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AegisGrimm wrote: Drinking a can of soda while painting, and without looking instead grabbed a can of soda left over from two weeks ago, which was just pure sugar and sludge at the bottom. Ugh.
Also the exothermic reaction that makes super glue dry will melt polyester carpet with a sizzling sound, and make it smoke. You just have to dump a lot of it.
I did that with a pair of bluejeans and a bottle of loctite brush-on. Not fun when your pants suddenly start smoking.
"-Nonsense, the Inquisitor and his retinue are our hounoured guests, of course we should invite them to celebrate Four-armed Emperor-day with us..." Thought for the Day - Never use the powerfist hand to wipe.
Glued GW Empire State Troop heads to Perry War of the Roses bodies. They look like bobbleheads... How did I ever think that would be a good idea?
Also, I use solvent glue for my plastic models (a better bond is literally impossible) and once accidentally got some on the heads of a group of LotR Elves. It was horrifying to watch their faces slowly dissolve...
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I threw away a nicely painted Space Wolf Land Raider some time in my early 20s when I assumed I would never get back into the hobby. I remember not wanting to deal with finding a place to store it so I literally... threw it in the trash.
I had been working on a Warhammer Fantasy Giant conversion for Golden Demon years and years ago, modeled to have a few plastic birds on his fingers. Just so you can get a sense of how tiny and fragile:
Anyways, my paint station back then was an L shaped desk, and so while I worked on the sub-assemblies, I set the main body of the giant aside while working on the weapons and base. My drink would also happen to be on the same side..and at some point I turned to reached for my drink and I knocked the giant over, breaking both birds off the fingers.
You would think I'd have learned my lesson, but no. I proceeded to do this 6 more times, eventually forcing me to replace the bird legs with paperclip pins.
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One of my old roommates had a rather large Lord of the Rings army on a bookshelf (the top shelf), and my cats are rather fond of jumping from shelf to shelf. They're usually pretty nimble, and don't deliberately knock stuff over, so not a big deal.
My roommate sees one of my cats wandering through his Urukhai army, freaks out, and proceeds to reach for my cat to try and grab him.
The poor thing immediately starfishes in a panic and starts flailing, knocking every single model off that shelf.
I also had my Ultramarines army on the same bookshelf, not realizing that one of the front pegs holding it up had gone missing. The same cat from above jumps on the shelf and it all comes tumbling down. Almost all my models survive intact, except Guilliman, who shatters into a dozen pieces.
Let's just say we stopped putting our armies on open shelves after this...
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Not keeping track of how much my conversions actually cost for my Necron army. I probably spent some $700 to build a Ghost Ark and 2 Doomsday Arks...
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I'm pretty certain I have nerve damage in my left thumb from a box-cutter incident while making terrain.
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I've taste-tested virtually every GW paint, and I can tell you, the old inks (Chestnut Ink, in particular) are some of the worst-tasting paints ever, right up there with the old Foundation Paints. Golden Yellow and Bleached Bone were a little sweet.
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I used to be notoriously bad at painting eyes, and could never get the pairs to line up. So I would always paint one "perfectly" and then paint a scar over the other eye.
My old Space Marines (because of course, that's all I ever used to play) were notoriously susceptible to eye-related scar-producing injuries.
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I'm sure we all have this problem, but I impulse buy.
A lot.
Glued an Imperial Knight in one sitting and left it to dry overnight with plans on spraying it the next morning. I didn’t sleep too great because it was hot and sweaty as a steam room and got worse through the night, the glue didn’t sleep either and bits of the model slid, other bits slid. I stood there for about a half an hour the next morning wondering why I glued the chest piece to the crotch.
I don't break the rules but I'll bend them as far as they'll go.
