The painfully sensitive fingertips one has at the end of a big session clipping and filing figures to prepare them for undercoating. Ouch!
Time to learn the guitar then!
I hate the hotspot from drilling by hand!
Quote from: FierceKitty on 09 March 2014, 12:49:08 PM
painfully sensitive fingertips
I'll add: blisters on my palms when I've been clipping large amounts of minis.
Occupational hazard from not having a manual job.
Quote from: get2grips on 09 March 2014, 01:37:40 PM
I'll add: blisters on my palms when I've been clipping large amounts of minis.
Occupational hazard from not having a manual job.
Never had this problem....maybe you need a better pair of clippers
What the heck are you clipping?? I occasionally need to trim a base to cram an extra figure on a stand but that's about it.
Hotspot when drilling with a pin vice on the other hand ... with you there!
I have a LOT...A LOT of (whispers) other manufacturers stuff in strip that I'm getting through. I never base in strip so have to clip them.
Eg: last night, 24 bases of orcs @ 4 per base; all strips.
Poorly hand (that is the ONLY reason, honest :D
Fortunately, I have nearly reached the end of them: onto my PD stuff I bought in the sale :D :D :D
Well, if you're not buying Pendraken, you deserve everything you get. :P
The way little chunks of the top layers of skin get stripped off my thumb and index finger, on my left hand..... through mixing the putty when it's really sticky.
Cheers - Phil.
Quote from: Techno on 09 March 2014, 07:58:26 PM
The way little chunks of the top layers of skin get stripped off my thumb and index finger, on my left hand..... through mixing the putty when it's really sticky.
Cheers - Phil.
Sticky...putty...hand :o :o :o
That's even too obvious for me to nod in :D
Sometimes I think Phil has an extra special spade for all the holes he digs for himself
:D ;D :D
I DO have a special spade......But I use it to dig little holes to put scissor traps in.
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: Fenton on 09 March 2014, 08:04:33 PM
Sometimes I think Phil has an extra special spade for all the holes he digs for himself
Beware, Phil has an extra special black book.
But, seeing your a frequent user of the forum, the odds you're not in that one is very slim indeed :P :P
He's got a darn sight too many black books if you ask me.
Last night he rang me up and asked if I remebered Beaconsfield and did I want to rekindle the flame.
When am I supposed to have set fire to Beaconsfield ? :o
Chseers - Phil.
Scrabbling around on the floor for the little blighter that Fosbury Flopped out of my hand as I tried to fix him to the painting sprue. >:(
(I swear they do it deliberately - and it's always one I don't have a spare for.)
Scrabbling around on the floor for the little blighter that Fosbury Flopped out of my hand as I tried to fix him to the painting sprue. Angry
(I swear they do it deliberately - and it's always one I don't have a spare for.)
know exactly how you feel it happens to me all the time especially when it's the last figure of a unit and there are no spares!!!
Painful areas on the ball of my thumb and first finger from holding figures with sharp bits while trying to file the bases flat.
Quote from: Subedai on 24 March 2014, 07:44:12 PM
Painful areas on the ball of my thumb and first finger from holding figures with sharp bits while trying to file the bases flat.
Oh dear Lord yes...I
HATE that; it's
ANGRY pain! >:( >:( >:(
Before......(Old method)
Fixing some sort of weapon (with tiniest bit of green stuff) on to part of the model.....Prior to putting the 'formers' for the arms in place...(The arms then helping to hold the original piece in place more securely)
Then......Balancing the model carefully so that the weapon stays where I want it to stay while the putty sets.
THEN..... finding the model has moved before the putty has set, and the weapon 'points' in completely the wrong direction...so it's back to square one....... >:( >:( >:(
Got around that now by using Instant Putty, and simply holding the piece in place with my fingers for a few minutes.
Not nearly so much bad language at Techno Towers since I started using that method. :) :) :)
Cheers - Phil
I should add: finding the superglue has bonded a spear to my thumb, not to the figure I was doing up. And noticing after mounting that I've splashed a tiny dot of bright red pigment somewhere inaccessible.
And trying to paint the base around a crowded element of horde troops with twelve figures on it.
Not to mention figures that fall over into the resin while I'm waiting for the base to dry.
AND ALSO that little bit of inadaquately mixed glue that won't set.... Oh, I'm going to bed!
Finding out that the base of the figure wasn't quite as filed flat as you thought it was.and only noticing AFTER the little chap is on the lean once the glue has set on a 12 figure base!
Your favourite wood brown colour has run out and you haven't got another bottle.
Gluing fingers together with superglue is not recommended, especially if you don't have any release agent. It's comical as a spectator but not otherwise.
Knowing that you've already seen a reference somewhere in the book you are reading but can you find it? Can you ****.
Bent spears or lances on figures that only look like scaled down corkscrews when you try to straighten them out.
Those little bits between the legs on a certain manufacturers horses that are awkward to get to to cut off. (no names, no pack drill). ;) ;)
I often cut my fingers mainly my thumb tho, when cleaning flash of figures. Also stick my fingers together with supper glue.
Take care
Andy
Quote from: Womble67 on 25 March 2014, 09:29:57 PM
supper glue
Supper Glue - mmmmmmm , Tasty! :D
Mollinary
Quote from: Subedai on 25 March 2014, 07:39:37 PM
Finding out that the base of the figure wasn't quite as filed flat as you thought it was.and only noticing AFTER the little chap is on the lean once the glue has set on a 12 figure base!
Or, on two-part cavalry figures finding that the rider has a thirty degree list to port or starboard and the Araldite is solid. ~X( ~X( ~X(
Quote from: mollinary on 25 March 2014, 10:12:48 PM
Supper Glue - mmmmmmm , Tasty! :D
Mollinary
Oops that's just like me always making mistakes :D
take care
andy
Those little bits between the legs on a certain manufacturers horses that are awkward to get to to cut off
That made me wince!!
Quote from: Hertsblue on 25 March 2014, 10:28:41 PM
Or, on two-part cavalry figures finding that the rider has a thirty degree list to port or starboard and the Araldite is solid. ~X( ~X( ~X(
Pretty certain you can soften Araldite if you heat it.....
As long as the figure's not painted; putting it in boiling water in an old saucepan should work.
Think Araldite goes soft around 60-70 degrees C.
Don't know what happens to the Araldite when it cools down again though.....i.e....Does it set hard for a second time ?.....dunno !
Anyone tried that ?
Cheers - Phil.
Quote from: Hussargeneral on 26 March 2014, 05:34:46 PM
Those little bits between the legs on a certain manufacturers horses that are awkward to get to to cut off
That made me wince!!
Please accept my apologies, I didn't intend to upset any equine posters on the forum.
QuotePretty certain you can soften Araldite if you heat it.....
As long as the figure's not painted; putting it in boiling water in an old saucepan should work.
Think Araldite goes soft around 60-70 degrees C.
Don't know what happens to the Araldite when it cools down again though.....i.e....Does it set hard for a second time ?.....dunno !
Anyone tried that ?
Yep, Araldite does soften in very hot water. It may take a few goes but it does work. When cool it does go hard again relatively speaking. BTW Araldite becomes brittle with age.
Quote from: Subedai on 26 March 2014, 08:02:06 PM
Please accept my apologies, I didn't intend to upset any equine posters on the forum.
High pitched "neighs!"?
Quote from: Hussargeneral on 26 March 2014, 05:34:46 PM
Those little bits between the legs on a certain manufacturers horses that are awkward to get to to cut off
That made me wince!!
I must agree. Save the apostrophe!
Quote from: Steve J on 26 March 2014, 08:06:31 PM
Yep, Araldite does soften in very hot water. It may take a few goes but it does work. When cool it does go hard again relatively speaking. BTW Araldite becomes brittle with age.
Mine must be like glass by now... :'(
Quote from: Hertsblue on 27 March 2014, 08:31:27 AM
Mine must be like glass by now... :'(
Well that's a thread stopper if ever I read one :P
Yeah, I seem to be getting good at that. :-[ :-[ :-[