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pablopatito wrote:
My 8 year old daughter recently got into model painting. I'm not sure how she did it, but she went to open a bottle of Waaagh! Flesh and managed to empty half of it all over her face, in her hair, in her mouth, over her clothes, over the dining table, over the floor... It was a Waaagh! Flesh explosion!

She just burst out crying. I'd have taken a photo but her mother rushed her to the shower to get cleaned up as apparently if you let acrylic dry in hair it's never coming out.

Did that turn her off of model painting or just the green skins?

not sure if an oops but def OCD. I've repainted a necron army 4 times to get the color scheme I want ( I mean a fully painted army stripped and repainted 3 times) I did the same thing to an eldar army once. I must love inflicting pain on myself

Dropper bottle of Vallejo dark blue paint had a blocked nozzle. Then all of a sudden it didn't. Paint everywhere. Over my laptop lid, over the arm of my sofa (couch for US readers), and it turns out that dark blue paint doesn't wash out of cream chinos very well...

 mrhappyface wrote:

pablopatito wrote:
My 8 year old daughter recently got into model painting. I'm not sure how she did it, but she went to open a bottle of Waaagh! Flesh and managed to empty half of it all over her face, in her hair, in her mouth, over her clothes, over the dining table, over the floor... It was a Waaagh! Flesh explosion!

She just burst out crying. I'd have taken a photo but her mother rushed her to the shower to get cleaned up as apparently if you let acrylic dry in hair it's never coming out.

Did that turn her off of model painting or just the green skins?

It did actually. She didn't do any more for a few weeks, and has only recently started painting again, only without the enthusiasm she had, sadly. It knocked her confidence.

pablopatito wrote:

 mrhappyface wrote:

pablopatito wrote:
My 8 year old daughter recently got into model painting. I'm not sure how she did it, but she went to open a bottle of Waaagh! Flesh and managed to empty half of it all over her face, in her hair, in her mouth, over her clothes, over the dining table, over the floor... It was a Waaagh! Flesh explosion!

She just burst out crying. I'd have taken a photo but her mother rushed her to the shower to get cleaned up as apparently if you let acrylic dry in hair it's never coming out.

Did that turn her off of model painting or just the green skins?

It did actually. She didn't do any more for a few weeks, and has only recently started painting again, only without the enthusiasm she had, sadly. It knocked her confidence.

What a shame. :/

Here's hoping she keeps at it and one day we shall all know the name of the master painter: Pablo's daughter.

Well managed to get super glue in my eye while magnetising some terminator arms. Was a little bit more than an 'oops' moment though.

Ashenwyte wrote:I spilled a pot of Nuln oil all over my desk, my favourite shirt, and my laptop. Thankfully, the paint washed off the shirt, and it didn't go inside the computer.

 Guildenstern wrote:
Had a matte varnish coat go terribly frosty over my beautiful Hellpit Abom - I still can't stand to look at him, thinking about having to fix him.

There's a method of fixing the frosty effect by dipping a cotton ball in olive oil, letting it sit, then washing it off with soap and water, and it'll take the frosty effect away while not touching the paint. I haven't tried it myself, but I've heard it works.

Yeah..... nope.

At least, apparently not if you let it sit too long. I've tried the iso propyl method as well - again nope. Momma's sad :( So only option is to repaint. Even though my son says it looks fine. I know. lol

pablopatito wrote:

 mrhappyface wrote:

pablopatito wrote:
My 8 year old daughter recently got into model painting. I'm not sure how she did it, but she went to open a bottle of Waaagh! Flesh and managed to empty half of it all over her face, in her hair, in her mouth, over her clothes, over the dining table, over the floor... It was a Waaagh! Flesh explosion!

She just burst out crying. I'd have taken a photo but her mother rushed her to the shower to get cleaned up as apparently if you let acrylic dry in hair it's never coming out.

Did that turn her off of model painting or just the green skins?

It did actually. She didn't do any more for a few weeks, and has only recently started painting again, only without the enthusiasm she had, sadly. It knocked her confidence.

D'awwww :( :(

First off: Read her this thread ^_^ or well, I guess, she's 8, she can probably read a lot of it. Then she won't feel so bad! She's hardly alone.

Also:


^^ This should cheer her up.....

granted it was semi on purpose (lil boogers got into my blue acrylic paint!) You can barely tell, but the older boy, in the back, his hair was ENTIRELY blue... ><

Oh and acrylic does come out of hair after it's dried, btw. May not be entirely pleasant but it's not too bad. Considering how it *never* came out of their clothes... and I had to repaint three rooms, a stair hall way and a banister.

A few occasions spring to mind.

The 'oh I'll just do some chips to hide that surface blemish on the warhound titan' one. That led to something like 90 hours of freehand crack effects. Everywhere. Gnnn.

The 'purity seal wrecked a week's work' one. Had to repaint an entire landspeeder storm, after first disassembling it (carefully) enough to paint the cockpit again.

The 'Daddy I help paint your soldier!' one. Left a nicely painted marine sergeant on my table at home. Next to a brush. And some paint. And my (then) six year old. Oopsie.

Then there's the knife slips, superglue on the jeans, forget-to-empty-the-airbrush-of-varnish-for-a-week. day to day stuff, but that happens all the time.

Superglue on the jeans sucks, as because of the exothermic reaction of drying means a lot of it at once gets HOT! I got out of those pants fast.

Not as bad as when twice as much missed and went on the carpet. It sizzled audibly and smoked.....

 AegisGrimm wrote:
Superglue on the jeans sucks, as because of the exothermic reaction of drying means a lot of it at once gets HOT! I got out of those pants fast.

Not as bad as when twice as much missed and went on the carpet. It sizzled audibly and smoked.....

What in the Warp are you guys using? Let me know so I never go anywhere near it.

DarkSoldier wrote:

 AegisGrimm wrote:
Superglue on the jeans sucks, as because of the exothermic reaction of drying means a lot of it at once gets HOT! I got out of those pants fast.

Not as bad as when twice as much missed and went on the carpet. It sizzled audibly and smoked.....

What in the Warp are you guys using? Let me know so I never go anywhere near it.

That's just basic super glue. In small amounts you'd never notice but large amounts, especially if it's curing quickly, can generate significant heat and the fumes can get thick enough you'll actually notice them.

Also super glue is a cyanoacrylate which has some pretty severe chemical reactions with certain materials, polyester and denim are two major ones!

I had just finished a batch of two Dark Eldar Venoms and a corvus blackstar, they were sitting on my painting mat, as inspiration to finish the next mini.

I went to finish up the watch master I was painting, grabbed by white scar and started to shake it up.

Me being the stupid idiot I was forgot to close the lid on a very very full pot of paint. It got everywhere, and all over the 3 freshly painted vehicles, the corvus was salvageable, while the venoms met the simple green.

I've had a few spills and mistakes, but the worst of it all was actually a coffee related mistake. Was really early in the morning and felt like doing some painting, so got a cup of coffee and had it sitting on my painting table. As I'm painting some leadbelcher I clean my brush, dry it off and notice it's still a little dirty.... oddly brown, although I just assume I had messed up and not washed out my mournfang sufficiently before I switched to the leadbelcher.

Take a big gulp of coffee, look down in the cup and notice that it looks oddly metallic....

 kingbobbito wrote:
I've had a few spills and mistakes, but the worst of it all was actually a coffee related mistake. Was really early in the morning and felt like doing some painting, so got a cup of coffee and had it sitting on my painting table. As I'm painting some leadbelcher I clean my brush, dry it off and notice it's still a little dirty.... oddly brown, although I just assume I had messed up and not washed out my mournfang sufficiently before I switched to the leadbelcher.

Take a big gulp of coffee, look down in the cup and notice that it looks oddly metallic....

Drinking the paintwater/cleaning brushes in your beverage, along with glueing your fingers together, is one of those things we’ve all done at one point or another. IMHO both are checkmarks you need to tick off the list before you can advance from “new guy” to “old, wizened, modeler”

“Stabbing yourself with the hobby knife a/o drill” should probably be there, but I don’t want to encourage that sort of behavior.

(But I do have a small hobby inflicted scar on one knuckle)

I have a scar in my hand from stabbing myself with a hobby knife. Needed three stitches, almost severed the tendon.

 Nevelon wrote:

 kingbobbito wrote:
I've had a few spills and mistakes, but the worst of it all was actually a coffee related mistake. Was really early in the morning and felt like doing some painting, so got a cup of coffee and had it sitting on my painting table. As I'm painting some leadbelcher I clean my brush, dry it off and notice it's still a little dirty.... oddly brown, although I just assume I had messed up and not washed out my mournfang sufficiently before I switched to the leadbelcher.

Take a big gulp of coffee, look down in the cup and notice that it looks oddly metallic....

Drinking the paintwater/cleaning brushes in your beverage, along with glueing your fingers together, is one of those things we’ve all done at one point or another. IMHO both are checkmarks you need to tick off the list before you can advance from “new guy” to “old, wizened, modeler”

“Stabbing yourself with the hobby knife a/o drill” should probably be there, but I don’t want to encourage that sort of behavior.

(But I do have a small hobby inflicted scar on one knuckle)

Managing to glue parts to you should be on there....

Brand new bedspread on the bed for less than 5 minutes, spilled a full pot of Agrax Earthshade on it.

Not sure if 'gak that was close' counts, but I had a dremel cutting disc shatter and embed a piece in the wall behind my head once. I now ALWAYS wear safety glasses when using cutting discs.

winterdyne wrote:
Not sure if 'gak that was close' counts, but I had a dremel cutting disc shatter and embed a piece in the wall behind my head once. I now ALWAYS wear safety glasses when using cutting discs.

I just got a dremel for Christmas. Good reminder...

Sweet lord! My dremmel hasn't done anything like that yet but now I'm considering a face shield to avoid have a shard imbed itself into the bone.

Made a diluted black wash at some point with 4-5 pots of GW Black Wash. When finished washing an army I had about one pot of wash left and put it in an empty pot. That pot apparently was not empty and had some silver at the bottom of it.

Months later I washed 20 or so models with black wash and had bits of silver sprinkled throughout the models that was basically stuck in the creases.

Probably not as big "oops" moment as some guys had, but long long time ago, I was doing a "splattering" effect with toothbrush on some models which ended up looking really fine.

Few hours later, when my SO came home, she asked in a not-so-polite way, why I have ruined newly put wallpapers specially ordered from Italy.

At Least my tank looked really fine.

 Vulcan wrote:
The one who'll trump us all is the one who accidentally grabbed the primer when he was varnishing his minis.

I was trying really hard to finish up a centerpiece Leman Russ for a game the next day, it was like three or four in the morning and finally I was done! Decals, highlighting, weaterhing. Reached for clear cote to seal it, and... argh!

 Nevelon wrote:

Drinking the paintwater/cleaning brushes in your beverage, along with glueing your fingers together, is one of those things we’ve all done at one point or another. IMHO both are checkmarks you need to tick off the list before you can advance from “new guy” to “old, wizened, modeler”

Or you just use soup cans and jam jars in the first place and never take that risk.

 AegisGrimm wrote:
Superglue on the jeans sucks, as because of the exothermic reaction of drying means a lot of it at once gets HOT! I got out of those pants fast.

I set myself on fire once when I dropped an open, full pot of locktite brush on glue onto my jeans.

 Guildenstern wrote:
Had a matte varnish coat go terribly frosty over my beautiful Hellpit Abom - I still can't stand to look at him, thinking about having to fix him.

Easy fix. Spray with gloss varnish; frosting be gone. Respray with matte in less humid conditions.


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 ProwlerPC wrote:
Haven't had much that was too messed up happening that wasn't easily fixable. But one unfixable mess cost me 's model. I normally use regular elmers white glue when putting slate pieces and grass tufts on my bases. Ran out and instead of just going to get more I grabbed original all purpose gorilla glue. Not sure of it reacted wit the particulates in the texture paint, or the slate or the fake grass but it certainly reacted. It bubbled and froth ed and then hardened in its weird bubbly state. I'm back to using elmers for finishing up the bases.

Yeah, that's the difference between white and gorilla glue. Gorilla glue foams up in the presence of moisture and it's that foam that holds the two pieces together.

Might work well for Nurgle effects, though...

 Bookwrack wrote:

 Vulcan wrote:
The one who'll trump us all is the one who accidentally grabbed the primer when he was varnishing his minis.

I was trying really hard to finish up a centerpiece Leman Russ for a game the next day, it was like three or four in the morning and finally I was done! Decals, highlighting, weaterhing. Reached for clear cote to seal it, and... argh!

 Nevelon wrote:

Drinking the paintwater/cleaning brushes in your beverage, along with glueing your fingers together, is one of those things we’ve all done at one point or another. IMHO both are checkmarks you need to tick off the list before you can advance from “new guy” to “old, wizened, modeler”

Or you just use soup cans and jam jars in the first place and never take that risk.

 AegisGrimm wrote:
Superglue on the jeans sucks, as because of the exothermic reaction of drying means a lot of it at once gets HOT! I got out of those pants fast.

I set myself on fire once when I dropped an open, full pot of locktite brush on glue onto my jeans.

You SET YOURSELF ON FIRE?
...So, how much glue is needed for this...?

About 5 grams.

That nice, wide neck meant when it went inverted, I was able to hit myself with pretty much the whole thing.

And cyanoacrylate is _vigorously_ exothermic when applied to denim.

I'm thinking it's time to do !!SCIENCE!!. Obviously the denim won't be on me, because safety, but I want to try that.

My biggest oops was using an airbrush to undercoat about a million blood angels red in the spare bedroom of a rented apartment with only cardyboard boxing as a spraybooth.

Suffice to say it ended up with me using a razor to shave the top layer off the carpet. (Sorry, landlord, if you're reading this)

Then there was the time I tipped a 1litre pot of Brown-Stuff soaking miniatures over a carpet. They'd been sat there for 6 months without issue but the second we mentioned selling the house... whoops.

Next up is using a spray varnish in a cold, damp garage (Edinburgh, Scotland) without sufficient ventilation, heating, shaking and prayers to the machine god, and irreparably clouding a freshly painted squad.

Next to all that, the myriad of stabs, slashes and superglue in the eyes seem trivial. Although I've lost count of the number of perfectly good pairs of jeans I've ruined with superglue or paint drips.

On the plus, a brand new pair of Levis saved me from a massive gash across the thigh when I slipped with a knife. It cut through the denim and was stopped by the inner pocket lining

Oh! Not a major issue but it does seem amusing, looking back. When I was 11 my family moved from london to dorset (Quite far, the english will understand) and on the very evening I moved into my new bedroom and unpacked, I made the mistake of using a hammer to try and fit the lid of a pot of Humbrol Enamel properly (metallic aquamarine) and it exploded. Aside from hitting me it (luckily) went all over the radiator, and was easy enough to wipe off.

Well, cuts and superglued fingers are a fact of life to anyone who considers themselves a modeler - I have a lovely little cut on the ball of my right thumb from conversion work a few days back, not the first, probably not the last! I have also had the superglue-on-jeans moment, which is really interesting science, but not a lot of fun when it's happening...

But painting "oops" moments... I did once knock a pot of flesh-coloured paint over the kitchen table, without noticing, and came back an hour later to a congealing, fleshy-coloured mess of paint and sprue. Thankfully no minis were harmed in the making of the mess