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Title: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Vanvlak on February 22, 2016, 06:20:25 PM
This is far from official, should not exist whilst another club thread is running, and has no badge (not sure anyone would want one anyway). But it could be fun listing the less than inspirational moments in modelling we've had. I just had one:

No. 1: Undercoat spraying in black on a dark night on a dimly lit roof
This is because of LPL Season 10, for which I'm late in spite of the very early warning this year. I could barely see the models, let alone whether I was hitting them with the template weapon (anyone remember that old Adrian Wood pic when he was spraying orks?). Ending up going in and out to see what I'd covered, using a torch, and generally wasting more spray on the old chair I use as a support for spraying than the models. I missed managed to miss one model's butt 4 times....  :?
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Elk101 on February 22, 2016, 06:37:02 PM
I like the idea.

No. 2 Not reading the spray can prior to spraying

Essentially waterproofing the second hand (yet still the most expensive Old West building I have) Battle Flag Bordello by spraying it with thick white gloss paint instead of matt, creating a fully submersible terrain piece that shrugs of any further paint as if deflector shields really existed.
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: nic-e on February 22, 2016, 06:38:57 PM
No.3 Actually reading the instructions on army painter spray.

It says to spray from about 15 cm away. IT lies. I have a whole box of wargames factory greeks that are now featureless white blobs due to the very thick primer going on and instantly drying into a perfect unbreakable crust.
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Hammers on February 22, 2016, 06:45:43 PM
No. 4 Spraying matt spray in 50% humidity conditions

Ending up with a miniature with a severe case of dandruff dusting his whole person.
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Za Zjurman on February 22, 2016, 07:20:47 PM
No. 5 Putting a new blade on your hobby knife and forget about it...

... and the next day using the same force as if it was the blunt old knife. Resulting it being stuck in your thumb (happens to me every time). Can't seem to learn from precious mistakes.

Cheers
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: cataphractarius on February 22, 2016, 07:26:35 PM
No. 6 Applying liquid superglue directly from the tube...

... and wondering afterwards why superglue is all over the place. A second or so later everything that has not entered a firm bond with the table is stuck to my fingers.

It always happens when I'm impatient and try to speed up things by not putting superglue onto scrap bit of plastic first. I always make a mental note never to do that again...
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: carlos marighela on February 22, 2016, 08:44:13 PM
No. 7. Always cutting the most delicate, small and/or super bouncy piece from a sprue or a miniature (heads are good for this) over an area of carpet that magically transforms into the exact colour and shade of the item you are now destined to spend the next twenty minutes, on hand and knee, looking for.
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: LeadAsbestos on February 22, 2016, 09:14:37 PM
No.8- while using a Dremel, loosen your grip ever so slightly, and watch mini/Matchbox car/ whatever hurtle off into the middle distance.
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: harleyface on February 22, 2016, 09:27:48 PM
No.9 Leaving your just finished Minis for few seconds(toilet)and forgetting this damn cat.....


Love my cat but arrrrrggggggg
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: OSHIROmodels on February 22, 2016, 09:48:38 PM
No 10. Nasty modelling cut (number one...)

Cutting through the Ertl Slave 1 cockpit and then through my finger. Waving said finger through the air in pain and realising that a huge splash of blood had covered the walls and ceiling of my bedroom... Parents weren't best pleased either.

 ::)

Needless to say, I take more care with scalpels now  lol

cheers

James
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: harleyface on February 22, 2016, 10:00:22 PM
10.1.  30 years ago using my fathers swiss army knife to clean plastic Kits.Very sharp...Nö surprise cut my Finger.
Hurted so much letting Fall the knife impaling my toe.
Completly into the wood floor....
True Story...my dad had troble to get IT out of the floor without complitly destroying my toe.....
Best scar i got....
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Sardoo on February 22, 2016, 10:34:51 PM
11. Finishing off a model I was very proud of. Taking the spray can of varnish, shaking it violently then starting to spray . . . Only to discover it was, in fact, white primer I was spraying on. Wrong label on tin, back to model shop, raised voices ensued!
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Lowtardog on February 22, 2016, 10:56:57 PM
12. Undercoating with black spray last week, do it outside says I, stop it from stinking the garage out, jobs a good says it..... 2 28mm pzr4s and 2 251 hanomags....left to dry when hit by rain......blothcy undercoat as result of the rain so had to strip and start again
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: john Hollyoak on February 22, 2016, 10:59:10 PM
Flicked Nitromors into my eye while cleaning paint off a figure. Never moved so fast before or since. Gallons of water later everything was ok. This was back in the days when Nitromors was real paint stripper.
John
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: snitcythedog on February 22, 2016, 11:38:04 PM
No 13 Back to sprays.  Priming models in a less than well lit room.  Started spraying and wondered why my fingers were wet.  Needless to say the nozzle was pointing the wrong way and the paint was dripping onto the carpet.  Last time the wife let me spray in the house. 
Snitchy sends.
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Etranger on February 23, 2016, 12:21:46 AM
14. Not checking the tread pattern on uni-directional tyres prior to putting them on the model. To compound the error, using epoxy adhesive for added strength and permanence, and not noticing until getting to the weathering stage......


(I've done the 'mistake primer for spray varnish bit too...!)
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Drachenklinge on February 23, 2016, 05:59:54 AM
like that ...  :-*
Actually ... more or less ... all of the above.  ;D

14. Working on a delicate female mini's face, having finished it to my taste, noble arced eyebrows, eyes well done, being very pleased with her make up as well.
Then handling it one more time than was good ... tipped it over ... right into a not so dried pool of grey or white on my colour palette ... in her face ... gnnnnnnnnaaaAAAARGG!!

Obviously that female mini had another mind about the outcome of said make up

I restarted the miniature a few months later when I was able to look at it again. o_o
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: HerbyF on February 23, 2016, 06:25:01 AM
16 Shaking a bottle of paint & having it crack at the neck, splattering a neutral taupe paint all over the nearly finished figures on my table.
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Keith on February 23, 2016, 08:23:13 AM
17 Putting a small box over a freshly varnished figure to protect it from dust ... only to realise someone had stored chalk in it and covering the wet figure with chalk dust!

18 Washing paintbrushes in my tea cup. Done this about five times a week for the last 30 years :-)
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Maxx Von Morton on February 23, 2016, 09:39:25 AM
I like this!  :)
n 18 Attempting to drill the foot of a miniature to pin it to the base, and finishing drilling through the foot and my finger (for me... a classic with metal miniatures!)

Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Vanvlak on February 23, 2016, 10:10:54 AM
At this rate we're going to reach a 100 quite soon.
Of course the numbering is going a bit wonky, but that fits in with the theme too  :D

Has anyone taken the tally of mangled fingers, hands and at least one foot?

We might need to start giving out the modeller's equivalent to the purple heart.

 



Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Za Zjurman on February 23, 2016, 10:19:42 AM
We are a clumsy and inpatient bunch of people   lol
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: von Lucky on February 23, 2016, 10:27:22 AM
lol Yes we are

No. 20: tipping my dirty glass of water to clean my brush over.
Over the minis. Over the keyboard. Down behind the desk. Behind the book shelf. I had no idea how much water a glass can hold until this happened. Twice.
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: tyrionhalfman on February 23, 2016, 11:00:39 AM
No 20 my partner who rarely takes an interest in my hobby activities managed to spill a pot of dark blue ink over some almost complete minis while looking at my efforts. I was gutted but had to try to hide it to not put her off taking future interest
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: carlos marighela on February 23, 2016, 11:09:30 AM

Washing paintbrushes in my tea cup. Done this about five times a week for the last 30 years :-)

Snap! Great absent minded beggars think alike. If someone aked me what Vallejo English Uniform tasted like, I'd have to say rather like Russian Caravan or at times like Earl Grey.
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: harleyface on February 23, 2016, 11:23:01 AM
Maybe we really need a badge....  lol
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Vanvlak on February 23, 2016, 11:38:40 AM
Maybe we really need a badge....  lol
Suggestions are welcome  :D
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: OSHIROmodels on February 23, 2016, 11:57:09 AM
No 21. Drinking brush water

It was even in a dirty jam jar and my beer was in a pint glass  :-X

cheers

James
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: zemjw on February 23, 2016, 11:58:19 AM
no 22 - spilling stuff

I managed to spill most of a bottle of AK enamel wash over my desk - the room smelled of turps for a long time

I've also tipped over a bottle of liquid polystyrene cement. It melted the top of my cutting mat and the room smelled like some sort of glue sniffing flop house (I imagine, never having been in such a place o_o)

There's still a large streak on the carpet where I spilt most of a pot of humbrol enamel hardened leather. I can't quite remember how I achieved that particular feat, but it looks like the pot made an escape attempt while I was shaking it and the lid came off.

For a badge, something with a sticking plaster seems appropriate, possibly with something spilt on it ;D
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Mason on February 23, 2016, 12:06:52 PM
This thread is great!
My favourite for a while.
 lol lol lol

I think that I have pretty much done all of the above and a few others as well.

here is one that is not on here...

No. 23: Gluing fingers together with superglue...

..and whilst trying to use scalpel to carefully slice them apart realising that I had also spilt the glue on the scalpel handle!

D'Oh!

Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Za Zjurman on February 23, 2016, 01:25:13 PM
 lol lol lol lol lol This is getting better and better. And all to recognizable  lol
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: jon_1066 on February 23, 2016, 02:35:02 PM
This is a sub of the ink spill one but:

No 24 Finishing a miniature then upending a pot of paint on it.

Just finished putting the finishing touches to a bunch of flagellants and up turned a Charcoal Black pot of pain all over three of them.  A quick rush to the tap and washed most of it off.  Just last week I noticed some "dirt" on the tap - turned out to be a splash of charcoal grey!
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Michi on February 23, 2016, 02:53:20 PM
No. 25: NEVER (accidently) spray paint basil or other kitchen herbs/plants on your balcony. Females will ALWAYS notice!
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Eric the Shed on February 23, 2016, 03:00:03 PM
No.26 : Clipping brass spears to make them shorter and realising that as the clipped end flies off at the speed of sound your son has just walked into the shed and you missed blinding him by a couple of centimetres...

Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Andym on February 23, 2016, 03:15:23 PM
Snap! Great absent minded beggars think alike. If someone aked me what Vallejo English Uniform tasted like, I'd have to say rather like Russian Caravan or at times like Earl Grey.

 I think we've probably ALL done this at one time! (I say one time, I really mean about a million times!) lol

No.27 spending ages carefully sculpting green stuff feathers/scales/armour, only to turn it round and realise you've put a finger a part that's not cured!  :'(
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Andym on February 23, 2016, 03:18:17 PM
No.28 The old GW pot lids used to be quite difficult to open, but would then suddenly release! The amount of times I dropped a full bottle of Salamader Green on my mums cream carpet!! Opps! Sorry mum!
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Andym on February 23, 2016, 03:22:42 PM
No.29 Old fantasy battle players will recognise this one. Playing with your Orc and goblin army and forgetting how sharp those fucking plastic goblin spears are, only to put your hand down and lift it up and have ten of the wee bastards painfully jabbed into your hand! :'(
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Vanvlak on February 23, 2016, 03:30:29 PM
No.29 Old fantasy battle players will recognise this one. Playing with your Orc and goblin army and forgetting how sharp those fucking plastic goblin spears are, only to put your hand down and lift it up and have ten of the wee bastards painfully jabbed into your hand! :'(
Ow, I can relate to that.
The High Elves' spears were nasty too - and they all came in one box!

Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Ssendam on February 23, 2016, 03:40:46 PM
No. 30: Gluing part on a model the wrong way round ...

... i.e. the left arm on the right shoulder.  Usually this is only done with the most tricky of bits, after meticulous planning and at least 3-4 seconds of admiring your work before realising your error.
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: harleyface on February 23, 2016, 03:58:06 PM
Goblis spears..yes painfull memories...
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: harleyface on February 23, 2016, 04:00:36 PM
Gluing an old battletech marauder...
In the Moment you placed the Arms and putting it back on the table seeing it slowly collapsing....
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Elk101 on February 23, 2016, 04:31:26 PM
No.28 The old GW pot lids used to be quite difficult to open, but would then suddenly release! The amount of times I dropped a full bottle of Salamader Green on my mums cream carpet!! Opps! Sorry mum!

Yes, it's always a colour that doesn't match the carpet too!
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Lowtardog on February 23, 2016, 04:32:48 PM
Ow, I can relate to that.
The High Elves' spears were nasty too - and they all came in one box!



Oh old school peter laing 15mm which youvactually used pins for pikes, I was impaled on a pike bloke once or twice😱
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Za Zjurman on February 23, 2016, 04:38:13 PM
No.29 Old fantasy battle players will recognise this one. Playing with your Orc and goblin army and forgetting how sharp those fucking plastic goblin spears are, only to put your hand down and lift it up and have ten of the wee bastards painfully jabbed into your hand! :'(

Yes... or worse playing on the ground because of lack of space and step on them... had many spears attached to my feet  ;D
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Mason on February 23, 2016, 05:38:04 PM
Yes, it's always a colour that doesn't match the carpet too!

My mate once did it with white spirit, on HIS mate's Mum's carpet.
I was not around to see the reaction, but I bet it was NOT pleasant.....

Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Captain Blood on February 23, 2016, 06:36:50 PM
No 31 (???)

Can't believe this hasn't come up already...

Squeezing that Vallejo paint bottle to deposit a small bead of paint on the palette, only to find it is blocked, so squeezing a little bit more forcefully, only to find a tiny little bit seeps out - but aha! It must be coming, so give that bottle just one more good sharp squeeze - and watch as the completely congested stopper flies out, followed by the entire contents of the bottle, spraying paint over everything, including one's self, and all the half finished and nearly finished models in the vicinity...
Not saying i'm unbelievably dumb sometimes, but I must have done that at least half a dozen  times... I'm always so sure it's just about to produce the paint I need, then BANG! Disaster...  ::) lol
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Supercollider on February 23, 2016, 06:43:39 PM
Mixing a 'tiny' bit of greenstuff to fill an almost imperceptible gap, only to find you are left over with ten times the amount you needed in the first place!

I swear more than 50% of the stuff I buy gets rolled into little balls or laces for unspecified miscellaneous uses at a later date ;)
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Michi on February 23, 2016, 07:49:10 PM
Squeezing that Vallejo paint bottle to deposit a small bead of paint on the palette, only to find it is blocked, so squeezing a little bit more forcefully, only to find a tiny little bit seeps out - but aha! It must be coming, so give that bottle just one more good sharp squeeze - and watch as the completely congested stopper flies out, followed by the entire contents of the bottle, spraying paint over everything, including one's self, and all the half finished and nearly finished models in the vicinity...
Not saying i'm unbelievably dumb sometimes, but I must have done that at least half a dozen  times... I'm always so sure it's just about to produce the paint I need, then BANG! Disaster...  ::) lol

Oh yes, I can second every single point of that, including being unbelievably dumb to repeat it more than half a dozen times... >:(
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: snitcythedog on February 23, 2016, 09:31:21 PM
No. 32....  Drilling with a pin vise in the arm of a lead miniature .  I manage to drill halfway through and then the bit drives straight through the arm and into my finger hitting the bone.   The ER doc was extremely upset that at the age of fifteen I was working with lead as he had to remove a chunk of it from the wound.  My father let him know that I was reloading ammunition at that age so the doc let it drop.  No ill effects to this day aside from the twitch. 
Snitchy sends.
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: warlord frod on February 24, 2016, 02:22:28 AM
Nu. 33 - Trying to re position an arm on a figure like you did when they were lead just to have it break off I so hated it when they stopped using lead which was so easily bent without out breaking.
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Pijlie on February 24, 2016, 05:16:25 AM
Nr 34: assembling a multi part figure, being too impatient to pin it, glueing an arm or something to it and holding it in position for five minutes and then walk off to get a cup of coffee, only to see on your return that the arm has now slowly sunk into the wrong position and the glue has now firmly dried completely....
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: armchairgeneral on February 24, 2016, 06:21:19 AM
Nr 35. Spilling paint on ones clothes, then to avoid the shoutyness from the wife, mixing paint to match the colour of what I was wearing to paint over it. Just about got away with it.
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Drachenklinge on February 24, 2016, 06:39:06 AM
Nr 35. Spilling paint on ones clothes, then to avoid the shoutyness from the wife, mixing paint to match the colour of what I was wearing to paint over it. Just about got away with it.
Roling on the floor laughing my arse off  lol
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: black hat miniatures on February 24, 2016, 08:55:06 AM
No. 36

Just last night:

Removing the plastic shaft of a 54mm lance and replacing it with a foundry steel spear. Pressing the pennant down onto the spear push too hard and have the spear go straight into my finger - blood everywhere...
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: jp1885 on February 24, 2016, 09:03:43 AM
No. 37

Your Greenstuff and/or Milliput sticking to EVERYTHING (fingers, tools, workbench etc.) other than the model you want it to stick to.
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Remgain on February 24, 2016, 11:05:50 AM
Squeezing that Vallejo paint bottle to deposit a small bead of paint on the palette, only to find it is blocked, so squeezing a little bit more forcefully, only to find a tiny little bit seeps out - but aha! It must be coming, so give that bottle just one more good sharp squeeze - and watch as the completely congested stopper flies out, followed by the entire contents of the bottle, spraying paint over everything, including one's self, and all the half finished and nearly finished models in the vicinity...
Not saying i'm unbelievably dumb sometimes, but I must have done that at least half a dozen  times... I'm always so sure it's just about to produce the paint I need, then BANG! Disaster...  ::) lol

Two times.

The first was a nice red. believe it or not, it hit the door more than 4 meters away.
Easily cleaned.

The second time, few weeks ago, was a dark earth pot, and it splashed all over the walls that were freshly painted few WEEKS before!
I had to run frantically to the cellar, retrieve the wall paint, run back at home, stir the paint, repaint the "camoed" surfaces, put away the wall paint, and say "Ciao darling, how are you?" while the door opens, in few minutes. :o
I think I lost some years of life...  o_o

Marco
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: carlos13th on February 24, 2016, 11:16:18 AM
38 using the dipping method and finding that your hands, the table, the brush and everything else you touch is sticky for the next few hours.
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: OSHIROmodels on February 24, 2016, 11:54:11 AM
No 39. Remembering not to use large tubs of paint

Sandtex masonry paint to be precise. Was painting a castle wall straight from a 7.5ltr tub of the stuff whilst it was on the edge of the table. Needless to say I knocked it off and spent over six hours scrubbing, scraping and mopping the carpet  ::)

I am glad to say that my hard work paid off and you couldn't tell afterwards.

Also needless to say, I decant everything into smaller receptacles now  :-I

cheers

James
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Vermis on February 24, 2016, 12:11:12 PM
Squeezing that Vallejo paint bottle to deposit a small bead of paint on the palette, only to find it is blocked, so squeezing a little bit more forcefully, only to find a tiny little bit seeps out - but aha! It must be coming, so give that bottle just one more good sharp squeeze - and watch as the completely congested stopper flies out, followed by the entire contents of the bottle, spraying paint over everything, including one's self, and all the half finished and nearly finished models in the vicinity...

I still find spots of cork brown in odd corners of the room.

Nr 34: assembling a multi part figure, being too impatient to pin it, glueing an arm or something to it and holding it in position for five minutes and then walk off to get a cup of coffee, only to see on your return that the arm has now slowly sunk into the wrong position and the glue has now firmly dried completely....

Irritating. Somehow it happens whether you use superglue on metal or poly cement on plastic.

No. 37

Your Greenstuff and/or Milliput sticking to EVERYTHING (fingers, tools, workbench etc.) other than the model you want it to stick to.

Every.

Time.

I usually put grooves or scratches into the surface of hardened putty, to give fresh stuff something to grip to. But when I'm trying to stick on a tiny bit of putty it's still not enough. It's gotten so I gap-fill the groove, rivet hole etc. first (cram it in there with less concern about being delicate) so the putty for the actual rivet or whatever has something that'll stick to it.
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: comet5 on February 24, 2016, 12:36:50 PM
r 35. Spilling paint on ones clothes, then to avoid the shoutyness from the wife, mixing paint to match the colour of what I was wearing to paint over it. 

I wish I'd thought of that. 
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Captain Blood on February 24, 2016, 01:06:54 PM
Two times.

The first was a nice red. believe it or not, it hit the door more than 4 meters away.
Easily cleaned.

The second time, few weeks ago, was a dark earth pot, and it splashed all over the walls that were freshly painted few WEEKS before!
I had to run frantically to the cellar, retrieve the wall paint, run back at home, stir the paint, repaint the "camoed" surfaces, put away the wall paint, and say "Ciao darling, how are you?" while the door opens, in few minutes. :o
I think I lost some years of life...  o_o

Marco

 lol
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: SBRPearce on February 24, 2016, 01:54:28 PM
40. Inadvertently painting the family pet.

The overly-curious tortoise-shell cat who nosed into freshly-painted camo vehicles usually got away unnoticed (you discovered dried paint in her fur while petting her later) but the enthusiastic white dog who knocked my palette off the table and onto his back was all too obvious. Add to the fact that he streaked away into the house, trailing bright colors like racing stripes behind him.

He bumped into the walls and the door-jamb (depositing paint on each) and was about to roll on the carpet like a mad-thing when I caught him.

I once lost the pilot out of a 1:144 aircraft cockpit - discovered it glued to the cat's back that evening. She's attacked the freshly-assembled plane and the little man fell out onto her. Had to cut it out with nail-scissors. :?
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Thunderchicken on February 24, 2016, 03:23:30 PM
41. Setting fire to your hair.

Using the gas hob to solder parts of an M113 together. Bending down too close to the flame and setting fire to your fringe.

No harm done, but it was interesting to watch the cooked hair floating towards the ceiling.



Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Vanvlak on February 24, 2016, 03:30:52 PM
 lol lol lol
I think we should have a LAF blooper tape of all these incidents  :D
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Pijlie on February 24, 2016, 04:47:45 PM
42.
Painting my new table top green on the ground in my garden on a sunny day. My dog watching me from the back doorway. When my neighbor came in through the porch opposite from the door, my dog sprinted from the door to greet him, crossing the newly wet painted surface, getting scared by my curses, sprinting back in to the house to hide from my wrath, leaving green paw prints everywhere....
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: FramFramson on February 24, 2016, 06:36:46 PM
No. 37

Your Greenstuff and/or Milliput sticking to EVERYTHING (fingers, tools, workbench etc.) other than the model you want it to stick to.

Oh seriously. Fuck this shit forever.
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: FramFramson on February 24, 2016, 06:37:33 PM
43. Trimming a bit of flash or a mold line from your plastic figure or model... oh wait that wasn't flash.

Dammit!
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: krieghund on February 24, 2016, 06:51:10 PM
44. Spending weeks building and painting a ruined chapel

Only to drop it on the patio while taking it to the shed to be sealed.
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Drachenklinge on February 24, 2016, 07:13:57 PM
actually there are quite some highlights around here. We definitly need a vote.  lol

And ... imagine that ... a guy, his flat and his pet ... to whom all that above happen to that single person. Will he survive?  ;D
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: harleyface on February 24, 2016, 08:01:42 PM
45. Really well shaking a citadel colour that is Not propperly closed.....
GREAT fun o_o
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Park on February 24, 2016, 08:15:46 PM
46.  Not realising the garage door had blown shut and so was no longer quite so well ventilated. 100 minis later and i'm trying to cough up a lung. Oh and wearing a nice foundation that matched the minis
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Andym on February 24, 2016, 08:17:30 PM
Please, please, please don't stop this club after a hundred entries! It's one of my favourite threads on here at the moment! lol
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Eric the Shed on February 24, 2016, 08:54:43 PM
47. Not realising that excessive use of superglue (whilst building a spaceship) can cause an asthma attack...enough said
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: von Lucky on February 24, 2016, 08:58:28 PM
You use superglue?

...

Can we make this thread a sticky in workbench? lol
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Za Zjurman on February 24, 2016, 09:04:16 PM
Nr 48. Buying agitator balls for the dripper bottles. They were supposed to be stainless steel... They were not and I ended up with 40+ pots of paint with rusting bits of metal in them  >:(
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: cgh on February 24, 2016, 09:09:58 PM
#49:  Leaving your beautifully painted but as yet unvarnished models on the table while you wash your hands to hear a "clunk" and turn to see your cat swatting them to the floor.

I love my dog.
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: armchairgeneral on February 24, 2016, 09:39:08 PM
Nr 35. Spilling paint on ones clothes, then to avoid the shoutyness from the wife, mixing paint to match the colour of what I was wearing to paint over it. Just about got away with it.

Roling on the floor laughing my arse off  lol

The pressure was on. If my cunning plan had failed (after the shriekage had subsided) I would been made to wear an apron  :(
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Za Zjurman on February 24, 2016, 09:51:52 PM
 lol lol lol lol
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: pbjunky1 on February 24, 2016, 10:21:46 PM
I'm really enjoying this thread and have a new 'incident type' to add to the list of calamities.

Number 50
I had blocked in the main colours of 6 x 28mm minis and wanted them to dry quickly so I could ink them (patience isn't a virtue I tend to deploy when it comes to the hobby).
So cunningly I put them in front of a fan heater - not really close but too close as it turned out, on returning to them from painting the next 6  it had been  powerful enough to melt/ warp most of the plastic bases. Fortunately the minis themselves were metal so didn't warp however plenty of the  freshly applied paint chipped/flaked off as I prized them off the now Quatermass looking bases.

If you think thats bad a mate of mine did a similar thing drying his Chaos Defiler- and that is plastic! Needless to say it ended up not looking like the GW advertised model.

Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Elk101 on February 24, 2016, 10:59:01 PM
No. 51 Drying freshly painted figures outside, not realising that the wind, despite helping to dry the figures was also quite content to reform the recently mown grass clippings into a sort of oversized ghillie suit on the still wet figures, which would have been fine if they weren't gladiators.
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Ragnar on February 25, 2016, 01:36:10 AM
Not mine fortunately, but a mate.

No. 52  Painting a platoon of 1/72 plastic US that needed to be used that weekend and putting them in the oven only to discover, a while later than you had forgotten them and they had melted.
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Predatorpt on February 25, 2016, 03:26:33 AM
No.53 - A slip of a scalpel while cutting some figures from a sprue ended in a deep cut in my left ring finger. Since it wouldn't stop bleeding even when compressed and I was ruining the miniatures and the table with all the blood, I decided to superglue the wound. I had the superglue right there and I had seem the movie "Dog Soldiers" a short time ago (they use superglue on a stomach wound) so I did it.

Ended up with a big scar; no sensation on the tip of the finger and a warning from my medic saying that I should have gone to the hospital to get that stitched right away. My brother says that I should have shouted "Blood For the Blood God" while bleeding into the miniatures and call it a highlight!
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Drachenklinge on February 25, 2016, 05:48:21 AM
I like to emphasize the following:
"... since it wouldn't stop bleeding and I was ruining the miniature ..."
First thought to the minis, now that's the spirit.  lol

Guys, love it.  :D
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Vanvlak on February 25, 2016, 05:55:55 AM
Please, please, please don't stop this club after a hundred entries! It's one of my favourite threads on here at the moment! lol
As long as we keep doing daft things, no risk of that happening I guess... :D
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Hammers on February 25, 2016, 06:39:18 AM
lol Yes we are

No. 19: tipping my dirty glass of water to clean my brush over.
Over the minis. Over the keyboard. Down behind the desk. Behind the book shelf. I had no idea how much water a glass can hold until this happened. Twice.

[Yorkshire dialect] Luxury! In my day we thought were*lucky* when we spilt a cup of steaming hot tea over our freshly painted miniatures. How about...
No 20: tipping a jar of liquid cement over your painted polystyrene miniatures
[/Yorkshire dialect]
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: OSHIROmodels on February 25, 2016, 07:13:56 AM
No 54. The leg snap.

I think we've all done this to some extent when making something... Sat at my desk a few years ago I dropped my scalpel and instantly snapped my legs together to catch it; an action performed a thousand times before to catch any falling debris from the table. Brain didn't register it was a scalpel the legs were trying to catch until it was already embedded in my thigh. Fortunately it was a Xacto style knife and only went in so far, if it were a brass handled one I imagine a trip to A+E would have been necessary  ::)

cheers

James
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Vanvlak on February 25, 2016, 08:23:33 AM
I honestly can't choose which of the last batch to quote!  lol lol lol
No. 55 The Short Stirling's first flight

Long time ago, when I was a kid, I was given the lovely old Airfix 1/72 Short Stirling kit, which I diligently assembled. It took pride of place in my room, on top of a not-too-high wardrobe, safe from being accidentally dragged over the side, but still in view. One summer the formica top parted company from the wardrobe, the glue having given up its contest with Maltese summer temperatures, and the Stirling took off for its first - and last - flight....
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Vanvlak on February 25, 2016, 08:26:20 AM
No 56 The Churchill crunch
Another old one - I'd assembled a Churchill tank kit, with all those little bogies holding the tracks. At some point I glued something to the main hull, held the model tightly to apply a rubber band to hold the bit while the glue cured. The Churchill disintegrated, sending bogies flying all over the place.

No 56b - The axle bender
Not quite the same, or as spectacular, as the Churchill crunch, happened a number of times when fitting a too tight track to the delicate idlers (it's always the idlers for some reason), resulting in the idler flying off or - much worse - the axle holding it snapping.
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Rich H on February 25, 2016, 09:02:44 AM
56 - I wish I'd thought of that earlier...

Finish scratch building a model (Steam lorry in this case) then thinking - I was going to put that driver in there... and some interior details. 
Then having to build and assemble the bits 'ship-in -a-bottle' style through the available gap.

Then about a week later building another steam lorry and doing EXACTLY THE SAME THING.

57 - Hidden details

I built a very nice gun for my railgun - the breech opens and the recoil mech slides.  Loads of details on the breech and so on.
Then building the gun shield and finding it hides all the detail completely! 
I know it's there... mumble mumble.

58 - Stuck on you

Casing some little resin bits, I've got loads of tiny moulds I use for wheels and so on.  They only take a few grams of resin so I tend to pour them when I get 5 mins.  In my PJs  and dressing gown one morning I managed to drag both cuffs across a freshly poured mould full.  The resin only takes about 10 mins to dry but it does get warm.  Then sat down to surf the internet...  wrists are a bit warm...  and now partially glued to the laptop... no harm done but the cuffs are a bit crusty still. It's resin honest!
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: comet5 on February 25, 2016, 10:01:18 AM
59.  Resting needle nosed pliers on my thigh in between uses, forgetting they were there when I stood up to go to the loo.  Neatly impaled the top of my foot, luckily not too deep for an A&E visit.
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Cait Sidhe on February 25, 2016, 12:03:44 PM
60. Refusing to accept a slightly gloss finish...

Finished two minis and varnished them gloss followed by matt as usual. It was a new bottle of matt and seemed to dry with a slight gloss finish so I added another coat and it was still a bit shiny. Then I read advice that the Vallejo matt should be thoroughly shaken so I went ahead and gave a real good shake and added a 4th varnish coat. It ended up waaaaaay worse, super glossy... Then I noticed I put the gloss and matt varnish bottles next to each other and they look the same.  >:(

Well added a 5th and final coat and well they're matt now if not super smooth looking...  ::)
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: jthomlin on February 25, 2016, 12:29:14 PM
61. That doh! moment.

Having that 'odd' feeling when assembling a model but ignoring it, until the realisation comes that yes you aren't doing it right, exactly 1 millisecond after the glue cures ...  >:(

62. Cheap bottles.

Reaching down into the paint drawer of your lovely $500 Auto tool cabinet, you pull out a 200ml bottle of varnish by the cap and begin to shake ... bottle breaks off at the neck and proceeds seemingly in slow motion spewing sticky liquid over and into other half open drawers before finally landing and disgorging the rest of its contents in the drawer from whence it came. An hour later and I'm still cleaning sticky crap off with isopropyl alcohol.  :'(

Cheers!
Joe Thomlinson
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Keith on February 25, 2016, 02:42:27 PM
Number 63 - Cocking a leg!

Double-triple checking that a vehicles four wheels all touch the ground evenly throughout construction. So why does one of the wheels sit noticeable higher than he rest now and not touch the ground at all? Looks like the thing is trying to pee against a tree!

For the gold medal, slowly apply measured pressure to the whole model, slowly bending axles and all sorts to get all four wheels to sit correctly. Almost there until one or more snap off :-)
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: baldlea on February 25, 2016, 02:52:33 PM
Number 64 - Spraying too close to the edge of the board

When spraying figures laying on a board in the garden, avoid getting the spray too close to the edge. The missus hates the colourful rectangle outlines covering part of the lawn.
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: jon_1066 on February 25, 2016, 03:13:37 PM
Number 65.  Using up the last dregs in the can. 

The final dregs of black undercoat came splooting out in little drops meaning instead of a nice even coat the figures developed a slight fuzz.
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: throwsFireball on February 25, 2016, 03:15:49 PM
Number 64 - Spraying too close to the edge of the board

When spraying figures laying on a board in the garden, avoid getting the spray too close to the edge. The missus hates the colourful rectangle outlines covering part of the lawn.

Tell her it's postmodern grass art.
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Jevenkah on February 25, 2016, 03:47:54 PM
As both modeller and wife, I have thoroughly enjoyed this thread! Between the "Yep, I've done that" and the "Yep, I've cleaned that or found evidence of it weeks later" I'm crying I'm laughing so hard over here.

My first was not physically painful but...

Number 66- Using one's mouth to hold one's brush "just for a second"
 
I was using a large brush with the pigments from the model railroad company (woodland scenics maybe?) in our crafting cage in the basement of our first apartment. My chair was next to the shelving unit where the boombox was. Tape ended and the call went out for more tunes. Put brush in mouth to free up the clean hand to switch tapes, turned my head toward my outstretched arm, and painted a brilliant splotch of rain grey on my brand-new Bruce Springsteen concert t-shirt. (That I was wearing to paint in why?)


In the same basement cage...
Number 67- Asking the pizza delivery kid to come down through the garage into the basement where one is using large quantities of green clump foliage

This fortunately did not result in a visit by our local police, but the restaurant asked us to meet the delivery guy in the driveway after that...

Jevenkah
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: The Mystic Spiral on February 25, 2016, 04:02:53 PM
Number 68? Getting a mouthful of sand whilst basing.

Did it yesterday and still don't know why or how.

J
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: harleyface on February 25, 2016, 04:18:45 PM
69 breathing in the Box with static grass...
Looks somehow beautiful when the green clouds slowly fly to the ground...
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Elk101 on February 25, 2016, 05:18:37 PM
Number 64 - Spraying too close to the edge of the board

When spraying figures laying on a board in the garden, avoid getting the spray too close to the edge. The missus hates the colourful rectangle outlines covering part of the lawn.

I had to quickly mow the lawn to hide the black outlines that appeared after doing this. I did think about just filling the whole thing in in black and pretending it was a hole.
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: westwaller on February 25, 2016, 06:01:30 PM
no 70a Enthusiastic painting...

As a young teenager I painted so much white gloss paint on the wings of a model Concorde I had built, it didn't dry for about six weeks... My brother in law who was a painter and decorator at the time, helped me sand it down, so it could be recoated

no 70b Experimental painting...

Building an Apache Helicopter, deciding to tint the canopy with thinned green humbrol acrylic, then deciding against it and washing it off by leaving it in white spirit... Canopy now had green 'frosted' look... Apache kit never finished due to ruined canopy....
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: westwaller on February 25, 2016, 06:03:10 PM
Oops bolded the whole post...
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: jp1885 on February 25, 2016, 07:56:38 PM
No. 71 - Rolling your painbrush on your tongue in order to get a nice point, only to realise you hadn't properly washed the last lot of paint off.
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: FramFramson on February 25, 2016, 09:01:05 PM
Oops bolded the whole post...
Would that be #72 then?
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: von Lucky on February 25, 2016, 09:10:22 PM
In the same basement cage...
Number 67- Asking the pizza delivery kid to come down through the garage into the basement where one is using large quantities of green clump foliage

This fortunately did not result in a visit by our local police, but the restaurant asked us to meet the delivery guy in the driveway after that...

Jevenkah

lol First time I've laughed out loud in this thread; my wife wanted to know what was so funny. Unsurprisingly she didn't get it.

No. 72: Seeing your miniatures fly off the 16th floor balcony
Spray undercoating 15mm miniatures on a tray on a high rise balcony and had them tumble to the ground as I forgot to Blu-tac them properly into place.
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Predatorpt on February 25, 2016, 09:46:42 PM
No. 71 - Rolling your painbrush on your tongue in order to get a nice point, only to realise you hadn't properly washed the last lot of paint off.

I do this a lot of times and the worse part about that, is that I can recognize the brand of paint according to its taste...
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: throwsFireball on February 25, 2016, 09:52:09 PM
lol First time I've laughed out loud in this thread; my wife wanted to know what was so funny. Unsurprisingly she didn't get it.

No. 72: Seeing your miniatures fly off the 16th floor balcony
Spray undercoating 15mm miniatures on a tray on a high rise balcony and had them tumble to the ground as I forgot to Blu-tac them properly into place.

No. 72-1: Breaking your miniatures by priming
A subset of number 72, priming your miniatures and having them come off the sprue and tumble gracefully to the floor where that carefully pinned and glued arm comes flying off. Not only do you have to deal with paint on the carpet but you have to repin and probably respray.
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Mason on February 25, 2016, 10:36:19 PM
No. 71 - Rolling your painbrush on your tongue in order to get a nice point, only to realise you hadn't properly washed the last lot of paint off.

I do this a lot of times and the worse part about that, is that I can recognize the brand of paint according to its taste...

It is not just that part, mate, but answering the knock at the door and wondering just why you are getting such odd looks....until you see the mirror later.
 ;)



Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Marine0846 on February 26, 2016, 02:58:39 AM
NUMBER 72 My cat's litter box.

Last year I was flocking some figures.
I had a plastic box that was about 10 x 10 inches.
This flock was a great blend that I had been working to get just right.
After flocking some bases I put the box on the floor by my foot.
(Did not have enough room on the table.)
I kind of forgot about it.
But not the cat.
He decided that it would be a great place to pee.
He did the deed before I could chase him out.
I ended up throwing all it all out. :(

Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: warlord frod on February 26, 2016, 05:04:51 AM
73 - putting the varnish coat on and then finding a spot that still needed paint Nothing is more irritating then looking the paint work over and over, deciding its done and going ahead with the gloss coat. Then picking up the dry fig and seeing a glaring ommission or worse yet showing it off to a gaming buddy and having them say "did you mean not to paint this belt?"  >:(
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Stu on February 26, 2016, 05:08:36 AM
Number 63 - Cocking a leg!

Double-triple checking that a vehicles four wheels all touch the ground evenly throughout construction. So why does one of the wheels sit noticeable higher than he rest now and not touch the ground at all? Looks like the thing is trying to pee against a tree!

For the gold medal, slowly apply measured pressure to the whole model, slowly bending axles and all sorts to get all four wheels to sit correctly. Almost there until one or more snap off :-)
Not forgetting random bits breaking off in storage.
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Mr Tough Guy on February 26, 2016, 10:50:49 AM
74. Accidentily Tattooing yourself

So I was cleaning out one of those old GW flip top bottle tops, as they tend to gather dried paint making them hard to close. using a toothpick I applied a bit too much pressure piercing the soft plastic bottletop through a bit of Snotgreen paint into my finger, leaving a tiny spot of Snotgreen paint beneath the skin. the wound healed quickly but years later there's still a spot of Snotgreen on one of my fingers.

Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: dijit on February 26, 2016, 10:55:06 AM
This whole thread is really quite a LAF!

No. 72-1: Breaking your miniatures by priming
A subset of number 72, priming your miniatures and having them come off the sprue and tumble gracefully to the floor where that carefully pinned and glued arm comes flying off. Not only do you have to deal with paint on the carpet but you have to repin and probably respray.

No.72-2: Miniatures after priming fall off the tray on to the rather dusty and sandy loft floor. My nice new Perry desert rats platoon ended looking like they'd all had a severe case of smallpox.  :-[ Which is why I've never dared photographing them and showing them off here on LAF.
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Constable Bertrand on February 26, 2016, 11:50:47 AM
#75 Super Glue mishaps

I was carefully using superglue straight from the little squeezy tubes, a pack of 6 from the dollar store for $2! Cheap and cheerful friends. Anyway, Carefully squeezing the glue onto glossy cardboard and styrene, holding it together with my fingers. Ensuring the finger rubbing technique whenever they started to stick to anything.

Lifting a corner of the build, I squirted a healthy dose between the layers and quickly lowered the top to get a good fix, SMACK, the materials came together that quick that little bits of superglue went showering everywhere, including my eye!!!

Excessive water, blinking and prayer later, I could still see. Isn't the human eye a marvel that tears can pretty much flush out any foreign body ;)
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: SBRPearce on February 26, 2016, 01:24:01 PM
76: A dull knife, used incorrectly

Repeat the saving mantra: "Change Exacto blades often." Repeat the saving mantra: "Seek the right tool for the job."

The ill-used and aged blade in my craft-knife was not making it through the sprue on the plastic building I was trying to construct. Instead of getting clippers, or a saw, or changing blades like I should have, I got a better grip on the sprue and really leaned into the cut...

And of course the blade slipped and took off the end of my thumb. (Only a slice 6mm wide and about 1,5 thick, but boy, howdy it bled like the bajeezus...)

When I got back to the workbench days later, the little plastic building looked like the site of a massacre. My brother said I should leave the dried blood all over it - it looked better than any paint job I might accomplish...
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: throwsFireball on February 27, 2016, 09:59:56 AM
77: Boot the Bitz Box

Kicking your carefully arranged bitz box by accident and watching as all your bitz fly across the floor in a jumbled mess. Then having to pick up those hundreds of plastic limbs one by one.

Today was a bad day.
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Vagabond on February 27, 2016, 10:08:34 AM
76a A Sharpe Knife, used incorrectly

When younger I was carving a boat from a solid piece of wood, using the knife as you would by slicing the wood, cutting towards your thumb. Of course I took a slice of of my thumb.
The following day I could not carve in the same manner because of the big plaster on said thumb so carved away from me and took a slice out of my left hand that required stitches.
I still have both scars 50 years later to remind me to be more careful.

 The worst part is that the boat was confiscated by my father as he was worried what I might cut off next  lol lol lol

When even younger I remember being told "be careful with that knife it is sharp, didn't believe it, it looked blunt. How do you test if a knife is sharp - run your finger along it off course. It was sharp and there was a lot of blood. :'(
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: PortCharmers on February 27, 2016, 11:05:11 AM
“I don’t make every mistake twice, I make it five, six times, just to be sure” (I’m much better at remembering quotes that at remembering who said them). Here are some of my more glorious cock-ups:

#77:
Painted a Heinkel 111 in dark green, masked the splinter camouflage, sprayed the even darker green, took off the masking, realized that the two tones of green are almost exactly the same, once dried. You can still see the difference if you look very closely when the lighting is really good.

#78:
Dropped a part, spent looking for it for ages, eventually gave up, found it later in my rolled-up trouser-leg (back in the day when my mom bought my clothes a bit bigger so I could grow into them).

#79:
Freaked everyone out when a paint can popped open in my hand and Revell 31 Fire-Engine-Red flowed down my wrist.

But sometimes something good comes out of the disaster:

Spilled some wood dye over the planked and stained deck of a (wooden) ship model, exchanged the affected planks, which don’t match the colour of the rest of the deck now. Looks way better, it’s a workhorse, not some fancy yacht.

Crushed the undercarriage of a Mitsubishi bomber while hunting down a mosquito (a culex, not a DeHavilland). She looks very dynamic suspended under the ceiling with the wheels UP.

And by the way, the tricolore on my Junkers Ju52 is upside down.

As Confucius says: Shit happens!

Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Harry on February 27, 2016, 01:02:50 PM
Number 80
I tipped a bottle of poly cement on the desk .... not only did it melt the dungeon tiles I was working on but it melted all the lines of my cutting mat. :-[
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Constable Bertrand on February 27, 2016, 08:21:16 PM
#81 Paint Splatters

Was having a lovely chat with the missus, she was finishing up painting art. She was using house paint out of little film cannisters.
She starts closing the paint pots rather forcefully.
"I wouldn't do that" I think
Her fist comes down on the little lid containing a light grey...
SPLAT
A spray of light grey hits my slippers (its still there), runs up my best trousers, and finishes on my new T-shirt.
Thankfully I protected the floor and rest of the room from getting any paint.
 >:(
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: von Lucky on February 27, 2016, 08:34:37 PM
You're a good man.
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Constable Bertrand on February 28, 2016, 12:10:24 AM
You're a good man.

I've clearly forgiven her too hahahahahahahahhaha
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Sinewgrab on February 28, 2016, 07:31:26 AM
I am dying here.  If I responded with all of the ones I have done either the same or so similar as to not matter, I would have quoted 2/3rds of this thread.

#82 Drunken mercs

During a group painting 'Cram' session before a tournament, the ogre player spills his bourbon on the just-finished Dogs of War unit, that belonged to the only sober one at the table. We insisted he not wash them, but let the mercs drink it up!

And it really did make sense at the time to the three of us.  2 weeks later, the unit still smelled vaguely of bourbon.

and #83 - No more drunken Chaos Wars

We had just finished painting our Ral Partha Chaos Wars armies, and had to play on the floor.  We started taking shots for each unit that broke, and after the game, no-one wanted to pick up. From the couch to the bathroom went directly across the battlefield.  Anyone else remember those Sea Elf pikes - that we used to make brass rod spears for with the pound-it-flat-and-clip-it-to-a-point method?  23 of them dead center in my foot - took 20 minutes with a pliers to get them all out.
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: jthomlin on February 28, 2016, 11:23:46 AM
and #83 - No more drunken Chaos Wars

We had just finished painting our Ral Partha Chaos Wars armies, and had to play on the floor.  We started taking shots for each unit that broke, and after the game, no-one wanted to pick up. From the couch to the bathroom went directly across the battlefield.  Anyone else remember those Sea Elf pikes - that we used to make brass rod spears for with the pound-it-flat-and-clip-it-to-a-point method?  23 of them dead center in my foot - took 20 minutes with a pliers to get them all out.

I feel your pain. Way back in the day when I was into 15mm Ancients, a mate had a pike phalanx modelled and painted by his brother who had replaced the cast pikes with piano wire ones that had the hammered ends honed to razor sharpness on a whetstone. The standard deployment method from their deep sided carry box was:


I also have some 15mm crusader spearmen done by the same sadist, which while only armed with short spears made from florist wire, they are cunningly placed to point in all directions and never fail to 'wound'.

Cheers!
Joe Thomlinson

Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: DELTADOG on February 28, 2016, 12:59:36 PM
#84: The Art of Pain or the constantly seeking of the most effective way to kill yourself with a Dremel / Proxxon machine!

Knifecuts are Old School, take an electrical driven cutting machine makes it soooo much more effective.

First time: Tried to seperate a large, just finish sculpted Model which contained 1.5mm Iron Wire with my Dremel and a metal cutting disc tool. Slipped off and hit my fingertip from above. Cutted 1cm deep in my finger and cleaved my Fingernail. The Disctool made the wound really ugly and it took month to heal!

Second time: Tried to drill a hole in a seperated shoulder of a sculpt to maintain the junctions for casting. The shoulderarea broke off and the milling cutter tip made a joyride from my thumb down to my middle hand. It took a Hand towel to hold the bleeding till I arrived the hospital.....

Third time: Iron brush rotating Tool. Tried to rough up the surface of a Metalcast Miniature to have a proper surface for a modding sculpt. Can`t say what happend exactly, was way to fast for my snaily brain, but in fact at the position where the modell should had been was my poor thumb getted shreddered by the high speed iron Brush. Found the Miniature later after the visit at the Doc. It layed 3m away from the place of the accident. outchn......

#85: Catzilla
NEVER EVER allow your pet to lay around your working table. My cat loved to lay on my feet while I was sculpting. My selfmade very important und over all beloved Needletool was rolling from the table......
Well what should I say, the cat never layed beneath the table again. The most tricky part was to chase the cat before it reached the Catdoor to claim my Needletool out of his arse before it would be lost in the garden for ever...
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Braxandur on February 28, 2016, 07:54:14 PM
No. 72: Seeing your miniatures fly off the 16th floor balcony[/b]
Spray undercoating 15mm miniatures on a tray on a high rise balcony and had them tumble to the ground as I forgot to Blu-tac them properly into place.

#72-3
Performing this feat on the 3rd floor with some nicely finished post apocalyptic biker only to see the tumbling into a lawn where they managed to find a hiding spot so good that I never managed to find them.

#85 Drunken painting session
The evening before a tournament we first went out for a few pints and when returning hours later and quite intoxicated decided that it was a good idea to highlite the GW furies with a big brush , abysmal light and an additional beer. Next day it became clear that those conditions were not optimal... Though in the middle of the night I was pretty sure I had done a stellar job.

#86 Opposing forces
Having finished a sci-fi rugby team, I went really for a finishing touch and put rare earth magnets under the bases, checked the polarity of the magnets and managed to still glue them the wrong way round. Sufficient to say that the players were not so good in holding onto the ball until I had fixed the ball
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Modhail on March 01, 2016, 07:37:01 AM
Such a feast of recognition!  ;D A majority, of these I've either done myself or have witnessed happening at the club... The two below are all mine, though.

#87 Accidental precision dremelling
I was using a Dremel with a saw wheel (note: not a grinding wheel, an actual miniature circular sawblade) to cut off a significant portion of a (metal) miniature. Apparently there was some impurity in the metal the saw caught on as it suddenly yanked itself away from the miniature. Right across the back of my finger! I had cut diagonally across my fingernail. Immediately shut off the Dremel and looked at the neat little saw cut, waiting for the pain and gushing of blood to start, the other hand scrabbling for a towel to catch the inevitable red stuff. Found the towel after a few seconds, but no pain or blood, yet. Must be adrenaline-induced time dilation, I thought. So I waited a bit longer...still nothing. That's odd, I thought, and inspected the wound more closely. Apparently I'd managed to cut precisely through the nail itself, without actually damaging the (blood and nerve rich) nailbed beneath!
Typing this, I still get sweaty hands thinking back...

#88 Secondhand Dremel burns
You know how metal gets hot as you grind it? I had never noticed it before, as the old pewter models cut quite rapidly and I was new to the art of the Dremel. Then came along my first "white metal" figure. Held it firmly in my hand (clamps would damage the details, you know?) and started grinding. Gee, this took a while, that white metal is tough. And my fingers are starting to sting from the vibration. Huh, that feels odd? Ow, hot, hot, hot! And I reflexively let go. That's how I ended up with tiny little burns on my fingers and my right foot...

After the above two incidents, I became religious about wearing protective gloves around my Dremel... And shoes.

Oh, and 76b: After removing said slice (in my case, from the tip of my right middle finger), looking for the cut-off part of the miniature before looking for the cut-off part of self... Both with the intent of re-attachment.
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: throwsFireball on March 01, 2016, 08:22:34 AM
#85 Drunken painting session
The evening before a tournament we first went out for a few pints and when returning hours later and quite intoxicated decided that it was a good idea to highlite the GW furies with a big brush , abysmal light and an additional beer. Next day it became clear that those conditions were not optimal... Though in the middle of the night I was pretty sure I had done a stellar job.

I'm definitely a better painter after one or two drinks. My hands are steadier. lol
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Jevenkah on March 01, 2016, 04:53:24 PM
#76 c Dad's knife, used incorrectly

(http://swordandsorceryrpg.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/ModelKids_008.jpg)

"Mom said don't carve like that."

http://swordandsorceryrpg.com/modelers-in-the-making/
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Billchuck on March 01, 2016, 05:49:59 PM
#76d, thinking a. I too slow.  I was working on a scratch built model and realized I needed to cut out and replace a panel. As I was cutting toward my hand I thought "if I keep dong this the knife will slip and cut me". At that point, the knife slipped and cut into the top of my thumb just behind the nail. That nail now has a permanent wave in it.
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Billchuck on March 19, 2016, 08:10:43 PM
#89, Resurfacing the table.

I used to have a nice task table for my workbench that I bought from an office supply store. It had a plastic coating on it that was stain proof and easy to clean up messes. Occasionally I would cut things directly on the surface instead of using a cutting mat. This habit came back to haunt me when I knocked over a jar of plastic cement. The plastic coating ignored the cement like everything else, until the spill spread to one of the nicks I had left in it. Capillary action instantly sucked some cement through the nick and it dissolved the glue holding the plastic in place, causing it to lift in huge bubbles. I cut the bubbles away, smoothed their edges as much as possible, and was much more careful with the plastic cement afterward.
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: 6mmfan on March 21, 2016, 07:50:36 AM
Knocked over a bottle of Superglue onto the carpet which had some sort of reaction with the carpet. There was a bubbling and sizzling following by a "poof" sound and small mushroom cloud of vapour.
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: von Lucky on March 21, 2016, 08:14:54 AM
lol
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Overlord on March 21, 2016, 03:33:26 PM
#90: Using a small amount of PVA...

For applying sand etc to a miniatures base I normally squirt out a small amount of glue onto a piece of plastic to then apply to the figure base with a paintbrush.  Only a small amount of glue around, thereby avoiding accidents....

Late last night:
Twist open top of half litre PVA bottle, squirt out small amount and..... deposit around 1/3 of the bottle onto my workbench, having somehow undone the entire top rather than the small nozzle top.  Swear and save miniatures, as the growing PVA pool drips off the edge of the table onto jeans (thereby saving the floor!)
Note: PVA and kitchen towel makes for a very sticky mess.  ::)

Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Captain Blood on March 21, 2016, 05:06:01 PM
 lol

Oh dear, Paul... Messy  ::)
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Elk101 on March 21, 2016, 05:45:40 PM
#90: Using a small amount of PVA...

For applying sand etc to a miniatures base I normally squirt out a small amount of glue onto a piece of plastic to then apply to the figure base with a paintbrush.  Only a small amount of glue around, thereby avoiding accidents....

Late last night:
Twist open top of half litre PVA bottle, squirt out small amount and..... deposit around 1/3 of the bottle onto my workbench, having somehow undone the entire top rather than the small nozzle top.  Swear and save miniatures, as the growing PVA pool drips off the edge of the table onto jeans (thereby saving the floor!)
Note: PVA and kitchen towel makes for a very sticky mess.  ::)



That almost sounds like a teenager explaining to his mum why his trousers are round his ankles and he has a handful of sticky tissue!
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Remgain on March 21, 2016, 06:05:24 PM
That almost sounds like a teenager explaining to his mum why his trousers are round his ankles and he has a handful of sticky tissue!

 ;) lol lol
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Overlord on March 22, 2016, 11:36:00 AM
That almost sounds like a teenager explaining to his mum why his trousers are round his ankles and he has a handful of sticky tissue!
I defer to your greater experience.  ;)
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Captain Blood on March 22, 2016, 12:27:34 PM
eeeyuw... Mental images I don't want...  lol
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Malamute on March 22, 2016, 12:32:33 PM
I defer to your greater experience.  ;)

Guilty as charged. Next he'll be telling us it was a "friend" of his. lol
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Peithetairos on March 23, 2016, 12:25:33 AM
91: Leaving Sculpy/Fimo too long in the oven until it burns:

Yes pretty stupid, but I must say that it turned out the oven had a faulty thermostat, so it actually was way hotter than 130 degree. Best part is that it also set off the fire alarm in our apartment. Catch is, if the fire alarm goes off in the building the fire engine comes together with a bill of 1500 NZ Dollar if it is not actually a fire. Gladly I found out that day, that it needs a longer period of alarm inside the apartment to set  off the building alarm. Nevertheless, my heart stopped there for a moment and I ran to the balcony with a steaming tray of blackened Fimo...my wife was NOT impressed and rightly so.
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Vanvlak on March 23, 2016, 06:13:06 AM
91: Leaving Sculpy/Fimo too long in the oven until it burns:

Yes pretty stupid, but I must say that it turned out the oven had a faulty thermostat, so it actually was way hotter than 130 degree. Best part is that it also set off the fire alarm in our apartment. Catch is, if the fire alarm goes off in the building the fire engine comes together with a bill of 1500 NZ Dollar if it is not actually a fire. Gladly I found out that day, that it needs a longer period of alarm inside the apartment to set  off the building alarm. Nevertheless, my heart stopped there for a moment and I ran to the balcony with a steaming tray of blackened Fimo...my wife was NOT impressed and rightly so.
OK, that is a really new one  lol lol
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Elk101 on March 23, 2016, 07:29:16 AM
Guilty as charged. Next he'll be telling us it was a "friend" of his. lol

Oh there's a particular bloke at work who delights in 'sharing' such stories despite no one ever asking. It can be awkward when your on the phone to someone and he's on chapter 2 of 'an evening of filth'; (person on phone suddenly asks if they just heard what they thought they heard in the background: "no, I'm sure that was 'walking into a dock' he said". "Yes, that is very dangerous".  Where is the creeped out shudder emoticon?
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Predatorpt on May 08, 2016, 02:46:10 PM
Number 80
I tipped a bottle of poly cement on the desk .... not only did it melt the dungeon tiles I was working on but it melted all the lines of my cutting mat. :-[

Couldn't resist bringing back this topic since I've just did the exact same thing. Didn't melt miniatures, just part of my cutting mat and the plastic cover that I use to protect my table.  :'(
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: zemjw on May 08, 2016, 07:21:52 PM
After my turps wash spill (few pages back) I took a tupperware container, some corrugated cardboard and made

(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-jypbUquqRJM/UtLqRj8N8MI/AAAAAAAACNQ/Z6_uP5Gvq_wdLdgJmuG9-Qc5QvpRbOfjwCCo/s800/b112_SpillPreventer1)

and with a bottle in it

(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-PIsX-Il61eA/UtLqSDiovTI/AAAAAAAACNc/mGyeEvBI-I0Z9tR4c9ivF5koXYcxBqURwCCo/s800/b112_SpillPreventer2)

It also holds bottle of glue if I'm brave/stupid enough to use the one with the brush. I find the polystyrene cement with the thin metal nozzle much easier these days, and much better at getting the glue where I want it.
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Predatorpt on May 08, 2016, 07:50:07 PM
Great idea, zemjw! I have to do something similar.
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Mr. Peabody on May 08, 2016, 07:53:33 PM
Yup. I do pretty much exactly that with my "risky liquids". But that modified storage container is superior in every respect!

Brilliant work.
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: SotF on May 09, 2016, 07:35:56 PM
92.) When setting things aside such as rattle cans, pay attention to where you're setting them...

Was priming a pile of minis and needed to switch cans since I'd used the end of one and sat the empty one on the heater...those things explode and still leave bits of paint behind even if the thing is "empty"
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: von Lucky on May 09, 2016, 09:25:36 PM
And would've made a nice loud bang. Happy to hear no injury.
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Vanvlak on May 30, 2016, 02:56:19 PM
No. 93 - the cigarette lighter

This time round I was lucky.

I'm building some Infinity terrain, mostly out of discarded parts, and one of the items I am using is an old, broken cigarette lighter I'd found in a car park.
I trimmed of the unwanted bits - no problem there. Then I drilled a hole to fit a bit of wire in it.

Of course my assumption that it was empty was incorrrect.
I drenched the work table and my hand with lighter fuel - practically gas.

Could've been worse in som many ways - my eyes were out of the line of fire; I had no naked flames around; and there were no painted model under the template of this small but lethal weapon...
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Basin is BACK on March 11, 2017, 12:09:49 PM
No. 94: don't eat at the table

The exact opposite to no. 18 (washing paint brushes in teacup), I dipped a biscuit in my brush water.
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: von Lucky on March 11, 2017, 12:54:30 PM
Did it taste special?

No. 95: Sneezing into the tub of flock.

Did this a few weeks ago. Lucky it was just easy to pick up the miniatures and vacuum the desk.
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Modhail on March 11, 2017, 01:04:41 PM
"Matt black varnish." Not saying anything more...  ;D
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Basin is BACK on March 12, 2017, 12:32:24 AM
Did it taste special?

Worryingly, no. I realised my mistake as it was colder than usual...
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Hammers on March 12, 2017, 01:23:21 AM
Such a feast of recognition!  ;D A majority, of these I've either done myself or have witnessed happening at the club... The two below are all mine, though.

#87 Accidental precision dremelling
I was using a Dremel with a saw wheel (note: not a grinding wheel, an actual miniature circular sawblade) to cut off a significant portion of a (metal) miniature. Apparently there was some impurity in the metal the saw caught on as it suddenly yanked itself away from the miniature. Right across the back of my finger! I had cut diagonally across my fingernail. Immediately shut off the Dremel and looked at the neat little saw cut, waiting for the pain and gushing of blood to start, the other hand scrabbling for a towel to catch the inevitable red stuff. Found the towel after a few seconds, but no pain or blood, yet. Must be adrenaline-induced time dilation, I thought. So I waited a bit longer...still nothing. That's odd, I thought, and inspected the wound more closely. Apparently I'd managed to cut precisely through the nail itself, without actually damaging the (blood and nerve rich) nailbed beneath!
Typing this, I still get sweaty hands thinking back...

#88 Secondhand Dremel burns
You know how metal gets hot as you grind it? I had never noticed it before, as the old pewter models cut quite rapidly and I was new to the art of the Dremel. Then came along my first "white metal" figure. Held it firmly in my hand (clamps would damage the details, you know?) and started grinding. Gee, this took a while, that white metal is tough. And my fingers are starting to sting from the vibration. Huh, that feels odd? Ow, hot, hot, hot! And I reflexively let go. That's how I ended up with tiny little burns on my fingers and my right foot...

After the above two incidents, I became religious about wearing protective gloves around my Dremel... And shoes.

Oh, and 76b: After removing said slice (in my case, from the tip of my right middle finger), looking for the cut-off part of the miniature before looking for the cut-off part of self... Both with the intent of re-attachment.

Dremels must be among the most dangerous implements to hobbyists. I am sure my eventual demise will be because of my inexpert use of the fucking thing.
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Hammers on March 12, 2017, 01:36:10 AM
I had forgotten about thus thread. So to revive one year later...

 #96 Too absentminded to clean workplace between deburring and painting figures depsite fucking years of experience

As a result you end up with miniatures, especially your sailors and tankers in black uniforms, insted look like little Liberaces.
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Dr Mathias on March 12, 2017, 02:23:20 AM
Amusing thread. Oddly enough, as I was reading this I discovered

#97 the paintbrush I just spent five minutes looking for was tucked behind my ear.
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Johnno on March 12, 2017, 03:33:25 AM
#98 Priming Reaper Bones

I didn't believe that you could paint them straight away and I used a cheap aerosol spray.
They were tacky for months.
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: nic-e on April 16, 2017, 01:43:25 AM
A new one today.

Coke on one side, super glue on the other, and keep it consistent.

Superglue as it turns out, tastes vile.
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: carlos marighela on April 16, 2017, 05:24:33 AM
I never model when coked up. Come on, modelling is definitely a  chill out, take your time kind of activity. Besides there's always the prospect I might mistakenly snort some baking powder that I using for winter scenics.

Find the right drugs to complemennt your pastimes, that's the key to success*


* that's key in a figurative sense, not a kilo btw.
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: zorg on April 16, 2017, 11:31:38 AM
#100 Not using enough hardening agent with resin

So I had constructed a pretty cool cardboard storage box, I had mixed the resin with iron powder, and then I put in much too little hardening agent. Applied the improperly mixed resin to the box. Result: the box is covered in sticky black stuff, which neither cures nor can be scraped off. Not what I was after.
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Dr Mathias on April 16, 2017, 05:37:10 PM
Ahh, resin. Just a couple days ago I got distracted by someone as I was measuring parts A and B, and only poured B into the mold. Put it in the pressure pot and then noticed the cup of Part A... pretty sure that wasn't going to cure ;)
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Reed on April 28, 2017, 09:44:04 PM
#101 Putting your last painted figure with magnetised base in a metal box that then slips from your hands

A metal box which contained several multi-part metal miniatures. Absolute carnage.
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: von Lucky on April 28, 2017, 10:03:37 PM
Ay ay ay!
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Bergil on April 28, 2017, 10:49:37 PM
#102 - Hospitalising yourself.

When cutting wire for use in sculpting, don't leave it laying around so that it punctures your arm and begins sliding through flesh and scraping against bone.
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: von Lucky on April 28, 2017, 11:06:45 PM
STOP! Morning coffee time people, morning coffee!
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Hammers on April 29, 2017, 05:33:21 AM
#102 - Hospitalising yourself.

When cutting wire for use in sculpting, don't leave it laying around so that it punctures your arm and begins sliding through flesh and scraping against bone.

Check. I recently tried to push, for pinning, a length of steel piano wire throgh a tight hole. Went right through my tumb and hit the nail. From the inside.
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Dr. Zombie on April 29, 2017, 05:47:03 AM
 :o :-X

Nooo
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Vanvlak on April 29, 2017, 05:47:11 AM
Argh - please don 't post photos of these bone and nail scraping incidents! :o
Worst I ever did modelling-wise was try (unsuccessfully) to slice of a bit of my left index finger.
For my very worst feat I'd have to post in the secondary school chemistry lab less-than-brilliant club.
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Dr. Zombie on April 29, 2017, 06:25:42 AM
I think I have done most of the stuff in this thread. I find that most af these accidents happen within seconds if you thinking "it'll be alright".

I was once cutting the head of a metal Ork. I put some muscle into it my blade slipped right into my thumb an I could feel it hit bone. It was a guillotine ish cut. There was quite a bit of blood I even managed to hit the wall and the couch. I got up quickly to go and fix the cut in the bathroom so I could clean off the rest of the blood that got spurted everywhere  (I am not even supposed to do hobby stuff in the livingroom). I got up way too quickly as I got a massive headrush and momentarily blacked out. In that moment missus Zombie walks in the door finding me groggily scrambling to my feet with blood everywhere.
To this day she tells the story as if she had walked in on a fight scene from Kill Bill
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: SotF on May 03, 2017, 08:12:52 AM
#103 Not Checking The Spray Primer Before Using It
A while ago, I'd created a nice piece with foam and melted the thing which is something I hear from a lot of people happens, but then there's the problem I had.

Ran out of my black primer and a friend was heading to the store on his way over anyway to pick up some food for our D&D game, asked him to grab a can. At a glance I could see that it was black spray primer, and used it this morning only to come back home today to notice they were still shiny...I both forgot to ask for a flat spray one and to check that it wasn't one. Now I've got a large pile of minis that aren't going to paint up as easily and it was the nigh impossible to remove spray intended for spray and paint in one coat for outdoor stuff...
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Mason on May 03, 2017, 08:21:59 AM
To this day she tells the story as if she had walked in on a fight scene from Kill Bill

 lol lol lol

And no doubt you now have to try to convince people that she tells that story to that you have a very 'dangerous' hobby.
 :D :D

Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Dr. Zombie on May 03, 2017, 09:05:29 AM
I think she tells people that story to tell people that I am an idiot.
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: SotF on May 03, 2017, 09:49:25 AM
I think she tells people that story to tell people that I am an idiot.
I know the feeling, my mother still tells the story about when I was rather small about me deciding to build a lake for the city I was building with blocks by way of dumping buckets of water...her first idea of what I was doing came from water dripping from the ceiling to the place she had her sewing stuff...
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Hammers on May 03, 2017, 10:37:43 AM
I think I have done most of the stuff in this thread. I find that most af these accidents happen within seconds if you thinking "it'll be alright".

I was once cutting the head of a metal Ork. I put some muscle into it my blade slipped right into my thumb an I could feel it hit bone. It was a guillotine ish cut. There was quite a bit of blood I even managed to hit the wall and the couch. I got up quickly to go and fix the cut in the bathroom so I could clean off the rest of the blood that got spurted everywhere  (I am not even supposed to do hobby stuff in the livingroom). I got up way too quickly as I got a massive headrush and momentarily blacked out. In that moment missus Zombie walks in the door finding me groggily scrambling to my feet with blood everywhere.
To this day she tells the story as if she had walked in on a fight scene from Kill Bill

Oh, you prize idiot, you!
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: nic-e on May 03, 2017, 04:56:20 PM
I know the feeling, my mother still tells the story about when I was rather small about me deciding to build a lake for the city I was building with blocks by way of dumping buckets of water...her first idea of what I was doing came from water dripping from the ceiling to the place she had her sewing stuff...
If we're doing stupiud stuff as children...

I apparently picked up a used syringe from the local park and put it in my pcket when i was about 4 with the intention of using it to make a model plane. Apparently even as a child i had no regard for safety when it came to scratch-building.
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Mason on May 03, 2017, 05:11:29 PM
I think she tells people that story to tell people that I am an idiot.

I was trying to soften the blow for you a little, mate.
 ;)

Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Dr Mathias on May 03, 2017, 06:00:16 PM
If we're doing stupid stuff as children...

I apparently picked up a used syringe from the local park and put it in my pcket when i was about 4 with the intention of using it to make a model plane. Apparently even as a child i had no regard for safety when it came to scratch-building.

Did the same. I guess AIDS was hitting the news waves full force about that time and my dad and his buddy were dumbfounded that I would pick up a syringe to make into something :)
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Plynkes on May 03, 2017, 06:23:33 PM
Off-topic, but speaking of syringes: We had a craze at school of sneaking syringes (sans needles) into the classroom and stealthily water-pistoling each other with them during lessons. I got a massive one for syringing pigs from my farmer grandfather, it was like a cannon compared to the puny ones my friends had.

Then one kid got caught with a bunch of them in his bag, there was a big moral panic amongst the parents and teachers that the school had a serious drug problem, and we got lots of talks and counselling about it.  lol


Those were more innocent times, we were like the kids from the Jennings or Just William books compared to schoolkids now. :)

Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Dr Mathias on May 03, 2017, 06:40:16 PM
Off-topic, but speaking of syringes: We had a craze at school of sneaking syringes (sans needles) into the classroom and stealthily water-pistoling each other with them during lessons. I got a massive one for syringing pigs from my farmer grandfather, it was like a cannon compared to the puny ones my friends had.

Then one kid got caught with a bunch of them in his bag, there was a big moral panic amongst the parents and teachers that the school had a serious drug problem, and we got lots of talks and counselling about it.  lol


Those were more innocent times, we were like the kids from the Jennings or Just William books compared to schoolkids now. :)

That's a good one :) Ah the good ole' days...

I dressed up as a terrorist one year for Halloween, realistic toy UZI, ski mask, satchel... the works. No one batted an eye, even at school. Later, I was one of the 'black trench coat' crowd in high school, and good lord, the dark depressing emo poetry I wrote in creative writing... nowadays I'd be in the counselor's office for sure.

I don't have any real modeling mishaps to speak of, other than reaching for something while my brush was in my hand and painting a miniature that wasn't the target :P


Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: DS615 on May 04, 2017, 12:37:58 PM
92.) When setting things aside such as rattle cans, pay attention to where you're setting them...

Was priming a pile of minis and needed to switch cans since I'd used the end of one and sat the empty one on the heater...those things explode and still leave bits of paint behind even if the thing is "empty"

Indeed.
It was a rare nice day, so I was priming white out on the deck.  Came in and set the can on the closet shelf.
Which, it turns out, is where my Wife kept her hair spray can.  :o
To be fair to her, it was a GW can, so looked much more festive than a regular spray can.
And to her credit, she didn't use too much!
 lol
She's the greatest, so she wasn't really mad at me.  I don't use that shelf anymore, though!
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Dr. Zombie on May 04, 2017, 01:03:13 PM
I think I would have had to flee the country if that had happened in my household.
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: jon_1066 on May 04, 2017, 02:36:06 PM
Indeed.
It was a rare nice day, so I was priming white out on the deck.  Came in and set the can on the closet shelf.
Which, it turns out, is where my Wife kept her hair spray can.  :o
To be fair to her, it was a GW can, so looked much more festive than a regular spray can.
And to her credit, she didn't use too much!
 lol
She's the greatest, so she wasn't really mad at me.  I don't use that shelf anymore, though!

Well I hope she bought you a replacement can to make up for lost product!
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: ErikB on May 04, 2017, 06:38:27 PM
Check. I recently tried to push, for pinning, a length of steel piano wire through a tight hole. Went right through my thumb and hit the nail. From the inside.
When I was in college I pierced my ear by pushing an earring stud through my lobe and right into my thumb.  Wow, that really, really hurt. 

The thumb got infected (wrestling practice then surfing in polluted Southern California water....)  That hurt even more.

Ear was fine, though.

Sorry about your thumb.  At least we (usually) have two, a primary and a backup....   ;)
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: ErikB on May 04, 2017, 06:44:25 PM
Worst mistake I made was allowing my then 3 year old baby boy take my x-acto knife.  When I removed it from his hand he moved in such a way that I cut the side of his ring finger open.  I wrapped his finger in toilet paper and held tightly before he saw any red.  Nasty cut running the length of his cute little baby boy finger.

Dear God, I'm scarred for life.  I can still feel that knife cutting him.  Worst feeling a parent can have is being responsible for hurting one's own little one.

He's fine, physically and emotionally and is doing great making tanks and airplanes (see other thread).  He is even competent with that x-acto knife under supervision.
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Cubs on May 04, 2017, 06:54:44 PM
I once had painted a load of LOTR models for a customer and went to varnish them .... with the GW Black Primer instead of the varnish. I genuinely wept. I had to completely repaint one side of about half a dozen models.

The usual mini-drill and hobby knife slips aside, I did once have an interesting experience with a bit of steel wire and a diamond dust cutting disk. I was cutting lengths of wire for something - pikes maybe, it might have been my ECW phase - and of course, being a daredevil hairy-chested male did not deign to wear such foolish things as protective goggles. A small fleck of steel flicked up into my eye and scratched the cornea. It wasn't serious, but it felt like I had something scratchy in my eye for over a week, I obviously kept rubbing at it, making it go red and weepy. After a visit to the doctor I had to wear a piratey eye-patch and apply a nasty goopy antiseptic gel to my eyeball several times a day.

These days I wear protective goggles every time. Every time.
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: zemjw on May 04, 2017, 08:15:51 PM
Indeed.
It was a rare nice day, so I was priming white out on the deck.  Came in and set the can on the closet shelf.
Which, it turns out, is where my Wife kept her hair spray can.  :o
To be fair to her, it was a GW can, so looked much more festive than a regular spray can.
And to her credit, she didn't use too much!
 lol
She's the greatest, so she wasn't really mad at me.  I don't use that shelf anymore, though!

I would have thought she'd be more annoyed about having to soak her hair in dettol/simple green for several days to remove the paint :D
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: PortCharmers on May 04, 2017, 08:28:36 PM
Follow up on #80: a little part can even fall down and hide inside a shoe until you give up looking for it and make a new one.

And the one about too little hardener in a mix of resin reminds me of the opposite: misreading the instructions, and add one part of four instead of one part to four. After a couple of minutes, the mixture in the pot started smoking. Made the same mistake again to make sure. Surprisingly, the whole performance still yielded a usable result
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Pijlie on May 17, 2017, 06:45:31 PM
Not of my making, but too great to pass up and let's face it: we've all been there..

(https://scontent-ams3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/18519756_10202990121671041_170692959618334453_n.jpg?oh=23b732e6e9c6b1460d073cb46de6c0aa&oe=59C15305)
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: ErikB on May 17, 2017, 07:45:13 PM
Not of my making, but too great to pass up and let's face it: we've all been there..

(https://scontent-ams3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/18519756_10202990121671041_170692959618334453_n.jpg?oh=23b732e6e9c6b1460d073cb46de6c0aa&oe=59C15305)
Only solution I know of is to use some masking tape before cutting.
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: PortCharmers on May 17, 2017, 08:21:26 PM
Oh yes, been there. Best when only part of the part flies off. It reminds me of the evening when a friend was over at my place, building an airplane model, and thought it was a fun idea to stick a Propeller in my dremel and spin it at 20000rpm. It generated enough thrust to work itself lose from the dremel, and fly across the room, inches in front of my face.
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Hammers on May 18, 2017, 07:41:00 AM
Only solution I know of is to use some masking tape before cutting.

There are a few sprue surgery techniques. I make cuts in the main sprue before snipping the delicate parts. This lessens the tension in the frame.
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: von Lucky on May 18, 2017, 10:20:19 AM
Guess we're at around 109.

No. 109: Cut that won't clot
Causing a medium depth cut on the top of your finger by pinching a piece of skin with a pair of scissors (was trimming plasticard). Its a tiny circular crator. Slicing hurts, but clots up quickly. On the third band aid now.

I realised the worst thing with these injuries is that you can't get back to want you were doing straight away until the bleeding stops!
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: jon_1066 on May 18, 2017, 11:00:12 AM
Guess we're at around 109.

No. 109: Cut that won't clot
Causing a medium depth cut on the top of your finger by pinching a piece of skin with a pair of scissors (was trimming plasticard). Its a tiny circular crator. Slicing hurts, but clots up quickly. On the third band aid now.

I realised the worst thing with these injuries is that you can't get back to want you were doing straight away until the bleeding stops!

Well you could if you wanted very realistic blood effects :)
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Dr. Zombie on May 18, 2017, 11:42:04 AM
Sadly real blood does not look like real blood.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbkNul4wQH0
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: DS615 on May 18, 2017, 01:05:59 PM
Well you could if you wanted very realistic blood effects :)
It also depends on what you're doing.  Models and miniatures, no.
But woodworking that's going to be painted, sure. Most of my woodworking projects are "DNA Tagged" like this.
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: ErikB on May 18, 2017, 04:38:40 PM
There are a few sprue surgery techniques. I make cuts in the main sprue before snipping the delicate parts. This lessens the tension in the frame.
Ooooh, good idea.
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: khartoum2 on May 18, 2017, 06:51:42 PM
No. 110

Sticking arms together to meet at point on weapon where hand is moulded.  Sit patiently holding together only to discover its moved and the now solid arm is either waving in mid air or trying to smack itself in the head.

No.111

Having used glue and green stuff got it on your fingers and now the models carefully sculpted folds or armour has your fingerprint etched on - I suppose it does personalise the figure though  :) not that this is the face expression I have when I realise I've done it again  >:(
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: SotF on May 18, 2017, 07:57:18 PM
Only solution I know of is to use some masking tape before cutting.
Another option is to take a large ziploc type bag and cut inside it. The bag catches escapees rather well...
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: zemjw on May 19, 2017, 10:02:36 AM
No. 110

Sticking arms together to meet at point on weapon where hand is moulded.  Sit patiently holding together only to discover its moved and the now solid arm is either waving in mid air or trying to smack itself in the head.


I've taken to trying to use blutack for this sort of thing. Basically everything is propped up on blutack while it dries, which means I can leave it for as long as necessary to harden, and things are less likely to move about.

It can be a bit fiddly to set up, but has come in handy, although it's not perfect by any means.
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Plynkes on May 19, 2017, 10:05:46 AM
Why are parts of a figure always much more keen on sticking to me than each other?

Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Vanvlak on May 19, 2017, 10:15:09 AM
Why are parts of a figure always much more keen on sticking to me than each other?


Because skin, with its rough surface, is ideal for glues to adhere to. Either that or the parts like you.
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Pijlie on May 19, 2017, 01:04:03 PM
Why are parts of a figure always much more keen on sticking to me than each other?



Actually that is because superglue -to which you refer, I assume- was originally developed to function as a quick way to close open wounds. It also turned out to be able to glue a lot of other things together, but it specifically excells in glueing slightly moist surfaces to each other, like skin.

That's why moistening the surfaces lightly makes the bond even faster and why everything adhers to your fingers fastest of all  lol
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: von Lucky on May 19, 2017, 11:15:13 PM
And I was thinking about superglue - but I wasn't able to type to verify how to apply it (can't help it - it's in my nature). Doing it now for next time (because we know that once you've been in this club you'll be back lol).
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Pijlie on May 20, 2017, 08:08:06 AM
And I was thinking about superglue - but I wasn't able to type to verify how to apply it (can't help it - it's in my nature). Doing it now for next time (because we know that once you've been in this club you'll be back lol).

Please moisten the parts you want to glue together BEFORE you add glue. Or else your tongue will get stuck and we already have that one in this thread  lol
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Vanvlak on May 29, 2017, 03:40:05 PM
No. 112 Cleaning....
I don't think we had this one yet. We have a help come in to do some cleaning as both the wife and I have long working hours. The current one has been coming for some weeks, and although we do most of the dusting ourselves she sometimes helps with this.

You can see where this is going I guess.

In one corner of the house a wooden box rests on a large chest of drawery thing. I just saw the help put down the box in its place - holding it sideways to wipe it, utterly, cheerfully oblivious to the rattling going on inside.

Good thing I'd just bought superglue... :'(
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Dr Mathias on May 30, 2017, 02:18:51 AM
In one corner of the house a wooden box rests on a large chest of drawery thing. I just saw the help put down the box in its place - holding it sideways to wipe it, utterly, cheerfully oblivious to the rattling going on inside.

 :o
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Ragnar on May 30, 2017, 02:30:55 AM
Because skin, with its rough surface, is ideal for glues to adhere to. Either that or the parts like you.

I always assumed it was a Murphy's Law:- super glue will stick anything to anything... unless you actually want it to.
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: galvinm on May 31, 2017, 06:18:36 PM
This thread proves I am NOT an idiot! I have had almost all of the mishaps mentioned happen at least once (usually, way more often). There is a running joke at our house, that I have to make an announcement when replacing new blades into knives. It is a well known fact, that the blood God has to be appeased for every new blade. Whenever I make the announcement, the girls run to the bathroom for the bandages, to see who will get to clean Dad's boo boo. My girls are morbid, what can I say. This still happens. Even tho neither lives at home anymore. When they visit, they still remember the drill.

Carry on, Y'all, what does not kill us, only makes us stronger! We hope.
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Billchuck on June 01, 2017, 02:34:51 AM
This thread proves I am NOT an idiot!

I wouldn't use this thread as evidence of intelligence in any of us.  :D
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Dr. Zombie on June 01, 2017, 05:03:48 AM
I rather think it proves you are not alone in being an idiot. You are in very distinguished company.
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Hammers on June 01, 2017, 09:31:23 AM
It is a well known fact, that the blood God has to be appeased for every new blade.

That is probably how the myth about gurkhas and their kukris came about.

<gurkhali>"Look at the keen edge at this bent knife I just sharpened! Owww, fuck!"</gurkhali>

Making virtue out of necessity...or klutziness, as it were.
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: jon_1066 on June 28, 2017, 08:00:03 AM
A subset of the paint spill.

Trying to close a Foundry paint pot (same snap top style as the old Citadel ones) one handed by pushing on the top.  The obvious happens - the base slips and sends the pot flying sideways across the paint station (aka kitchen worktop!)

First grab the pot to stand up right, next grab the figures, next grab the brushes, next start mopping the worktop, then spot paint all over the other paints, then notice it on the floor, then notice it spattered up the back door.
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: von Lucky on June 28, 2017, 11:10:35 AM
Argh. Swearing a plenty?
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: FierceKitty on June 28, 2017, 11:33:37 AM
No. 110 (I got in in time to be the other Messerschmidt!)

Trying to save time by undercoating an army of Aztecs with a promising-looking Mesoamerican spray-on flesh tone. It turned out to be aerosol flock, and I was now the proud owner of an army of Mexican teddy-bears.
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Billchuck on June 28, 2017, 02:47:52 PM
I was now the proud owner of an army of Mexican teddy-bears.

You have discovered a new genre?
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Ballardian on June 28, 2017, 03:02:18 PM
 While my most egregious episodes of kak-handedness have confined themselves to other areas, (most colourfully, trying to cut a slice from a frozen loaf) I will put forward;
 No.111 - having put stainless steel bearings into some Vallejo dropper bottles, then giving some German Camo Dark Green a good shake, only to find I'd neglected to put the bottle cap back on & tiger striped the spare room.
 (Also, home resin casting - a fantastically useful thing - up until you cock up the resin/hardener ratio & have to spend hours trying to scrape viscous, stinking mess out of the mold.)
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: JollyBob on June 28, 2017, 03:41:08 PM
Not worthy of a new list number, but this week, while cleaning up some very beautiful but fiddly Dreamforge Eisenkern figures prior to assembly, I have managed to stab myself in the same place on the same thumb no less than FOUR times.   :?

My boy has just shown an interest in model soldiers for the first time, and we have been making some plastic Saxons and Goblins together. I'm starting to think I'm not a good example but a horrible warning...
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Shahbahraz on July 04, 2017, 10:55:12 PM
No 31 (???)

Can't believe this hasn't come up already...

Squeezing that Vallejo paint bottle to deposit a small bead of paint on the palette, only to find it is blocked, so squeezing a little bit more forcefully, only to find a tiny little bit seeps out - but aha! It must be coming, so give that bottle just one more good sharp squeeze - and watch as the completely congested stopper flies out, followed by the entire contents of the bottle, spraying paint over everything, including one's self, and all the half finished and nearly finished models in the vicinity...
Not saying i'm unbelievably dumb sometimes, but I must have done that at least half a dozen  times... I'm always so sure it's just about to produce the paint I need, then BANG! Disaster...  ::) lol

Only the once for me.. painting the finishing touches on a Langton Models Napoleonic French fleet, fully painted and rigged, went to paint a highlight on the tricolour in blue..   blue paint everywhere..  all over the models, the table, the carpet.. literally hundreds and hundreds of hours work ruined.  Never again.
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: katie on July 05, 2017, 08:48:27 PM
I keep a couple of medium size safety pins handy; they're just the right size to debung a VJ bottle.

And the safety pin-ness minimises the chances of sharp-related accidents around them...
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Vanvlak on September 26, 2017, 05:11:12 AM
No. 112
I just had to dust off this old thread for this one.
If you keep the scenery you're building on the cats' favourite couch you're asking for it. If it's a fairly resistant piece, then it's reasonably safe. The cats even took to sitting on the unoccupied (and very comfy) bolsters on the ends.

Then Fox* threw up on it. I had three sections lying about - a flat surface,  a building, and the junkyard scenery I had shown elsewhere, with nooks and crannies and tight spaces. Guess which he chose?

The junkyard now has an organic selection of rubbish.

I was going to include a pic but ultimately decided against even taking it. Urgh.

*Fox the cat, named after we mistook him for a stray we had called Scully. He adopted us and came to live with us. He's 18, poor old fellow, and dribbles too.
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: von Lucky on September 26, 2017, 10:13:01 AM
My OH&S manager at home tells me not to do this all the time. I follow her advice, but secretly dismiss them as silly.

I can never tell her this story!
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Dr. Zombie on September 26, 2017, 10:36:28 AM
Yesterday as I was applying Gloop to the base of a freshly painted 28mm Mychenean Horseman I dropped him into the Gloop - completely covering him, his horse and their fres paincoat in a layer of paint, sand and glue. :'(
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: nic-e on September 26, 2017, 11:51:20 AM
(https://i.imgur.com/wGmh851.jpg)


Never think you have enough time to make a cup of tea while you have sculpey in the oven.

Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Connectamabob on September 26, 2017, 12:51:32 PM
My two favorite stupid injuries:

1) Chopped the webbing between my left thumb and forefinger in half with a hobby knife (A Testors disposable one that's like a #11 X-Acto blade in a molded plastic grip, if you must know). This was back in the early nineties when I was an early teen. I was working on a vinyl model kit (a Horizon ED-209, could even tell you which specific part), foolishly trimming towards my self. Hit a soft spot in the vinyl, and ZWOOP, went right through and into my hand. Only 3 stitches, surprisingly, but I still have the scar.

2) Chopped my left thumbnail in half trying to open a can of Insta-Mold alginate. This was in my late teens or very early 20s, I don't remember exactly. The can was a cardboard tube with a metal lid like a house paint can. I couldn't find a flathead screwdriver or anything like that, but I DID find a chisel. The end was too thick to hook under the rim of the lid properly, so when I applied force, it skipped out and raked over the top of the thumb holding the can. Gashed the flesh to the first knuckle, chopping the nail completely in half along the way. Nasty at the time, but healed strangely perfectly. No scar at all, and the nail grew back like nothing ever happened.
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: von Lucky on September 26, 2017, 01:20:13 PM
It goes without saying you have to steel yourself when reading this thread!
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: comet5 on September 26, 2017, 02:17:36 PM
Or at least have a bucket nearby  :o
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: has.been on September 26, 2017, 04:04:58 PM
I didn't kick the bucket..... but I did turn a little pail.
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: vodkafan on September 26, 2017, 04:38:01 PM
I didn't kick the bucket..... but I did turn a little pail.


[groan]
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Corso on September 27, 2017, 04:38:43 AM
I think it's 115.

115 Basing a vampire counts army using tea.

No, it's not a typo. Back then in '99 I did a vampire counts army with a huge amount of enthusiasm and a total lack of common sense. I wanted them to look as if risen from the burrows, so I used slightly wet tea bags, opened them up and somehow glued the stuff on the bases. I proudly took my army for the first battle, against Vanvlak - I remember his polite comment - instead of telling me what a crap idea it was, he said 'Watch out for insects'.........
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: von Lucky on September 27, 2017, 11:16:36 AM
lol - Vanvlak, what did you use this technique on?
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Vanvlak on September 27, 2017, 11:57:18 AM
lol - Vanvlak, what did you use this technique on?
I tried using cockroaches....they didn't like tea.
I went for a Heart of Woe instead, if anyone remembers that - tore through the best of the Vampire Cavalry like an shell hitting a teabag.

Mind you I used pepper on bases myself, it certainly looked good as a gritty surface. I still sneeze when I handle those models from some 20 years ago.
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: HerbyF on September 28, 2017, 03:34:52 AM
I used an old plastic spice jar for some paint from a bottle that broke. It keeps the paint just a good as any of the bottles or jars I was able to find at the hobby/craft stores. But everything I paint with that blue smells of oregano. :P
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Etranger on September 28, 2017, 09:00:43 AM
I think it's 115.

115 Basing a vampire counts army using tea.

No, it's not a typo. Back then in '99 I did a vampire counts army with a huge amount of enthusiasm and a total lack of common sense. I wanted them to look as if risen from the burrows, so I used slightly wet tea bags, opened them up and somehow glued the stuff on the bases. I proudly took my army for the first battle, against Vanvlak - I remember his polite comment - instead of telling me what a crap idea it was, he said 'Watch out for insects'.........

Actually tea leaves make a great ground cover but what you have to do is dry the leaves out in the oven first, ie baking therm. Gets rid of the insects too.
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: stone-cold-lead on September 28, 2017, 09:50:44 AM
(https://i.imgur.com/wGmh851.jpg)


Never think you have enough time to make a cup of tea while you have sculpey in the oven.



I'm not going to mention names but I recently saw pics of an almost fully sculpted figure that was urgently needed by a manufacturer that the sculptor had forgotten was in the oven! It was too melted to even pass as a Nurgle champion.
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Corso on September 28, 2017, 02:43:22 PM
I tried using cockroaches....they didn't like tea.
I went for a Heart of Woe instead, if anyone remembers that - tore through the best of the Vampire Cavalry like an shell hitting a teabag.


I hated Heart of Woe...........but I did like the Carstein Ring! lol
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: ErikB on September 28, 2017, 03:55:01 PM
Actually tea leaves make a great ground cover but what you have to do is dry the leaves out in the oven first, ie baking therm. Gets rid of the insects too.
Spray varnish could help, too.
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Billchuck on October 01, 2017, 01:39:49 AM
From the "Near Miss Files":  I looked at my half-round jeweler's file and noticed it had a distinct curve. I thought I should fix that. 30 seconds later, I was holding a piece of the file in each hand, and a third piece bounced off the wall in front of me and landed in my lap.
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Ragnar on October 01, 2017, 10:26:04 AM

Mind you I used pepper on bases myself, it certainly looked good as a gritty surface. I still sneeze when I handle those models from some 20 years ago.

 lol
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Cubs on October 01, 2017, 10:33:08 AM
Actually tea leaves make a great ground cover but what you have to do is dry the leaves out in the oven first, ie baking therm. Gets rid of the insects too.

I use dry (used) tea leaves mixed with cheapo mixed herbs as really effective forest floor mulch. But yeah, they need to be thoroughly dry. You'll know if they're not because they'll also go mouldy in the tub.
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: forcecommander on October 01, 2017, 11:57:41 PM
I'm having trouble picturing what the tea leaf basing will look like, anyone have a handy pic?
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: von Lucky on October 02, 2017, 10:38:43 AM
https://www.google.com.au/search?q=tea+leaf+basing&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj4lODI39HWAhWMfrwKHRiXB3gQ_AUICigB&biw=1920&bih=948
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: forcecommander on October 02, 2017, 11:35:02 AM
 o_o some days I amaze myself with my lack of common sense... but anyway, thanks for that! That's a really cool effect.
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: von Lucky on November 06, 2018, 06:39:38 AM
lol Yes we are

No. 20: tipping my dirty glass of water to clean my brush over.
Over the minis. Over the keyboard. Down behind the desk. Behind the book shelf. I had no idea how much water a glass can hold until this happened. Twice.

And again! It's amazing the area a glass of water can cover. But I was clever(?), unconsciously having built up a dam system with half completed terrain pieces and miniatures to contain the spill. lol
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: zemjw on November 06, 2018, 09:27:46 AM
It may be worth considering constructing the device I described a few pages back - http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=87581.msg1113442#msg1113442 lol

You can get cups and mugs that always stay upright, try searching for "untipable mug" ;D
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Wyrmalla on November 09, 2018, 07:07:19 PM
116. Cutting bits off metal models whilst sitting besides a laptop.

"Plink", oh, that was a near miss - as a piece of metal flies away from under my blade past the laptop screen. "Plink", damn, that was close to. "Plink", Great, I finally cut this damn model's head off. Now where did it fly away to? Oh.

Phew, Gorilla Glass. :)

...Though finding out just what that screen could take only emboldened me to continue watching Youtube videos whilst modelling in future.  ::)
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: von Lucky on November 09, 2018, 08:48:20 PM
zemjw - hah, it's a tallboy glass. I guess a shorter, fatter glass will solve this to a large extent.
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Bergil on November 30, 2018, 10:53:47 PM
Getting a 3 inch piece of thin wire used for creating armatures buried deep within my arm.

Required surgery :/

Morphine was good.
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Billchuck on December 01, 2018, 04:11:00 AM
Getting a 3 inch piece of thin wire used for creating armatures buried deep within my arm.

Required surgery :/

Morphine was good.

9 out of 10 doctors recommend not doing that.
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: von Lucky on December 01, 2018, 07:28:15 AM
Gee-zus!
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Dr Mathias on December 10, 2018, 01:14:12 AM
Getting a 3 inch piece of thin wire used for creating armatures buried deep within my arm.

Required surgery :/

Morphine was good.

Damn, must have been some force behind that.
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Pijlie on December 10, 2018, 11:27:04 AM
9 out of 10 doctors recommend not doing that.

Doctor nr 10 is a wargamer himself.....
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Shahbahraz on October 10, 2020, 01:12:34 AM
I suspect I am not alone in:
1. slicing large chunks out my fingers
2. dropping the knife into my foot
3. managing to accidentally spill the paint water over the power outlet causing the house fuseboard to trip.
4. Combining 2 & 3 to create
5. In the dark, slipping on my own blood..

Ok, maybe I am 'alone in the dark'
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Rich H on October 12, 2020, 09:58:19 PM
My current habit:- dropping tiny black items onto a hard tiled black and silver floor.  Extra fun as the bits bounce a long way... 

Also recently:- topping up the final gloss varnish on a 1/2 scale bazooka rocket with white undercoat.

And for the hat trick:- dropping a newly varnished mini into a box of sawdust...
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Cacique Caribe on October 13, 2020, 03:21:16 PM
I suspect I am not alone in:
1. slicing large chunks out my fingers
2. dropping the knife into my foot

LOL.  I’ve done both of those even while trying to do hobby stuff while away on vacation.  Other vacationers laughed every time I showed up to breakfast with a new bandage, but I still had a blast.
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: valerio81 on October 13, 2020, 04:36:27 PM
N. 117, clumsily trying to cut off with scissors the plastic cap of a  new bottle of bright red spray paint.
The scissors punch an hole in the can instead of cutting the plastic tap out, and a 1 mt. high geyser of bright red spray erupts unstoppable from the bottle and I run around as an headless chicken with red spray painting everywhere until I run outside and let the can finally empty itself into a ceramic sink which has been red ever since. Probably 20 years ago. Mum was not amused
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Karadek on October 27, 2020, 12:58:52 PM
Somehow grabbing the ultra-gloss varnish I didn't realize I had and sealing my entire 22-strong Blood Bowl team in a very shiny, very hard coat.
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Cat on October 27, 2020, 02:27:38 PM
Somehow grabbing the ultra-gloss varnish I didn't realize I had and sealing my entire 22-strong Blood Bowl team in a very shiny, very hard coat.

Actually, that's not a bad move at all.  I always spray my figures first with gloss coat for hardness, let that dry, then spray with dull coat.  Provides much longer protection, especially for figures like BloodBowl where you're always putting them down on their sides.
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: Cat on October 27, 2020, 02:30:28 PM
I suspect I am not alone in:
1. slicing large chunks out my fingers
2. dropping the knife into my foot

Do you have any identifying scars?  Yes, lots of small ones on my left fingers.

By some magic ward, the knife has never stuck into the foot though, that has always been a marvel to wonder at.
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: warlord frod on October 27, 2020, 02:32:23 PM
Somehow grabbing the ultra-gloss varnish I didn't realize I had and sealing my entire 22-strong Blood Bowl team in a very shiny, very hard coat.

I have always gloss coated my figs because it makes the color pop and holds up to use. Unless you are taking pictures up close I don't think it makes figs look less "real" because its not that noticeable from a distance. So no problem (and if it troubles you you can matt coat them as someone else already suggested  :D)
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: manchesterreg on November 06, 2020, 10:36:55 AM
Thought i will just shake this dip pot a bit, rather than stirring it.......now the funny part was, id taken the lid off to stir it. the not funny part was telling the wife, whilst in a joking way that we needed a new carpet and possibly the dog needed a haircut. 7 years on and she still brings it up whenever i am starting to do a new model.
Title: Re: The less-than-brilliant modelling club
Post by: ErikB on November 06, 2020, 04:49:44 PM
Thought i will just shake this dip pot a bit, rather than stirring it.......now the funny part was, id taken the lid off to stir it. the not funny part was telling the wife, whilst in a joking way that we needed a new carpet and possibly the dog needed a haircut. 7 years on and she still brings it up whenever i am starting to do a new model.
They never forget, do they?