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I guess we all have our "first spill"...

I just had mine on my jeans :<

Wonderful.

Um - no.
Acrylic paint is basically a susspension of plastic in a carrying medium. When it dries it becomes a blob of plastic. Once in clothes it will stay as the only liquids that will disolve the paint will damage your clothes first. Sorry.

Gah, I wish I'd noticed when it was wet... I saw some fly down but thought it all landed on my hand at the time :-/

I ruined 2 pairs of combats with elf flesh both on different occasions! And got enchanted blue on my carpet and up the wall and on the ceiling when trying to open it! lol

That was all about 7 years ago when I was a kid tho, so I get away with it lol.

100 posts yeay! Cant wait to click submit and see what my new little description is!


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Yeah! Wicked warp beast!


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Its like an advent calendar

Newt-Of-Death wrote:I ruined 2 pairs of combats with elf flesh both on different occasions! And got enchanted blue on my carpet and up the wall and on the ceiling when trying to open it! lol

That was all about 7 years ago when I was a kid tho, so I get away with it lol.

100 posts yeay! Cant wait to click submit and see what my new little description is!


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Its like an advent calendar

IT changes alot until you hit the 1k mark. Then it takes awhile to see the change lol


As for the paint, you can TRY to use some nail polish remover or something of that nature, but most likely its stuck in the fabric. Like you said, if you caught it while it was wet, it comes out with just water.

I know i've still got a pair of three year old jeans, with a nice big splotch of blood Red dried onto the upper thigh... yeah that was fun explaining...

Since you posted today I can assume it happened today?

I have gotten acrylics out of fabric once dried (only in the first few hours BEFORE laundering them) but before curing, with a stiff brush, my fingernails and patience. Some of the 'color' seemed to stay but it was pretty mild overall and far better than a huge paint blotch. After laundering and/or a few hours of curing time it gets more and more difficult.

Good advice there GoFenris - cheers!

IT changes alot until you hit the 1k mark. Then it takes awhile to see the change lol

Your telling me

OT: the older paints simply dont come out, many ruinee clothes by them lol.
The newer ones tend to come out if you scrub them straight away, then i just throw it on a cold wash.

SIMPLE GREEN!!!!!!!!!!

Its organic, you can drink it, and it'll take paint out of anything!

Yeah i ruined a shirt and my favorite pair of shorts to some boltgun metal. The easiest way is to try to get it out right away or else your pretty much stuck with it.

I spilled an entire pot of bubonic brown on some jeans, first thing I did was to put it in simple green (in fact it was the second thing, the first being trying to squeeze out as much paint as possible because because its so damn expensive) and left it there for thirty minutes then scratched off most of the paint with my nails repeating this twice the jeans are now paint-free (plus they smelled fresh and clean with simple green). I have tried other cleaners to strip paint off miniatures and none worked except simple green (if you live in Canada you can get it at Canadian Tire)

http://www.simplegreen.com/

BTW if you can drink something it doesn't mean you should

For me just being around the smell of Simple Green for over a few minutes was horable, I can't imagine how bad drinking it would be.

Personally I like the smell of simple green but they make it in different "flavors" so you can have one you like

Personally, I think paint spilled on your clothes is a mark of honor. It's like a war wound or a cool scar, only much, much nerdier.

Chicks dig scars more than mysterious stains.

JOHIRA wrote:Personally, I think paint spilled on your clothes is a mark of honor. It's like a war wound or a cool scar, only much, much nerdier.

I agree. Same with poking holes in your fingers with a modeling knife the first few times, when you don't have the same attention to detail. I've got two proud scars on my right thumb thanks to being a little too inattentive with that modeling knife when I was putting together my very first fire warriors...

(And yes. It is supremely nerdy.)

I ruined some clothes so now i just paint naked. My girlfriend thinks i am odd as i am naked 90% of the time she walks into the house.

My worst spill was actually the wife's fault. I paint (or at least used to) on a foldaway tray on the bed. I should also mention we have a tiny dog about the size of a poodle (a pomeranian for those interested) who likes to sit under the tray while I paint. Went something like this:

"Don't play with the dog while I'm painting...he might knock the tray"
"No he won't"
"Yes he will"
"No he won't"

2 seconds later dog stands up under the tray spilling an entire pot of blood red and chaos black onto brand new duvet cover. The missus tried to get angry, but couldn't since it was her fault.

Now I paint at my computer desk though.

mattyrm wrote:I ruined some clothes so now i just paint naked. My girlfriend thinks i am odd as i am naked 90% of the time she walks into the house.

Two cheers for painting naked! lol Just take a shower afterward and your golden!

mattyrm wrote:I ruined some clothes so now i just paint naked. My girlfriend thinks i am odd as i am naked 90% of the time she walks into the house.

Just tell her you're watching porn.

I've used oxyclean to good effect - but only before the paint dried. Recently, I spilled a good amount of enchanted blue into a carpet. I didn't have any stain remover, so I used the following steps:

1. Soaked up as much as I could with paper towel.
2. Threw a wet hand towel over the remains so it wouldn't dry out while I went to Walmart.
3. Returned with stain remover and removed paint.

Step 2 is crucial.

First spill: a whole pot of Ultramarines Blue over a beige sofa. Luckily (VERY luckily) it washed out.

This is why I paint naked.

i once spilled most of a pot of reaper copper on my old keyboard, i turned it up and managed to pour most back in the pot....keyboard looked kindly odd after that though

The old inks stained worse.

A good pair of my shorts still have drops of black ink after 3 years.

I just keep an old pair of pants lying around for when I want to paint. I think they have colors from each of my armies somewhere on them...

No lol. 50% of my pants are gak because I wipe my brushes on them constantly bad habit I ruined all my good jeans haha.

I wear ratty clothes when I paint for a reason.

Ohh that sucks man...try some rubbing alcohol...that might work...