when ur painting does anyone elses mind wander and they end up painting random stuff.?.....

clearly i do.....

right now i have a scorpion surrounded by an entangling ros all the way from my hand to my elbow...and on my leg a half iron warrior helmet/zombie hed........wierd...


thought id bring it up.

Focus man FOCUS!!!

Eyes on the Prize!!!

How fast can you run?.....As fast as a LEOPARD!!!!
What are your legs?....Steel Springs!!!
What are they gonna do?......

Erm ... propel me into the sights of a Turkish machine gun?

Yeah, i paint on myself all the time, usually when the inks flying. Ive got paint stains all over my clothes from working on my latest canvas, and no doubt more when i start working on a life-size painting of megatron

^same, but the biggest problem I have is dropping my paint brushes and having my shorts covered in paint spec's

I've thought about it as a means of avoiding having to paint my minis...
does that count? Actually I always end up with paint/ink/PVA/ whatever all over myself whenever I sit down at the salt mine...erm, painting desk, I am the original "Uncoordinated Man" of the modelling world
Stripping paint is also a bugbear, I mean, really, how do I end up with more brake fluid on me than was in the container to start???? Have also had a blood red kitten at one stage....

cheers
Mick

Sometimes I paint on myself if I plan on having a wild night...

Or not. I often use my thumb as a palette, though. Not recommended as it dries the paint out very quickly, including on the brush.

after seeing my GF do it i now always use the back of my left hand as a pallette and somewhere to wipe the brush, always seems to leave the perfect amount of paint on. the brush.

I always check to see if my drybrush is going to be correct on my right hand (I am a south paw) Best thing I have found yet for it.

Also, I have a tendancy to pull out the nikko and start scribbling on my arm when watching tv or something... looked like a real nob the other day when I went donw to the post office to send a letter and I had a skull I drew on my forearm

i always use my left hand between the thumb and finger to get off eccess paint when i drybrush. it looks rather silly but if it works who cares hey. It just a habit and i can't seem to stop . i always manage to spill inks everywhere, always :x

only when undercoating with spray cans... then it can get darn messy!

How do you get them to stay on when you shower... Spray Varnish? Band-Aid Liquid Bandage? :-o

ditto....spray can problems.....

usually left with a black left thumb......

skulls and stuff ? nah.......

I find that I tend to cop a bit of overspray from the spray undercoat. Usually just on my trigger finger, but sometimes a hand will cop a blast of paint. Whilst paint mostly comes off skin, it seems to bond very stongly to any fingernails it might have come in contact with.

It makes things a bit odd when I turn up for uni the next day with black fingernails and people keep asking me if I play in a metal band....

lachy u need to move ur trigger finger back a bit. as for painting myself, pretty mush my whole left hand becomes black wen i undercoat, only a few lines on the inside and the back of my hand remain skin coloured.

Yep, I think I figured that out. Usually, all I get is just a slight smudge on the very tip of my finger. I'm thinking it's basically a non-issue.

I regularly use my thumb as a pallette of sorts, usually more for drybrushing purposes though.

I don't recall the last time i painted myself unintentionally though, unless you count knocking an open bottle off the table and having brown paint fly all over me.

Ah, thats a different hobby called body artists.

They turned up at the Matisse open day.
Very distracting

BADFANG the paint goes on the Mini not you!

That being said I have ruined a very nice pair of jeans by spilling an entire brand new pot of Chaos Black all over the crotch... Oh what a night!

B

Oh dude, you've never met Badfang yeah? The [s:eca8a222e3]man[/s:eca8a222e3] thing DOESN'T shower...

Don't paint myself, but I have managed to be distracted enough to drill right through the piece I was pinning, into my thumb, and right into the bone. Didn't hurt on the way in, but it was more than a bit painful to get out. Had to reverse the drill and unscrew it from the bone. That was just with a standard pin vice. And its also the reason I've been reluctant to buy myself any sort of powered modelling tool.

Salamander.......F$%KING OUCH!

I use the web between my thumb and forefinger as a pallette all the time, always turning up to work covered in paint, on my fingernails, on my hand, even on my arm.......

One New Year's I actually shaved my head (to the skin) and got out my paints, and proceeded to let people paint on my head. Looked spesh!
Later on in a bar I almost got thrown out for having an exposed tatt...until I peeled it off in front of the bouncer and said "It's just paint, mate....."

Judas-tapdancing-Priest, Salamander... how the heck did you not feel the drill going into the bone?!

*winces at the very thought*

It was a very fine drill bit, and it was nice and sharp... it just went right in.

[quote]t was a very fine drill bit, and it was nice and sharp... it just went right in.[/quote]

*runs screaming in horror from the thread*

Crap :? :shock:

I use my thumb to get excess paint of. Often forgotten I had it and walk out the door with lots of little stripes.

ave

i got bored again last night.......................................



i know have from my ankle to knee covered in images from the graphic novel Batman: year one.

but i spose its practice......in 3 weeks i get to go to some photo shoot where im body painitng some ppl.....


hhee BOOBS......

hey badfang, maybe you should just get some tattoos on ur leg but just get the out line, that way you can change the colouring when ever you want.


hey salamander, what on earth could distrat you that much?????? :-?

I wipe the paint when I drybrush on my wrist. You can always tell when I've been working on my army when my left hand is covered in many colours.

I too use the back of my hand for drybrushing, always turning up for work with my hand all different colours (most of them are used to it now)

As for the spray undercoat, what's the go with the fingernails? Last lot of stuff I undercoated my left hand looked very goth for about a week, stuff just wouldn't come off.

Badfang, I did somethig similar with my drill but didn't actually enter the bone. just hit it ... stung worse than slicing my finger open with the knife.

And then there's getting superglue on your fingers, last time I had to cut the top layer of skin of to get rid of it ... pink and tender fingertips for a couple of days.

This hobbies too hard (with apologies to Andy and Randy Pig)

[quote]As for the spray undercoat, what's the go with the fingernails? Last lot of stuff I undercoated my left hand looked very goth for about a week, stuff just wouldn't come off. [/quote]

Whilst your skin is flexible, and so the paint eventually rubs off, your nails aren't flexible and therefore the paint can't be removed as easily. Also, I believe that the GW primer, purely through accident rather than design, bonds with the keratin in your nails making it very difficult to remove.

I think you will find the spray can paint is solvent based.

It is harder to remove, water just doesn't cut it.

errmmm... ever heard of gloves?

there is always a rubber glove stuck to the lid of my spray cans just to avoid that situation...

I do use the back of my left hand as a pallete sometimes but at least that comes off easily, not so the spray can stuff..

but the worst is super glue on the fingertips... its really buggers up your sense of touch for a few days.

haha great topic badfang:-P... when i drybrush, to get the water out of my brush i wipe it on my swivvle chair (folks still havent noticed the dark brown patch on it....from dirty water for people with sick minds ) and then with the paints i use the part inbatween my thumb and finger aswell

See, he wasn't making it up...

two photos and then the camera broke....

Purty leg huh Silky smooth :-o