The less-than-brilliant modelling club

[Elk101]

#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!

[Remgain]

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!

 

[Overlord]

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. 

[Captain Blood]

eeeyuw... Mental images I don't want... 

[Malamute]

I defer to your greater experience. 

Guilty as charged. Next he'll be telling us it was a "friend" of his.

[Peithetairos]

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.

[Vanvlak]

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 

[Elk101]

Guilty as charged. Next he'll be telling us it was a "friend" of his.

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?

[Predatorpt]

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. 

[zemjw]

After my turps wash spill (few pages back) I took a tupperware container, some corrugated cardboard and made



and with a bottle in it



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.

[Predatorpt]

Great idea, zemjw! I have to do something similar.

[Mr. Peabody]

Yup. I do pretty much exactly that with my "risky liquids". But that modified storage container is superior in every respect!

Brilliant work.

[SotF]

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"

[von Lucky]

And would've made a nice loud bang. Happy to hear no injury.

[Vanvlak]

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...