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Ok so I was painting my high elf champion, as you do, when I held him up to the light just to make sure I has got the area fully covered in paint.
I fumble and he falls out of my fingers. Now as im right handed I have all paints and water on the right hand side. With only the colour im using directly in front.
I expected to hear a clunk as it hit the table, but it didnt. I heard a plop instead. He fell straight into the water, which is a metallicy black colour...
As quickly as possible I pull him out and find a spare piece of kitchen paper and try to dry him off.

Im hopeing that when fully dry he will just look the same, if a bit darker(hey it could be insta shading lol).

Anything similar happened to you??

PS: Soz if this is in the wrong section, it seemed to fit in here since it happened while painting.

Usually, when I drop my minis, they hit the table or the floor, once they fell into the paint!

Ouch, that sucks. The worst iv had with paint is it bursting over my other paints during transport and runing a few addon pieces, it was with a few sprues aswell.

I once was checking the paint on an ork boy when i dropped him in a bowl of coco-pops. did him no harm to be fair.

Sorry to hear about that and I hope he recovers. I have two, yes two painting nightmares to add…. First one was switching the tops on my purity seal with my skull white…. I usually mark the caps as they are both white (hence the swapping)… anyway one of those days and I was doing both white priming and sealing a bunch of different mini’s …. Yes you guessed it…. I hit my Sniper drones which came out beautiful by the way…. With skull white instead of purity seal….. oh the pain…….
Ok… if that wasn’t enough, not the same day (thank the gods) but I dropped one of my 99% finished Black Templar’s and as he was heading to his demise on the floor, I out of reaction reached for him…. I didn’t catch him but I did manage to knock over the open pot of blood red…. And not only did it get me & my clothes but got him too…. And the floor and the desk and my shoes…..
So my fellow modeler…… I feel your pain….. you’ll recover, I know I did (took a while) and after a bath in the green my Templar has recovered too……
Oh….. and I got new shoes…..



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elchristoff wrote:I once was checking the paint on an ork boy when i dropped him in a bowl of coco-pops. did him no harm to be fair.

I heard Ork's like coco-pops...... or was it fruit loops?

Just last week I was mixing up some dark blue for my DE and I dumped a pot of chaos black. It ended up on the floor and the worst of it was it was down there for 10min or so before I noticed it was gone. Got really into the off white carpet and everything. O the horror.

One time I went to prime with some cheap black paint(when I first started this hobby), and it was either too chilly out or not mixed enough I'm not sure. But, I melted the outer details on 10 sets of ork boy legs and arms.

I did use a few of the arms later as scarred up arms on some homemade burna boys, so it wasn't a total loss.

I am an absolute womble, I knock over paints all the time.

My best... or worst, depending on how you look at it, experiences are:

1. Had a box of tau quite nicely painted imho, getting ready to take to a budd's and threw a pot of paint in, thinking that it would be fine. The paint pot, Asurmen Blue Ink, covered an entire battle force worth of models.
^ Thankfully, it was my mums boyfriends army.

2. Last night I was painting guard and put my paintbrushes in my apple juice and... yeah you guessed it, drank my paint cleaning water. I actually took 2 sips before I realised... and spat it all over my most recent (still drying) guardsman...

oh man some of these are pretty bad compared to mine haha.

TacticalGenius wrote:Last night I was painting guard and put my paintbrushes in my apple juice and... yeah you guessed it, drank my paint cleaning water. I actually took 2 sips before I realised... and spat it all over my most recent (still drying) guardsman...

I guess the water didnt taste that good haha . Im somewhat used to the tastes of paint as I always try to get them to a point after washing them, so I do get the paint taste. I tend to keep my drinks and food on the left of the table, but may have to put it in the middle since now Im gonna paint with the washing water on the left.

As far as I can tell, my High Elf champ is fine, so back to painting him after some sleep :

Yep, have had that happen to me. After that incident, I keep the water cup back and out of the way of my workspace.

I think everyone will eventually drink from there waterpot or dip a brush into the wrong cup just a matter of time. It happens atleast once.

elchristoff wrote:I once was checking the paint on an ork boy when i dropped him in a bowl of coco-pops. did him no harm to be fair.

I think the real question here is did you still eat the coco-pops?

cyrax777 wrote:I think everyone will eventually drink from there waterpot or dip a brush into the wrong cup just a matter of time. It happens atleast once.

4th time it's happened in 3 days, methinks someone somewhere is trying to tell me something, not sure what it could be...

I always did my brush in my coffee, like the time I put pump soap on my tooth brush....... Now that sucked. I ince knocked over a full pot of badadab black, lets just say my table turned into a pallette that night lol

Yes, this exact thing has happened to me. It seems to be the fallen buttered toast rule, as applied to miniatures: a dropped mini\piece\bit will always land in the worst possible place it could, depending on situation (onto a new shirt, into the paint, into the dip, etc).

Yep, kinda, I had picked up a marine who's pad had fallen off and I was attempting to glue it back on, I was holding him between both fingers to put pressure on the shoulder pad and it slipped up while it was still wet and ended up resting over the side of my marines head, and of course the property of plastic glue, it melted the paint and plastic on his face and made him look all crappy!...and yes i've dropped mini's into my water tonnes of times!

Hückleberry wrote:

elchristoff wrote:I once was checking the paint on an ork boy when i dropped him in a bowl of coco-pops. did him no harm to be fair.

I think the real question here is did you still eat the coco-pops?

Of course, waste not - want not!

My favourite trick seems to be dropping something then catching it between my thighs, crushing it and breaking bits off that then need repairing.

winterdyne wrote:My favourite trick seems to be dropping something then catching it between my thighs, crushing it and breaking bits off that then need repairing.

Oh yes, that happens to me too... A LOT. I have however (if I recall correctly) never dropped any model in the water.
Also, my cats like to push down models on the floor. Especially metal ones.

One time i was painting at my dining room table and i had a cup ot tea next to my water pot, without realising it every time i washed my brush i did so in the tea. By the time i actualy came to drink the it i had a blue cup of tea.

You guys are making me scared... I've not done anything like all this

Unless cleaning out an airbrush by sucking the nozzle counts?

Once my models were out drying (black primer), it started to rain (-_-')

I was painting a marine and thought I had finished I had done everything (or so I though). I gave it a look admiring my work and realized I forgot to put the blood red high light on the purity seal. Lol ok quick fix. Pop the lid open take some paint and add the highlight. DONE. Turn my marine around admiring my work... To my horror I saw red finger prints all over my marine. I put my finger in the only drop of paint on the side of my paint pot >_<.

I have a tendency to drop models in my coffee. Doesn't really hurt them, though, just need a quick rinse.

Henners91 wrote:You guys are making me scared... I've not done anything like all this

Unless cleaning out an airbrush by sucking the nozzle counts?

Probably just me, but the mental image I got was quite disturbing...

I think you just may have learned how to wash old school.

Since I always stick my minis onto bottles for easy handling, I have yet to drop one while painting. I also have my computer desk and work table next to each other, forming an L, which allows me to have my paint water and drink on two separate tables, both in easy reach, which means no sipping paint water or coloring my drink, either. Using palettes also means that pots are rarely left open, for long.

Only once have I knocked and spilled paint, when I was painting at my dad's place (bad lighting and cramped workspace), but the wasted paint was the worst part of that. Don't leave room for those painting flubs and you won't have them. It's all about preparedness. Granted, some of us need a bit more of a safety net than others. I won't say whether I'm one of those or not...

Ouch. I's usually painting orks so that wouldn't really be too big of a deal, but still bad luck.

I am guilty of holding a model with paint on my fingers, then I have nice fingerprint paint smudges all over my freshly painted model.

Happens all the time to me; painting accidents, loosing bits halfway, replacing them and then finding the original just as I've gotten the spare part upto where I was before. I've dropped a Balrog I was painting once, managing to plant its nearly finished horns and head into some yellow paint. Fortunately for my sanity it was a relatively quick fix but I swore I'd never paint one again by the end. My worst was the first model I ever painted though; it was a Nightmare from some old DnD range I think a lovely black horse with flames I was ever so proud of, I dropped it onto a pot of blue paint and both fell off the table. Unfortunately the lid of the paint wasn't on properly and I ended up with a half blue horse.

Do cat jokes count?

I have a couple of paint upon my desk, often closed and hidden because we have two cats walking around the house. Sometimes they drop a model or a brush, often it ain't a big deal.
One day, I left some paint on my desk and it wasn't closed properly...
(Three times guess what is gonna happen?! )


I laughed that day when I came home and I cried when I saw the damage they had caused, all around our house were cat prints...