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 Stormatious wrote:

Why had the necrons guns drooped?

Plastic glue takes a while to 'set' so anything with any weight can and will droop/shift if you're not careful.

I built a Kabalite Warrior recently, I didn't notice until a day or two after I built her that during building I had knocked the torso out of alignment with my sausage-fingers. So now I have a test-mini. Hoorah.

 OldMate wrote:
A soldier's beret I was sculpting before I pricked myself with my scalpel(which is also no1 sculpting tool). The putty mixed with blood and something came along and gnawed it off in the night. He has, with a half eaten hat stared accusingly from that corner of the desk from that day since. Alas he may never joint the tanks.

You allow wildlife to come into your room, or how it could have been gnawed off?

For many of us it's more a case of not being able to keep the [Expletive Deleted]ers out, rather than letting them in.

 Excommunicatus wrote:

 Stormatious wrote:

Why had the necrons guns drooped?

Plastic glue takes a while to 'set' so anything with any weight can and will droop/shift if you're not careful.

I built a Kabalite Warrior recently, I didn't notice until a day or two after I built her that during building I had knocked the torso out of alignment with my sausage-fingers. So now I have a test-mini. Hoorah.

Oh ok, thanks heaps.

precisely, the plastic glue hadn't set, which I thought it had, so all my "aiming at the enemy" warriors ended up standing at ease with the ends of their guns resting on the floor.

- I started off painting models with Testors Enamel paints... time I will never get back.

- I started off using Testors tube glue, after a few years of "spider-web" glue strings and blobs, I am free of that garbage (decades ago).

- I converted a skimmer (the old metal one in 40k) as a CSM one... I was new and the guys did not have the heart to say it could never be used.

- Not my goof but my friend finished detail painting a squad of 10 SMs and went to clear coat, he hit them with primer by mistake. We all gasped and almost cried.

- Put together a metal Vindicator (40k) and fully painted the guy. Left in the car overnight in the winter. All the metal parts "popped" off. That was a mess.

- Put together the MPC X-wing fighter ~1978. The biggest piece of "hot garbage" of a model I ever put together. Almost no body part fit together, it is obvious to me now they ran the mold too hot and most parts sagged. No hull assemblies joined, wings were bent. Also the pilot had the detail of the "michelin man" (round blobs with little or no detail). I should have walked away. Much heat applied, clamping, in some cases cutting things off, pinning and filling.

- The GW Land Raider Crusader, metal one. Those darn ammo feeds to the bolters were insane. Pinned the guns directly to the ammo "box" and rejigged the shield and pivot points. Still have those ammo feeds in a bits box somewhere.

- Late to the game on learning about "shade" method of painting (basically pigment with a bunch of flow-aid). There was much swearing when I finally tried it out and saw how good/easy the results were.

- Tried out that fancy thing called an "air-brush", there was much cursing and swearing when I saw how it could in seconds paint a gradient that took me years to learn to do well with hairy brush. Worse thing was I was "delayed" for a couple years from using it because I was trying to shoot too thick paint through a fine (0.2mm) needle. Took a wee bit till I found out the problem after I had "moved on" for a time.

- Changed the blade on my hobby knife and placed it on the table. Went to reach for something and it rolled off the table and landed point-first straight into the top of my leg to the "hilt". Could not re-create that if I wanted to.

- Was trying out low-melt metal molding. Just did my pour and gave the mold a tap to help ensure the pool fed in right. One blob popped out and landed right in the web of my right hand (between thumb and forefinger) had to wait to peel it off or run the risk of spilling the contents of the mold. Used clamps from then-on. I still can look at the scar now.

- I had just applied a high-flow crazy glue and did not notice I had slopped a fair bit on my hand. I proceeded to do some knife work on a model and went to let go... and well, despite my best efforts of cleaning off and hot water, I left a good quantity of skin on that knife handle.

- My opponent had a fully painted army of CSM and they looked awesome. As we played a game, his taniks progressively fell apart. He used crazy glue on his models over painted surfaces I figured out. . I could not stand it any more, I insisted on carefully trimming / sanding the paint off and carefully applying proper weld glue with little or no joins to see. It was both comical and a horror-show to me and I did not own the models or do the painting. I think I was in fear of the guy after all that work just rage-quitting, an intervention was needed.

Model desk is in an area we keep open, to let the breeze in I live in the tropics and the bastards will get anywhere. Better just not to drip blood/food over your models or at least wash them afterwards to make sure to avoid the gnaw.


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Most of my figures are 3rd party resin. (Mainly Anvil Industry and Victoria Miniatures) just finished painting one of my sergeants and as I was gluing her arms on accidently flooded her with superglue. Luckily didn't frost and I was able to just paint dull-coat over the top to get rid of the glossyness.

Oh, you are an Australian. I bet you were lucky to survive.

- Also, I once bought a Land Raider out of hardly saved allowance, with a plan to convert it into some super-awesome IG tank. I start cutting it into pieces and never finished it. Wasted 1200CZK (enough to have a hearty family dinner at a decent restaurant, or buy 85 0,5L bottles of beer). Luckily, a friend started to play the Death Guard, so he put it pack together with some tentacles added and it serves him well.

I find another form of "critter interference" is the darn cats seem to really like my chairs and pretty much sleep on them.
So before any painting session I have to vacuum for "cat-tamination", I get pretty upset when my carefully painted stuff turn fuzzy from the cat hairs everywhere.
Heaven help you if you drop a model, you might as well start over even with regular vacuuming.
I keep a couple large blush applicator brushes for cleaning off models as well as an air-line.

A recent one: I wanted to paint some Star Wars Legion figures and figured I'd save myself some time and effort on the stormies by getting some Krylon Fusion satin white, figuring it'd both bond with the plastic, basecoat and be easy to do a quick wash over for the main armor. I don't use acrylic washes like GW or Armypainter much anymore, mostly I use oil washes or enamel washes because they're so much faster and give a better result.

Found out the hard way that Krylon Fusion is soluble in odorless mineral spirits, the white paint wiped away with the enamel wash on top :( Even after sealing them with a coat of acrylic varnish it still didn't work, and I had to do everything the old fashioned way with AP Dark Tone wash then repainting all the white basecoat. Luckily I did a few test models before washing all 4 squads in enamel, but even so my "time saver" took so much extra work to fix that I lost interest in finishing the models (let alone doing more) until only very recently

Carefully giving a final spray sealer coat on a troop of 10 orcs outside and carrying them back into the garage and immediately upon noticing that there are only 9 on the tray, my foot crunches down on orc #10 - destroying him completely.

Saving up for a 500ml bottle of black paint, painting half a model car and then the sisters white cat knocking the whole bottle over onto the new plush pile carpet and itself when I was like 10. Rental house too, parents weren't too happy! I keep my desk/paint station on wood or concrete floors ever since.

 Talizvar wrote:
- I started off painting models with Testors Enamel paints... time I will never get back.

- I started off using Testors tube glue, after a few years of "spider-web" glue strings and blobs, I am free of that garbage (decades ago).

- I converted a skimmer (the old metal one in 40k) as a CSM one... I was new and the guys did not have the heart to say it could never be used.

- Not my goof but my friend finished detail painting a squad of 10 SMs and went to clear coat, he hit them with primer by mistake. We all gasped and almost cried.

- Put together a metal Vindicator (40k) and fully painted the guy. Left in the car overnight in the winter. All the metal parts "popped" off. That was a mess.

- Put together the MPC X-wing fighter ~1978. The biggest piece of "hot garbage" of a model I ever put together. Almost no body part fit together, it is obvious to me now they ran the mold too hot and most parts sagged. No hull assemblies joined, wings were bent. Also the pilot had the detail of the "michelin man" (round blobs with little or no detail). I should have walked away. Much heat applied, clamping, in some cases cutting things off, pinning and filling.

- The GW Land Raider Crusader, metal one. Those darn ammo feeds to the bolters were insane. Pinned the guns directly to the ammo "box" and rejigged the shield and pivot points. Still have those ammo feeds in a bits box somewhere.

- Late to the game on learning about "shade" method of painting (basically pigment with a bunch of flow-aid). There was much swearing when I finally tried it out and saw how good/easy the results were.

- Tried out that fancy thing called an "air-brush", there was much cursing and swearing when I saw how it could in seconds paint a gradient that took me years to learn to do well with hairy brush. Worse thing was I was "delayed" for a couple years from using it because I was trying to shoot too thick paint through a fine (0.2mm) needle. Took a wee bit till I found out the problem after I had "moved on" for a time.

- Changed the blade on my hobby knife and placed it on the table. Went to reach for something and it rolled off the table and landed point-first straight into the top of my leg to the "hilt". Could not re-create that if I wanted to.

- Was trying out low-melt metal molding. Just did my pour and gave the mold a tap to help ensure the pool fed in right. One blob popped out and landed right in the web of my right hand (between thumb and forefinger) had to wait to peel it off or run the risk of spilling the contents of the mold. Used clamps from then-on. I still can look at the scar now.

- I had just applied a high-flow crazy glue and did not notice I had slopped a fair bit on my hand. I proceeded to do some knife work on a model and went to let go... and well, despite my best efforts of cleaning off and hot water, I left a good quantity of skin on that knife handle.

- My opponent had a fully painted army of CSM and they looked awesome. As we played a game, his taniks progressively fell apart. He used crazy glue on his models over painted surfaces I figured out. . I could not stand it any more, I insisted on carefully trimming / sanding the paint off and carefully applying proper weld glue with little or no joins to see. It was both comical and a horror-show to me and I did not own the models or do the painting. I think I was in fear of the guy after all that work just rage-quitting, an intervention was needed.

Thats a nice entertaining list you have there, makes me feel great.

Thanks


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 dodgemetal wrote:
Saving up for a 500ml bottle of black paint, painting half a model car and then the sisters white cat knocking the whole bottle over onto the new plush pile carpet and itself when I was like 10. Rental house too, parents weren't too happy! I keep my desk/paint station on wood or concrete floors ever since.

Damn how depressing Lucky thats over!.

 Talizvar wrote:
I find another form of "critter interference" is the darn cats seem to really like my chairs and pretty much sleep on them.
So before any painting session I have to vacuum for "cat-tamination", I get pretty upset when my carefully painted stuff turn fuzzy from the cat hairs everywhere.
Heaven help you if you drop a model, you might as well start over even with regular vacuuming.
I keep a couple large blush applicator brushes for cleaning off models as well as an air-line.

Yeah i dont like the idea of having a cat ( not because they knock gak over, like Dodgemetals cat lol ), but their hair is a scary...painting some thing then taking a good look after its dried only to find cat hairs stuck in it lol...





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 MDSW wrote:
Carefully giving a final spray sealer coat on a troop of 10 orcs outside and carrying them back into the garage and immediately upon noticing that there are only 9 on the tray, my foot crunches down on orc #10 - destroying him completely.

Hah, damn. Where was the video camera!

edit - Sorry for your loss, hope you gave a good burial.. ( even if it is a orc )


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 Kalamadea wrote:
A recent one: I wanted to paint some Star Wars Legion figures and figured I'd save myself some time and effort on the stormies by getting some Krylon Fusion satin white, figuring it'd both bond with the plastic, basecoat and be easy to do a quick wash over for the main armor. I don't use acrylic washes like GW or Armypainter much anymore, mostly I use oil washes or enamel washes because they're so much faster and give a better result.

Found out the hard way that Krylon Fusion is soluble in odorless mineral spirits, the white paint wiped away with the enamel wash on top :( Even after sealing them with a coat of acrylic varnish it still didn't work, and I had to do everything the old fashioned way with AP Dark Tone wash then repainting all the white basecoat. Luckily I did a few test models before washing all 4 squads in enamel, but even so my "time saver" took so much extra work to fix that I lost interest in finishing the models (let alone doing more) until only very recently

Scary, bad luck!


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 some bloke wrote:
precisely, the plastic glue hadn't set, which I thought it had, so all my "aiming at the enemy" warriors ended up standing at ease with the ends of their guns resting on the floor.

Oh, haha thats quite funny. I thought they had melted or some thing.


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Oh i thought of some thing stupid i did. I was trying to pour out a small amount of medium straight out of the GW pot, and yeah lets just say i went through the whole medium in like 1 -2 days and it was brand new.....

And i also did the same with Nuln oil trying to pour out a little puddle straight from the pot lol.


So yeah don't do that if you folks can avoid it..

Was looking at one of my fully painted APCs today, 1 wheel fell off. I had thought I'd glued it, but it was just being held on by bluetack.

I got a few
:When I first started I had the AOBR deffkoptas. They broke off their stands, as flight stands are want to do. I thought "let's take a lighter and melt them together" it worked.....but it was stupid.
:I was building a storm raptor and I was using super thin super glue. The piece snapped together and the glue went flying into my eye. I super glued it shut.
:My sculpting tool fell off the table with out me knowing. I sat down and swiveled my chair, the knife part went into my foot like, an inch. I screamed like a banshee, two months later still hurts.
I got more, but maybe later

Bought a Leviathan dreadnought kit, did some pleasing conversion work so that it fit in with my Death Guard, and added 6x4mm magnets to the waist to allow me to pose it, and for easier storage. I must have been tired during the assembly, because I only noticed once the magnets were glued in nice and tight that I'd got the polarities wrong.

No horror stories but I have assembled some parts incorrectly or broken a couple of delicate parts during build. Each time I've managed to neaten it up before painting and unless you knew it was supposed to be different you wouldn't notice. I notice though...

The feeiling you get when you use a spraycan for priming.... And it stops in the midst of a squad

Alternatively: Decimator shoulderpads by FW tm.
3 hours.......-_-

Never get superglue on your pants while at work.

For many years I've had a small stash of models at my work desk in a box for when I get there early, have to stay late, or dinner time. I wasn't paying attention one day and glue dripped right onto the crotch of my khakis. By the time I noticed there was a nice, thick bead running right past my zipper.

The stuff dried and my pants turned dark with a nice bright, crispy sheen to them. It looked like I'd been at my desk having some "alone time" and got "gentlemen's relish" all over myself.

Bad enough, eh? No. Then the border of the gluestain began to crack and actually break apart. My pants were splitting in the front as the whole stain broke the fibers whenever I moved.

I managed to get out the door and head home before showing off my wardrobe malfunction.

The worst part is that it can feel like the glue is burning when that happens.

I went to do a quick bit of priming yesterday afternoon. What was going to be a nice 20 minutes of relaxing me-time turned out enormously frustrating. My airbrush was majorly acting up and ended up exploding paint out around the screw thread of the nozzle cap. Looks like I've managed to write off a pair of trousers, have a nice series of grey drips of Vallejo PU primer across the knee of my burgundy chinos. They've survived 2 trips through the washing machine and being scrubbed with washing liquid with a toothbrush. That stuff is durable.

Was painting my new Keeper of secret models (have 3) when I was about to use Druschi violet wash. The bottle had been opened before and should have been easy enough to open but was some what stuck. So natural I gave it more force to open and it did but it also slipped out of my hand spilling over the table, my legs and hands. Quickly got some paper towels to clean up most of it and then change pants and wash myself. All done and back to work I thought!
It was then I saw the splash pattern on all three keepers of secrets! Then in my despair I dropped down my head taking a big breath too cool off from the anger that’s building up I see my 30 man unit of pink horrors on top of the box under the desk with a newly painted violet color on them!!!

In my anger I splashed on the wash as fast as I could then didn’t do anything with any miniatures for a month or so but I did repaint the horrors white and then wash with carriburg crimson and added dry brushing highlights on them.


I still consider myself a new table top gamer 2-3 years. So before I got my scissors or clippers or what it’s called in English, I used my knife to cut out the parts from the sprue and was cutting out all parts for CSM Raptors/ Warp talons. Home alone, girlfriend working on the evening I cut right through the sprue and right into my longest finger so hard that the exacto knife got stuck in the bone so I had to wriggle it up and down to come loos, quickly in to bathroom in sink for cold water and paper towel. After a fair bit of time (10-20 minutes) I wrapped my finger in the toilet paper then waking up on the toilet floor!!! Standing up thinking what happened and then waking up outside the bathroom in the “second hallway” still in the same thoughts (I think) I look at the finger under the paper and no more bleeding so all good I think and standing up walking towards the kitchen but the next room (main hallway) I feel dissy so sitting on the floor and then waking up on the hallway mat I begin to crawl to the kitchen getting a big glass water and the crawling too the living room laying down in the sofa and watching some movie and drinking water til my girlfriend came home yelling her ass of when I told her what’s happened.
Had a bruise on my shoulder from one of the fall from passing out and a cut in which you could se the bone if moving the flesh a little I learned to get myself a clipper or scissor or whatever. Still have a scar!

All things funny but please people, learn from others mistakes like this one. Sorry for bad explanation and English! Haha

Yikes.

That will be a lesson.

The Adventures of the Flying Dutchman
Oscar P. Parnassus purchases a fine metal cowboy figure from Black Scorpion miniatures, purveyors of gaming good. He paints this metal miniature. He dips this metal miniature. He uses his common pliar-technique to shake the miniature free of excess dip in the middle of the night. He hears a thunk as the Flying Dutchman plinks into the ground and vanishes into the night sky. The Dutchman is found some yards away, his brimmed cap askew and smeared by an angry concretian impact. Parnassus curses the skies and throws the Dutchman into a chemical vat, stripping him of life. The Dutchman finds his way to the painting desk some days hence. The Dutchman has his cap sanded and filed, cleaned and repaired. The Dutchman receives new paint, and dip. The Dutchman is carefully cleared of excess dip using a new scientific method. The Dutchman, in a fit of insanity hurls himself off the resting desk to the concrete floor of the surrounding garage, where he nestles amongst spider webs and foul beasties. Parnassus recovers the miniature....and again re-paints him. To this day, Mr. Oscar P. Parnassus winces when he handles said Dutchman (who, notably recently received a strip and repaint...marking the fourth wardrobe change...)


The Flying Dutchman, left. Colour, 2018.

The Tale of the Jumpless Jump Marines
Oscar P. Parnassus acquires plastic Space Marines and resin jump packs from a foreign business. He paints these plastic Space Marines that they may serve in the glorious Wandering Sons Renegade Chapter. He patiently paints their chainswords, their jump packs, their beakied helmets. He dips them. He loves them. He flat-coats them. He brings them to the house for final basing. What's this? The screen door doth protest too much! The cardboard platform is struck! Merrily the jump pack laden marines do leap for freedom...failing to ignite said jump packs! For shame they plummet into the hazard! Half of their brother remain on the cardboard gantry, fearful of flight. In his madness, Parnassus nearly snaps, fighting the demons which tell him to hurl these coward marines to their doom...after all, so many have fallen, what's a few more!? Thankfully calmer minds prevail...and damage is replaced. However, there are vicious rumours, tall-tales that the forested floor adjacent to the house still contains the limbs and back packs of many of these marines...


The Cowardly and Flightless Bastards, Colour, 2017

I once sprayed a squad of painted metal Catachan Jungle Fighters with white primer instead of mate sealant. Realized my mistake very quickly, but the damage was done and five Catachans had to be stripped and repainted.

Sincerely,

CB

I sprayed 1500+ points of Orks on a hot, humid Virginia summer day.

Y'all know what sandpaper feels like? Just imagine a few dozen Orks with their trukks...that feel like sandpaper...and Simple Green doesn't usually take primer off plastic...

One of my Riptide battlesuits has his left shoulder pad (next to the shield) upside down. Not sure how I made that mistake considering it was not the first one I ever assembled.

I've nicked myself with the hobby knife a couple of times, but never down to the bone or anything like that.

I also spilled a pot of Mournfang Brown on the carpet once. Boy was that hard to clean up, and I think there's still a slight stain. Another time I spilled most of a pot of Screaming Bell on my card table. That mess wasn't permanent or anything but it was annoying to lose almost an entire pot of paint.

My Phobos Captain has lost a lot of the detail on his left arm due to the fact that when I was assembling the model, I squeezed the bottle of plastic glue a little too hard and so it squirted all over the arm. Tried to frantically wipe the coating of glue off with a napkin, but the damage was done. Thankfully now that it's painted it doesn't look too bad.

I have one annoying/horror story that repeats itself over and over again, and consists of these steps.

1) Open a box of Imperial Guardsmen.
2) Assemble the gun and torso, ditch the head and replace it with one from Bolt Action. Scour Bolt Action swap shops for spare heads if you don't have any. Dive into bitsbox and cut stuff apart to create an interesting pose.
3) Cut off the blouse-part from the legs bit.
4) Make a greatcoat out of Green Stuff.
5) Wait.
6) Use sandpaper thoroughly, repair holes and mistakes with more greenstuff/superglue. Add a backpack, pouches, canteens, grenades, and other bits
7) Wait.
8) Prime the model with white color.
9) Paint armor and the gun with medium gray.
10) Paint the face and skin. Don't forget the eyes.
11) Paint thin green lines all over the clothes, including helmet canvas.
12) Curse because you forgot to paint the pants before.
13) Paint paints with green-gray color.
14) Paint details.
15) Repair mistakes.
16) Apply decals.
17) Wash with Reikland Fleshide (skin only) and Nuln Oil (the rest)
18) Drybrush the hell out of it with white color.
19) Spray with matt varnish.
20) Sigh and nod approvingly, feel happy you survived this dreadful process again.

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how Hawky's Guardsmen are made. Over a hundred of them.

That’s a lot of love for IG characters.

I have to ask...why not just buy great-coat resin guardsmen from Anvil with heads/bodies/etc. of your choice? Seems much easier.