What was your worst disaster?

[sixsideddice]

Reaching for the black undercoat spray... or even white has happened to me more than a few times. I now read the top several times before actually spraying, and I STILL half expect it to ruin everything - like a bad nightmare.

Probably my worst living memory of painting gone wrong has to be an entire five boxes of plastic space marines, orcs, squats and imperial guard. Now this was many years ago but, after an agonizing amount of time painting them all and looking forward, finally, to being able to field them in a few games, I took them all outside to varnish (I was using artists varnish in a pro modellers spray paint utility gun)... did a fantastic job... freezing cold because it was mid winter; bought the large flat wooden block full of figures back inside to place near the fire in the lounge so everything could dry.....

.... and tripped on the edge of the carpet.

Some pieces flew into the glowing red hot embers in the fire and vanished like Gollum and Frodo`s Ring, others just melted into pools of multi coloured plastic where ever they touched the fire fender or excessively hot tiles in front of the fire-place, the rest tipped onto the carpet like a kamiaze waterfall picking up dust, cat hairs, and all manner of household nuisance, making those newly painted wet varnished miniatures fortunate enough not to lose their existance in the flames, look like fur balls from some macabre episode of Fraggle Rock.


I almost think those that flew into the fire were the fortunate ones.

I think I actually cried in frustration LOL.


Six

[Leon]