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Actually I can one up Aegis, I sold a model painted in my own blood. (At least just the Swooping Hawk Exarch's sword...but still)

That said worst I ever got was an Armorcast Ork Battlewagon that had been 'mostly' held together by sculpting clay, at least I think it was sculpting clay.

Well, mine's just because I usually use a quick swipe of the lips to get a fine point on the brush - before it goes into the pot for the first time!

Though I have had times where I realized I started painting before getting some water, and after looking around just got lazy and spit on my paint cloth and wiped the brush off, and then got up and got water. that way nothing can come up on the trip upstairs, derail me, and then I have paint sitting on a brush.

Oh everyone licks their brushes and rolls the tip on the lips it's the only way to keep a point on a brush.

Worst for me was 20~ troops all painted with thiiiiick layers of orange and yellow spraypaint so much it was running down the model and onto the base.

Also, consider yourselves luckys guys, here in canada Ebay warhammer is around 1:1 cost as GW store and sometimes even more expensive.

I tend to not buy models off ebay unless they are obviously painted quite well (as in, high quality pics, not blurry pics where I can't tell), they are new/unassembled.

Most my 2nd hand models came from my local FLGS where I could inspect them and decide if I wanted them before buying.

 Jimsolo wrote:
It seems like I never buy used from someone who knows how to clean mold lines.

I think anyone who cares enough about their models to clean off the mould lines is unlikely to turn around and sell them cheaply on ebay.

The skin thing doesn't really bother me. Well, if it's -that- much it does but let's be real here. Who hasn't glued themselves to a few models and peeled off some skin (perhaps not a -huge- or -noticeable- amount) in the process?

Also, as Aegis mentioned, I have most certainly used my lips to give my brushes a point now and again. A few of my paint jobs have saliva in them in small degrees, not that it's noticeable.

 morganfreeman wrote:
Who hasn't glued themselves to a few models and peeled off some skin (perhaps not a -huge- or -noticeable- amount) in the process?

You don't typically leave skin on the model unless you yank at it. Superglue is heaps more brittle than skin, just wiggling the finger around is usually enough to get it off.

I don't think in the past 20 something years of modelling (and I started when I was quite young) I've ever glued myself so badly to a model where I've left any amount of my own skin behind

Also, as Aegis mentioned, I have most certainly used my lips to give my brushes a point now and again. A few of my paint jobs have saliva in them in small degrees, not that it's noticeable

I like to think there's a little bit of me in all my collection....

Glad my story has been so well received...LOL

The follow up to it is one of my proudest moments of skullduggery.

My co-worker was eating his lunch in the back room when the guy came in for the paint lesson. His little sister (maybe 8-10?) came in with him for a demo game. To do both I went into the back to grab Brad and told him: "There's a guy out here that wants a paint lesson and a young girl who wants a demo game. Which one do you want to do?" With absolutely no hesitation he said "Paint lesson!". So I ran a 5 minute demo for the girl (since it was completely up to us how deep into the rules a demo got) and was done by the time Brad had returned to the store from priming the skin covered Marines. He then had to completely go over how to paint the models. It lasted about 20 minutes. Then he had to find the will to return to his lunch. LOL

 SlaveToDorkness wrote:
Glad my story has been so well received...LOL

The follow up to it is one of my proudest moments of skullduggery.

My co-worker was eating his lunch in the back room when the guy came in for the paint lesson. His little sister (maybe 8-10?) came in with him for a demo game. To do both I went into the back to grab Brad and told him: "There's a guy out here that wants a paint lesson and a young girl who wants a demo game. Which one do you want to do?" With absolutely no hesitation he said "Paint lesson!". So I ran a 5 minute demo for the girl (since it was completely up to us how deep into the rules a demo got) and was done by the time Brad had returned to the store from priming the skin covered Marines. He then had to completely go over how to paint the models. It lasted about 20 minutes. Then he had to find the will to return to his lunch. LOL

Nice!


One of the best I'd seen from my own time as a local redshirt, was the guy who picked-up a Deceiver C'tan used, then got the brilliant idea of converting it into a Doctor Manhattan lookalike, giant, waving-in-the-breeze wang and all...
He was very distraught when we told him he couldn't use it in store, due to the massive inappropriateness of his green stuff conversion.

Then there was the 'Space Marine in a Primerball' moment...

I am currently stripping a 10$ leman russ (fittingly for a Vostroyan army) that's like one of those russian Babushka dolls.

I have scrubbed my way through green, dark green, white, black (I assume primer) and now Tan to another Black layer of paint which I BELIEVE is the original coat of primer as I am seeing flecks of light grey plastic now.

Apparently this guy didn't remember the "strip" step of redoing your paint jobs.

Well, it's never been red before!