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I'm surprised it's not dangerous! The concentration of paint in my water is pretty high when I paint. Can't imagine drinking it.

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

It may not taste great, but acrylic paint certainly won't hurt you unless you're drinking far more than is palatable. Oils on the other hand can have some pretty noxious things in them...

I never drink my painting water because it is a bowl-like object that isn't really something you would drink out of.

The number of times I have had defective super glue nozzles drop glue on my pants is getting disturbingly frequent, though.

The only time I've drank paint water is when I had headphones on and my brother thought it would be funny to switch it with my beverage, because they were in the same sort of container. Lately I've been keeping my paint water in a cleaned-out plastic frosting container, because it has a lid so My cat can't get into it if I have to step away from my painting area. My beverage is a clear plastic skull mug I found at Wal-Mart around Halloween a couple of years ago. Of course, I really should be dead, since I haven't cleaned that thing out since I bought it. Perhaps the acid in Pepsi kills any unauthorized bacteria, or my Nurgly resilience simply welcomes them to the party.

I use matt varnish from art shops(not acryllic)so it
needs a good stir to get it mixed.Anyway I have this
brush I use to stir it,I spilled superglue on it and
it went on fire!For a while afterwards I was worried
about using superglue on matt varnished figures!

Guilty of the drinking the wash water.. oddly i wasnt sure how many times i did it when i finally noticed.

Have a buddy though that didnt realize there was glue on his hand... when he gave his nose a quick wipe... it WAS glued shut. Idiot pried it open.

Drinking paint water ain't so bad. How many brush-lickers are out there? I'll admit I do, and the metallics are horrible tasting.

After a paint-session, my wife at the time would ask me to stick out my tounge and then proceed to give me the riot act about the chemical composition (she's a PhD Chemist); so the bad-habit had to go or her.

I miss her sometimes. She could make good lasagne.

Agamemnon2 wrote: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.

i used to do that alot before i chopped my devil lock off...
paint, super glue, you name it... even bits got glued in there sometimes...
between that, and food//condiments, my hair got kinda gross sometimes...

Was doing some modeling at my FLGS when I knocked my x-acto knife from the table. It landed point first in my thigh, cutting rather deep (Was a fresh blade). I went to the lavatory and taped some tp on it, then went back to work like nothing had happened.

Never drank my brush-water before, but whilst drinking I once managed to dip a brush with yellow paint into the same WINE glass three times in a row.

Like the story MM told us, I've certainly lost things in the warp. Polystyrene must bounce pretty well, because when I do find dropped bitz they're always a good metre away from where I'd expect them to be. Once I was wearing a pair of pants that were a little too long, and so they were rolled up at the bottom. I went absolutely nuts trying to find a power fist that had fallen into the rolled-up part of my pants. Found it the next day.

MagickalMemories wrote: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

its different for me, since i usually have 2 cups on my table. hot chocolate cup ( winter ) + tea cup.
or tea cup tea cup ( dipped tea bags )

so i guess when i add the 3rd washing paint cup it doesnt register into my habit, and i still see the cups
as something to drink.

I used to have a problem with disapearing mini's, 1 or 2 would vanish from my table and turn up behind the couch or other hard to reach places. One night i heard a noise in my kitchen and went to investigate, there was my cat batting around a gaurdsmen, then it proceeded to pick it up and run off behind the couch. Mysterious dissapearing minis solved!!

Havnt drank the paint water yet, come very close a couple of times though

warpcrafter wrote: Of course, I really should be dead, since I haven't cleaned that thing out since I bought it. Perhaps the acid in Pepsi kills any unauthorized bacteria, or my Nurgly resilience simply welcomes them to the party.

That is... disturbing to say the least.

I once dropped a double purity seal [off the little sprue that comes with SM], and never found it again. Not quite as strange as MM's story, but then again, you would think it wouldn't be that hard to find.

I havent really been at this for long enough to generate some weird stories (just give me time tho)

HOWEVER... on a forum that i mod for, we have a self proclaimed "captain hacksaw" who managed to glue the side of his face to his key board... apparently, as the story goes, his 40k/model spot is right near his computer (so he can post pics quick i suppose)... well, late night model assembling, and he was typing away on the computer as well, with glue encrusted fingers.. when he woke up in the morning, the keyboard went with the rest of him as he sat up.

I've drank paint water on more than one occasion and also had a couple of mishaps with x-acto knives involving some blood loss.
However,my worst screw up was a time when,while attempting to unclog a bottle of super glue,I shot a stream of it into my face instantly transforming my goate into a mini dreadlock mess and gluing my left eye shut....not a good day.

Other than the drinking paint water and glueing fingers together or to a model...

Back in the early 90's I was a servicable painter with a playable army and that was it (WHFB Orcs and WH40K Smurfs). On a whim I decided to paint a figure that wasn't in either army. While painting I felt inspired and as time passed I broke through a lot of walls that day in my painting. This figure, for me, was far greater than anything I had painted at that time and set the tone for me using advanced techniques in the future. The figure was a Chaos Berserker of Khorne. Coincedence...?

FITZZ wrote: I've drank paint water on more than one occasion and also had a couple of mishaps with x-acto knives involving some blood loss.
However,my worst screw up was a time when,while attempting to unclog a bottle of super glue,I shot a stream of it into my face instantly transforming my goate into a mini dreadlock mess and gluing my left eye shut....not a good day.

I once super glued my eye shut as well! I had just come out of hospital after having an eye op as well!!! OMG it hurt when i pulled it open!

The cats and my space marines are in a constant battle for my affections.

The war of attention came to a head one night when I heard a god awful retching sound coming from downstairs.

Apparently, my cat had decided to put an end to my squad of terminators and had begun feasting on them. After a trip to the vet ER, and a very tense wait while my cat was in surgery, the killer kitty was returned to us safe and sound. And also, covered in the blood, saliva, and gristle of his foresworn foe, stood captain Thurston of the 1st company (not really, the vets sanitized the guy after retrieving him from the bowels of my stupid cat, but isn't that a great mental image?)

Now, several months later, Thurston is happily prosecuting the foes of the imperium, and my cat bolts every time I make a move for my warhammer stuff.

That is HILARIOUS Shrike78!

I don't have any good stories like that except for the usual gluing myself to stuff and small nicks and cuts

Weirdest I've had happen is a minor earthquake causing me to mess up painting the eye of a marine captain. And this is in England, we don't get Earthquakes! It was on the news shortly afterwards, a 3.2 Magnitude.

I was on vacation in florida, painting the contents of blackfire pass and my sister decided late one night after I went to bed to put a goblin spearman on my chair. The next day i woke up drowsy and went to paint some dwarfs before breakfast. I sat down and the spear poked me in the butt, i jumped up and knocked an open pot of chainmail onto the carpet.

I accidentally mixed nacho cheese into my wet palette once.

That was somehow embarassing...

Chrysaor686 wrote:I accidentally mixed nacho cheese into my wet palette once.

That was somehow embarassing...

Well, if it's na-cho cheese, then you shouldn't be messing with it.

(Get it? "Na-cho" cheese?)

hehe.... Chrysaor, are you turning into a real life version of Serena D'angelus????

Weirdest thing for me was when I was filling mold lines off with my knife and sliced a good chunk of flesh off my thumb.

One time I painted a mini and didn't think it was that good when I was done so I touched it up a bit and it was better.

I don't have a very interesting history, painting-wise.

glued my hands together and then went too sleep with outknowing about it it was a long night

Christmas day one year (many many years ago in a galaxy far far away) I bent down next to my painting desk - unfortunately I had left my hobby knife on my desk stick outwards - wedged under my painting tray!

My family was downstairs eating lobster (I'm not a seafood fan) and called down for a bandage (as I bled on the carpet). They thought I said bandaid - so my brother realised his mistake when he saw the blood gushing!

;-)

One trip to the emergency department and 6 stitches later I was good as rain!

Used the same hobby knife later to remove the stitches as well!

i wasnt painting but this is still a good one:

i was puttong togeather a necron tomb spyder and i got super glue on my finger, my eye itched and i rubbed it with the finger with the super glue on it. i had to go to the hospital, and luckilly they said they had to fix people that superglued themselves at least once a month. it was still embarrasing.

Damn Shrike, how big is your cat!? Are you certain you didn't adopt a bob cat from the pound? Or do you use catnip as a flocking agent?

My cat likes to sit in my lap and use my arm as a pillow while I paint. That tends to be a short term proposition at best...

The only weird story I have is during a game when I bent over to check LOS from some Havoks in a CoD building. While those little spikey things on the building toppers won't cut glass, it turns out they cut into cheeks quite well, and left me with an 1.5 inch cut on my cheek starting at the bottom of my glasses. If I had been wearing contacts, it probably would have impaled my eye :(