Weirdest things that have happened to you whilst painting minis?

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**V0ldem0r7**

What is the weirdest thing you have had happen to you while painting minis?

Personally, I've never had anything strange happen, but I've heard of some strange incidents.

**robertsjf**

Lid popped off of a dropper bottle of paint (one of reapers) and got silver paint all over the living room (literally, all over. spots in every part of the room). My boss made me go back to citadel pop top bottles....

**Agamemnon2**

I once glued my hair to the cardboard sheet I was using to protect my table. I must've spilled glue on it earlier, and then bent down to look at some detail or another, causing my hair to dangle low enough to hit the wet glue. Hardly dangerous, but felt pretty silly.

**Bignutter**

While scratch building a stompa... head flew off while the plasticard was under pressure- flew off and straight out the window...

it survived...kinda

**warpcrafter**

Once I was using a 2" brush to flip a mix of thinned paint and ink onto a 40K fortification I had built and there was loud music on, and I had several beers in me and I didn't notice until later that a considerable amount of the ink/paint mix had flipped all over my glasses. It also got all over my clothes, skin and hair but I was prepared for that, having plenty of old clothes to paint in. I had to soak my glasses in diswashing detergent overnight to get them clean, and scrub all my exposed skin with lava soap to get the spots off of me.

**Ifurita**

Was flocking some figures and had a big puddle of white glue on my newspaper in front of me. The cat decides he wants attention, strolls in front of me, and lays down in my glue

**enmitee**

i was cutting a miniature arm (i think) but i was being stupid and in a rush so i was cutting towards my direction, i underestimated the strength of the plastic thing (whiolst exerting too much energy) and no i didnt cut my self i just punched myself hard on the cheek.:(

and Hhahahaha at the cat ifurita.

**Lint**

Nothing too crazy, but I always end up glueing my fingers together.

**TheCapm**

I dripped some white paint and it splooshed in the shape of a skull.

**warpcrafter**

TheCapm wrote:I dripped some white paint and it splooshed in the shape of a skull.

You are the chosen one!

**Cheese Elemental**

I was up painting late at night after not sleeping for two days in a row due to my insomnia, and that evening was when I started taking medication for it, and I just fell face-first onto my desk and got several particularly spiky Goblin spearmen in my cheeks. Slept until 2pm the next day with plastic spears in my face.

**xv89_crisis**

Was at my FLGS recently and had a xv8 antennae snap off, I borrowed some glue and glued it and my hand onto the battlesuit's head.

**Le Grognard**

Heh. Back in my HC days, was teaching some noobs on proper priming techniques. Failed to notice one Einstein was holding the can with the nozzle pointed in the reverse direction. Bam! Luckily, it only got his shirt.

**Redbeard**

One time, I was airbrushing some stuff, and sitting at an angle to my desk (and paint canopy) so I could watch whatever college football game was on TV at the time.

Noticed after the fact that I'd gotten red paint all over the TV, and a few primed miniatures that had been sitting on top of it. Fortunately, it was more like dust than paint and wiped off easily with a damp cloth.

**LunaHound**

-Normal occurance of dipping brush in my drink

-or drinking my paintbrush water cup accidentally

-domino effect of trying to stop something from falling /
tipping over, and end up knocking the whole paint tray down / or fall off the chair.

-see how the mini look absolutely different in day time sunlight .... ( paints at night, baaad idea )

**Platuan4th**

I know I've mentioned this in a similar thread(months or years ago, it all blends together here...) and it didn't happen to me, but:

My friend was sitting on the floor painting his guard near a broken coffee table(hence painting on the floor). His father walked past and told him to clean up the red paint he'd spilled on the floor. Having just finished with the red, he cleans it up and continues painting. Several minutes later, his father passes by again and asks why he hasn't cleaned up the paint yet. He obliges to clean it up again, only now noticing two things: that his red pot is closed and the "paint" is leaking from his own foot. Turns out that a sub-par job cleaning up after the broken table meant that there was still plenty of glass pieces large enough in the carpet to embed themselves into someone's foot.

**V0ldem0r7**

Ouch, ouch, ouch. Lint, I always do that. But with super glue. Luckily, it only takes a few seconds to un-stick.

TheCapM! TheCapM IS THE CHOSEN ONE! TheCapM!

"or drinking my paintbrush water cup accidentally" I almost do that sometimes.

**Clthomps**

I was priming some minis black, when the wind picked up and changed direction. Needless to say I spent the next couple hours trying to scrap black paint off of my glasses.

Lesson learned: Check the weather report before priming outside.

**G. Whitenbeard**

Clthomps wrote:I was priming some minis black, when the wind picked up and changed direction. Needless to say I spent the next couple hours trying to scrap black paint off of my glasses.

Lesson learned: Check the weather report before priming outside.

I have a pair of sneakers with a nice black tinge on one side.

**lifeafter**

Lol to the cat story. Poor kitty. I just don't let mine on the table...

Funny thing I've done: I've used the back of paint brushes to mix paint and then later absent mindedly put the back of the brush in my mouth. It's sort of funny, because I'll be holding the brush with my mouth when I realize that somethign does't taste quite right. At least we don't use lead paints...

I also have a pair of brown shoes with a couple of yellow drops on them.

**HoverBoy**

Having just got my firs tyranids i'm anxious to get assembling, it was late in the night and time eventualy took me down.
Next day i wake up at 2pm (my rgular weekend wake up time) an there's a gaunt with no arms up my nose.
Half an hour of counting arms later i gratefully realise that no hands have gone missing, meaning that i won't have to explain to no doctors how i got a toy up my nose.

**TheCapm**

Lol, having dreams about being a ripper, eh?

**malfred**

My wife thinks it's funny when I drop miniatures.

I always give out a conversation level, "Nooo..." as I watch it fall to the ground.

Ugh.

**Lorek**

I spilled a whole bottle of Flesh Wash (this was the original Citadel paints) on my jeans while painting. Wasn't that big a deal, except that a group of girls showed up at the apartment (friend of mine's) and it looked like I'd leaked greasey poop into my pants.

Lovely.

**Amen Brick**

I sprayed myself on the naked breast (steady. I'm a man) black once and while I was painting a mini's mouth Barack Obama was misspeaking his oath. Coincidence? I think not.

**porkuslime**

Done the "Drinking paint water instead of Coffee" numerous times.. always worse when I am using styrofoam cups for both.

**somecallmeJack**

I often do the 'washing my brush in my tea & drinking my painting water' thing. I had no idea it was so widespread!

**MagickalMemories**

Ifurita wrote:Was flocking some figures and had a big puddle of white glue on my newspaper in front of me. The cat decides he wants attention, strolls in front of me, and lays down in my glue

I held it in because I was at work.
Otherwise, though... LOL...

Little b@st@rd got what he deserved.

Lick THAT off, Garfield!

Eric

**MagickalMemories**

I don't do the drink/wash water thing.
Chalk it up to habit and anal retentiveness.

I have used the same glass to clean my brushes in for over 20 years. It's nothing like any other glass/cup I've ever had.

Add on to it that I ALWAYS keep my brush water glass on my left and my drinking cup on my right, and it's highly unlikely that I'll EVER make that mistake... again. : )

Done the glue thing. Done the dropped thing.

One time, I was painting a mini in pieces and I dropped the arm. That arm was NEVER FOUND. It just disappeared into the warp. I scoured the floor while laying there. Swept the carpet. Vaccuumed the carpet. When we moved, I checked the entire area again... Nothing.

Eric

**Gavin Thorne**

I frequently paint at work and I'm highly meticulous when I do so. I use a small plastic palette to put my paint in, only use enough paint for one model at a time and haven't spilled... yet ::knock on wood::

However, modelling isn't as tidy as I'd like it to be and my co-workers frequently find little plastic man bits on our blue-green-black mottled carpet where they've fallen and warped away from sight. I was converting one of my exodites about a month ago and lost his head, only to find it last week just after posting the pic of the very model here on Dakka...