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...with working with your lists and models?

Let me give you an example: I came up with a fun list idea. I was excited about it. I needed another model and that was about it, the rest I could scratch build the parts to.

Then all hell broke loose. Model I bought was missing a sprue. No big deal, GW will replace it...two weeks from now. No problem though, I can proxy till then.

So on to scratch building. Suddenly I realize I am total garbage at this and when I'm just about done getting a decent piece put together I cut my finger and get blood all over it (I am not joking.)

Anyone else have moments like that where you want to just thrown all of your stuff down the stairs and say, "I'm not taking this crap anymore?"

Rant over.

I had a similar moment when I was putting together the metal hurricane bolters on the old Land Raider Crusader, but that was just a nightmare in general!

I haven't had a situation quite as annoying as yours, but right now I'm having a moment where I just need to keep buying one more thing to make my list work. Well, I only needed to buy this many more Guardsmen to make the original list work, but now I want to have an outflanking mech platoon which will require another Chimera to make that work, but now one of my infantry platoons will need more men to bring itself up to full strength, and so on and so on.

I know exactly what you mean I was building my grey knights list and I ordered Crowe. He comes but the figure is molded wrong so i sent it back. I get it replaced a week later. I start building him and a few terminators on one single model. My last blade dulls to the point it cant cut and i run out of glue. I was ready to quit the hobby.

Worst part is, I WANT to have the scratch built stuff done for my game on Sunday, but at this point, I'm too unmotivated to try and do it. It's an endless battle I say!

scrabblez wrote:
...with working with your lists and models?

Let me give you an example: I came up with a fun list idea. I was excited about it. I needed another model and that was about it, the rest I could scratch build the parts to.

Then all hell broke loose. Model I bought was missing a sprue. No big deal, GW will replace it...two weeks from now. No problem though, I can proxy till then.

So on to scratch building. Suddenly I realize I am total garbage at this and when I'm just about done getting a decent piece put together I cut my finger and get blood all over it (I am not joking.)

Anyone else have moments like that where you want to just thrown all of your stuff down the stairs and say, "I'm not taking this crap anymore?"

Rant over.

Nah.

I get frustrated with the construction of certain models like Space Marine Land Speeders or Space Marine Devastators. Some parts of painting frustrate me too like when you spray primer on a bunch of models that you worked hard on and then come to realize you either put too much primer or the primer runs out on you.

I went through this when I was magnetising my Carnifex. It was the first thing I'd ever magnetised.

First mistake - I built it before putting the magnets in.

Second mistake - I drilled the holes too small, and instead of just grabbing the correct sized drill bit, I used a file to widen the gap. Which ended up too wide.

These two mistakes made actually mounting the magnets a fething nightmare. Rare earth magnets are strong. Trying to use green stuff and superglue to fix them into arm sockets when they're being pulled from the side and behind is an excercise in insanity.

Then I was finally finished, I tried putting the arms on, and two of them were the wrong way around, so the polarity wasn't right. So I had to push them out of the socket into the bosy, and remount some more magnets.

 djphranq wrote:
I get frustrated with the construction of certain models like Space Marine Land Speeders or Space Marine Devastators. Some parts of painting frustrate me too like when you spray primer on a bunch of models that you worked hard on and then come to realize you either put too much primer or the primer runs out on you.

Agreed on the devasator part, whoever decided that barrels had to be split in half needs to be smached. In the face. With a longaxe. Edgefirst.

Never had an assembly/conversion moment like that, though i've had a fair few annoying ones.

Painting, on the other hand.. I've had a few occasions where i've looked at my Orks and realized that i'll be pulling my pension before they will all be painted..

I have gotten to the point that I loathe having to put anything metal together again. Oh and Daemonette arms are tedious.

Just when I open a finecast model and see a bent staff or gun barrel, then hold one and wish for the heft of metal.

Trying to paint above table top standard on models that were painted and primed with black twice.
Oh and they couldn't be stripped at all. Plastic FWs....

 avedominusnox wrote:
Trying to paint above table top standard on models that were painted and primed with black twice.
Oh and they couldn't be stripped at all. Plastic FWs....

You can strip plastic ya know. It can be a nightmare to get off if the paint's really caked in there though; I have a few troopers in my Valhallan force who I couldn't get all the paint off of, and their faces involved a bit of... creative shading to make it look like their faces were more detailedthan they are.

scrabblez wrote:
...with working with your lists and models?

Let me give you an example: I came up with a fun list idea. I was excited about it. I needed another model and that was about it, the rest I could scratch build the parts to.

Then all hell broke loose. Model I bought was missing a sprue. No big deal, GW will replace it...two weeks from now. No problem though, I can proxy till then.

So on to scratch building. Suddenly I realize I am total garbage at this and when I'm just about done getting a decent piece put together I cut my finger and get blood all over it (I am not joking.)

Anyone else have moments like that where you want to just thrown all of your stuff down the stairs and say, "I'm not taking this crap anymore?"

Rant over.

Wow...chill out bro...getting way too upset and cranky over such silly little things. Missing sprue happens. As for the scratch building you might have wanted to take into consideration your experience with this concept *before* making it a big part of your plan. Some people are great at it and others just aren't. Hardly worth getting angry with.

Cutting yourself also happens when you are using sharp things. Heck I've had to start making sure I do my mini cleanup at my work table properly because I have dropped my exacto knife and looked down to find it sticking out of the top of my foot with the blade half way into the foot. Ouch? The couple times that has happened of course happened when I had just put on a new blade recently so it wouldn't bounce off my foot.

It is supposed to be a hobby and fun. Setting excessive goals for yourself and then getting upset when you can't meet them is silly. Relax, take a deep breath and modify your plans. If it is stressing you out, go play a game or two to relax.

Skriker

I get soo annoyed when I take a crapload of time to take out mould lines only to start painting and realize I missed a whole section.

And magnets are indeed a pain in the butt but you get used to it.

Alrighty, I just got the Chapterhouse combi-bolter and assorted add ons. I was planning on glueing down a magnet to his arm and one to the plasma gun so I could swap parts out. But to my horror I discovered how incredibly small the magnets where! I tried strait up super glueing the magnet to the champion's arm, but I couldn't get the magnet to stick or stay on at all and ended up with a big mess. (didnt help i was on 4 different pills from getting my wisdom tooths out) I ended up just superglueing the peice itself to his arm, loosing two magnets in the process.

When I sit down thinking, "yeah I can prime these all now!" and realize I still havent finished basing them or decorating them.

 djphranq wrote:
Some parts of painting frustrate me too like when you spray primer on a bunch of models that you worked hard on and then come to realize you either put too much primer or the primer runs out on you.

This. This happens often and then I got to work the brush to compensate for the bad primer job.

and painting. always a blast putting those lil' plastic men together, but painting them. whole new thing there (I play guard, so I get lots of painting to do/done already)

 Skriker wrote:


Cutting yourself also happens when you are using sharp things. Heck I've had to start making sure I do my mini cleanup at my work table properly because I have dropped my exacto knife and looked down to find it sticking out of the top of my foot with the blade half way into the foot. Ouch? The couple times that has happened of course happened when I had just put on a new blade recently so it wouldn't bounce off my foot.

I worry for you that this has happened more than once....

Really, I worry for you... and your foot.

Man, the thing that REALLY makes me just lose it is when I buy and assemble a model that I am really looking forward to painting, I take it on the balcony to prime it and... FUZZY PRIMER.

I don't know why, but this one thing just makes me totally lose my sh*t. I've dashed models against the wall in a rage before.

Childish, I know.

Haha fuzzy primer is the bane of my existence with painting. Although because every model I've ever primed came out fuzzy I've learned to fix it while painting. I feel your pain on this one.

 Xenocidal Maniac wrote:
Man, the thing that REALLY makes me just lose it is when I buy and assemble a model that I am really looking forward to painting, I take it on the balcony to prime it and... FUZZY PRIMER.

I don't know why, but this one thing just makes me totally lose my sh*t. I've dashed models against the wall in a rage before.

Childish, I know.

You live in LA, so check weather.com for the hourly forecast in your area. Specifically, look at the humidity.

I live in Houston, but refuse to use spray primer and spray matte finish to seal my models unless the humidity is below 50%. Often, I'll wait until 40%. That means I might have a miniature sitting on my to-do station for a month or longer.

High Humidity makes spray primer and spray matte finish work like crap.

 Brother SRM wrote:
I had a similar moment when I was putting together the metal hurricane bolters on the old Land Raider Crusader, but that was just a nightmare in general!

I haven't had a situation quite as annoying as yours, but right now I'm having a moment where I just need to keep buying one more thing to make my list work. Well, I only needed to buy this many more Guardsmen to make the original list work, but now I want to have an outflanking mech platoon which will require another Chimera to make that work, but now one of my infantry platoons will need more men to bring itself up to full strength, and so on and so on.

I am in the same situation, starting 40k again my budget has been blown out of the water I have gone from planned buying of 2k points to over 4k points now and I have decided to build conversion kits for the vindicator whirlwind razorback and pred's to go onto standard rhino's bought 30 magnets to get me started, then while doing a army list I have decided I want more storm talons, get a little too over excited over this stuff and I am not usually like that!

 kronk wrote:

 Xenocidal Maniac wrote:
Man, the thing that REALLY makes me just lose it is when I buy and assemble a model that I am really looking forward to painting, I take it on the balcony to prime it and... FUZZY PRIMER.

I don't know why, but this one thing just makes me totally lose my sh*t. I've dashed models against the wall in a rage before.

Childish, I know.

You live in LA, so check weather.com for the hourly forecast in your area. Specifically, look at the humidity.

I live in Houston, but refuse to use spray primer and spray matte finish to seal my models unless the humidity is below 50%. Often, I'll wait until 40%. That means I might have a miniature sitting on my to-do station for a month or longer.

High Humidity makes spray primer and spray matte finish work like crap.

Well one nice thing about high plains, next to no humidity (currently 13% humidity)

Im currently in the process of trying to scratch built some predator turrets. I am by no means a CAD expert, so trying to model them has me crying and curled up in a ball every night.

Once I was literally hours away from going to my flgs to by some wolf guard termies for cc termies and my laptop charger broke, put me back 20 bucks .

I was painting some models, been painting and gluing said army for 4 hours, and was on the last couple of models for a tourney, look up and see that just about all the arms on the models have fallen off. this repeats three times for all but one model, who to this day still has no arms.

One thing that keeps on happening is when I spend alot of time cutting a certain piece for a scratch built model and that certain missing piece falls on the floor, never to be seen again.
To add on the frustration, this piece is unique and got no spares.

Remember one special case where I made a mask specially to fit on a blood letter and when i'm doing the finishing touches with a Dremel the thing gets pulled from my hand, flies away, and its gone.

Yeah, For me its not having the right stuff, I hate proxies, Also, old landspeeder, That thing can burn in hell for all eternity.

I get frustrated when I start painting a metal model only to find I haven't taken off all those little sticking out peices of metal or when I accidentally glue flock to my painted model while basing.