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I killed a man.





and I liked it. The taste of her cherry chapstick.

lol, ewwwww, that's disgusting!

avantgarde wrote:I killed a man.





and I liked it. The taste of her cherry chapstick.

I see wut you did thar

Nothing exciting for me to report myself. Several cases of getting my hands covered in glue, but luckily never had them glued to anything else.

Once, when painting a mini, I had one that did not turn out badly.

That was wierd.

Shrug

kirsanth wrote:Once, when painting a mini, I had one that did not turn out badly.

That was wierd.

Shrug

This makes me want to say sorry, for some reason.

This isn't exactly a weird thing that happened while painting, but I have so many sets that some aren't even cut off the sprues yet.
I have a Land Speeder, a Predator, a tactical squad, two DA veterans boxes, a librarian, and a company master. Plus a few free marines
that I got from my local GW.

Was cutting a rokit off a Defkopta, it shot off, winged my rather top-heavy Waaaagh Banner bearer, and sent it flying off my desk. Bang!

Spontaneous combustion.

Its more painful than it looks.

Weirdest thing that ever happened to me was when I was cutting a old school metal dreadought plasma cannon in half. After a while I got lazy and started to force the hobby knife into the plasma cannon bit. A moment later the knife sorta slipped......

After that my knife was poking out the other side of my finger... Oh yeah, I went in one side and out the other! I was scared that THIS time I had done some irreparable damage.

Turns out that I got lucky, I missed the bone, I missed the little vein, didn't hit any nerves and all i have is a 1" wide scar on one side of the finger, which matches 5 other scars on the same finger, oddly enough all of them are hobby knife accidents, and oddly enough as well, I have no other hobby knife scars.

Its been at least 4 years since then, no further accidents.... yet...... :-)

Drinking coca cola whilst painting, put it down and then drank the paint water....

Model wise: I was speed drying my models between paint stages in sunny UK by putting them under a lamp.

The top of my BA sgt's head melted... everything else was fine. He still has the large divot on the top of his head.

Nothing especially weird, but I was once cutting the helmet off a plastic dwarf with clippers, I knew that it would fly off so I put my finger over it

it felt like getting shot, I know it's not technically painting but y'know

You're not kidding. those little pieces SHOOT off of there.
Whenever I'm cutting and my wife's in the room, I have to tell her to "duck & cover."

...'Cuz, you see, this one time I was clipping a length of brass rod to shorten it a bit and zinged her in the back of the head.

Oops.

Eric

Painting the metal on some poor CSM and dropped him into the open pot of boltgun metal. Was sad but then gave him to my brother who plays Iron Warriors Now the paintpots have flip tops and are not painted directly over.

Have also caught my brush and spilled brand new pots of snot green and vomit brown all over my desk and pants. The desk only gained in character and the pants were the same pair of camo cut-offs both times, so the colors blended right in.

I recently did the clean brush in tea bit, but have narrowly avoided actually drinking the paint water - it was close though!

- Salvage

GoFenris wrote: This figure, for me, was far greater than anything I had painted at that time and set the tone for me using advanced techniques in the future. The figure was a Chaos Berserker of Khorne. Coincedence...?

I just did that last week actually. My painting story is that I've been playing 40k for about 4 years now and have only ever finished a figure once. It was my Keeper of Secrets, and I finished it twice.

I have a longer history of strategy games than painting, so I was intimidated with the whole process. I understand how painting works and even have done and was trained in 2d painting as a child, but transferring those skills to a 3d medium was daunting without instruction.

I first painted my Keeper of Secrets about 3 years ago, spent hours on it - did the details, based it and so forth but I wasn't happy with it. So in one of my OCD mood swings, I stripped it down to nothing and then re-primed it black. It sat like that for about 2.75 years until a few months ago.

I was in the process of getting serious about converting and fully painting my first whole army, and stripped down some second hand sisters of battle and daemonettes for my planned slaanesh army and I started into painting the girls. Converted their bolters with chaos vehicle gargoyles and got them all primed up. I started working on one the superior/aspiring champs and before I knew it, I had actually settled on a color scheme and worked on it for a few hours. I was about 95% done! This is the first time I had gotten this close, been satisfied with the colors and kept going since the Keeper.

So, I obviously shelf the superior and turn to the Keeper of secrets. I spend about 4 hours on him (it's amazing what reading and studying minis will do, even if you don't practice painting) and completely finish the paint job. All the details and highlights/blending are done and now my painting experience has come full circle. Holding him in my hand, and marveling at the fact I actually stuck with a project makes painting the rest of the models much easier. I now have a visual representation of the colors I want and have knocked down that wall of half completed minis.

I realize it's not really a funny story, but that is the major break through in my painting career. My two converted and primed Daemon Princes now have reference points to jump into, and my sisters of slaanesh/daemonettes feel approachable now that I have just one finished model. It's sorta like I have proof I can do it, so I feel like I can continue doing it - ya know?

nothing really accidental besides the usual stuff.

but had a few friends over doing some painting / games / putting together, all sat there with out beers and smoking away while talking, friend of mine was bored and put some super glue on the filter of one of the ciggies, my mate picked it up to smoke, and ended up taking 20 mins to pull it off his lips lol
he was pissed about it, but it was a good laugh.

also, please use glue responsibly