The less-than-brilliant modelling club

[Captain Blood]

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... 

[Supercollider]

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

[Michi]

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... 

Oh yes, I can second every single point of that, including being unbelievably dumb to repeat it more than half a dozen times...

[snitcythedog]

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.

[warlord frod]

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.

[Pijlie]

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....

[armchairgeneral]

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.

[Drachenklinge]

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 

[black hat miniatures]

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...

[jp1885]

No. 37

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

[Remgain]

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...  

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.
I think I lost some years of life...  

Marco

[carlos13th]

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.

[OSHIROmodels]

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 

cheers

James

[Vermis]

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.

[comet5]

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.