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Greetings. this thread is for People to discuss their mistakes in modeling. Did you pick poor weapons? Maul a model?
In other words, what went wrong when wargaming?

Rules.
-be polite.
-post photos. (not compulsory but still nice)
-have fun.




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I'll start us off.
I destroyed a riptides shoulder/back thingy while magnetizing it. not a brand new model but still a painful repair job.

I was selling all my models and got back into the hobby.

I hadn't sold all my stuff which is OK in a sense.

But what I did do with some models was use Dettol to remove the paint and completely buggered it up. Said models were a Riptide and Centurions. They looked...disgusting. Broken in little places because of how hard I had scrubbed and really unattractive.

In hindsight I should have tested the dettol on the 'expendable' troops units. Alas, I have since binned both and actually wasted £100.

I regret messing up my Forge World Legion Medusa's heavy bolter. Now I'm going to have to graft a new one on which is going to be a pain. I also regret trying to convert my 30k Ultramarines into space wolves. The conversions looked pretty good but I just couldn't get into 30k space wolf lore. They only fought like one battle and they're kind of jerk. As an end result I need to swap out some boltguns to restore them to Ultramarines which is going to require new arms, drill out new barrels etc etc.

I also regret putting on the Stormraven conversion kits. It looks good but I just didn't have the modelling talent to make it look really good. Eugh. The Storm Raven is a mess in general and is going to need a lot of TLC to look even halfway decent.

I also sort of regret giving away my Guard infantry with how good they are now. They were Cadians anyway so... meh, might just replace them with Vostroyans or DKoK and repaint the tanks.

I attached the kabalite warrior arms and gun to the model before painting its chest.

Frozocone this is interesting because I also use Dettol to strip paint. what did you scrub with?
the way I do it is first soak the model in Dettol for 1-2 hours then scrub with a toothbrush. then I wash in warm soapy water when all the paint is gone. then I soak in methylated spirits for an hour and wash again.
i have had no problems with this and think it's great. shame about the models.

Not reading instructions and having to spend alot longer filing, clipping and filling afterwards to finish the model.

Done it once to a BAC captains and a few others.
So much easier to check the book.

I glued my first Dreadnought's arms on so it is now stuck with a lascannon and power fist. Fortunately that combo isn't terrible in 8th edition so it worked out I guess.

I had a pretty sizeable Tyranid army that i sold off sometime around 4th-5th ed. All assembled and cleaned, but unpainted. Wish i had just stuck it in storage so i could get back to it later.

The biggest regret regarding 40k was selling the unpainted and perfectly viable Space Marines and Vehicles when I sold my Space Wolf army, as well as the 4th Ed Grey Knights. Could have stashed them away, which would have saved me money now. But at the time I was upset at GW's business practices and the lack of balance in 5th/6th edition (I mean a newbie like myself shouldn't have won every game after my first two, especially against decades old veterans).

Models wise, mostly regret hard gluing some stuff from that old army. It was my first army and I didn't know any better.

Smashing the main sail on my Tantalus. It is fething impossible to repair this thing and make it look factory :(

I didn't buy it strait from FW, but it has its box and documentation. Hoping they will let me buy a replacement bit.

Biggest regrets would be selling off all my Necrons end of last year. Was a necessary sacrifice but still regret having to do it- considering it was over 3k points worth that id scored for a MtG card.

Other regret is mauling 2 of my Sister with storm bolters before 8th dropped. I assumed storm bolters would be pants as usual and mauled the storm bolters off to make heavy bolter conversions.

Not buying more Sisters squads when i first started when they were 75 bucks.

Never let a 60 pounds resin model in a box, in a hot car under the sun. Not even for "Its only 2 minutes".

Oh boy, I have a few...

I regret treating my Tyranids like garbage when I was younger and they got so banged up and broken the only way I could get rid of them was to give them away. Fairly certain half of them ended up being binned anyway.

I regret not planning my Chaos army more carefully. I have close to 100 "tac marines" but very little else. This has also made it very hard for me to decide on a legion or warband.

I regret painting half my Chaos as Word Bearers despite not really liking them that much.

I regret that when standing at the crossroads of either building my Necron army up from a decent core collection, or adding more to my CSM army I chose CSM... then subsequently only bought troops.

Also starting to regret investing in a MASSIVE Lizardmen army that has remained in the packaging for 5+ years now...

Starting so many factions. Makes hobbying daunting and edition/codex changes more volatile.

I regret fully assembling 90% of my Tau army prior to painting them. There have been more than a few times that I've felt the urge to just break my various battlesuits apart just so I can somewhat properly paint them.

I regret not giving a crap about how I transport and store my models for so long and just using flimsy cardboard boxes and bubblewrap rather than investing in a decent case. The number of antennas broken and lost over the years is mindboggling.

I regret letting my inability to do fine detail work in painting like highlighting, facial features, or little insignias and such (tremors in my hands for as long as I can remember, couldn't paint a straight line if my life depended on it) make me think that I should just say screw it to the good painting techniques that I am capable of and paint my Tau to just a not terrible but certainly not great tabletop standard.

I regret Selling my An'ggrath model back in 2012. I miss him so much

I left a box containing around five hundred dollars worth of Space Wolves on top of my car.
Didn't notice until a day later.
I went back to my LGS, and found three dice and one base scattered in the grass by the parking lot.

Probably selling a few armies that I look back on fondly now. One was an Iron Warriors army that was heavily converted...I think that is the one I'd like to still have. Also, giving away a crap ton of marines models because I was done with the hobby.

There's also the odd old model you wish you could have again, like the original Farseer.

'Converting' models because I thought battle damage was cool. That's a lot of models I can't use these days...

I had around 20 classic metal catachans that I got rid of. What in the name of the emperor was I thinking? Those models were pure machismo manifest. I hate myself for not realizing what I had sooner.

I regret every metal model I got rid of now that I know how easy it is to paint strip. Eh, at least I got a classic metal eldar wraithlord still.

Oh and just recently I primed my last 5 eldar guardians when it was humid outside and how they're all bumpy and useless! Hooray! Seriously I don't know why I forget to prime test models first. Unfortunately im stuck in a heat wave and haven't been able to prime anything for about 2 weeks now.

selling two metal assassins i had for basically nothing right before deciding i would get back into the hobby..

 ApaceKittens wrote:
Frozocone this is interesting because I also use Dettol to strip paint. what did you scrub with?
the way I do it is first soak the model in Dettol for 1-2 hours then scrub with a toothbrush. then I wash in warm soapy water when all the paint is gone. then I soak in methylated spirits for an hour and wash again.
i have had no problems with this and think it's great. shame about the models.

Cheap toothbrush. I wonder whether just letting them soak would have been better.

Also used warm soapy water to rinse off the dettol. This time around I'm hoping not to use dettol.

I wanted to magnetize the carapace weapons on my Knight and completely butchered the hull, now I have to take a carapace weapon just to hide the eyesore.


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This sort of fits...I regret buying a Vulture w/Punisher cannons, spending a few days tracking down suitable decal papers and paints to customise it only to have one of my friends drop the thing on a concrete floor during it's first game.

At our local FLGs patrons had to leave their bags by the door. My bag contained my RT / 2nd Ed Chaos Marine army. 20 mins later, my bag along with another was gone.

I've been very careful with where I leave my models / belongings since then.

I put the legs on my Skitarii Dragoon on backwards (left vs. right). Had to rip them off, drill them out and put them on correctly. Still looks messy if you examine it closely.

I also regret painting 1/2 to 2/3 of my RT01 models in different colors than my primary SM army. I've never stipped paint from models and I'm afraid to try it with these old guys.

Had a fight with my gf about "war-hammer." She hated the idea of me buying more 40k for "larger" games. We broke up and I kicked my army to bits. It was in a box at the time. I stopped looking at it for 3 years.

After 3 years I pulled out my shame. And reassembled the army .

I regret pretending that grown ups don't play 40k.

We're engaged now and shes painting thousands sons.

A link to the shame https://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/879447-.html New stuff was added since then.

I bought 15 meganobz and 4 trukks right at the end of 7-th.

I didn't buy the Tyranid FW terrain back in the day when they still made it. It is now almost imposable to get.

Army switching multiple times.

For the love of plastic, I could have easily had 2x 3000 point armies fully painted. But no. I just HAD to get distracted.

I regret two things, both relating to when I got into 40k 2nd Edition.


I purchased the blood angel sergeant with a chainsword to use as my general/captain, not realising how pointless a chainsword was on such a model (he looked cool).

I wish I had persuaded parents to let me mail order a bunch of bits and assemble my own captain now (awesome cape backpack, power weapon sprue, etc).

My second regret is the counterpart model I purchased to lead the orks: Goff 1. When I moved houses I had to clear out a lot, so most of my 40k collection went to ebay. I don't know why, but this one particular model I wish I kept. It was one of the first 40k orks I had painted (okay, I had painted a tonne of fantasy orcs before that), but I always went back to it to touch up the details.

I wished I kept that hideous chunk of metal laden in many layers of paint as it was like a cross section of my development as a painter! Related to previous regret: I wish I had mail ordered the ork heavy weapon sprue to give this guy a power klaw!!

Oh my third regret, same era. My space marines were painted red and blue, and I used the Angels of Death codex for my rules, having blood angels and dark angels allied together. Imaginatively I had them as a custom chapter called 'Angels of Death'. A GW staffer asked what army I collected, I replied "my own chapter called Angels of Death, I use the Angels of Death codex". He went on to tell me I was wrong and there is no such thing as Angels of Death; Blood Angels and Dark Angels are different chapters. Of course I knew that, but having a prestigious GW store staffer being so condescending to me really dampened my hobby mojo.

I think that was the point I decided to focus on Chaos Space Marines!