Greetings. this thread is for People to discuss their mistakes in modeling. Did you pick poor weapons? Maul a model?
In other words, what went wrong when wargaming?

Rules.
-be polite.
-post photos. (not compulsory but still nice)
-have fun.




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I'll start us off.
I destroyed a riptides shoulder/back thingy while magnetizing it. not a brand new model but still a painful repair job.

I was selling all my models and got back into the hobby.

I hadn't sold all my stuff which is OK in a sense.

But what I did do with some models was use Dettol to remove the paint and completely buggered it up. Said models were a Riptide and Centurions. They looked...disgusting. Broken in little places because of how hard I had scrubbed and really unattractive.

In hindsight I should have tested the dettol on the 'expendable' troops units. Alas, I have since binned both and actually wasted £100.

I regret messing up my Forge World Legion Medusa's heavy bolter. Now I'm going to have to graft a new one on which is going to be a pain. I also regret trying to convert my 30k Ultramarines into space wolves. The conversions looked pretty good but I just couldn't get into 30k space wolf lore. They only fought like one battle and they're kind of jerk. As an end result I need to swap out some boltguns to restore them to Ultramarines which is going to require new arms, drill out new barrels etc etc.

I also regret putting on the Stormraven conversion kits. It looks good but I just didn't have the modelling talent to make it look really good. Eugh. The Storm Raven is a mess in general and is going to need a lot of TLC to look even halfway decent.

I also sort of regret giving away my Guard infantry with how good they are now. They were Cadians anyway so... meh, might just replace them with Vostroyans or DKoK and repaint the tanks.

I attached the kabalite warrior arms and gun to the model before painting its chest.

Frozocone this is interesting because I also use Dettol to strip paint. what did you scrub with?
the way I do it is first soak the model in Dettol for 1-2 hours then scrub with a toothbrush. then I wash in warm soapy water when all the paint is gone. then I soak in methylated spirits for an hour and wash again.
i have had no problems with this and think it's great. shame about the models.

Not reading instructions and having to spend alot longer filing, clipping and filling afterwards to finish the model.

Done it once to a BAC captains and a few others.
So much easier to check the book.

I glued my first Dreadnought's arms on so it is now stuck with a lascannon and power fist. Fortunately that combo isn't terrible in 8th edition so it worked out I guess.

I had a pretty sizeable Tyranid army that i sold off sometime around 4th-5th ed. All assembled and cleaned, but unpainted. Wish i had just stuck it in storage so i could get back to it later.

The biggest regret regarding 40k was selling the unpainted and perfectly viable Space Marines and Vehicles when I sold my Space Wolf army, as well as the 4th Ed Grey Knights. Could have stashed them away, which would have saved me money now. But at the time I was upset at GW's business practices and the lack of balance in 5th/6th edition (I mean a newbie like myself shouldn't have won every game after my first two, especially against decades old veterans).

Models wise, mostly regret hard gluing some stuff from that old army. It was my first army and I didn't know any better.

Smashing the main sail on my Tantalus. It is fething impossible to repair this thing and make it look factory :(

I didn't buy it strait from FW, but it has its box and documentation. Hoping they will let me buy a replacement bit.

Biggest regrets would be selling off all my Necrons end of last year. Was a necessary sacrifice but still regret having to do it- considering it was over 3k points worth that id scored for a MtG card.

Other regret is mauling 2 of my Sister with storm bolters before 8th dropped. I assumed storm bolters would be pants as usual and mauled the storm bolters off to make heavy bolter conversions.

Not buying more Sisters squads when i first started when they were 75 bucks.

Never let a 60 pounds resin model in a box, in a hot car under the sun. Not even for "Its only 2 minutes".

Oh boy, I have a few...

I regret treating my Tyranids like garbage when I was younger and they got so banged up and broken the only way I could get rid of them was to give them away. Fairly certain half of them ended up being binned anyway.

I regret not planning my Chaos army more carefully. I have close to 100 "tac marines" but very little else. This has also made it very hard for me to decide on a legion or warband.

I regret painting half my Chaos as Word Bearers despite not really liking them that much.

I regret that when standing at the crossroads of either building my Necron army up from a decent core collection, or adding more to my CSM army I chose CSM... then subsequently only bought troops.

Also starting to regret investing in a MASSIVE Lizardmen army that has remained in the packaging for 5+ years now...

Starting so many factions. Makes hobbying daunting and edition/codex changes more volatile.

I regret fully assembling 90% of my Tau army prior to painting them. There have been more than a few times that I've felt the urge to just break my various battlesuits apart just so I can somewhat properly paint them.

I regret not giving a crap about how I transport and store my models for so long and just using flimsy cardboard boxes and bubblewrap rather than investing in a decent case. The number of antennas broken and lost over the years is mindboggling.

I regret letting my inability to do fine detail work in painting like highlighting, facial features, or little insignias and such (tremors in my hands for as long as I can remember, couldn't paint a straight line if my life depended on it) make me think that I should just say screw it to the good painting techniques that I am capable of and paint my Tau to just a not terrible but certainly not great tabletop standard.

I regret Selling my An'ggrath model back in 2012. I miss him so much

I left a box containing around five hundred dollars worth of Space Wolves on top of my car.
Didn't notice until a day later.
I went back to my LGS, and found three dice and one base scattered in the grass by the parking lot.

Probably selling a few armies that I look back on fondly now. One was an Iron Warriors army that was heavily converted...I think that is the one I'd like to still have. Also, giving away a crap ton of marines models because I was done with the hobby.

There's also the odd old model you wish you could have again, like the original Farseer.

'Converting' models because I thought battle damage was cool. That's a lot of models I can't use these days...

I had around 20 classic metal catachans that I got rid of. What in the name of the emperor was I thinking? Those models were pure machismo manifest. I hate myself for not realizing what I had sooner.

I regret every metal model I got rid of now that I know how easy it is to paint strip. Eh, at least I got a classic metal eldar wraithlord still.

Oh and just recently I primed my last 5 eldar guardians when it was humid outside and how they're all bumpy and useless! Hooray! Seriously I don't know why I forget to prime test models first. Unfortunately im stuck in a heat wave and haven't been able to prime anything for about 2 weeks now.

selling two metal assassins i had for basically nothing right before deciding i would get back into the hobby..

 ApaceKittens wrote:
Frozocone this is interesting because I also use Dettol to strip paint. what did you scrub with?
the way I do it is first soak the model in Dettol for 1-2 hours then scrub with a toothbrush. then I wash in warm soapy water when all the paint is gone. then I soak in methylated spirits for an hour and wash again.
i have had no problems with this and think it's great. shame about the models.

Cheap toothbrush. I wonder whether just letting them soak would have been better.

Also used warm soapy water to rinse off the dettol. This time around I'm hoping not to use dettol.

I wanted to magnetize the carapace weapons on my Knight and completely butchered the hull, now I have to take a carapace weapon just to hide the eyesore.


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This sort of fits...I regret buying a Vulture w/Punisher cannons, spending a few days tracking down suitable decal papers and paints to customise it only to have one of my friends drop the thing on a concrete floor during it's first game.

At our local FLGs patrons had to leave their bags by the door. My bag contained my RT / 2nd Ed Chaos Marine army. 20 mins later, my bag along with another was gone.

I've been very careful with where I leave my models / belongings since then.

I put the legs on my Skitarii Dragoon on backwards (left vs. right). Had to rip them off, drill them out and put them on correctly. Still looks messy if you examine it closely.

I also regret painting 1/2 to 2/3 of my RT01 models in different colors than my primary SM army. I've never stipped paint from models and I'm afraid to try it with these old guys.

Had a fight with my gf about "war-hammer." She hated the idea of me buying more 40k for "larger" games. We broke up and I kicked my army to bits. It was in a box at the time. I stopped looking at it for 3 years.

After 3 years I pulled out my shame. And reassembled the army .

I regret pretending that grown ups don't play 40k.

We're engaged now and shes painting thousands sons.

A link to the shame https://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/879447-.html New stuff was added since then.

I bought 15 meganobz and 4 trukks right at the end of 7-th.

I didn't buy the Tyranid FW terrain back in the day when they still made it. It is now almost imposable to get.

Army switching multiple times.

For the love of plastic, I could have easily had 2x 3000 point armies fully painted. But no. I just HAD to get distracted.

I regret two things, both relating to when I got into 40k 2nd Edition.


I purchased the blood angel sergeant with a chainsword to use as my general/captain, not realising how pointless a chainsword was on such a model (he looked cool).

I wish I had persuaded parents to let me mail order a bunch of bits and assemble my own captain now (awesome cape backpack, power weapon sprue, etc).

My second regret is the counterpart model I purchased to lead the orks: Goff 1. When I moved houses I had to clear out a lot, so most of my 40k collection went to ebay. I don't know why, but this one particular model I wish I kept. It was one of the first 40k orks I had painted (okay, I had painted a tonne of fantasy orcs before that), but I always went back to it to touch up the details.

I wished I kept that hideous chunk of metal laden in many layers of paint as it was like a cross section of my development as a painter! Related to previous regret: I wish I had mail ordered the ork heavy weapon sprue to give this guy a power klaw!!

Oh my third regret, same era. My space marines were painted red and blue, and I used the Angels of Death codex for my rules, having blood angels and dark angels allied together. Imaginatively I had them as a custom chapter called 'Angels of Death'. A GW staffer asked what army I collected, I replied "my own chapter called Angels of Death, I use the Angels of Death codex". He went on to tell me I was wrong and there is no such thing as Angels of Death; Blood Angels and Dark Angels are different chapters. Of course I knew that, but having a prestigious GW store staffer being so condescending to me really dampened my hobby mojo.

I think that was the point I decided to focus on Chaos Space Marines!

Delaying buying a FW Hydra tank and/or platform when they were still available.

I do like the current plastic version, in many ways it's preferable to the FW resin model, but I've had trouble adapting a Krieg crewman to fit the vehicle.

I've also had several failed paint jobs, which coupled with an otherwise tolerable degree of OCD, has almost crippled my enthusiasm for painting.

Buying too much. I have so many different armies and models, but in the end I have played Craftworld Eldar the most(my original 2nd edition army) with Drukhari second. Everything else(Dark Angels, 30k Emperor's Children, Tyranids, Orks, Necrons) have got so many models I can't imagine getting rid of, but I fear I will never play.

I regret not buying models which have now gone out of production (Macharius Omega, Marienburg Landship, Vanaheim Griffon and more).

GOD DAMNIT FORGE WORLD, WHY CAN'T YOU HAVE UNLIMITED PRODUCTION AND STOREHOUSE CAPACITIES?

I put the jets on a stormwolf on backwards, it would destroy the model to correct them so now I'm stuck and can't unsee it any time I play it.

I regret putting all the shoulderpads on my Deathwatch the wrong way around. This was before the Deathwatch actually got given a codex and plastic kits, so when they did come out, it'll be hard for the new and old models to mix together with opposite pads.

I regret modelling said Deathwatch all with combi-weapons, when they lose their Special Ammo with it now.

I regret my first Captain model, built in 5th when I had no idea of how the game worked - armed with *cringe* a storm bolter and chainsword.

I regret carving pieces out of my first Razorback to make it battle-worn.

I regret using some kind of shiny blue paint to spray my Vindicator, Whirlwind and Stormtalon.

I regret painting a Stormraven in Deathwatch colours, only to have the Deathwatch get a new codex and lose access to them.

I regret not getting my hands on the metal Cadian Kasrkins - they were such good models.

With regard to my conversions:

Necron Assimilated:


Horrible/unfinished paint job aside, I quite like these guys. The only thing that really bugs me is the leader - I regret giving it a stupid scythe thing (though I can at least correct that if I think of something better), but I really regret giving it a 'boob plate' (which is a great deal harder to fix).


Destroyer Lord:


I regret just giving him the basic Overlord arms. I wish I'd given him the Stormlord's Gauntlet of Fire hand or something.


Corsair Void Dreamer:


My regret here is that I didn't modify or change his weapon at all. I regret not giving him something more interesting. Also, there's a little trail of magic that breaks off at his waist, just under his left arm. I regret not adjusting it slightly so that it connected to the magic fire on his arm.


Corsair Prince w/ Voidblade and 'Jetpack':


I regret not giving him Scourge wings. I think they'd have both fitted a lot better (both in terms of modelling and the resulting pose) and looked far better than what I ended up with here. I also regret giving him a different left arm. It never quite went with his pose, it meant that he now has the same arm as my Void Dreamer (see above) and it means I don't have an arm that fits the pose of my spare Mandrake. I've also never been satisfied with the paint job on this guy.


Fallen Angel (Celestine proxy):


Whilst I think it worked out okay in terms of his pose, I regret using the two-handed Hellblade as the basis for his scythe. Using the one-handed one would have given him amore dynamic pose and also allowed me to use his left arm for something more interesting (what is it with me and arms?).

Not buying 3 Bretonnian battalion boxes, which would basically be an army for £180 (with a couple of added characters), on the numerous occasions I could have done so.

 Stormonu wrote:
I put the legs on my Skitarii Dragoon on backwards (left vs. right). Had to rip them off, drill them out and put them on correctly. Still looks messy if you examine it closely.

I also regret painting 1/2 to 2/3 of my RT01 models in different colors than my primary SM army. I've never stipped paint from models and I'm afraid to try it with these old guys.

I mean, you can just use the other set of servitor legs and it works perfect. All of my skitarii walkers are 50-50 left leg/right leg firstto add variety.

Of course, I'm not sure why the incense balancers on the legs are slotted for the balistarii instead of the dragoon now that I think about it...

Oh man, it was just as 3rd edition was coming out and I went to a local GW stores tourney.

I was very young at the time and got into a rules argument with another kid (we were both young)

I yelled at him, and damn, I'm still embarrassed about it to this day.

I have a recent near-miss mistake wise.

Not terrible, but I glued the horizontal tail section on my storm raven backwards with plastic glue. I realized my mistake before the glue fully set thankfully and was able to, with a little extra effort, remove the top section of the tail and flip it around correctly before re-gluing it down.

This storm raven has been a beast of a model to paint so far I'll add. Looking forward to finishing it at some point soon.

Take it easy.

-Red__Thirst-

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The biggest regret regarding 40k was selling the unpainted and perfectly viable Space Marines and Vehicles when I sold my Space Wolf army, as well as the 4th Ed Grey Knights. Could have stashed them away, which would have saved me money now. But at the time I was upset at GW's business practices and the lack of balance in 5th/6th edition (I mean a newbie like myself shouldn't have won every game after my first two, especially against decades old veterans).

Models wise, mostly regret hard gluing some stuff from that old army. It was my first army and I didn't know any better.

I did the same thing w/ my massive CSM army at the beginning of 6th. Except I didn't sell it - I gave it away. I was bitter about what had been done to the army, especially after I saw the massive codex creep after the CSM and DA codexes dropped. I was mad at GW for my army, for their business practices, and their treatment of us as a customer base.

I had ~10k pts worth of CSM - All the named characters, 2nd/3rd edition Rhino's, Vindicators and Predators, 2 Chaos Land Raiders, probably 30 terminators, 30 Rubrics, 30 Berzerkers, 20 converted Plague Marines, 30 Noise Marines (15 of which were the old 2nd ed models w/ the sonic weapons that looked like guitars), probably 200 standard CSM with various weapon options to make Havoks, Chosen, or CSM squads, 9 converted Obliterators, 2 Daemon Princes, various Chaos Lords and Sorcerers of differing load outs, 20 of the old metal Raptors, some Possessed and Spawn models and a couple Dreads including a Thousand Sons and Sonic dread from 2nd/3rd ed. I'm sure there's other stuff in there I'm forgetting, too. And of course, bits for years. But I was furious that out of all that, I couldn't make anything work, without going out and spending more money on the new Dino-bots that I hated (I have since come to like the Heldrake model and have one in my current 're-build'). So, off it went to a friend who parted it out & sold/traded it for various armies for him.

I'm not sure 'Regret' is a strong enough term for how I feel about that now.

Wish I went more Rhino for my SM and more bikes for my Orkz instead of flipped.

Craigslist army for deals.

sure i have a ton of stuff and options to play

but stripping and painting is destroying my will.

Not because i dont like it, but because it will NEVER be exactly what i want :(

new plastics for me from now on.

Another regret: buying a whole bunch of stuff to run a Battle Company with my Dark Angels, only for that army build to be completely invalidated by 8th edition. I've now got more DA Tactical marines than I'll ever need. Not to mention more Drop Pods than I'll ever use now that they cost too much to be worthwhile.

Losing/missing some of my old 2nd edition box set models and rulebooks/codices.
Still have some but others are gone :(

I play sisters, khorne, and death guard.

I regret owning so many unpainted Imperial Fists.

So much yellow and missing so many transfers...

I regret any of the purchases I have made over the years that are models I have no interest or time to paint, or to even play with. This would consist of a bunch of Calth and Prospero Marines, a bunch of Tau, Khorne Daemons, Necrons, almost my entire Khador army, and various other models and kits.

I also regret several lost days to playing at events that ended up being not fun for whatever reason (which was always the other players). Those days were lost and could have been spent working on painting models or spending time with my family.

I have so little time and money now for the hobby that I have to make sure every single second and penny I spend on it is worth it. Hopefully I can get a better job that either pays better or gives me more time at home (or doesn't require the 90 minutes commuting each day). But as of right now, I am doing my best to limit my regrets, enjoy what I have, and sell of the models that I am no longer interested in.

I honestly regret starting a Space Marine army. The playstyle just feels so middle-of-the-road to me. Decent at just about everything, but not exceptional at anything. I like the models, but I wish I had just picked up a few Marines HQs and focused more on my Necrons and AoS armies.

 Sgt_Smudge wrote:


I regret my first Captain model, built in 5th when I had no idea of how the game worked - armed with *cringe* a storm bolter and chainsword.


.

... that actually might not be too bad now.

Bought a whole bunch of forgeworld crisis suits early in 6th, then didn't play much for 2 years. Right around when I started playing again they released the new crisis suits.

I regret selling off my Orks for college textbook money. Because if I ever get Orks again, I'm either going to have to buy already painted models on ebay..

... or I'm going to have to paint so much damn green skin again D:

Eh, I don't regret anything. Having started 40k as a young teen and entering my 30s, I found the hobby has been a good therapeutic outlet. If I do regret anything, it's probably having a more introverted social life and not having developee a more well-rounded list of of hobbies *earlier.* (Blacksmithing & music festivals)

Definitely, learning not to take 40k the *game* as seriously took more time than I wish it did.

 ForceChoke wrote:
Had a fight with my gf about "war-hammer." She hated the idea of me buying more 40k for "larger" games. We broke up and I kicked my army to bits. It was in a box at the time. I stopped looking at it for 3 years.

After 3 years I pulled out my shame. And reassembled the army .

I regret pretending that grown ups don't play 40k.

We're engaged now and shes painting thousands sons.

A link to the shame https://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/879447-.html New stuff was added since then.

Sounds like a bigger regret is on the horizon.

I regret rattle can spray painting glossy metallic enamel on my models. Impossible to strip the paint.

I regret buying more ork models in preparation for 8th, buying the hype/gw community site and 40k reviewers/contributors saying they would not be garbage again for another edition.

I regret selling and giving away my entire model collection when I was 13/14.
I had what equates in today's point values to roughly 3.5k of Ultramarines back then along with a reasonable Tau and Ork army plus some Black Templars and Dark Eldar. All that gone for less than £100.
I've come back to the hobby in my adulthood to find my love for the 13th has not diminished and I've had to start the Ultras from scratch.

A friend of mine got me into the hobby a few years ago and we got his room mate (one of my closest friends) into the hobby as well.

That friend started out with Orks and I started with Tau (this was around the time that the Riptide came out so I was drawn to the big meanie with the big gun.) I always enjoyed the hobby but it was generally an uphill battle for him.

Even playing against other opponents my friend always had a really rough time with his Orks and he soured on the hobby really quick. He loved his Orks though but was considering trading to a different army like Necrons of Imp Guard.

A friend of mine informed me he was selling his Guard and he had a nice selection of units to choose from. (Enough vehicles and infantry) I felt this was a nice opportunity to suggest to my friend to generate new interest in the hobby.

My friend seemed genuinely interested and we calculated the value of his army and for trade he would be able to acquire a nice sized guard army. I also traded a few of my Grey Knight units so that I could bolster that trade for him.

Now, after trading and selling his Orks he has a bit of buyers remorse. He really likes his Guard but misses his Orks. I don't want to tell him how good they are in 8th ed. (At least Guard is doing well in 8th)

I've felt bad for being the middle man in this.

Cutting all the arms, heads and torsos off my Genestealer cult neophyte sprue, then realising they all had to go with specific parts and spending an age working out what went with what.

I gave my first ever Leman Russ a hull flamer and plasma sponsons...
What the hell was I thinking?

 Iron_Captain wrote:
I gave my first ever Leman Russ a hull flamer and plasma sponsons...
What the hell was I thinking?

I mean, it's not the most optimum loadout, but I could think of valid reasons to do that. And back in 5th ed, LRBT + Plasma sponsons was actually considered a reasonable, if expensive, loadout.

It's been a few years, so I'll go with my biggest regret, with pictures.

So I had been playing for maybe about 6-12 months, and I was still contemplating Witchhunters. I'd ordered a rhino online, with the intent of converting it into an exorcist. Much to my dismay, it had stuff poorly glued all over it that wasn't very easily visible from the pictures, so I set to prying stuff off of it. I was using a utility knife to pry, you know, like a stupid person. The knife slipped and instead of going into my rhino, goes into my hand instead. I went to wash it off, and then I realized that it was puckering, and so I thought to myself, "oh dear, that's never a good thing," and so I sat down on the couch, hand raised above my head, other hand carefully juggling my phone and swatting my very interested dog away, calling everyone in it to see who would mind blowing their night to take me to the hospital.

And so, the story leads to its natural conclusion. A trip to Denny's at 3am after the 6 hours I spent waiting at the ER, some pain pills, and this gem:

I think I still have nerve damage along where the slice was. It was pretty deep.

The doctor said that he was worried that it was too deep for stitches, and I think my response was something along the lines of "What the hell does that mean? No, you stitch that up!"

And that's when you realised you had to start a World Eaters army, right?

Even the smallest scalpel has a psychic reflection in the Warp – a splinter of potential that becomes stronger the more deaths the weapons causes

nareik wrote:
And that's when you realised you had to start a World Eaters army, right?

I might have briefly thought about refilling my Blood Red paint pot.

 daedalus wrote:

 Iron_Captain wrote:
I gave my first ever Leman Russ a hull flamer and plasma sponsons...
What the hell was I thinking?

I mean, it's not the most optimum loadout, but I could think of valid reasons to do that. And back in 5th ed, LRBT + Plasma sponsons was actually considered a reasonable, if expensive, loadout.

It's been a few years, so I'll go with my biggest regret, with pictures.

So I had been playing for maybe about 6-12 months, and I was still contemplating Witchhunters. I'd ordered a rhino online, with the intent of converting it into an exorcist. Much to my dismay, it had stuff poorly glued all over it that wasn't very easily visible from the pictures, so I set to prying stuff off of it. I was using a utility knife to pry, you know, like a stupid person. The knife slipped and instead of going into my rhino, goes into my hand instead. I went to wash it off, and then I realized that it was puckering, and so I thought to myself, "oh dear, that's never a good thing," and so I sat down on the couch, hand raised above my head, other hand carefully juggling my phone and swatting my very interested dog away, calling everyone in it to see who would mind blowing their night to take me to the hospital.

And so, the story leads to its natural conclusion. A trip to Denny's at 3am after the 6 hours I spent waiting at the ER, some pain pills, and this gem:

Spoiler:

I think I still have nerve damage along where the slice was. It was pretty deep.

The doctor said that he was worried that it was too deep for stitches, and I think my response was something along the lines of "What the hell does that mean? No, you stitch that up!"

I did that, except I skewered my middle finger with the hobby knife down the tip, and then as the natural reaction to stabbing yourself is to yank the tool away... well I opened up my finger from the inside.
They sent me a fresh doctor, doing his first stitching. He was shaking so much he had trouble tying the knots needed to prep the needle, which for some reason calmed me down. So when he stuck it in my finger I yelped like it hurt, which it obviously didn't as the nurses had been randomly poking in whatever they inject to make the finger numb. Scared him though and earned me a stern look from the veteran doctor... also seemed to calm the newbie down after. Funny to me, at least.

I lost interest in the project of converting the Cadians that made that whole mess happen the day after and that one probably still has flecks of dried blood on it.

 Purifier wrote:

I did that, except I skewered my middle finger with the hobby knife down the tip, and then as the natural reaction to stabbing yourself is to yank the tool away... well I opened up my finger from the inside.
They sent me a fresh doctor, doing his first stitching. He was shaking so much he had trouble tying the knots needed to prep the needle, which for some reason calmed me down. So when he stuck it in my finger I yelped like it hurt, which it obviously didn't as the nurses had been randomly poking in whatever they inject to make the finger numb. Scared him though and earned me a stern look from the veteran doctor... also seemed to calm the newbie down after. Funny to me, at least.

Yikes! That wouldn't instill a lot of confidence. Good thing that he at least calmed down a little bit. My doctor got annoyed because I kept telling him I could feel every poke still. He eventually got me more anesthetic and told me that it was the most he could give me. I still felt the pokes, but they at least stopped hurting. The weird thing was that about a half hour afterwords, after it finally stopped being necessary, it felt like it actually started to take effect and my entire arm got numb.

I lost interest in the project of converting the Cadians that made that whole mess happen the day after and that one probably still has flecks of dried blood on it.

Yeah, I could see that. I think that my Rhino wound up with soldering iron holes through it and became a terrain piece. You kinda lose interest after something like that.

I regret leaving my models when I moved. Should have somehow stuffed them in my bags... I could have bought new clothes. Oh well.

I regret everything I have sold or lost over the years. Far too much to list, many entire armies for a variety of games and a lifetime's collection of books and baubles.

 Frozocrone wrote:

 ApaceKittens wrote:
Frozocone this is interesting because I also use Dettol to strip paint. what did you scrub with?
the way I do it is first soak the model in Dettol for 1-2 hours then scrub with a toothbrush. then I wash in warm soapy water when all the paint is gone. then I soak in methylated spirits for an hour and wash again.
i have had no problems with this and think it's great. shame about the models.

Cheap toothbrush. I wonder whether just letting them soak would have been better.

Also used warm soapy water to rinse off the dettol. This time around I'm hoping not to use dettol.

That's the mistake, there.

DO NOT RINSE WITH WATER when using dettol. It turns the paint into a sticky gluggy mess that is impossible to shift.
(use diluted dettol to clean scrapes and injuries to your own flesh. It's meant to be used neat (straight from the bottle) when stripping paint - this also means using gloves, as it will take skin off and give you a chemical burn if spilled on exposed skin.)

Don't use dettol at all. Use isopropyl alcohol instead (90% of dettol is this, anyway. The rest is antibacterial stuff you won't need, and scent/color).
Then rinse in more of the stuff.

Or use another plastic-safe paint stripper that CAN be rinsed with water.

Dunno if you can get it outside of the US, but Simple Green works amazingly for me. Biodegradable too.

I cleaned up my ebay mordians with WarOne's tutorial: https://www.dakkadakka.com/wiki/en/WarOne's_Simple_Green_Stripping_Method

Man, I miss that guy.

Lot of regrets over the years of stuff I didn't get, or stuff that I didn't save when I had it. But then maybe it's not a bad thing, as my biggest regret of all is not getting to really play a lot and make use of the stuff I have. So while I think of what has been lost a lot, ultimately, I probably would not have been getting much out of it anyway :/

 chromedog wrote:

 Frozocrone wrote:

 ApaceKittens wrote:
Frozocone this is interesting because I also use Dettol to strip paint. what did you scrub with?
the way I do it is first soak the model in Dettol for 1-2 hours then scrub with a toothbrush. then I wash in warm soapy water when all the paint is gone. then I soak in methylated spirits for an hour and wash again.
i have had no problems with this and think it's great. shame about the models.

Cheap toothbrush. I wonder whether just letting them soak would have been better.

Also used warm soapy water to rinse off the dettol. This time around I'm hoping not to use dettol.

That's the mistake, there.

DO NOT RINSE WITH WATER when using dettol. It turns the paint into a sticky gluggy mess that is impossible to shift.
(use diluted dettol to clean scrapes and injuries to your own flesh. It's meant to be used neat (straight from the bottle) when stripping paint - this also means using gloves, as it will take skin off and give you a chemical burn if spilled on exposed skin.)

Don't use dettol at all. Use isopropyl alcohol instead (90% of dettol is this, anyway. The rest is antibacterial stuff you won't need, and scent/color).
Then rinse in more of the stuff.

Or use another plastic-safe paint stripper that CAN be rinsed with water.

care to clear up a debate I've been having with my dad, I've got some Isopropyl alchol I'm thinking of using to do some stripping and mentioned I'll need to get some gloves, he insists that "you don't need glvoes it's rubbing alchol thats meant to go on skin anyway" whose right?

I can speak a bit to this. Alcohol acts as an astringent and disinfectant. When I was a teenager, it was commonly used with witch hazel to help dry out and prevent pizza face.

I've never used it on models, but for prolonged use on your hands, it'll probably dry them out and make them more prone to cracking/chapping. It won't cause you any long term harm, but some long gloves might not be a terrible idea, particularly if you have sensitive skin. All things considered though, it's probably not too much worse than a lot of heavy cleaning with bleach-water.

Oh, but if you have any cuts on your hand, you'll know pretty quickly.

If ever in doubt about any chemical, google it with "MSDS" and you'll get more information about how safe it is than you'll have ever wanted.

 daedalus wrote:
I can speak a bit to this. Alcohol acts as an astringent and disinfectant. When I was a teenager, it was commonly used with witch hazel to help dry out and prevent pizza face.

I've never used it on models, but for prolonged use on your hands, it'll probably dry them out and make them more prone to cracking/chapping. It won't cause you any long term harm, but some long gloves might not be a terrible idea, particularly if you have sensitive skin. All things considered though, it's probably not too much worse than a lot of heavy cleaning with bleach-water.

Oh, but if you have any cuts on your hand, you'll know pretty quickly.

If ever in doubt about any chemical, google it with "MSDS" and you'll get more information about how safe it is than you'll have ever wanted.

gotcha gloves it is.. give my dad a good "I told you so" too.

 daedalus wrote:
Dunno if you can get it outside of the US, but Simple Green works amazingly for me. Biodegradable too.

No Simple Green in EU I think, but there is an equivalent called Glanzer, at least in the western part.

It's quite safe and work amazingly on plastic and metal alltogether. I'm fond of this thing.

I've stripped a few models and use brake fluid (any kind). Seems to work fine after a 24hr soak and gentle scrubing with a toothbrush. IT can sometime weaken the glue however and cause models to fall off their base, but I've noticed no damage to the models themselves.

Bought a nightshroud bomber late 7th, didn't play it in 7th, now it's an expensive paperweight kek

IronSlug wrote:

 daedalus wrote:
Dunno if you can get it outside of the US, but Simple Green works amazingly for me. Biodegradable too.

No Simple Green in EU I think, but there is an equivalent called Glanzer, at least in the western part.

It's quite safe and work amazingly on plastic and metal alltogether. I'm fond of this thing.

Where do you find it? I need a paint stripper on hand, and I can't seem to find one.

BrianDavion wrote:


care to clear up a debate I've been having with my dad, I've got some Isopropyl alchol I'm thinking of using to do some stripping and mentioned I'll need to get some gloves, he insists that "you don't need glvoes it's rubbing alchol thats meant to go on skin anyway" whose right?

Isopropyl alcohol when used for short duration exposure on skin (it's alcohol, it evaporates, cooling the skin) is fine. You just need to moisturise afterwards, as it also takes skin oils with it when it evaporates, drying it out - your skin needs those oils to keep it flexible).

That isn't the same as immersing your hands in the stuff (which WILL strip the oils from your skin, dry it out and leave it prone to cracking, which will then sting like the bejabbers if you get alcohol or dettol on them afterwards ... ) which you usually inadvertently do when stripping them (stuff will end up on your hands, because you will be handling them - especially if using a brush to encourage stubborn paint to leave). Sure, you don't NEED gloves, but it's still a good idea to make PPE something you just DO. A couple of minutes immersion in neat dettol and skin WILL peel of your fingers. How easy is it to have neat dettol on your skin for that long when stripping minis? Quite easy. You lose track of time when trying to get paint out of the crevices. Now, most of that skin-removal is due to the eucalyptus oil compounds in it as well as the alcohol (it's also an allergen and you can develop sensitivity to it).

Gloves avoid this situation. Eye protection is also a good idea. You don't want ANY paint stripping solvent in your eyes (especially if it still contains paint residue). Sure, you can flush dettol out of your eyes with water if you act quickly, but you WILL have to use lubricating drops in it for a few hours afterwards, too (I get "dry eye", I have to do this anyway, lest my eyelids scrape my corneas away. Dettol in the eyes is about as pleasant.). But hey, it's your skin.

 chromedog wrote:

BrianDavion wrote:


care to clear up a debate I've been having with my dad, I've got some Isopropyl alchol I'm thinking of using to do some stripping and mentioned I'll need to get some gloves, he insists that "you don't need glvoes it's rubbing alchol thats meant to go on skin anyway" whose right?

Isopropyl alcohol when used for short duration exposure on skin (it's alcohol, it evaporates, cooling the skin) is fine. You just need to moisturise afterwards, as it also takes skin oils with it when it evaporates, drying it out - your skin needs those oils to keep it flexible).

That isn't the same as immersing your hands in the stuff (which WILL strip the oils from your skin, dry it out and leave it prone to cracking, which will then sting like the bejabbers if you get alcohol or dettol on them afterwards ... ) which you usually inadvertently do when stripping them (stuff will end up on your hands, because you will be handling them - especially if using a brush to encourage stubborn paint to leave). Sure, you don't NEED gloves, but it's still a good idea to make PPE something you just DO. A couple of minutes immersion in neat dettol and skin WILL peel of your fingers. How easy is it to have neat dettol on your skin for that long when stripping minis? Quite easy. You lose track of time when trying to get paint out of the crevices. Now, most of that skin-removal is due to the eucalyptus oil compounds in it as well as the alcohol (it's also an allergen and you can develop sensitivity to it).

Gloves avoid this situation. Eye protection is also a good idea. You don't want ANY paint stripping solvent in your eyes (especially if it still contains paint residue). Sure, you can flush dettol out of your eyes with water if you act quickly, but you WILL have to use lubricating drops in it for a few hours afterwards, too (I get "dry eye", I have to do this anyway, lest my eyelids scrape my corneas away. Dettol in the eyes is about as pleasant.). But hey, it's your skin.

You can use rubbing alcohol to strip paint? I didn't know that.

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:

IronSlug wrote:

 daedalus wrote:
Dunno if you can get it outside of the US, but Simple Green works amazingly for me. Biodegradable too.

No Simple Green in EU I think, but there is an equivalent called Glanzer, at least in the western part.

It's quite safe and work amazingly on plastic and metal alltogether. I'm fond of this thing.

Where do you find it? I need a paint stripper on hand, and I can't seem to find one.

I've find it in the first supermarket I tried with cleansing products. You're french right ? It was in a Lecl*rc if that is of any help

For metal it's quite quick, a night in the liquid is suffiscient, for plastic, sometimes I let it several days. I've got some old GW Orc archers who spent a month in it without any damage.

I regret:

-Selling off my all Steel Legion army... Hot dang those were cool models.
-Selling off my large army of metal Grey Knights that had tons of Forgeworld stuff for the vehicles.
-Selling off my Death Guard army that was all models from Rogue Trader to 3rd edition, with heavily converted vehicles.
-Selling off my Imperial Fist army that I had spent hundreds on bits for to make it just the way I wanted it.
-Selling off my Eldar army... hah, there seems to be a trend.
-Finally, not having finished painting an army in years.

IronSlug wrote:

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:

IronSlug wrote:

 daedalus wrote:
Dunno if you can get it outside of the US, but Simple Green works amazingly for me. Biodegradable too.

No Simple Green in EU I think, but there is an equivalent called Glanzer, at least in the western part.

It's quite safe and work amazingly on plastic and metal alltogether. I'm fond of this thing.

Where do you find it? I need a paint stripper on hand, and I can't seem to find one.

I've find it in the first supermarket I tried with cleansing products. You're french right ? It was in a Lecl*rc if that is of any help

For metal it's quite quick, a night in the liquid is suffiscient, for plastic, sometimes I let it several days. I've got some old GW Orc archers who spent a month in it without any damage.

I'll look in the cleaning section then. There's a leclerc in my town I can go to.

My regret is starting lizardmen. Don't get me wrong, I love my lizards, but had I known they were going to hit WHFB with a sledgehammer and turn it into another loose formation squad based game like 40k 10 years later, I probably wouldn't have bothered. I got into WHFB because of the rank-and-file mechanic and how it was based off of medieval warfare but with fantasy elements. When that disappeared that killed the point of that army.

My other regret is not filling out my metal immortal squad. Now I have 6 of them and I don't know where to get the other 4 to make a full squad.

Another regret is not getting a metal deceiver. Those are absurdly rare and expensive now.

I tried to make a Daemon Prince out of a Talos. It's a complete mess and parts always snap off it.

Buying a crate of Ork stuff when I was in poor health, the whole project took on way too much and it's in limbo.

Taking on commissions when I wasn't well, for the same reason plus letting clients down.

I regret beating my friend's Always Strikes First high elves and dragon in early 7th edition with my beasts of chaos.

Little did I know he had just taken a string of losses to an orc player so his Warhammer esteem was at rock bottom.

Thinking if he couldn't beat orcs, perhaps he could at least beat beastmen (who really didn't have any hard counters to ASF blocks or flying terror causers).

Unfortunately he threw his dragon into a mass of chaos ogres, trolls and chariots which barely defeated it. I think he was attempting an unsupported terror bomb, and in fairness it nearly worked.

Simultaneously a group of nurgle minotaurs managed to hold a charge from his knights, which he was hoping to roll the flank with (a terrible idea anyway as beasts of chaos were a very fluid army, which didn't easily present flanks).

Poor strategy and bad luck combined to make him realise toy soldiers is a daft game anyway. He instead ploughed his hobby time into computer games after this point.

I regret buying up a bunch of Chaos Marines in anticipation of 6th edition 40K, hoping that the game would be good and my favourite army would get some love. Got they were just fething gak. That codex was a travesty.

I regret buying up a bunch of Grey Knights in anticipation of 8th edition, only to find out that Space Marines aren't good enough anymore and everything is being upscaled to primaris marines.

Well, Primaris Marines have totally killed my love of everything marine, I'm not touching another marine or chaos army until the entire line is complete with new models. Thanks GW.

 Brutus_Apex wrote:
I regret buying up a bunch of Chaos Marines in anticipation of 6th edition 40K, hoping that the game would be good and my favourite army would get some love. Got they were just fething gak. That codex was a travesty.

I regret buying up a bunch of Grey Knights in anticipation of 8th edition, only to find out that Space Marines aren't good enough anymore and everything is being upscaled to primaris marines.

Well, Primaris Marines have totally killed my love of everything marine, I'm not touching another marine or chaos army until the entire line is complete with new models. Thanks GW.

actually Primarisd Marines are a god send for a classic marine army. it means you can know that standard mariens will NOT get a ton of new toys and thus can plan your army around the index reasonably comfortably

This is a fantastic thread!

I regret not storing my 80's/early 90's models carefully.

I regret so much marine hopping: wolves to vanilla to wolves to chaos marines to blood angels to vanilla to ultramarines.

Just pick one and go, man!

I've got quite a lot of miniatures that have been converted and then subsequently "unconverted".

My younger self regrets starting a Space Wolves army, because they're the one Chapter that really need feathered/blended highlights to look good. the others - Ultramarines, Blood Angels and Dark Angels - all look fine without a highlight on the power armour or a simple edge highlight, but not Space Wolves grey, IMO.

Buying a new Death Guard army when I saw the Vectorium rules in Traitor Legions, and then finding out it's all hot garbage fire six months later.

I put a lot of time and effort into that army, as it was for my 40th birthday week at Warhammer World.

I didn't win a single game. It just felt like I'd brought a knife to a gun fight. The only game I felt that I could have won, my opponent seized on me and that was it.

Seriously - whoever wrote the DG part of the index needs to be taken out back and deleted

Wasting my time with a jerk.

He was at first interested in 40K and bought an Eldar army second-hand. I introduced him to the hobby and we played a couple of games. But it turned out that he gave a crap about the whole wargaming hobby. Normally there is an improvement after the first intro games as the newcomers pick up the rules. In this case however every fricken game that followed was an introductory game because he forgot nearly everything ruleswise.
He is a computer gamer and I thought simple tactics wouldn´t be too hard for him to grasp. I was so wrong! On one occasion he deployed a guardian squad without a heavy weapon platform out in the open directly opposite my Chaos Predator (Destructor). After he did this awful placement I questioned him, if he was satisfied with his positioning allowing him to rethink his decision. He answered that everything was fine and you can imagine what happened next...
We played 2nd with house rules (alternate unit activations) and Chaos won the roll for first unit activation. The Predator opened up fire and the guardian squad was turned into red mist.
He also had difficulties designing a sensible list and therefore I decided to write both lists in the future battle which turned out to be a nearly mirror match (CSM vs. CSM). This battle at least was a little bit more exciting but I was still forced to explain everything.
And now comes antoher disturbing fact: He reveled in his idiocy. After this final experience I made a resolution:

I will not suffer any jerks anymore.

Most of my regrets have been not buying models being sold cheap: an army of Space Marines, Eldar, Grey Knights, Daemons, Tau for £60, Ann'grath for £80, etc.

The biggest modeling regret I've had was more of a face palm moment: I had bought the Baneblade kit and made the Shadowsword varient 'cause D pie-plate, but about a month after I had built it the new Imperial Armour came out that said R&H could only use the Baneblade and none of it's varients. So bugger me. It's still sat on my shelf and probably won't see the board at all given it's still not allowed for R&H in 8th ed. Thinking I might sell or trade it. :/

Rage-quitting 4th(not regretted in and of itself) and trading selling off all my guard models(the regret)

I am now completely rebuilding a full battalion(280 guardsmen plus vehicle supprt, tanks and sentinels); but with far less disposable income.

Also leaving my army case full of marines(sold off nearly a full chapter keeping only a company) where my autistic youngest child cold get to them and chewed up most of them.

Mainly botching my Night Shroud Bomber to the point it got turned into terrain...

Well, I sold off everything except a couple armies for both systems, and they wound up going for far less than they should have on ebay. The list as follows:

2000 pts. Legion of the Damned with Rhinos, Sgt. Centurius, 3 Dreadnoughts.

3,000 pts of Eldar

3,000 pts of Tyranids

3,000 pts of Iron Warriors

2,500 pts of Tau

1,500-2,000 pts of Thousand Sons

1,500 pts of Death Guard

And for that dirty ranks n' flanks game

3,000 pts of mostly unassembled Empire

4,000 pts of Orcs and Goblins

2,000 pts of Vampire Counts

3,000 pts of Bretonnians

3,000 pts of Ogre Kingdoms

1,000 pts of Dark Elves

3,000 pts of Chaos Warriors with some Daemon stuff thrown in

3,000 pts of Dwarfs

The best part of this was that recently my brother and I started playing 3rd Ed. 40K and 6th Ed. WFB, and people at my armory as well as some locals got interested and we're getting a fledgling Classichammer club going. So we wound up needing quite a few of those armies, but now we have to start from scratch.

Fortunately we held on to Crimson Fists, Dark Eldar and Imperial Guard. Also had the foresight to sit on Lizardmen, Dogs of War, High Elves and Beastmen.

Magnetizing my Razorback's.

Purchasing every 7th edition book.

Purchasing 6th & 7th edition gaming aids.

Purchasing more stuff than what I will ever have time to complete.

Hmmm... I'm seeing a common theme here.

As a lot of people have already mentioned, I now regret every model I no longer own. As such, I now horde my treasures like Smaug himself

Two of them:

I played and play to win. There was one guy in our group who played Space Wolves once upon a time, but he never won. He eventually quit. I am now in possession of all his models, free of charge, and they rarely get played with. He was one of those people who was embarrassed to be playing with toy soldiers, and I should have been gentle.

I would also have picked up my second army, Sisters of Battle first. Not that I regret playing Imperial Guard, I'm a treadhead and love them too, it's just that I spent, like many people, wondering whether to buy expensive metal figures or wait and hope they come out in plastic. I eventually decided that they weren't getting any cheaper, so I was just going to buy them anyway, and now happily buy expensive metal figures, and wish I had more free time to paint them up.

In that vein, I also wish my IG footsoldiers had been painted like my tanks. I did a generic woodland scheme originally, but I've since switched to a white and grey arctic scheme. I repainted the tanks I use most often, but haven't and probably won't ever get around to re-painting the troopers.

 Inquisitor Lord Katherine wrote:
Two of them:

I played and play to win. There was one guy in our group who played Space Wolves once upon a time, but he never won. He eventually quit. I am now in possession of all his models, free of charge, and they rarely get played with. He was one of those people who was embarrassed to be playing with toy soldiers, and I should have been gentle.

I would also have picked up my second army, Sisters of Battle first. Not that I regret playing Imperial Guard, I'm a treadhead and love them too, it's just that I spent, like many people, wondering whether to buy expensive metal figures or wait and hope they come out in plastic. I eventually decided that they weren't getting any cheaper, so I was just going to buy them anyway, and now happily buy expensive metal figures, and wish I had more free time to paint them up.

In that vein, I also wish my IG footsoldiers had been painted like my tanks. I did a generic woodland scheme originally, but I've since switched to a white and grey arctic scheme. I repainted the tanks I use most often, but haven't and probably won't ever get around to re-painting the troopers.

I make it a rule to never tank off a game. Ever. That being said, I do make milder lists from time to time. I had a new person try 3rd Ed. a couple months ago with my Fists against an army of Eldar that I normally would never have run. He chose to use a Hunter Killer missile to stun a Falcon across the table rather than to pie plate the Striking Scorpions right in front of him. I could have NOT used my Haywire grenades, but that would do nothing for his tactical improvement.

I regret not picking up blisters of Tanith Imperial Guard models or the Uplifting Primer when both were still stocked in GW stores.

Never been a Guard player, but I love the fluff.

I regret not putting a much tighter lid on my 40k purchases. If I had simply stopped buying at roughly half what I own today, I'd still have plenty enough Eldar, IG, CSM and others to play.

Sure, it's great having tons of minis, but it's way more than I'll ever be able to play with. 2k is a good amount, and more than 3k is just excessive.

Oh man, I have so many!

Let's just go with the ones that come straight to mind.

First regret is when I glued all of my flyers and Raiders to their stands, and had nothing to store them in to and from games. I had to buy so many replacement bits that it would've been cheaper to buy one of those expensive cases to stow them in.

Second one is selling 15,000 pts of Deldar and 40,000 pts of heavily converted Iron Hands. It wasn't so much the monetary cost that hurt, but the fact that I put all of that time into making them my own only to sell them and see the whole army sold to a known destroyer of models. The next regret will explain why I sold them.

Regret #3 is entirely table manners related. I played with an old high school friend whom I thought that I could trust. He's the guy that got me into 40k, after all, so he'd be honest, right? We kept a running track of the games that we played, 100 in total, and he beat me 97 times. I thought that I was a horrible gamer until I start playing other people and actually winning. I even won a 4-player City Fight game that one of our local shops ran (not unscathed, but alright). Come to find out, he was cheating his dice rolls the entire time. I always sat on the opposite end of the long table that we played on, and never really "checked" his dice rolls. Once again, this guy was my friend. He was caught by one of the unofficial judges at the shop, who called it out and made quite a fuss about it. When confronted, he opened up and told me that he had been lying the entire run of our games.

I was furious, and sold my Dark Eldar and Iron Hands out of anger. So yeah, those are my regrets.

zerosignal wrote:
Buying a new Death Guard army when I saw the Vectorium rules in Traitor Legions, and then finding out it's all hot garbage fire six months later.

I put a lot of time and effort into that army, as it was for my 40th birthday week at Warhammer World.

I didn't win a single game. It just felt like I'd brought a knife to a gun fight. The only game I felt that I could have won, my opponent seized on me and that was it.

Seriously - whoever wrote the DG part of the index needs to be taken out back and deleted

the DG list is the way it is because it's incomplete. consider the scale of Primaris marines right now, we should expect a similer release for DG

I have purchased and started a Mechanised KDK army, and also a harlequin army, only to continue to build and paint necron stuff instead. Can't get away from the robot overlords

 Strg Alt wrote:
Wasting my time with a jerk.
[snip]
I will not suffer any jerks anymore.

My condolences. I've met roleplayers like that, even had one in a game that ended a couple weeks ago. They're utterly insufferable about their idiocy. Having to remind someone about the rules every damn week, the same rules to boot, for years on end, is utterly obnoxious and disrespectful to everyone else trying to have fun.

 gally912 wrote:

 Stormonu wrote:
I put the legs on my Skitarii Dragoon on backwards (left vs. right). Had to rip them off, drill them out and put them on correctly. Still looks messy if you examine it closely.

I also regret painting 1/2 to 2/3 of my RT01 models in different colors than my primary SM army. I've never stipped paint from models and I'm afraid to try it with these old guys.

I mean, you can just use the other set of servitor legs and it works perfect. All of my skitarii walkers are 50-50 left leg/right leg firstto add variety.

Of course, I'm not sure why the incense balancers on the legs are slotted for the balistarii instead of the dragoon now that I think about it...

When I say backwards, I mean the servitor legs were facing the outside of the model, instead of inside. It wasn't until I started painting I noticed the mistake.

Also, another regret - selling my 4th ed High Elf army. I got disgusted with Herohammer and after it had sat for years in storage finally sold it in 2007, having at least "one of everything" and enough troops to fill out a full army. For about $76. Somehow, one Swordsman of Hoeth survived the purge and now rests in the replacement army I bought - two weeks before the first End Times book came out. Total games played with said army? One, back in 1995, with the original army.

2 things.

I bought two forgeworld red books right before 8th dropped. I read the HH series religiously and truly thought I'd continue with 7th ed rules. Lol, just lol. Sold them a month later for pennies on the dollar, I never even used them.

The real zinger is a bit longer. I started fantasy in 1998, and in 2000 a friend gave me a huge box of space wolves/IG, with characters, gun crews, tanks etc. I didn't play 40k so they sat in a box. Fast forward to 2012. After moving roughly 2 dozen times over the last 12 years, I moved for the last time, from Fresno back to Oklahoma City, where I grew up. Once again I had to pack my things. Once again I came to the 40k box. I had no interest in 40k, but I knew the models had value, and if I never used them I could sell them. Well, while packing for the last time, I held that box in my hand, made an executive decision, and threw it in the dumpster. I moved back to OKC, met my old friend again, and started playing (wouldn't you know it) 40K. I RUE THE DAY I tossed them. Poor space marines and Guard are probably 100 feet deep in a landfill by now.

Oh man, where do i start ?

Me and my buddy got into the hobby maybe two years ago. Started to read about it, then purchased some models and slowly worked on this addiction.

I started out with Space Marines, and play/build my Salamanders Army since then (the first ever book i read about 40k was Salamander, so a simple choice for me).
He started with Grey Knights, cuz they where cool and shiny and also dealt quite the punch.

We played a few games, learning the rules and what not. Simple Fun with painted soldiers. I started playing in our Hobby Central, played there with other people, started to know a few more players and was more of an outgoing player. After a while i played with my GK bud again, only to see he could not for the heck use them. Like no psychic powers, no nothing. He didnt want to spend time reading his codex and learn to play. I of course beat the living heck out of him, with a freaking salamander army. He gave up his Knights after that, said they where boring.

He started a new army, Skitarii/AdMech and was quite hyped.He played a few games, but was still unable to beat me. And i didnt even wanted to win. I had like the most crappy list you could imagine, bolsting Tactical Marines and devastators, and a few pretty basic units. He got tablet in the third round, as we was not willing to learn his rules or do something other than stand and shoot in his corner.
He didnt want to learn anything new, adapt new tactics or just chat and read in the rulebook, finding some nifty things that would help him anyone. I mean hell, i never beat anyone else with a Skitarii army. Like not even once.

He was hyped for the 8th edition, only to let it slip right before it launched, as he lost interest in it.He said that this edition has ruined his army, although i think he didnt even read trough the Index.

Now this guy is a "I NEED TO WIN" guy and does not want to spend his time learning the basics nor using his army properly, and i completely regret the time spent with this dude trying to get him into the hobby and you know... play the game as it should be played, by rules. Now he plays AoS so... yeah... quite a downfall.

I really hate people like this, but man it hurts a bit as we where quite close friends, and a hobby and other crap around it tore us apart. Now i see all this was a time waster, with a guy who was out to win, and needed to win, but without effort. An i can not handle guys like that, really. A friendship dead, a hobby for him ruined. Quite the crap shoot dont ya think ?

Only investing in one wash, and for some bizzare reason I convinced myself it would work with everything :(

I left my monolith in the back window of my car while I went to a few classes at community college.

It was 108 in the shade that day.

The monolith didn't make it.

 Arandmoor wrote:
I left my monolith in the back window of my car while I went to a few classes at community college.

It was 108 in the shade that day.

The monolith didn't make it.

Not immune to melta now is it? IS IT?!

I'm... I'm actually kinda sorry dude. I had to say it. :(

 daedalus wrote:


Not immune to melta now is it? IS IT?!

I'm... I'm actually kinda sorry dude. I had to say it. :(

Ouch

Getting sucked in by the new TS models and starting my first Chaos army.... Then 8 Ed dropped and the psychic phase became super simplified. Legion of Sorcerers became meh to me. Ahriman's Exiles are boxed up and in the 'one day' pile now.

I still love the fluff and Ahriman, but the rules ATM have sent me back to my loyalist armies. Instead of buying a demon engine for my TSs, I bought a Corvax Blackstar or whatever it is for my Death Watch. I'm not going googoo over Primaris Marines, except maybe the Aggressors.. SO much fire!

Prediction- I will regret buying Primaris models in about 12 months....

We all made mistakes. Biggest one you will make is to stop taking pride in yourself. Takes a lot to be the best you can. because we all can be tops. I started no codex and had an array of weapons in squads and used to much glue. but most now live on happy in there battle company although mostly unpaint.[img]

1st regret was selling EVERYTHING I had miniature game wise.This included 2 sets of space crusade and both expansions for it(which got me into 40k,which started at 2nd ed)and a set of advanced space crusade(which became tyranid attack,I believe,.)3500 point space marine and ork armies,plus bits and bobs of other armies,some of the terrain pieces gw were selling back then,plus quite a bit of epic stuff too.for £125

2nd regret was rebuying everything when I decided to restart in 5th ed.Buying a rhino for over £20 when I bought my first one for a fiver put me off getting back into the hobby.Now my space marines and orks are now roughly at same points,but I now also have a necron army around the same points size,a tyranid army that's on the way,a small tau army and a few bits n bobs again.But I can not get into painting them like I used too.Oh how all the grey plastic mockingly laughs at my inability to get it all painted

Choosing Iron Hands as my chapter for getting back into 40k for 8th. After seeing the leaks/previews last week it's pretty clear GW wishes we'd play almost anything else.

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 Arandmoor wrote:
I left my monolith in the back window of my car while I went to a few classes at community college.

It was 108 in the shade that day.

The monolith didn't make it.

Not immune to melta now is it? IS IT?!

I'm... I'm actually kinda sorry dude. I had to say it. :(

No, it is not. Of all the vehicles to receive QS's ability to neuter anti-vehicle weapons, the monolith, a vehicle (in)famous for its ability to ignore melta and lances in 3rd-4th ed, did not receive it.
Because Necrons can't have nice things. Unless they are brand new and inconsistent with the army's design history.
At least it can deepstrike now without blowing up or getting lost.


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 Commander Endova wrote:
Choosing Iron Hands as my chapter for getting back into 40k for 8th. After seeing the leaks/previews last week it's pretty clear GW wishes we'd play almost anything else.

Eh? They have 6+ saves that can be taken against mortal wounds and a stratagem that buffs their vehicles. What's the problem?
Even the dreadnoughts can get the save. That makes them tougher than other dreadnoughts.

Buying an Eldar vampire hunter when I was 14 (birthday money and savings) then proceeding to build it poorly, paint it poorly and then throw it away when I quit the hobby a few years later.

I still have a bit of me that wants to buy another just to do it right this time.