You know you've been modeling too much when...

[Olis]

... when you find that feeling of superglue on your finger pads is not only familiar, but secretly wanted. It makes you feel like you've done something pro-active today.

... when the smell of that strange orange scented plastic glue is so nice that you spend your time taking an odd sniff to remind yourself this glue actually smells really nice.

... when you've learnt how to pick up dropped bitz with your feet.

[Redemption2994]

... You perch your HQ choice in a position where it can view your work, to oversee the creation of its army.

 

Yes. I kid not. I have a Covenant of Chaos Lords overseeing the construction of my Brass Scorpion as we speak.

 

 

To add to this, You've been modeling far too long when you begin to accept bitz as a form of currency/payment for your services/trades at your local store.

[Grey Knight Purifier]

I'd love it if my LGS paid me in bits, I'd clean that place so much, the carpet would shine.

[Hyaenidae]

Damn, ran into another one today, and it was disgusting.

 

You know you've been modelling too much when you take a break, reach for your coffee / Dr. Pepper, and after taking a drink, you realize it's full of the random plastic bits and shavings that were flying around.

 

:)

[AdeptusDavidus]

Worse yet - when you take that sip of tea to discover plastic shavings and such ... and deal with it by shrugging, picking the plastic out of your teeth, and making a mental note to filter your beverage through your teeth on subsequent sips.

[maverike_prime]

You know you've been modeling too much when...

 

...you wake up in a dry sweet from a dream of all your unfinished projects making their way off the shelf to come get you.

[maverike_prime]

Everything has a potential to become a bit. I found myself at Michaels' arts and crafts store in the beading section, looking for things that could double as cables. There were several older ladies in the same section. One of them kindly asked me what kind of project I was working on. I honestly answered that I needed cables for power armor. She was mildly perplexed.

 

A friend of mine was working on an Ogre's butcher's pit diorama. He wanted to have a dead mastadon being gutted. So he took the Mumak from LoTR, dropped it on it's side and started carving away. He wanted to have a Gnoblar pulling out an intestine so he grabbed some sort of bakable clay and built up an intestine. Stuck it in the oven to bake and harden. While it was baking his girl friends parents (who are super-ultra-conservative btw) showed up for a visit and they asked him what he was cooking.

 

Him: You don't want to know.

Them: No it's alright. We know you like to try new things. What is it?

Him: ... elephant intestines..

Them: :P

[Olis]

Here's another one -

 

... when you rub your eyes after they feel a little... scratchy and realising that that was where that stray metal shaving went. <_<

[Heru2012]

When you have to choose between trying sculpting for the first time after buying everything you could need from ebay, painting the army you're supposed to be finishing, reading gaming forums of a power armoured nature, reading Know No Fear, and it all becomes too much so you just faze out for a bit and play battlefield 3 for an hour, then return to do exactly the same thing later.....

[Dark Apostle Thirst]

-You absoluetly can't get that idea out of your head.

 

Daydreaming constantly about that one project.

These, so, so much

 

EDIT: One of the things in the quote tages was not the one I wanted to select

[redfeild32]

You know you have been painting too much

where in your hobby room is your bed with nothing but bitzs covering it and the sheets got cut up to be used as capes for your grey knights

when you paint a 40k battle on the walls of your hobby room so that way you feel at home.

when the first thing out of your mouth when your girl Friend says what do you love the most? And you say with out thinking OH thats easy its my models.

when you get called for dinner and complain that the knife doesn't have lighting running though it.( true story)

[CarbonCopy]

You know you've been modeling too much when...

 

...you wake up in a dry sweet from a dream of all your unfinished projects making their way off the shelf to come get you.

 

I have that dream nearly 20 years ago! Tied down like Gulliver, I was!

[Hexenes]

... when you look at almost any object in everyday life and think "How can I use that as a bit/terrain piece/with my models?"

[Melekharn]

You know you've been modeling too much when...

 

...You find yourself walking into work (or in my case, narrowly avoiding an accident), and have no idea how you safely got there, because you've been thinking so strongly of just how awesome that newly converted model you're planning will look and completely lost all focus on anything else.

[MordentHex]

...you realize, anything can be something.

 

...all styrofoam can/should be stored, simply because you never know.

 

...you can't wait to show someone, even someone who doesn't care, your latest creation.

 

...you have to go to the hospital because you just gouged open your hand with a hobby knife.

 

...you've learned the opposite of most people's habits; when you drop a knife into your lap area, those legs fly open to let the darn thing hit the floor instead of you.

 

...that if anything small needs to be fixed, cleaned, redone, or any other such handy jobs, people come to you to get it done right.

 

...your eyes start getting blurry because you've been building/painting very small things for a very long time without a break (8+ hours).

 

...your eyes refuse to unblur (for hobbying only) after taking a break from the above.

 

...you've been hunched over so long, when you stretch you can pop your sternum (or the muscles around it).

 

...after weeks of searching for that one bit you know you have and not finding it, it finally turns up. You pick it up with an "Ah ha!" only to put it down somewhere and promptly forget where that was.

 

All of the above - true stories for me.

 

Guilty of all the above Especially:

...your eyes start getting blurry because you've been building/painting very small things for a very long time without a break (8+ hours).

 

...your eyes refuse to unblur (for hobbying only) after taking a break from the above.

 

Only difference is i can Catch a falling Knife like i am in the circus performing a magic trick 75% of the time without batting an eye

[maverike_prime]

You know you've been modeling too much when...

 

... you discover your bitz box weighs more then some of the people you game against (in this particular case: 167lbs/~12 stones/~75 Kilos)

[kataklysm]

You know you have been modelling/painting too long when:

 

- You have seriously considered "losing" your cat because he likes to bat at your models sitting on the shelf

 

- You have one entire 5 self book case that is full of nothing but glues, paint, solvents, aresoles, and other hazardous chemicals

 

- You are starting to like the taste of paint dissolved in water to the point where it concerns others

 

- People at your work think that you are a closeted goth because you sometimes come in with black primer in the corners of your fingernails giving the impression of hastily removed fingernail polish.

 

- The term "kolinsky sable" is synonymous with "the finer things in life"

 

- The state of your relationship is directly affected by how smoothly your current hobby project is going.

 

- Your $2,000 pool table hasn't been used for anything other than a gaming table for over 3 years.

 

- The term resin makes your nipples hard.

 

- You seriously consider taking your honeymoon in nottingham, england to justify flying 5,000 miles

 

- You own shares of Games workshop

 

 

 

sad but true.

[Warped-Bitz]

Damn, ran into another one today, and it was disgusting.

 

You know you've been modelling too much when you take a break, reach for your coffee / Dr. Pepper, and after taking a drink, you realize it's full of the random plastic bits and shavings that were flying around.

 

:sick:

 

I've done this, I've also dipped paintbrushes into cups of tea/juice to clean them with out realising it till I drink it and it tastes funny :\

[arizonajirt]

Everytime you cut yourself you say "Blood for the Blood God." and this makes you realize you are Chaos at heart you so deceide to start a Khrone army.

[lordvogalus]

I don't really have any related to modeling (still a hobby amateur), but I have a couple of entertaining gaming ones.

 

...when your parents see you working furiously on your calculator and tell you to go do your schoolwork.

 

...when your best friend shows you his new codex: orks and within 30 minutes you have mathhammered how much damage every unit would take from every weapon in your army.

 

...when you are reading Farenheit 451 for school and you get to the part where he kills the robot dog with a flamethrower and you imediately think "Must have had only a 5+ save."

 

...when your computer overheats from being on power armoured forums to long (this is happenning as we speak.)

 

...when you wake up in the middle of the night with the sudden realization that your current army list will not do well against Grey Knights, and you get up to spend five hours mulling over your codex to decide what to change.

 

...when your reaction to anyone insulting you is to say "My armour is Contempt."

 

...when your reaction to anyone saying anything to you is to say "My armour is Contempt."

 

...when your parents ban the word "heresey" because you say it to much.

 

...when you get bad grades in chemistry because you can't remember any of the equations and yet you have memorized most of the 40k rulebook.

 

...when you have more planned armies than individual models.

 

...when your younger sister knows how the assault phase is resolved.

 

 

And I just remembered my hobby problem:

 

..when you put off painting you HQ because your painting gets better over time and you refuse to have a tank/infantry squad look better than your commander. And then you realise you have been in the hobby for over a year and have not played a single game because you do not have a legal list.

[Heru2012]

When you can instantly tell whether to slam your legs shut when you drop them or leave them open.

 

Seriously, most people will slam legs shut to catch it, but when you drop a scalpel and instanly opne you legs theres too much muscle memory there.

 

Also when you become adept at finding that bit of model you just dropped on the carpet, especially GW ones because they have a ridiculous store decoration policy of grey carpets. I think this is so we lose bits more easily and have to buy replacements.

[Dark Apostle Thirst]

When taking a multiple choice test, notice that three questions have the answers in order of A-D-B, and then think "All this time I was looking for ACDC... shame on me" :)

[Aqui]

... when you look at almost any object in everyday life and think "How can I use that as a bit/terrain piece/with my models?"

 

That happened last week. I was putting a load of cardboard in the Recycle bins at work, and found a ton of cylinders with little spikes/edges at the bottom (packaging from curtain rails I think) and instantly thought of making Plasma generators like the ones in DoW. I've got about 40 of them, and have been flicking through the Maplins website for LED's etc to make them light up.

 

When I have some money spare, I'm actually gonna make a few and post them on the WIP/HoH subforum :rolleyes:

[maverike_prime]

You know you've been modeling too much when...

 

you are no longer shopping for groceries with an eye toward the contents of the container, but rather an eye for what the container can be used for once it's contents have been consumed or removed (Translation you buy something that you and your entire family hate because you saw the container it came in and said "OH! I can use that for [insert]!" )

 

on a not entirely unrelated note... does anyone each anchovies?

[Brother Immolator]

- You are starting to like the taste of paint dissolved in water to the point where it concerns others

 

- People at your work think that you are a closeted goth because you sometimes come in with black primer in the corners of your fingernails giving the impression of hastily removed fingernail polish.

 

- The term "kolinsky sable" is synonymous with "the finer things in life"

 

- The state of your relationship is directly affected by how smoothly your current hobby project is going.

 

..when you put off painting you HQ because your painting gets better over time and you refuse to have a tank/infantry squad look better than your commander. And then you realise you have been in the hobby for over a year and have not played a single game because you do not have a legal list.

 

 

Guilty as charged!