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Title: The Great Frustrations
Post by: FierceKitty on 10 January 2022, 03:10:17 AM
The great frustrations:

Learning a new range of 10mm is coming out in a period you have no interest in......learning a new range of 10mm is coming out in a period you're very interested in, and have already converted 400+ figures for......rolling something poor for orders/PIPs/activation (or whatever the rules of the month call it), so your carefully-planned attack is unsupported and gets munched in flank......trying to paint acrylic yellow on a dark undercoat.....doing ANYTHING involving superglue.

Others?
Title: Re: The Great Frustrations
Post by: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 10 January 2022, 06:05:37 AM
You missed one - playing Lee  ;)  ;)
Title: Re: The Great Frustrations
Post by: FierceKitty on 10 January 2022, 06:37:41 AM
She says that's a pleasure and a privilege.
Title: Re: The Great Frustrations
Post by: paulr on 10 January 2022, 07:34:12 AM
And she is of course correct :D
Title: Re: The Great Frustrations
Post by: Steve J on 10 January 2022, 09:10:10 AM
Endless supplements for rulesets that seem to be superceded every few years!
Title: Re: The Great Frustrations
Post by: Ithoriel on 10 January 2022, 11:28:05 AM
So many games, so little time.
Title: Re: The Great Frustrations
Post by: d_Guy on 10 January 2022, 04:09:50 PM
Quote from: FierceKitty on 10 January 2022, 06:37:41 AMShe says that's a pleasure and a privilege.
I can easily accept the first since she often as not wins but the second?
I think she would need to present a signed (and notarized) document to the forum.
I would trust Techno to authenticate it.

An added frustration: needing only a few drops of a very specific color only to find your one vial to be empty.

Oh yes, making surgeon-like modifications to a figure with an xacto only to slice off its head with final stoke.

Both the above are of recent memory and still raw.
Title: Re: The Great Frustrations
Post by: Orcs on 10 January 2022, 05:39:16 PM
Spending  quite a bit of money and time  finding and and painting Proxies for my Vendle Miniatures Oathmark Orcs, only to find I can buy the originals, for less than I paid for the proxies including postage from the USA, two days after i finish most of the proxies.   
Title: Re: The Great Frustrations
Post by: sunjester on 11 January 2022, 07:20:02 AM
Quote from: Orcs on 10 January 2022, 05:39:16 PMSpending  quite a bit of money and time  finding and and painting Proxies for my Vendle Miniatures Oathmark Orcs, only to find I can buy the originals, for less than I paid for the proxies including postage from the USA, two days after i finish most of the proxies.   
Did YOU really need even more orcs, Mark :d  :d  :d ?
Title: Re: The Great Frustrations
Post by: Orcs on 11 January 2022, 10:07:22 AM
Quote from: sunjester on 11 January 2022, 07:20:02 AMDid YOU really need even more orcs, Mark :d  :d  :d ?

Sorry I am having trouble understanding your question. :)

Title: Re: The Great Frustrations
Post by: steve_holmes_11 on 11 January 2022, 11:51:21 AM
Finding your pot of bronze paint has dried out.
Title: Re: The Great Frustrations
Post by: kustenjaeger on 11 January 2022, 04:17:54 PM
Having a package arrive (in this case not KS Portuguese) and thinking 'when on earth am I going to find time to paint them?'

Edward
Title: Re: The Great Frustrations
Post by: John Cook on 11 January 2022, 06:03:44 PM
Discovering that Superglue is really fairly ordinary.
Title: Re: The Great Frustrations
Post by: paulr on 11 January 2022, 06:11:21 PM
Quote from: John Cook on 11 January 2022, 06:03:44 PMDiscovering that Superglue is really fairly ordinary.

Add baking powder :)
Title: Re: The Great Frustrations
Post by: Shecky on 12 January 2022, 02:55:00 AM
Frustration - FLGS, and even the UFLGS, no longer carry the Vallejo paints. I've yet to find a suitable substitute for Flat Earth Brown, Dark Prussian Blue and Prussian Blue.
Title: Re: The Great Frustrations
Post by: John Cook on 12 January 2022, 12:11:26 PM
Quote from: paulr on 11 January 2022, 06:11:21 PMAdd baking powder :)
It works alright, mainly for filling gaps, but the reaction produces fumes that are extremely toxic and should be avoided. The safer option is a spray of water or commercial accelerator.