looked like a gravel road ended up just spreading it out and weathering over it looks like an abandoned spur now kind of proud of that accident.
