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Ghosted quite a few models. So annoying.

Lots of spills on tables clothes and carpet.

Worst was an exacto knife rolling off the table and sticking in my calf. That bled for quite a while.

Not sure this is my biggest, but it is my most recent at all of ten minutes ago. I'm working on some heresy thousand sons and I'm using lacquer based paint. I've been airbrushing on a gloss black bad coat that usually ends up nice and smooth, but it has spots that look quite gritty on my spartan... hopefully it's okay once it sets up over night.

Oh, and there was also all the haze in the room from the spray... looked like smoke almost.

OTS wrote:
Ghosted quite a few models. So annoying.

Lots of spills on tables clothes and carpet.

Worst was an exacto knife rolling off the table and sticking in my calf. That bled for quite a while.

Heck yeah! Exacto rolling off the table and sticking in body parts crew for life!

Mine didn't roll off a table but cut through my bag and jammed into my shin. Can I still join?

 Vermis wrote:
Mine didn't roll off a table but cut through my bag and jammed into my shin. Can I still join?

We welcome all hobby related exacto injurees to our wonderful club. There is punch and pie.(there is not really punch or pie)

I decided to learn how to blend dark blue to white on a powerklaw for a painting challenge on here. Finally after the 4th attempt I got it and somehow ended up getting a drop of black on one of the white tips....... Had to repaint the entire klaw from the start, totally sucked

I was working of bases for my 30k Iron Hands, shook up my pot of martian ironearth then went to pop the top. I fumbled the jar, it bounced off my spartan and splatted all over the desk, the spartan was fine but a deredeo got a face full of goop, luckily I haven't started painting him yet and I was able to scrap most of the paint off the table and onto bases. Had a mini heart attack when the pot left my hands though.

Knock on plasteel or maybe ceramite, but so far my biggest oops moment has been knocking over one of the tall pots of Citadel Wash. Fortunately, it was only a 1/3 full and very little actually escaped with none making it off the table (that's why I lay down newspaper) and onto the carpet.

I still go into crazy worry mode every time open a pot that this time will be the time it gets all over the place.

Has anyone ever accidentally swapped their brush rinsing cup and their drinking cup? I haven't, but I'm so scared of doing that on accident that I'll let myself dehydrate when I'm working on my models.

As for things that have actually happened, I've spilled pots of paints while trying to open them twice in one day, and have cut into my fingers with a razor blade a couple times.

Started taking a sip from my brush-washing cup once. To be honest, the fact that it was room temperature was far more disconcerting than the taste, or lack thereof.

If you're worried about it, only drink from cans or bottles while painting. You'll also avoid accidentally washing your brush in your drink too.

 KommissarKiln wrote:
Has anyone ever accidentally swapped their brush rinsing cup and their drinking cup? I haven't, but I'm so scared of doing that on accident that I'll let myself dehydrate when I'm working on my models.

As for things that have actually happened, I've spilled pots of paints while trying to open them twice in one day, and have cut into my fingers with a razor blade a couple times.

I sometimes dip my brush into what I'm drinking, yeah, but my paint cup is so old and covered in dry paint that I'd never drink from it on accident.

And sign me up for the razor blade party, too. Happend when I decided I didn't need a hobby drill to make a hole for magnetizing my grav cents. Used my hobby knife instead. It slipped and cut right across my thumb and through my fingernail. Went out and bought a drill next day. Hell I still have the mark on my nail where it hit me.

 Vulcan wrote:
Started taking a sip from my brush-washing cup once. To be honest, the fact that it was room temperature was far more disconcerting than the taste, or lack thereof.

If you're worried about it, only drink from cans or bottles while painting. You'll also avoid accidentally washing your brush in your drink too.

Not always true. Once I reached for my can of Mt. Dew without looking, but accidently grabbed the four-day old one I forgot about. Whoa, what a 'special' taste.

I have a little paint cubby under the stairs going down to my basement. Nice set up, a little cramped, but walls are white and I have led lighting for good visibility. Was putting together a model for a friend, (DA Player) and after trimming the legs with my exacto knife I laid it on the table .... in a very unsecure manner. It fell off, impaling my bare foot. I freaked out at the pain, bent over to pull it out, smashing my face on the table, not breaking my nose, but the blood was a flowing. This made me see stars and stood up rather quickly, shattering the light above my head. I then tried to sit my ass back down and figure out what the hell was happening, and slipped off the back of my little chair, smacking the back of my head off the concrete block wall, gaining me a concussion.

I refused to step foot in that paint cubby for 3 months, and when I did it was to remove the offending DA model and shoot it with my 50 cal Desert Eagle.