Well! While I wait for my Cuckoo Clock delivery so I can finally start with it (so excited! 
), I’m coming here to tell you people… Don’t be sad, mad or angry if something in your kit breaks, or goes somewhere else, or it’s crooked and an uncrookable way, or whatever.
I know the feeling. I know the frustration. Hell, something without a proper solution has happened to me to me in almost every kit I’ve built so far! But you know what? You have some options:
a) Ask for a replacement/buy a new box of the same kit, and wait, wait, waaait
b) Go with it and let the frustration handle it, like, whatever, I’m not gonna bother now
c) Throw it away and give up
d) Try to hide it or fix it the best way you can, even if there’s no possible way, because impossible is not an option for you (even if you have to take a detour and undo half of the build you’ve put together so far)
Opcion “a”, I’m a bit impatient myself. Option “b”, I don’t like it. Option “c”, nooo waaay, I’m not that kind of person. Option “d” sounds like the most appropiated, right? RIGHT?
Well, sometimes option “d” doesn’t do the trick. And that’s the moment I come up with… Option e! Which basically means go with it, keep the building coming, and come up with a fun (or sad) story of how your customization came to happen. Let me walk you through my live and real examples!
So my Dream Gift Factory has a missing toy in the production line. Well, it’s not missing! It’s hiding under the Christmas Tree. That poor horse (well, he has a name, don’t be rude: Horsy) didn’t wanna become a gift box; instead, he wanted to be a gift himself without any kind of wrapping. And now he’s enjoying a happy life circling all the way around the Christmas Tree. Even when it’s not Christmas!
Oh, but this experience of customized kits is coming since my very first, our very own and majestic Seahorse Barque.
I could tell you that I was frustrated, that while putting together the parts covering the stern and the back of the Captain Quarters, I completely missed the translucent paper (the windows) so it’s all uncovered from behind, and also the barrier behind the window broke. Oops!
OR! I could just tell you instead how this ship was secretly captained by the one and only Davy Jones when he needed a break from his duties aboard the Flyng Dutchman, but he wanted to feel the waves and the sea, so he broke the windows the first day he entered those quarters. And half of the barrier went to the sea as well to never be found again.
What else? Oh, yeah! The Sailing Ship, of course. Which story would you prefer? That my big fingers broke all the little parts for the cannons on deck, or that the retired marine sailing this ship decided to make it a peaceful weapon-free boat?
(Oh, yeah, it doesn’t have any ropes either. It’s not that I’ve lost the little bag with them, it’s just that he was retired and old, so he was lazy about it so he let the sails loose)
And well, you all remember the Titanic. Mine has the red parts of the hull a bit crooked to both sides from the center, just under the Showcase Room:
My mistake, you say? Or maybe it’s just that my Titanic had more reflexes than yours and that little crooked look is all it got from the Iceberg Incident?
Ah, speaking of vehicles, we also have the magical Santa on a Sleigh:
You could think his right arm (the one holding the rope to the reindeer) is crooked due to a mistake I’ve made while putting the body parts together…
Or I could tell you about an accident he had in a specially narrow chimney that sadly hurt his shoulder that way. Poor Santa! Don’t blame him.
Oh, @Wenbare @JDisaduck, I know I owe you some funny eyes to my Santa. Well, I’ll do it as soon as you give me and advice on how to stick them, I’ve tried during half an hour with both glue and tape and everything I’ve gotten so far is a creepy mess of black and white really tiny eyes of paper 
ANYWAY!
All I wanted to tell you people through this weird kind of a showcase is… Don’t get frustrated. I know it’s easy to say, and during your building process you’re gonna break parts, parts are gonna go missing, parts are gonna get crooked, parts are gonna go in the wrong places not to be notice until it’s too late…
But live goes on, and so do our builds. You can let the frustration take the best of you, or you can take it easy, be nice about it, and think about your next customized and unique kit. After all, it’s a whole build you’ve achieved! You’re gonna let a small mistake tarnish the amazing picture? Didn’t think so 
It’s all in the mindset, folks!
And you guys? What Unintentional Customizations have you made/found in your buils and how did you deal with them?
See you/read you around 
