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dog ate half my army as I left it out when we went out for one hour. managed to repair some bits but my dreadnaught is still missing a leg and so has strips of wood on the base to make it look like its going through rubble and dog teeth marks

 Overread wrote:

 Stormatious wrote:
So always remember that your hobby tool can also cut open your veins having blood flowing out every where just by a little accidental slip.

This is why all plastic from GW is a BAD thing. See in the days of metal and even finecast it at least means you're going to have a bottle of superglue nearby. Superglue being very good at bonding skin and thus sealing wounds (in fact it was what it was originally invented for).

Of course I say this part in jest since I'd doubt most gamers should ever cut themselves badly enough to need to resort to those measures - pressure and a plaster should suffice for most hobby related wounds.

I have cut myself badly enough before that I superglued it shut so I could finish the project.

I've never managed to puncture myself with a pin vice, though. I use insanely tiny bits sometimes, so the fear is always there, especially when they snap and skip off the model.

I nicked myself with my X-acto knife once. Not deep, and it really didn't hurt until a little while later. Superglue kept it from bleeding much. Of course, a little while later it felt a lot worse for some reason, as papercuts and other small cuts like that often do.

 Ezki wrote:
I have a ton of minor ones including:

- Knocking a paint bottle over and spilling it's contents
- "nah, I don't need clippers for removing this bit from the sprue, I'll just bend it" - > countless of bits broken this way. And I still do it
- Tasting a brushfull of wash or some other bad tasting paint, as I straighten the bristles with my mouth and sometimes forget to wash the brush before doing so.
- Ruining the table with superglue to the point I dont care anymore.
- As a younger hobbyist I stored my minis badly, so that they had to be repaired again and again.

Oh man that made me laugh your table story. I need to know how you stored them so i know not to do same with mine, what do you mean exactly?


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deotrims 16th wrote:
dog ate half my army as I left it out when we went out for one hour. managed to repair some bits but my dreadnaught is still missing a leg and so has strips of wood on the base to make it look like its going through rubble and dog teeth marks

ahaha to funny man, was it a puppy or some thing?

On the topic of tables and superglue...

When I set up my current man cave I bought a nice new desk to do my building/painting at. I got a big A1 size cutting mat to protect the surface, and then promptly spilt superglue along the edge. So now the cutting mat is superglued to the desk. Good job, me.

Stormatious wrote:
Oh man that made me laugh your table story. I need to know how you stored them so i know not to do same with mine, what do you mean exactly?

By holding them in boxes without any soft material and moving a couple of times without unpacking some of the models in a while.
Also not having a good miniature case was a boon for many easy to break parts when I went to play some games.
I've become much wiser since then, at least that's what I'd like to think.

Bellerophon wrote:On the topic of tables and superglue...

When I set up my current man cave I bought a nice new desk to do my building/painting at. I got a big A1 size cutting mat to protect the surface, and then promptly spilt superglue along the edge. So now the cutting mat is superglued to the desk. Good job, me.

Now you can at least be sure that the desk will stay as a hobby table

 Overread wrote:
Superglue being very good at bonding skin and thus sealing wounds (in fact it was what it was originally invented for).

Um, no.
I don't know where this misinformation started, but gamers promulgating it doesn't help. It's bulldrek.

It was originally developed as a lightweight plastic meant for use in telescopic sight lenses (where it failed). The developers realised it did however, manage to stick quite a few substances together very well. This formula got re developed a few years later before being released as "superglue".

MEDICAL superglue, is a different thing and came about years after that. They are chemically different beasts from the common cyanoacrylate adhesives - it just behaves in a similar way.
Original superglue is an allergen as well as toxic and often damages the tissues around the bond.
Yes, it's better than nothing in a pinch (hell, electrical tape also works well in a pinch around an extremity), but it was not "designed for the purpose". It's more a fortunate happenstance.

 chromedog wrote:

 Overread wrote:
Superglue being very good at bonding skin and thus sealing wounds (in fact it was what it was originally invented for).

Um, no.
I don't know where this misinformation started, but gamers promulgating it doesn't help. It's bulldrek.

It was originally developed as a lightweight plastic meant for use in telescopic sight lenses (where it failed). The developers realised it did however, manage to stick quite a few substances together very well. This formula got re developed a few years later before being released as "superglue".

MEDICAL superglue, is a different thing and came about years after that. They are chemically different beasts from the common cyanoacrylate adhesives - it just behaves in a similar way.
Original superglue is an allergen as well as toxic and often damages the tissues around the bond.
Yes, it's better than nothing in a pinch (hell, electrical tape also works well in a pinch around an extremity), but it was not "designed for the purpose". It's more a fortunate happenstance.

Only cowards use bandages and glue.

Real men use the Rambo 3 cauterizing method on every wound, no matter how small.

And you still have to yell.

Easily Zarakynel/The Violet Heart for me.

She is easily the most expensive mini I've ever bought, the first resin mini I worked with and easily the biggest mini I've ever worked on. She's also the centerpiece of my Daemon force. No pressure, right?

I do not possess fine motor-control or 20/20 vision and I spent hours and hours and hours cleaning flash, fixing a not-insignificant mold-slip down her left buttock/lower-back and attaching various chains and spikes to Her, to get to this stage;



Spoilered, 'cause NSFW.



Then I primed Her, and She sat for a few days without issue. Then I spent a few hours painting Her - which is a long time for me to spend on one mini - and within 24 hours around 80% of the paint just "bubbled" off Her again. It looked like a painted wall with water damage. So She went into a Simple Green bath, whereupon all of the chains and spikes promptly fell off.

There was lots of swearing and I was so de-motivated that I basically gave up on Her.

All is well that ends well, however and by Keeping Calm and (eventually) Carrying On She now looks like this;

 Excommunicatus wrote:

Easily Zarakynel/The Violet Heart for me.

She is easily the most expensive mini I've ever bought, the first resin mini I worked with and easily the biggest mini I've ever worked on. She's also the centerpiece of my Daemon force. No pressure, right?

I do not possess fine motor-control or 20/20 vision and I spent hours and hours and hours cleaning flash, fixing a not-insignificant mold-slip down her left buttock/lower-back and attaching various chains and spikes to Her, to get to this stage;



Spoilered, 'cause NSFW.

Spoiler:

Then I primed Her, and She sat for a few days without issue. Then I spent a few hours painting Her - which is a long time for me to spend on one mini - and within 24 hours around 80% of the paint just "bubbled" off Her again. It looked like a painted wall with water damage. So She went into a Simple Green bath, whereupon all of the chains and spikes promptly fell off.

There was lots of swearing and I was so de-motivated that I basically gave up on Her.

All is well that ends well, however and by Keeping Calm and (eventually) Carrying On She now looks like this;

Wow what a story, your dedication and skills have saved it. EDIT - Looks amazing

I got one - I was assembling some rhinos (I think), and I only had one hand free, so I used my teeth to open the twist cap on my superglue. I do it all the time. Only this time I wasn't paying attention and instead of putting the glue back in the cap and twisting close, I stuck it in my mouth and squeezed.



Superglue on my lips, on my tongue, on my teeth (a truly bizzarre sensation). Took days to get better.

Always hobby responsibly kids....


- Wargboyz

Back in 2015 when the Skitarii range came out I loved the idea of it but hated the design of about half the range. I proceeded to buy it all anyway and started modelling every unit with a slightly different aesthetic. Decided I would make the servitors into Ogryn Servitors and bought 2 servitor and 3 orgyn kits. Spent a ton of time converting all the fiddly bits and essentially cut about $280 US worth of kits to make 9 "Heavy Ogryns" of which I only ever painted one before I scrapped the project. I have since broken them down for bits and tried to salvage them but to this day I still shake my head at the tremendous waste.



As for actual disaster I once decided to use an old, almost empty can of varnish on a newly painted (20+ hours of work) baneblade without testing it out first. Well the stuff that came out was thick, yellow and dried as frosty flakes totally ruining the paint job. I tried everything to get it to clear up but ended up having to strip and repaint. Sad part is, I had a newer can of varnish which was unopened and would have worked just fine but I didn't want to "WASTE" the old can. Stupid man.

 Hive City Dweller wrote:
Back in 2015 when the Skitarii range came out I loved the idea of it but hated the design of about half the range. I proceeded to buy it all anyway and started modelling every unit with a slightly different aesthetic. Decided I would make the servitors into Ogryn Servitors and bought 2 servitor and 3 orgyn kits. Spent a ton of time converting all the fiddly bits and essentially cut about $280 US worth of kits to make 9 "Heavy Ogryns" of which I only ever painted one before I scrapped the project. I have since broken them down for bits and tried to salvage them but to this day I still shake my head at the tremendous waste.

Spoiler:

As for actual disaster I once decided to use an old, almost empty can of varnish on a newly painted (20+ hours of work) baneblade without testing it out first. Well the stuff that came out was thick, yellow and dried as frosty flakes totally ruining the paint job. I tried everything to get it to clear up but ended up having to strip and repaint. Sad part is, I had a newer can of varnish which was unopened and would have worked just fine but I didn't want to "WASTE" the old can. Stupid man.

Dang mate, oh well you learnt your lesson no need to keep thinking about it, this is an expensive hobby so if your going to fail its going to cost a bit most likely no matter what. But atleast you learnt some thing from it


Yeah man i gotta say your varnish story is scary... i'm still debating what to do with mine, leave unvarnished or what...but i will figure it out. Great story's guys.

I don't know if it's a horror story per se, but more of a cautionary tale.

When I was (much) younger, my Aunt decided to give me all of her Warhammer, as she didn't really want it anymore. To a 9 year old, going from very little Warhammer, to suddenly having roughly 4 armies was quite a step up. Unfortunately, I also was quite enamoured with converting (I blame White Dwarf) and so I promptly went at miniatures with an eye for converting them into something 'cool.'

Classic Orion, classic Tyrion, Nagash, a High Elf Gryphon, numerous undead plastics and a fair few Wood elf metals all came under the hobby knife, and obviously, these conversions did not turn out well.

At the time I wasn't bothered, but with the gift of hindsight, I am horrified. I'm still tinkering with some of these mutilated miniatures now, trying to find a way to either fix them, or convert them in such a way to cover the damage.

Moral of the story is to supervise your kids when they receive large parcels of Warhammer.

For me the most annoying was using Army Painter white primer to prime a few thousand points of Tyranids. It was an average midwestern summer day, but either normal Indiana conditions were just too much for their paint or I got a bad batch, because everything that paint touched turned a spotty, textured, dusty mess that felt like I'd misted the models in glue and rolled them in powdered chalk. No matter the scrubbing or stripping, whatever was left would continue to flake off as a gritty powder.

To this day that army is a chalky, bumpy, unpainted mess.

Needless to say, I never purchased anything from Army Painter again.

I have a permanent scar halfway up the side of my left forefinger from a hobby knife. I still lived at home at the time, and got a little too eager whilst assembling some Killa Kans - cut right through to the bone.

I didn't think much of it at the time; casually wandered out to the kitchen for a plaster/band-aid, and my mum almost took me to hospital she was so freaked out. I found it quite funny.