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This is a thread for stupid modeling or painting you did.
This was back about 3 years ago when i started
I got the deffkoptas from AOBR..... the stands broke. i tired fixing thme with glue, didnt work. took a lighter and tried to melt them together.
I used varnish to seal paint
I tried to remove paint by putting models in hot water(bad idea) and the microwave(worse idea)
I tried to seal paint with hairspray and a hair drier(warped a model)
And stripping i used oven cleaner alot, i am never doing that again. i lost my fingerprints for awhile.

Those are hilarious. I'm fairly new to the hobby so I'm probably doing things i'll regret later on right now. One thing I do remember though is that when I first primed one of my models I coated it so much the model looked like it was just a big stick of paint. There was no more detail on the model and it was effectively ruined. Good thing it was a 'practice' model and I quickly learnt my lesson!

I try to salvage models i know damn bloody right and proper well are ruined. Part of the salvage process entails causing even more damage to the model. My success rate is poor. I continue doing this notwithstanding the lack of a success rate.

I stripped metal models with acetone without using a gas mask.

Sometimes, when I construct my tanks mostly, I forget to make the area I work in well ventilated... Yay getting high off of super glue x__x

Was gluing lictors together, glued fingers together (3, 2 on 1 hand). Nobody around to save me, and for some unknown reason had nothing to fix the issue...so screwed...

primed a load of marines with walmart glossy black spray paint becauce I thought the glossy would look cool.


Man that stuff goes on thick...

I tried to open up a hole on a 40mm square GW base with an exacto knife and instead opened up my pinky down to the bone.

And I sold off my 6th edition Empire soldiers which I'm now going to great pains to replace.

I suck on the end of my brush handle while I paint, got it mixed around and got a mouthful of Badab Black

The good ol' Hobby Knife as well for me. Even moreso thinking, "Pft Ill be fine" as the blade is inwards instead of out. Then in about 5 seconds I had the blade into the tip of my thumb.

I put a Space Marine in turpentine to strip it.

I tried to unclog a superglue tube by squeezing it hard - took two weeks before the protective and airtight coating on my fingers was gone... ;-)

Once, back in the bad old days when I used testors paint because I didn't know what acrylic paint was, I was trying to remove the metal lid from the glass bottle with a screwdriver and before I knew it, I'd sliced my hand five ways to hell and back with shards of the shattered bottle. Fortunately, I have a really high pain tolerance. Not high enough at that moment, but high enough that instead of fainting and bleeding to death, I howled so loud that my cat was afraid of me for weeks.

Samus_aran115 wrote:I stripped metal models with acetone without using a gas mask.

Did worse than that, used Methyl Ethyl Ketone or MEK to strip some metal figures is a closed room. Last time I was that high I was in the Navy painting a compartment with red lead primer, and yes back then it had lead in it.

Second worse thing was airbrushing a wash thinned with alcohol over a Landraider sealed with Dullcote. Fogged a bunch of places on the thing, only good side was that the fogging looked like a real oxidized paint job. Actually had guys ask me how did I do that?

Cutting small, rounded objects with an x-acto knife.
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warpcrafter wrote:Once, back in the bad old days when I used testors paint because I didn't know what acrylic paint was, I was trying to remove the metal lid from the glass bottle with a screwdriver and before I knew it, I'd sliced my hand five ways to hell and back with shards of the shattered bottle. Fortunately, I have a really high pain tolerance. Not high enough at that moment, but high enough that instead of fainting and bleeding to death, I howled so loud that my cat was afraid of me for weeks.

Long story short, I recently found out that my testers metalics had seperated completely in the 3 months I was away at university and there was no way to remix them (I tried).

Rather miffed about it...

At least I will no longer be useing cancer causeing paints on my plastic dudes.

Back when I first started to play fantasy I tried to use plastic glue to fill the gaps in my High Elf horses, then tried to wipe the excess off with a tissue, then tried to file it smooth while the glue was still wet.

That poor horse was a complete disaster. I made it worse by gobbing judicious amounts to testors paint over it to hide the the flaw... and the details.

I was chopping the hands off of marine arms to reposition them by pushing down really hard on the blade of my scalpel and bracing them with my other hand. As i did, the blade snapped from the pressure and a piece flicked back and cut me on the nose...

I sat there for about a minute, thanking god that it didn't go in my eye, and then added safety glasses to my list of things to buy...

hotsauceman1 wrote:This is a thread for stupid modeling or painting you did.
This was back about 3 years ago when i started
I got the deffkoptas from AOBR..... the stands broke. i tired fixing thme with glue, didnt work. took a lighter and tried to melt them together.
I used varnish to seal paint
I tried to remove paint by putting models in hot water(bad idea) and the microwave(worse idea)
I tried to seal paint with hairspray and a hair drier(warped a model)
And stripping i used oven cleaner alot, i am never doing that again. i lost my fingerprints for awhile.

The last one ... I don't know. The instructions on the can TELL YOU TO WEAR GLOVES FOR A REASON.

Common sense is no longer common, I fear (nor is RTFM).

I started gaming after childhood had already left, so my stupid things were confined to burning myself with my soldering iron, and scratching myself on circuitboards and then getting alcohol in them while cleaning them (I was an electronics geek at 12, gamer at 18).


Not so much a stupid thing I did, but a mate asked me where my stripping jar was - so I pointed it out and he dumped his FW Elysians into the ACETONE JAR.

Let's just say he didn't do that again.
No, I didn't offer to replace them. I ONLY used that jar for metals. Now I use Brake fluid - which won't turn resin into goo - it will soften it though.

hotsauceman1 wrote:I tried to remove paint by putting models in hot water(bad idea) and the microwave(worse idea)
i lost my fingerprints for awhile.

As I cannot at the moment afford to lose another mini trying this myself, what happened when you put it in the microwave?

n0t_u wrote:I put a Space Marine in turpentine to strip it.

I see your space marine and raise you a broadside batlesuit.

n0t_u wrote:I put a Space Marine in turpentine to strip it.

I did the exact same thing with about 30 space marines...

When i first started the hobby for some reason i thought it would be a brilliant idea to paint my kroot models in a completely random rainbow color scheme, i have no idea what possessed me to glob on every bright color i had but at the time i thought they were the greatest.

10 years later and I've stashed them away in my shame box along with my first dark angels that were coated in so much enamel paint that i severely doubt any man could strip them.

I knew it would dissolve it, I was just curious how fast it would.

I got some spray paint to base my lovelly new army...i had the bright idea that it would not be good to do it inside so i took them outside on a table...n i blew them all away off the table with the spray paint, .

Glueing bits togeher is always fun i once glued my fingers to the modle ... glued them hard, skin came off so i could remove the modle. yet another time i got glue on my fingers and i thought it would be a good idea to wipe it off with paper...yeah i glued paper to myself willingly lol.

thank god i havn't been into the hobby too long, god knows whatmay happen next

When I was a kid, I 'converted' (I use the term very loosely) a mint condition Robotech Factory model kit into 40k terrain. That kit is now regularly fetching £300 on eBay, and I'd love to build it now I have the skills to do it justice.

Samus_aran115 wrote:I stripped metal models with acetone without using a gas mask.

Beg pardon?

You are supposed to use a mask?

Sonophos wrote:

Samus_aran115 wrote:I stripped metal models with acetone without using a gas mask.

Beg pardon?

You are supposed to use a mask?

Its probably wise unless youre in a well ventilated area.

Prolonged exposure, ie longer than it takes a woman to clean her nails off, isnt good for your health.

Although, fortunately, i dont think it has long term health effects, being unable to breath isnt pleasant.

That said, it might not always have the same effect on everyone.

As for mistakes, I once tried to unblock a super glue nozzle by removing it from the bottle and blowing down it...it didnt stick too much though, thankfully.

I also used to regularly end up with super glue on my fingers, which i usually removed by rubbing them together, and if they were then stuck, pulling them apart and slicing through the skin very carefully with a knife.

Ok Not so bad then.

I have got superglue on my fingers so many times it is almost normal. I used to just nibble it off.

I've cut my fingers so many times the tips are pretty much scar tissue. On the bright side they are now quite hard to cut and I have chef's fingers.

Kustomizing Orks, I put an exacto blade into my finger. A bus ride and a roll of paper towel later, I had four new stitches.

Making my Tater Titan, I decided to heat the plastic with a lighter to mold it to the form of Mr Potatohead better. This was fine, when I had a working respirator. Couldn't find it one day, went "Meh, I'll be five minutes. What's the harm?" I wound up in one of my typical working comas, and half an hour into some serious model building I was high off plastic fumes and sick for an hour afterword.

On a tamer note, I built my deffrolla with some layers of duct tape over a toiler paper roll. After all the work that went into crafting it, it looked awesome. Then I primed and painted it... Both have been flaking off the duct tape's surface since..

Tired pushing on a new scalpel blade with a pair of pliers (so I wouldn't slice my fingers).
Pliers slipped, blade hammered into my finger, permenantly severed the nerve running down the side of my finger.

Used really runny superglue for some resin scenery.
Got burning sensation in leg - the glue had run off the model & dripped.
In blind, pain-filled panic, placed model on the arm of my leather sofa.
Had to paint part of the sofa to cover up the tear when I ripped the model off some time later.