It was time to take a break from the 15mm Stalingrad project. Finishing up the Russo-Japanese War project by painting up the ships seemed like a grand idea and last night the labeling of the last ships and flotillas of the Japanese fleet was done.
Sitting back to admire my work - to bask in the glory of my creation I heard a familiar sound playing in my head. You've likely heard it to. It was the musical notes played during the movie National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation when Rusty asks his dad if he brought a saw after trekking out miles into the wood to find the perfect Christmas tree. Here, let me remind you:
Oh well, its only 1 ship - who cares, right? Well just to be safe, I checked the others and, well ummm, it seems this double image problem was on every label save one - the Battleship Mikasa. That's when I heard that familiar Kettle Drum sound.
It seems I was a bit over-zealous with my copy and paste in excel when making the labels and managed to put multiple copies of the image on the labels. This is a great example of being too focused on completion rather than quality. Todays project inbetween business calls will be to re-label the Japanese fleet and then double check the Russian labels.
Somewhere, Homer Simpson is smiling.
3 comments:
Doh!
It's always the way. A glaringly obvious oversight that suddenly becomes visible only after you're finished. Been there, done that!
Lovely looking fleet, on my one day list
Live and learn as they say....I often am learning ....
Cheers
Matt
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