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This could be any thing, perhaps you spelt paint all over your Miniature, or maybe you squirted whole bottle of super glue all over your mini accidentally, maybe you just bought an expensive model and stuffed up some silly way... This should be interesting to hear and it will make others feel better about silly mistakes they have perhaps made. DON'T BE SHY

MY HORROR STORY - Priming about 4 Rhiino and 20 marines with base paint not realizing i was supposed to use a primer, so i stripped every thing. But i had already stripped them before i started so it means i struipped every thing twice. ( was first time modeling at all )




Listen to this song aswell while you think about it - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdSmokR0Enk&list=RDRdSmokR0Enk&start_radio=1

Dropping a full bottle of Vomit Brown paint on the carpet of my parents' new (at the time) caravan. AFAIK, the vomit-coloured patch is still there 20+ years later.

Ruining three different pairs of trousers by dropping superglue (or superglued model parts) on them.

Ruining two sets of bed linen in the same damn stupid way. Seriously, don't glue models together in bed.

My tragically misguided attempt to build a Helldrake flying 'sideways' (as if through a narrow gap in the terrain) with one wingtip pinned to some ruined architecture on the base. Would probably have worked with a metal model, but plastic is just too bloody bendy, even with brass rods run through various bits of it. The idea did sort of work after a fashion, and it does look better than the standard flying-base version IMO, but the slightest movement sets the whole model wobbling around to the point that I daren't actually use it in a game because sooner or later something unrepairable is going to snap.

Holy crap thats funny. interesting you mention heldrake, im currently building 2 of them. Every things going fine but i did prime a bit to much in a couple of areas accidently, and one of the heads has a small gap in the middle from me stuffing up glueing them togetherbut i can fill that in easy and it will be fine.


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Oh and i squirted to much glue and it covered the whole nose of heldrake and 1 tooth, but i managed to get rid of it.

Spilling a bottle of glue on my pants is always a classic.

Worst was probably aftee painting my BB team. Sealed them wrongly a got them all white. I had to strip them.

 Niiai wrote:
Spilling a bottle of glue on my pants is always a classic.

Worst was probably aftee painting my BB team. Sealed them wrongly a got them all white. I had to strip them.

Damn, must have been a pain to strip

Ok well i have the worse story, i win threads finished.


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Well actauly i dont know naii is pretty bad


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I would like to hear more though

I primed 1500+ points of Orks with Krylon red/brown to start some speed freeks, just point out what 1500 points of orks looks like and it’s over 60 models plus a few trukks and bikes.

It was a hot day here in Virginia and my primer went on very badly, the models felt and even looked like sandpaper. Ever tried stripping Krylon primer off plastic? It’s harder to clean off than baked-on tree sap, I gave up and chucked them all.

Pots of Agrax Earthshade/Devlan Mud that I have knocked over in my life (and lost completely, not caught half-way and salvaged): 5 and counting

Not a horror story as such, but one of my Tau Riptides has his left shoulder pad on upside down. And I did it with plastic glue, so that sucker's not coming off without destroying the whole model. Whoops!

 Fajita Fan wrote:
I primed 1500+ points of Orks with Krylon red/brown to start some speed freeks, just point out what 1500 points of orks looks like and it’s over 60 models plus a few trukks and bikes.

It was a hot day here in Virginia and my primer went on very badly, the models felt and even looked like sandpaper. Ever tried stripping Krylon primer off plastic? It’s harder to clean off than baked-on tree sap, I gave up and chucked them all.

damn must have looked bad for you to chuck them






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Spilling stuff seems to be most common thing here

I didn't know what I was doing when I started and was using my pocket knife for something, I honestly don't even remember what. But I applied too much pressure without thinking about it and suddenly I thought I had cut half of my thumb tip off from all the blood. Luckily, the knife went straight in and was stopped halfway through after splitting most of my thumbnail. I remember the sound I made like it was yesterday - just a loud "ooo"

Jeeeeeez thats nuts man


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IM going to put you on top of list as worse horror story so far


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Never apply pressure towards your self

Jacksmiles wrote:
I didn't know what I was doing when I started and was using my pocket knife for something, I honestly don't even remember what. But I applied too much pressure without thinking about it and suddenly I thought I had cut half of my thumb tip off from all the blood. Luckily, the knife went straight in and was stopped halfway through after splitting most of my thumbnail. I remember the sound I made like it was yesterday - just a loud "ooo"

Obviously it was something aligned with Khorne. Blood for the Blood God!

spilling plastic glue all over the wifes dinner table, no salvaging that one (dinner table that is, still married haha)

The early days of my Tyranid army is basically a horror story in itself...

 Tyranid Horde wrote:
The early days of my Tyranid army is basically a horror story in itself...

What a beautiful statement. The choice of words is great.

Today. Not *really* a horror story, but I’m fuming. Ordered an Amallyn Shadowguide from eBay, very pretty sculpt for my killteam. Glued, primed, 80% painted and then..

Click

That thin gun just sheared in two as I picked the little bugger up.

I'd count it. Repairing tiny little things like that can be a horror.

Sorry to hear that.

Going through it now.

I'm learning to use an airbrush, so I'm practicing on my ancient 2nd Edition Blood Bowl minis. Plastic Humans and Orcs. The orcs will be easier than the humans as they have fewer fiddly areas to paint. I decide to go with the old Reikland Reavers and Orcland Raiders colors from the rulebook covers. (How a team called the Raiders got Steelers colors is purest Heresy, but I chalk it up to being a British game.)

First I prime them all using the airbrush, a Badger Patriot 105. I used Badger's Stynylrez White. It's okay. Worked fine on all the orcs. My paint mix was two drops of thinner and one drop of flow improver per 40 drops of paint into the cup. I added too much flow improver on half of the human team and it winds up like a wash. The paint pooled in the crevices and not on the surfaces. Now I have these green dudes with white outlines. Great. Into the stripper vat of Super Clean for them. I reprime them. Meh. Not good, but passable eno. I leave the orcs for last since they should be easier to paint.

Second, it's time to lay on the basecoats. I pick out the yellow and blue I'm going to use on the humans and start on the yellow areas. Due to all the fiddly areas on the human sculpt, I decide to paint by hand. I have to build up three layers to make the yellow pop.

The paint is some cheap Americana acrylic from MIchael's, I think. Bright Yellow and Sky Blue will be the basecoats for the human uniforms. Those will be darkened with ink washes made with golden yellow and dark blue ink using mixes similar to Lester Bursley's wash mix recipes on his Youtube channel. I'm going with heavy tones of 60 drops per bottle. The highlights will be done with my more precious Vallejo paints since they're tougher to find locally.

This is when the Good Idea Fairy pops in and says "Hey, you have an airbrush! Just lay down a good coat of your yellow and roll from there!"

I hate the Good Idea Fairy. I'll shoot the bastard on sight the next time he appears.

I try masking off the areas I don't want painted on one of the minis before I try airbrushing. First I try painters tape but the small fiddly areas of the shoulder pads and other protective gear make it tougher. So I try using poster tack since it is more flexible. Still not great since it covers too much. I don't have any liquid frisket, but painting that on would defeat the purpose of what I'm doing, trying to avoid hand painting the last batch of humans, Well, it's just yellow, the blue will cover it up, right?

I mix up some paint using the yellow I chose and Lester Bursley's airbrush thinner mix from his Youtube channel. I do a 3 parts paint to 1 part thinner mix ratio and go to town.

Sweet Monkey of Mercy, I have made a huge mistake.

The minis are now very, very, shrieking banana yellow. It's all in the crevices again, too. I kept my airbrush about 6 inches away from the minis and used thin coats to cover them, in keeping with suggestions from other modelers. I'm going to let the basecoat cure before I make a final judgment, but I think these guys are going back into the Super Clean again.

Considering that I recently got this bottle of white primer in the mail and we've had freezing temperatures, I can't discount that the paint may have frozen and unfrozen, something which Badger says is very bad for their paint. I may have the pressure too high on the airbrush as well, running at 25 PSI.

Well, anyway, I should have just stayed with hand painting the layers and not experimenting so much.

My worst few (though really only one is actually "BAD"

1) sitting at the deck doing some model work I put my scalpel down on the table. Nice flat safe surface. However I then reached for something and knocked/dragged it and it slid toward me. Fell off the edge of the table, aimed itself point down and went right into my thigh. Blade went a good distance in, but the heavier base and me moving caused it to fall right out.

Thankfully it didn't hit anything critical, but there was blood- though honestly nowhere near as much as I thought and it clotted up pretty quick. But the injury felt really odd and grating for ages as it had gone deep enough to cut a fair slice.


2) Khinerai.. . I honestly love the models and like putting them together but darn they've got so many fragile end tips to their wings! I've snapped off and had to replace two already and a couple I've had to save by pouring plastic glue over a worn/broken segment till it fused back together. So yeah that's risky painful in a very different way.


3) Way back before I learned about scoring join areas on metal models my metal assembly was an exercise in pain and torment. Holding together two bits of spiky metal for AAAGES waiting for the glue to cure.
Only for the further pains of glue having spilled out over my fingers and thus when I moved to let go the part gets pulled off because its still stuck to my fingers.

Pretty much every model I painted before about 2014 (and there are ALLOT) is pretty much a showcase of how NOT to paint. Not priming, not thinning at all, no layers, wrong types of paint. You name it I will have done it somewhere.

I once remember trying to glue some scenery at an awkward angle that required me to kneel on the floor. I somehow managed to knock over the super glue bottle and proceeded to kneel in it, sticking myself to the carpet.

lol funny stuff, except for when you get hurt. Yeah vodo im sort of the same with my models i didn't prime or thin properly etc etc etc so had to strip and yeah

Had the bright idea once to take the cap off my plastic glue, and then use an old brush to apply it.

Walked away from the project for a bit.

Came back a few days later, found the bottle had tipped over and turned an entire pile of assembled legs and torsos into slag.

loool


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Dw man i turned the other day one side of my heldrakes body in to an extreme extreme matte finish with black primer,.


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did i say extreeme


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well one shoulder pad rather

 Overread wrote:

1) sitting at the deck doing some model work I put my scalpel down on the table. Nice flat safe surface. However I then reached for something and knocked/dragged it and it slid toward me. Fell off the edge of the table, aimed itself point down and went right into my thigh. Blade went a good distance in, but the heavier base and me moving caused it to fall right out.

Thankfully it didn't hit anything critical, but there was blood- though honestly nowhere near as much as I thought and it clotted up pretty quick. But the injury felt really odd and grating for ages as it had gone deep enough to cut a fair slice.

Ugh, something similar once happened to me a little below the knee. There was little if any blood (not today, Khorne), but I could see muscle. The gross part was feeling resistance from suction as I pulled the blade out. Ended up not flexing that leg for over a week just to be safe.

Anyways
Spilled a bottle of plastic cement on a keyboard when looking for reference pics. While since replaced, surprisingly it stayed fully functional besides a gummy backspace key. I’ve also ruined piles of bits this way.

It’s always fun to drop uncured green stuff and proceed to knead it into the carpet while crawling around looking for it. My setup sits on a leftover scrap, so at least it’s not the true flooring.

While stripping a FW Hellhound, life happened and I forgot about it in its bath for a couple months. Some sort of reaction happened and when I returned, the resin was sticky and rubbery. I considered binning it but someone was willing to buy it. Hopefully they've had better luck.

When I first started, I wound up gluing a Librarian to the coffee table because I didn’t consider how super glue might seep through the slotta base.

Yeah when im handling my craft knife, i am extremely careful, i think carefuly before i do any actions with it, so if im going to pick it up and put its cover on, i think about the safest way and do it that way. Same with cutting, i always make sure i have every thing done in a way where its pretty much impossible to hurt my self. So always remember that your hobby tool can also cut open your veins having blood flowing out every where just by a little accidental slip.


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So play out every thing in your mind before you use your crafting knives, and never forget that


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Keep it stored in its own seperate area, so it gives it gives you a reminder if its importance


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Put a massive steel barrier around it with barbed wire

Trying to fix up terribly bended resin shoulder pads of a Decimator.

It took me 3 hours.
In the end i tried to get away from resin, didn't work out as my new pet project is basically 75% resin but Christ fw, mix your Damn resin better!

 Stormatious wrote:
So always remember that your hobby tool can also cut open your veins having blood flowing out every where just by a little accidental slip.

This is why all plastic from GW is a BAD thing. See in the days of metal and even finecast it at least means you're going to have a bottle of superglue nearby. Superglue being very good at bonding skin and thus sealing wounds (in fact it was what it was originally invented for).

Of course I say this part in jest since I'd doubt most gamers should ever cut themselves badly enough to need to resort to those measures - pressure and a plaster should suffice for most hobby related wounds.

I have a ton of minor ones including:

- Knocking a paint bottle over and spilling it's contents
- "nah, I don't need clippers for removing this bit from the sprue, I'll just bend it" - > countless of bits broken this way. And I still do it
- Tasting a brushfull of wash or some other bad tasting paint, as I straighten the bristles with my mouth and sometimes forget to wash the brush before doing so.
- Ruining the table with superglue to the point I dont care anymore.
- As a younger hobbyist I stored my minis badly, so that they had to be repaired again and again.