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pixelpusher wrote:Used canned primer indoors (built a pretty huge spray box out of boxes) and then wondering for a day why the cats normally white legs were black-ish. I blame the freezing winters here in polar-bear-land. -.-

That made my day, accidents involving cats are typically funny.

I had a similar problem. I've sprayed indoors plenty of times and never had problems until I used Army Painter brand primer. It was a red primer. I laid down plenty of newspaper and other such things to catch any spray. Well after I was done there was red spots ALL OVER my room. My TV had red dust all over it, and the worst of all, there was red stains stretching into the kitchen floors and even made it into my bathroom. Since I live in the barracks, the inspector douches made a random inspection for damage and called me up claiming they were gonna charge me for the stained floors. To which I replied "So nevermind the fact that you donkey-caves have not fixed the heater or my broken toilet which I called about NUMEROUS times in the past THREE MONTHS, yet you are gonna call me about petty stains. Go feth yourself." *hung up*

Needless to say I cleaned the floors up to avoid the army taking anymore money from me.

i bought an old lr crusaider from a dude in the dakka dakka swap shop not knowing the turrets were metal and in the mail the turrets broke and it took me forever to fix after i finally did i was moving it and it fell to the floor and broke. then after i fixed it agian( wich was a pain) i handed it to a friend so he could look at it . the magnents i had on the sponsons did not hold and it fell again and broke i tried to catch it but forgot i had a hobby knife in my hand and accidentally stabbed him in the leg. i fixed the broken turret after a quick trip to the E.R. for my pal
not a good day for either of us
lol

Phayse wrote:I tried to get back into the hobby last year, but wanted to escape scorn from my wife, so for a while it was a secret vice. I would always get home from work first, and have a couple of hours to fiddle about with.

I was in the middle of basing some marines and i'd had an accident. I'd been careless and one of our kittens had knocked the tub of watered down PVA.

All down the front of my jeans. All over my hands. All over my kitten.

Now, Watered down PVA always looks slightly suspect at the best of times, but the jeans I was in were my decoraring jeans - with a broken zip.

One man, covered in what looks like spunk, with his flies open, desperately trying to clean up himself and a very sticky, very vocal kitten.

Cue wife.

Cue interesting conversation about appropriate use of kittens.


Worst idea I've ever had hobbywise? Trying to assemble a 3rd ed avatar. Repeatedly. Ah, the naivety of "yoof"

This is why I love cats so much, they're prone to war gaming accidents.

I have four small scars on my left hand, at one time i lost the feeling in one of fingers for a week.
Apart from that i havn't injured myself to badly.

Theres always the drinking paint water and washing your brush in your drink scenarios that most have gone through.

And of course finishing a model, admiring it, then realising theres a fething huge thumb print on part of it.


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Scrazza wrote:

mullet_steve wrote:Aww come on your not having fun unless you've bled at least once and the blood sacrifice always seems to give you a better result in the end

Certainly when you paint things red.

BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!


I regulary slice my palms when I paint things red. My guard army is red. I have over a hundred guardsmen.

nuff said.

I'd like to see the look on someones face when they ask how you achieved that golorious shade of red and you reply with...
"First i applied several layers of red gore, and highlighted liberally with bloodred with a touch of bleached bone to lighten the highlights towards the edges, then i washed the entire model...
(Pause for effect)
with a mixture of my own blood and some tears of pain..."

jetjetex wrote:Im an idiot and was not paying attention to cutting a dreadnought and i cut a 4 inch gash in the top of my thumb.
WARNING! this is not for squimish people.

Dear god man! what were you cutting it with? a cavalry sabre?

Much like ghidora, the stupidest thing I've ever done is get involved with such an expensive hobby! I know drug addicts who have more disposable income left over after indulging!

I started Dark angels :-( silly silly silly.......but I digress, I suppose i've been lucky to date, I've only had two scalpel incidents driving it into my thumb! and then minutes later, my thigh!...not fun, and the obligatory gluing my fingers together on a few occasions, worst one I was holding a speeder together and glued my fingers to it, again...not fun

jetjetex wrote:Im an idiot and was not paying attention to cutting a dreadnought and i cut a 4 inch gash in the top of my thumb.
WARNING! this is not for squimish people.

Holy s***!!!

I'll talk about my Nemesis; the hot glue gun! Many times have I discovered why it is not a good idea to let boiling hot glue make contact with the skin, especially when it then starts to set and the heat becomes very very intense.

my god slip stream how did it get in your eye


worst thing i have done is drive a tin can lid into my wrist whilst using the can for terrain
never leave sharp objects on you arm rests


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Actually slipstream disregard that comment my computer spassed out and two pages get merged making it hard to read it says skin not eye but it still hurts

One time the weapon fell off of one of my old style Dark Reapers. I went to glue it back on, holding the model in one hand and the glue in the other. Without looking, I twisted the cap off the super glue and moved to apply a little to the Reaper's hand. Unfortunately, I had not only removed the cap, but the entire top, including the applicator. So when I turned the bottle over to apply the glue, a wave of super glue poured all over my figure, and my hand. I managed to drop the model before permanently welding it to myself, but my fingers were stuck together for hours after that...

Well lets just say that a model isn't complete without me accidentally cutting myself open.

We have nice hardwood floors now, beautiful stuff .

We had carpet nice beautiful thick soft carpet.

Well one day while the wife was away i decided to do some painting and grabbed my spray primer and balancing it atop my stuff and headed out to are florida room to prime up some stuff.

While going across the livingroom the paint tipped off the stuff dropped hit the cast iron leg spike on the table and you guessed it it burst so i ended up having to replace the freaking carpet with hardwood and repaint the castiron stuff all in the space of a week before she got home from her trip.

Accidently painted my thumb instead of the model.... It looked better than the model somehow. SO life like.

Does the generic having a glue bottle exploding all over my hands or accidently cutting my finger tip off count? Meh...my parents let me use modelling knives when I was young with little supervision. Heh, blood for the blood god and all that. =P

DickBandit wrote:
This is why I love cats so much, they're prone to war gaming accidents.

My cats seem to try to drink my paint water when they got prefectly fine water in the bowl from bottled water considering the water here isnt the best thing to drink so much. They also have a habit of kidnapping my figures during a game. I play heroscape along with 40k and during games of heroscape my one cat will steal the dragon Mimring and run and the other cat will kidnap my vikings.

The Gate Keeper wrote:

DickBandit wrote:
This is why I love cats so much, they're prone to war gaming accidents.

My cats seem to try to drink my paint water when they got prefectly fine water in the bowl from bottled water considering the water here isnt the best thing to drink so much. They also have a habit of kidnapping my figures during a game. I play heroscape along with 40k and during games of heroscape my one cat will steal the dragon Mimring and run and the other cat will kidnap my vikings.

Allegedly, they're supposed to be able to pick up on things evaporating. If your water has paint and medium in it, it's going to look pretty interesting.

Dunno how much truth is in that though!

dayve110 wrote:I have four small scars on my left hand, at one time i lost the feeling in one of fingers for a week.
Apart from that i havn't injured myself to badly.

Theres always the drinking paint water and washing your brush in your drink scenarios that most have gone through.

And of course finishing a model, admiring it, then realising theres a fething huge thumb print on part of it.


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Scrazza wrote:

mullet_steve wrote:Aww come on your not having fun unless you've bled at least once and the blood sacrifice always seems to give you a better result in the end

Certainly when you paint things red.

BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!


I regulary slice my palms when I paint things red. My guard army is red. I have over a hundred guardsmen.

nuff said.

I'd like to see the look on someones face when they ask how you achieved that golorious shade of red and you reply with...
"First i applied several layers of red gore, and highlighted liberally with bloodred with a touch of bleached bone to lighten the highlights towards the edges, then i washed the entire model...
(Pause for effect)
with a mixture of my own blood and some tears of pain..."

Well, yes, it's al in the climax.

Ha, the looks I'll get...

i havn't done anything as epically funny as the PVA cat, but i have countless scars on my hands and may stories of how not to cut models, including one done 3 days ago

many many epoxy resin accidents, gluing pieces to other pieces without intention.

Got superglue in my eye. That was pretty awful.

I was snapping together plastic minis, and the old ones had the little tabs that fit into the slotted bases. They were a bit tight and would actually *snap*. Well, I'm pushing one into the base, and it's not going in, so I bring it a little closer to see what's going on. *SNAP*. Squirted a fine spray of Zap-A-Gap across my face, and a few little droplets landed right in my eye. I went to the bathroom and could actually see them dried on my eye...the hardest part was not closing it. UGHGHGHGHGHHHHH don't want to think about this ever again but long story short, wear eye protection when assembling minis. Seriously.

Surprised nobody has admitted to...

Cutting terrain hills from 3inch foam board with a serrated chefs knife. Sliced my index finger right down to the bone, feeling micro serrations slide over the bone in your finger is not fun!

So, I was working on snipping some Khorne berserkers out of the sprue when my cat bumped my hand and I snipped my thumb. It was only the top most layer and didn't draw blood, much less hurt. I then said "Hah, take that. Nothing can hurt my, I'm invincible." to the sprue, after which I proceeded to cut myself on the clippers and bleed all over my berserkers. Blood for the Blood Gods nice, just long as its not mine.

Phayse wrote:I tried to get back into the hobby last year, but wanted to escape scorn from my wife, so for a while it was a secret vice. I would always get home from work first, and have a couple of hours to fiddle about with.

I was in the middle of basing some marines and i'd had an accident. I'd been careless and one of our kittens had knocked the tub of watered down PVA.

All down the front of my jeans. All over my hands. All over my kitten.

Now, Watered down PVA always looks slightly suspect at the best of times, but the jeans I was in were my decoraring jeans - with a broken zip.

One man, covered in what looks like spunk, with his flies open, desperately trying to clean up himself and a very sticky, very vocal kitten.

Cue wife.

Cue interesting conversation about appropriate use of kittens.


Worst idea I've ever had hobbywise? Trying to assemble a 3rd ed avatar. Repeatedly. Ah, the naivety of "yoof"

Thats just too funny! had me almost spraying what I was drinking all over a laptop

Only real mishap I've had aside from the glue covering my hands trying to get the old metal weapon and backpack devs together happened a couple of weeks back, after over 20 years of doing this stuff.
I had picked up an army painter spray, unlike previous ones which needed a scalpel ran round some plastic to open this one looked like it needed tabs removing to get the lid off. Unable to find clippers and thinking they wouldnt get under there anyways i picked up a kitchen knife...
Those tabs are VERY stubborn and I got stubborn too with the pressure. Got trhough the tab and into my hand, horizontaly between the thumb and forefinger. Was more annoyed at when checking it at A&E they said I would need seen as it was a deep cut and I had plans later that night. AP really need to sort their lids out though...

Oh I forgot to mention, when I cut my finger wide open, blood splashed on a page from my Tyranid Codex. I had no idea it happened and I eventually sold the codex and my tyranid army on feebay. I got positive feedback from the guy, but he wrote down "There was blood on my codex! Blood for the Blood God!" I guess he realized we cut ourselves quite a bit in this hobby.

jetjetex wrote:Im an idiot and was not paying attention to cutting a dreadnought and i cut a 4 inch gash in the top of my thumb.
WARNING! this is not for squimish people.

Holy shy tits!

Worst thing I've done is putting a small cut, about a half inch long, and a quarter inch deep, into my index finger, when I was making vehicle spikes out of sprue. dumbest thing was deciding that, rather than let my parents find out i had done this (and maybe lose unsupervised X-acto priveliges) I decided to treat it myself. after trying to stop the bleeding (which was slow and minimal) for about 2 minutes, I, in absolute stupidity, decide its time to cauterize. Never said I was the brightest bulb, but maglite bulbs are hot enough.

I learned not to spray seal a squad at 3 AM after spending the entire evening painting it. Being incredibly tired, I grabbed the black primer instead...

I only had the usual with drinking the wrong water (after which I realised that I don't much care for the taste of my paint water, but my brush gets pretty clean in my whiskey ), cutting and glueing myself.

The worst thing that happened to me injury wise while doing something model related was when I wanted to change the blade of my x-acto. I took out the big block with the spare blades and they stuck together, so I tried to pry one off, using my thumbnail to get between the seperate blades. Since I didn't manage to get one blade free with a little pressure, I used more pressure and ended up with the freed blade stuck under the fingernail of my right hand thumb.

It hurt like hell and I refrained from any more knife work at that evening.

Finally started painting dark angels... Then spent over abhundered dollars on my new grey knights army.

The one nice thing about cutting yourself badly while working on 40k?

There is always a tube of super glue handy to seal the gaping wound!