I'm sure this has been done before, but after a week of late night painting, I came across a few little things that happen and we may not be happy to announce


So, here goes,
Have you ever had a drink on the table and whilst concentrating on painting something picked up the paint cup and took a sip? (tastes like mud )

Have you ever glued something on it's base and set it down to dry only to realise 15 mins later that the glue has seeped down the slot to the table and stuck the mini to the table? (20 mins with a knife fixed that)


I'm sure there's hundreds of these around. So lets see what everyone comes up with....

Yeah done both of these as well as using my coffee as a brush cleaner.
Super glued my fingers to mini's heaps of times too.

cheers,
Tony

ive done that with coke as well...

theres quite a few, sadly, i can't remember them at this point in time!

something about all my inks are now 'ink gel' that has to be mixed with water and 're-inkified'

do not cuts the sharp bits off pins with wire snips, they go into your skin, and you don't realise it!

I almost washed my paintbrush in coffee the other day

I ended up with a large amount of paint caked on my tongue that went unnoticed until much later. This was due to sucking the tip of my brushes after every few strokes. I painted two units of archers in that sitting :S

In relation to your whoopsie I once brought my paint water to my lips with my left hand and took a sip "bleaurgh" I thought thats terrible. However this initial reaction did not stop me from having another longer and deeper drink to ascertain why my drink tasted the way it did "bleaurgh" once again.

It didn't dawn on me that I was drinking my paint water until I put it down and accidentally knocked the coke I was drinking with my right hand!!.

Lesson learnt.....

- Kendall

Another one I remember is having painted several Imperial fists, (the hard way) with white base and 5 layers of ink.
Putting them down and then going off to drybrush a tank with some black, needless to say after a few flicks of the brush (and too much paint) I had 3 nice and polka dotted yellow marines.
Wasn't happy.
But stripped and painted again anyways. ......

My signature oops is doing some kickass sculpting somewhere on a model, then come back the next day to find i've accidently put my finger on it and a) wiped out the detail and left a dirty old fingerprint on it. And fingerprints in my GS are another thing i'm prone to do.

Oh, and holding the glue upside down while i was inspecting something, only to find out i'd dripped a bit drop of it onto my $80 denim shorts. Its still there too.

I am still ahving flashbacks of the D&D Black Dragon I did for my brother, it was so sweet. Lots of time and effort in painting the wings, the scales, the belly. It had to be protected with purity seal before I dared put it in his hands. Well, the moral of the story is don not spray before you are fully awake. I had heard of the spray coming out opaque before, but a glance at the label showed the can to be white undercoat....
I tell you that dragon was soooo close to flying off our balcony.

I did repaint it some months later, once I stopped fliching when I looked at it...

I was in a rush to finish my plastic guardians so to dry off undercoat more quickly I put them into a warm oven. The rest is easy to guess.

Thats nothing (In broad Yorkshire accent)

I thought it would be a good idea to take my Superglue and snips, and two packets of orcs to Sydney. While doing training during the day, I could glue the minis together at night. This went well for the week, then I packed my case to go home. On opening my case, I found my newly purchased super glue had exploded, and the fumes had soaked into the case, and all my clothes where covered in glue. Plus the case and all the tools where goooone!

The crowning turd in the waterbowl was that I tried to unscrew a pot of brazen brass, with the glue on the lid, spilling the entire contents on the carpet.

The loss of case, clothes and the carpet cleaning bill came to $400...... ooof!

[quote=Finn_McCoul]I was in a rush to finish my plastic guardians so to dry off undercoat more quickly I put them into a warm oven. The rest is easy to guess.[/quote]

You never told be about that. Which is probably just as well really...... :-D

I vote Red Dragon the winner in the "Clumsiest Git in WAU" awards!

[quote=SynapsyS]Oh, and holding the glue upside down while i was inspecting something, only to find out i'd dripped a bit drop of it onto my $80 denim shorts. Its still there too.[/quote]

Yep, I've done that one, too.

or the ever popular grab and shake the paint only to realize I had previously undone the paint lid and so said paint suddenly became a Shining Gold wave of destruction aver the furniture and floor

[quote=Mango]... a Shining Gold wave of destruction ...[/quote]

Isn't that a High Elf magic weapon of some sort?

We should have the WAU version of the Darwin Awards

Mmmm
Drilling out metal heavy bolter barrel - drill bit slips and goes straight thru fleshy part of thumb-ouch!
Zapagap nozzle blocked-pocking about with pin, contents expelled under presuure all over hands. Cant do a thing until it all dries then incur the wrath of the other half for using all her nail polish remover to get it off.

D'OH

My major modelling problems...

Getting super glue on your finger and not realising it until you spray your super glue accelerator. It burns like all hell, just like any chemical burn blisters your skin and feels like you have just stuck your thumb on a hot stove ring (my thumb is still throbbing).

Thinking I'm putting the end of the brush in my mouth until I realise it was the bristle end with a big blob of paint or pva glue.

Having a cup of tea on the table and cleaning the brush in that instead of the paint water.

Being able to avoid your fingers with a blunt blade for weeks on end, but as soon as a new shape blade is put on, in the next five minutes your jumping around with blood spurting from your thumb and or finger/s.

And the my most painful experience I have had, is having my modelling knife sitting on my lap where I have forgotten about it. I have then gotten up with the blade falling like a dart straight down onto or should I say INTO my bare foot.

I use an old tin to wash my brushes in (I think it was a baby whole potato tin)
Hot day, I'm painting, drinking water out of a large mug that is next to the tin. Without looking up, I washed the brush in the mug, and took a swig out of the tin. Didn't noticed until I looked up a few minutes later
"Why is my water red? There should be more water than that in the tin..."

Didn't notice any different in tase, aside form the tin's water had a slightly different texture.

[quote=gronk]I vote Red Dragon the winner in the "Clumsiest Git in WAU" awards![/quote]

So sayeth the man who glued a wyvern to his thigh, and his hand simoultaneously....

May I also add that I have as well:

Stabbed my thumb with a pin vice drill

Sliced open my finger with a scalpel

Glued my fingers together so well, i had to cut them apart with a knife

"Clipered" my skin

Eaten paint from the brush

Super glue in the eye

Glued something to the thumb, very well.

Spilt acetone every where.

Wohoo! First post!

A teak dining table that has been in my family for 40 years has a 20c coin-sized Supaglue stain on it. It seeped from the Dark Elf Executioners I was assembling right through the newspaper I had laid down and the tablecloth. :-o

Heh, how did you explain that one to the family?

By the way, welcome to the forums Raggie. What better place to start than admitting stupid things (and injuries) you've done in the name of wargaming?

lol, my worst is the lack of painting or modeling i have done in the last 3 years (probably about 20 orks, and 6 scouts), mishap related is when i tried to open a bottle of super glue with my teeth, lets just say i was under the hot water tap i nthe bathroom for a bout 30 mins.

Ah, injuries in wargaming, not modeling.

Sat on a unit of Swordmasters of Hoeth, and impaled one on my arse.

Trod on a pweter goblin, on a tiled floor. It actually stuck to my foot!

Thanks Angeli. Good to be here. :-D

I told the family straight-up. They all reckoned it needs sanding & a new polish anyway…

We have two cats, they like to drink, they have a nice water bowl with fresh water every day ,they don't like this water, oh no!, They have to have shower water, or water from the bottom of the whellbarrow. The dirtier the better.

I was so puzzled for a long time why I was having to replace the "evaporating" paint water from my little glass jar so often until I caught one of the little sneaky buggers lapping away in total joy getting high on dirty paint water.

YUK

As a Kid, Mum was taking me to my cousin's home to paint on a hot day.
I had a nearly finished 1/32 scale aircraft in the back of the car.
Mum stopped at her work for 2 hours.
By the time I got to my cousin's home, the wings had curled up in the heat.

I've never built a large scale model since. Scarred for life, I am.

Mymost dramatic, aged about 10, was using a candle to heat spru and draw it out for aeirials on 72nd scale vehicles. Suddenly was running late for school, and bailed in a hurry leaving candle alight. Got home for lunch to find candle still alight and a burning patch on my mothers good chopping board, about the size of a CD. I recon another 25 minutes and the whole house would have been alight. Needless to say the please explain was fraught.

Mal :oops: :-?

Is there a two war story minimum here?
Doesn't matter, I have two anyway.

First was discovering that a new bottle of super glue was much, much runnier than my previous one, and as a result, not only was the halberd stuck to the warrior, but also to my finger, which was in turn stuck to the finger next to it, and my thumb was glued to my palm. Spent a while with the hot water trying to tease it all apart (only took about 5-10 minutes to my surprise). I now have a tin of acetone on standby in a drawer within reach of my modelling area.

Tale number two is from when I had decided to chuck a couple of mobs of grots into my army, not having the money or time to buy and paint new grots I decided to pull out the old 2nd ed plastic ones with the spike on their helm. I went through and counted them and lined them up neatly.... in a space I'd cleared by moving my alarm clock.

I consider myself lucky that only one spike pierced the skin.

[quote]Super glue in the eye[/quote]


Could you please tell me the story of this I'd love to hear it :-)

OMG, i painted 5 orks yesterday!!!!11one.

I need some extra paint. my boltgun metal is turned to goo, i have no more blue ink, not much codex grey. might go for the deverans or vajeleo.

One of mine does that too. Adds some real gloss to her coat though...

What have I done thats stupid... where do I start?? I think the best one must have been getting one model really close to my eyes (using a magnifying visor) and then wanting more light, so I leant closer to the lamp... thought I was further away than that. crescent shaped burn on my left ear.

After that I've dropped a bottle of PVA (large 500ml bottle), cursed, bent to pick it up, unable to reach, knocked the chair over, lost my balance, avoided the chair but the foot came down on the bottle... thank god I was working on a lino floor.... got about 2.5m spray pattern from that one.

Have done all of these and laughed as I read each one, however must add:

1 of mine: spilled superglue on fingers and decided that the best way to get rid of it was with my hobby knife ... much cursing and scraping later I had nice pink finger tips that were so tender I couldn't do any painting for two days

1 of a friend: While sitting at the dining table producing his latest Ork purchase he spilled glue on his hand and surprised his wife by shouting ........

"Damn now I've stuck my Nob to my hand"

No I'm not making that up :?

Nightgato, that's a classic!!!

lmaoyonaise

Thanks nightgato!!! I thought my secret was safe with you!!! :shock:

Thanks nightgato!!! I thought my secret was safe with you!!! :shock:[/quote]

I've kept all your other secrets haven't I

my biggest ever opps was one day about 2 years ago i was doing a few projects at once(doing one thing , do another while waiting to dry etc) anyways, i had put a falcon grav tank in metho.... and kinda forgot about it, i remember quite some time after hoping it was ok.... i looked at it through the clear container it still had its shape... until i picked it up out of the metho lol, it turned into a big runny plastic blob. $60 down the drain..... will never do it again

Lol, theres some funny ones!

I used to keep some Paint Thinner handy to clean brush/strip metal models. A few years ago i was painting inside and my sister complained of the smell of the Thinner's, so i put the small open tin inside a plastic margarine container and put the lid on.

The fumes from the Thinner's were so strong, they melted a hole in the top of the plastic lid! And to add to my woes, i had half a dozen plastic marines sitting on it too! so they were all found the next day, totally desintegrated into floating globs of grey plastic :-D

Cheers,

Tom

I've done the superglue in the eye as well. Sticking a plastic kit together (ok, so I was out of poly) and the parts snapped tight, and a drop of superglue shot out of the join and - now, I don't quite know the geometry behind this, but it's gotta be something like 360 degrees (a flat circle) times 360 degrees (to make it a sphere), which is something like a one in 129,600 chance) - splashed into my eye.

So, off to the doctor. Girlfriend at the time (now rightfully ex-) was disappointingly unsympathetic and stayed home on her fat arse while I drove one-eyed to the doc. Anti-climactic resolution, doc gave me drops and then removed the dot of glue with a cotton-bud (Q-tip for our OS pals)

Level 4 threadromancy!!!

It was the +2 Cotton Bud of Raising that allowed him to resurrect at such a high level.

As posted on another thread here, I managed to drill through the Space marine arm I was preparing to pin, into my thumb, and right into the bone. Didn't feel a thing on the way in, but it hurt like a bitch when I had to unscrew the drill bit from my thumb bone.

Respect the dark magicks of the noob with a search function

I once took an open G-dub Brown ink pot (full) from the kitchen (after premixing some secret ingredients) to the study, on the way tripped over 'smokey' the cat and spilt it on the nice light blue carpet in the hallway.

My wife is still not talking to me...... :shock:

BTW, it DOES not come out....

[quote=bongocih]Have you ever glued something on it's base and set it down to dry only to realise 15 mins later that the glue has seeped down the slot to the table and stuck the mini to the table? (20 mins with a knife fixed that)[/quote]Yes. Fortunately for me though, my desk is covered in about 8 layers of paper, so I just had to tear the miniature off the desk and trim the paper.

Zustiur.

HEh
ive got a couple, me and my mini mad family.

painted my dads marneus calgar, to a golden demon standard, and when i glued the backpack on, the superglue tube split down the side.
2 hours peeling my fingers apart, 22 striping superglue from the model.

My dad had a twist open GW paint seal itself closed so he opened it with a wrench. lucky it was in the garage, as th stain runs up the wall

My brother managed to superglue his finger to his lip.... was huffing on a mini to get it to set... hilarious sight.

One of the crappest moments in paintdome I'd had was one day while painting at work, I had just finished shaking up a bottle of Vallejo black, up ended it to squirt a little drop out and squeezed a bit hard.

The nozzle was clogged with pigment and I was too enthusiastic to get the paint out.....

1 millionth of a second later and my desk, my computer, my pants, and part of my neighbours desk were privvy to a wonderful black spatter job with my lovely $5 bottle of black paint.

Not happy Jan.

My trademark,

Undercoating minatures with the spraycan nozzle on backwards

The back of my wrists and my sleeves have been black so many times now you'd think i would have learned :-o

Nope.
S