Following BeardedHammer's resin disaster, I thought it might be an excersise in cathartic group therapy to share disasters.
Here's mine:
Having finished four units of minis I went to varnish them and managed to blast about half with undercoat before I realised my mistake ~X( ~X( ~X(
So, what's yours? Pics would be even..."funnier."
What about when you have proudly finished a unit, take them outside for a coat of spray varnish and the varnish goes all cloudy and white on them, makes me want to cry!
I'd just finished a units worth of figures and knocked over a pot of black paint, getting it over about half the unit.
Shame the paint wasn't blue, 'cos that's the colour I turned the air... >:( ;)
Been there too, Andy (but fortunately only hit three figures at the end of the base). ~X(
Quote from: Bodvoc on 25 February 2015, 07:41:14 PM
What about when you have proudly finished a unit, take them outside for a coat of spray varnish and the varnish goes all cloudy and white on them, makes me want to cry!
This is why I switched to Vallejo matt varnish. Don't have to worry about the humidity etc. ;)
Told this one before:
Spray varnish. Nozzle facing towards my face and not the figures. Sprayed into my eyes. One of the reasons, probably, why I now wear glasses. It wouldn't of helped anyway, I reckon.
Quote from: RoyWilliamson on 25 February 2015, 09:28:11 PM
Told this one before:
Spray varnish. Nozzle facing towards my face and not the figures. Sprayed into my eyes. One of the reasons, probably, why I now wear glasses. It wouldn't of helped anyway, I reckon.
Blimey, that's a bit extreme :o
It was an accident though.
Like the time I accidently shot myself with an air rifle. Or the time I stabbed myself in the heel with a knife. Or when I was larking around with an 1" wood chisel, tossing it up doing knife tricks, missed the catch and made a mess of my palm instead. Or the time when the handsaw slipped and...
Not that I'm a walking disaster, you understand :D
Quote from: Bodvoc on 25 February 2015, 07:41:14 PM
What about when you have proudly finished a unit, take them outside for a coat of spray varnish and the varnish goes all cloudy and white on them, makes me want to cry!
Never had that problem, when I used spray varnish it was underground in a large loading bay about ten years ago. Since then I always use brush on enamel followed by brush on matt.
I have three disasters.
Years ago, when Bellona printed small armour booklets with 1/72 scale plans in, I decided to scratch-build a Renault FT. I made the body of the tank no probs, then I made the right wheel assembly straight from the plans -again no probs. Then I made the left wheel assembly, also straight from the plans. Took me about 3 days to make them both but yep, you guessed it, I ended up with two right wheel assemblies. Thing went straight into the circular filing cabinet!
Second was actually the first time I bought a canister of spray varnish back in the day. The nozzle clogged up despite upturning and spraying till clear. Thinking it might be something inside I pressed the plunger with a pin and got a face full of gloss varnish -including in both eyes. Luckily, copious amounts of water cleared it up.
Thirdly, when I was a runtling without even a paper round I couldn't afford a metal ruler so I used to use a plastic ruler and a craft knife. The times the bl**dy knife slipped and took off a slice of my middle finger, left hand.
Ouch.
Reminds me of a teen disaster. I was painting some 28ml minis with enamels. I'd topped up a tub with turps and, when I went to clean my brush, the tub was empty. In actual fact the turps had melted the bottom and turps had flooded out all over the kitchen table. This, of course, took all the varnish off the table.
I wasn't popular!
Quote from: RoyWilliamson on 25 February 2015, 09:42:02 PM
It was an accident though.
Like the time I accidently shot myself with an air rifle. Or the time I stabbed myself in the heel with a knife. Or when I was larking around with an 1" wood chisel, tossing it up doing knife tricks, missed the catch and made a mess of my palm instead. Or the time when the handsaw slipped and...
Not that I'm a walking disaster, you understand :D
With that record......You realize that a lot of folk are going to think I'm posting under another name, now. ;D
Cheers - Phil.
Quote from: Bodvoc on 25 February 2015, 07:41:14 PM
What about when you have proudly finished a unit, take them outside for a coat of spray varnish and the varnish goes all cloudy and white on them, makes me want to cry!
A second coat of varnish will fix that, in my experience.
Quote from: Ithoriel on 25 February 2015, 10:38:08 PM
A second coat of varnish will fix that, in my experience.
That's worth knowing ;)
I'll try that too.
Back in the days when building most armies involved pins, plasticene, banana oil and craft knives I was regularly missing the the top millimetre or so of various fingers :-[
Another one just sprang to mind. Before acrylics you could only get the little tins of Humbrol. After a couple of times holding the tin between forefinger and thumb to shake it...and promptly getting paint all over me and everywhere else in the immediate vicinity because the lid hadn't been replaced properly, I then cottoned on to closing my hand with the tin in the palm and shake it that way, still do it today with tins of varnish.
Quote from: Ithoriel on 26 February 2015, 11:21:08 AM
Back in the days when building most armies involved pins, plasticene, banana oil and craft knives I was regularly missing the the top millimetre or so of various fingers :-[
Banana oil???
For what?
Ah, humbrol paints I remember those. When still at school, I recall rushing home from town with one of my friends clutching some Airfix afrika corps and 8th army. As we broke open the tins of humbrol to paint our soldiers it spilt all over the new paving slabs that my dad has just laid. We tried to get away with it by turning them over, but he spotted it! No more pocket money or new soldiers for a while.
Quote from: getagrip on 26 February 2015, 01:27:33 PM
Banana oil???
For what?
I used it to "set" paper tissue cloaks, amongst other uses.
It was used by model aircraft enthusiasts as "dope" on the tissue-paper skins of balsa framed aircraft. That's how I came across it.
Quote from: Ithoriel on 26 February 2015, 01:42:04 PM
I used it to "set" paper tissue cloaks, amongst other uses.
It was used by model aircraft enthusiasts as "dope" on the tissue-paper skins of balsa framed aircraft. That's how I came across it.
How the hell did someone discover that? :o
Quote from: getagrip on 26 February 2015, 01:50:55 PM
How the hell did someone discover that? :o
I used to use it as a hardener on the drinking straw and plasticine shako's for my French WW 1 to Napoleonic Prussian Airfix conversions.
The stuff was like gunpowder, once you smell you never forget it...for all the wrong reasons. Probably banned by now.
Quote from: Subedai on 26 February 2015, 03:36:30 PM
I used to use it as a hardener on the drinking straw and plasticine shako's for my French WW 1 to Napoleonic Prussian Airfix conversions.
The stuff was like gunpowder, once you smell you never forget it...for all the wrong reasons. Probably banned by now.
See what you've gone and done; now I want some... :-\
Quote from: RoyWilliamson on 25 February 2015, 09:42:02 PM
It was an accident though.
Like the time I accidently shot myself with an air rifle. Or the time I stabbed myself in the heel with a knife. Or when I was larking around with an 1" wood chisel, tossing it up doing knife tricks, missed the catch and made a mess of my palm instead. Or the time when the handsaw slipped and...
Not that I'm a walking disaster, you understand :D
Well, you won't be walking much longer if you don't change your ways!
I've previously mentioned my spray-on flock, which I thought was a plain matt pigment suitable for undercoating, and the resultant host of maquahitl-waving teddy bears.
I use the Reaper Master Series paints that come in 1/2 ounce dropper bottles, sometimes the nozzle gets a bit clogged. On this occasion, I couldn't find my thin piece of wire to de-clog so I shook the paint vigorously and squeezed harder than I probably should have, the end result was; me, my work bench, most of the equipment on the work bench and the roof above the bench covered in gold paint...I have no idea how it got on the roof.
It really is impressive how much area can be covered by 1/2 an ounce of paint, The end result looked like a zombie massacre in gold.
Never mind paint, don't ever spill Humbrol plastic cement. The stuff gives off fumes that would knock out a bull elephant and is practically immovable from anything it soaks into. Fortunately, I got rid of everything it touched an so avoded enny brin dommage.....
Acrylic paint (any) on a wool carpet: OUCH!
We have now changed our carpets to good quality man made fibres; looks and feels like wool but doesn't stain at all. Useful with a four year old around :)