Terrahawk Posted May 24, 2013 Share Posted May 24, 2013 Hello brethren! Having encountered a truly painful experience in the hobby department last night, it got me thinking I cannot be the only one who has encountered one of these. I was painting my magnetized DA Nephilim, which I got as an anniversary present from my wife (to add insult to the injury), and having a blast. I had already poured many hours to the model painting-wise and I really dig the model. When I initially started painting the model, the pilot and the cockpit were the first things I painted, and once I was finished I glued the cockpit glass to the model. Since then I had painted other stuff like the engines and the wing pattern and so on and had dropped a little spot of paint to the cockpit glass. Now if I had just ignored it, everything would have been okay. But nooooo, everything must be perfect. So last night I took a bit of my wife's nail polish remover (non-asetonic, which I have used before to remove paint) and gave the glass a proper treatment. Well, I found out the hard way that the transparent glass is a lot more fragile than normal miniature plastic. So the plastic got all muddy and not so transparent anymore. Oh man was I pissed off. In a true Dark Angel fashion (you know, utterly zealous when fury has been aroused) I painted the damn glass black and after that painted the cockpit. The finished product was actually pretty good, but I still would have preferred the pilot to show. Ugh, just ugh. I think I will be taking a few days off from the hobby. So... what's your story? Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/275947-great-fails-in-the-hobby-department/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lysimachus Posted May 24, 2013 Share Posted May 24, 2013 Very similar to yourself, I spent hours prep'ing a Land Raider so that the front would open, spent even more hours painting all the details on the interior, then when it finally came to assembling it I made a horrendous mistake with the glue and ended up sealing the whole thing up! All that work completely wasted!!! That was probably about 2 years ago. I'm totally over it now. Honestly. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/275947-great-fails-in-the-hobby-department/#findComment-3379034 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kol Saresk Posted May 24, 2013 Share Posted May 24, 2013 I had gotten that new aspiring champion, the one with axe. Anyway, I got home, gave him a Raptor arm with a bolt pistol and a Jump Pack to make him a Jump Pack Lord. Started to stand him on the base. Finally got him posed just right. Then the glue picked that moment to stop holding him together. Tried a couple of other tricks people told me about, but this model did not want to stay together for nothing. Eventually one person told me to try Loctite. I said "What the heck? Worse that could happen is that it won't work." It worked. Finally motivated to get him painted and finished, I left him proudly standing on the chest-o-drawers as I went to school. When I came home, I found that he had fallen. Not to fear, the Loctite held. But apparently he decided that he would instead break into different pieces than what he came as. Yeah. Fun. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/275947-great-fails-in-the-hobby-department/#findComment-3379041 Share on other sites More sharing options...
deathspectersgt7 Posted May 24, 2013 Share Posted May 24, 2013 Ok I can do better than that after finishing a squad of red scorpion termies and wanted to clean my work area put all these painted termies from my various chapters .picked up the case to put on shelf .and forgot to latch the case closed and well after landing on a concrete floor. you get the picture.34 termies in pieces . Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/275947-great-fails-in-the-hobby-department/#findComment-3379423 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Durus Posted May 24, 2013 Share Posted May 24, 2013 It's been a long time ago, still one of my worst hobby related memories though: I had just finished painting my 10 man assault squad and was spraying a coat of varnish on them. I noticed the spray frosting and immediately started to panic. My first impulse was to rush back to my painting table. Not really sure what I was going to do there, but it was the first thought that crossed my mind. I made the mistake of walking too fast, almost falling down the stairs into the cellar because I was staring at the minis and not were I stepped. Which led to me losing hold of the box they were standing in sending them flying down that same flight of stairs. I ended up collecting frosted pieces of broken miniatures with dust stuck in the wet varnish from the cellar floor. Which I had spent about a week on painting them. Was really my own fault, but I still have a deep resentment to varnishing my minis to this day. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/275947-great-fails-in-the-hobby-department/#findComment-3379454 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aqui Posted May 24, 2013 Share Posted May 24, 2013 I was once painting a mini, close to my face so that I could see what I was doing (I wear glasses and as my eyes were very tired, it was easier and less hassle to take said glasses off). After about twenty minutes, I sneezed with the aforementioned brush end being jammed into my tear duct as my head went forward. In my anger and embarrassment, I stood up to try and put something cold to take the inevitable swelling etc, I forgot that a box with my Commodore Amiga in it (it was awaiting being set up in my living room) was behind my chair. I then stubbed my toe, resulting my roar of anger changing mid shout to a high pitched whimper. Because I didn't have my glasses on and thereby my other eye not being twenty twenty, I pulled the door open, really pee'd off and the edge of the door hit me in the nose and part of my forehead. So, half blinded, limping and with a stonking headache, I decided not to touch any mini for about three weeks after that. I wouldn't have minded but I was on a roll and had already painted a lot (for me) that day! Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/275947-great-fails-in-the-hobby-department/#findComment-3379503 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razblood Posted May 24, 2013 Share Posted May 24, 2013 I was once painting a mini, close to my face so that I could see what I was doing (I wear glasses and as my eyes were very tired, it was easier and less hassle to take said glasses off). After about twenty minutes, I sneezed with the aforementioned brush end being jammed into my tear duct as my head went forward. In my anger and embarrassment, I stood up to try and put something cold to take the inevitable swelling etc, I forgot that a box with my Commodore Amiga in it (it was awaiting being set up in my living room) was behind my chair. I then stubbed my toe, resulting my roar of anger changing mid shout to a high pitched whimper. Because I didn't have my glasses on and thereby my other eye not being twenty twenty, I pulled the door open, really pee'd off and the edge of the door hit me in the nose and part of my forehead. So, half blinded, limping and with a stonking headache, I decided not to touch any mini for about three weeks after that. I wouldn't have minded but I was on a roll and had already painted a lot (for me) that day! Amiga FTW! :tu: I was drilling some pinning holes on a Khornate Lord model when my other half advised me to be careful. After loudly informing her that there was no possibility of an accident I proceeded to stick the drill into my fingertip right down to the bone :( To make things worse a few mm's of the tip snapped off and is still in my finger, where it occasionally painfully reminds me of my hubris :lol: Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/275947-great-fails-in-the-hobby-department/#findComment-3379548 Share on other sites More sharing options...
carnosaur93 Posted May 24, 2013 Share Posted May 24, 2013 once i was sitting closely studying a spacemarine shoulderpad (close to my face), then, the armrest that most of my bodyweight was rested on suddenly came loose, it being the armrest under my right arm, the same as i was holding the shoulderbad with and i sorta fell halfway off the chair... now, the reallly lame part was that as i fell halfway off, my hand with the pad somehow got punched into my mouth and before i realized what was going on, i had accidently swallowed the plastic shoulderpad and i guess if it counts as "hobby accidents" the last two armies in a row that ive build (been like 3-4 basic models from a legal 1000pts army with both) have both been rendered completely useless by rulechanges literally days before completion... first a mostly scratchbuild/heavily converted dark eldar coven army (got ruined by 6th ed), and then a dornian heresy style Ravenguard army (got ruined by the new CSM dex), so that was literally a year or so of work and a ton of money all down the drain Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/275947-great-fails-in-the-hobby-department/#findComment-3379554 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firepower Posted May 24, 2013 Share Posted May 24, 2013 Superglue in the eye. I put a piece into an overfilled socket and squirt. By some miracle I turned out fine, but holy hell was it scary! Other fails include the olden days of metal devastators, where cables were sometimes a full centimeter too short to reach the packs, and so I bridged the gaps with a solid chunk of superglue. I couldn't salvage those bits with anything short of a jackhammer now. Gluing the turret in place on a Hammerhead. Correcting that mistake was....interesting. The 30 or so mistakes I made in the process of magnetizing the doors on my Landspeeder. Not assembling my second Landspeeder, as now I have forgotten all the mistakes and lessons learned, so I am sure to repeat them. Putting the guards on the Land Raider sponsons on backwards. This one seems to happen to a lot of folks. Relatively easy fix though. But I think Aquilanus wins. Everyone loves good slapstick. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/275947-great-fails-in-the-hobby-department/#findComment-3379569 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aqui Posted May 24, 2013 Share Posted May 24, 2013 But I think Aquilanus wins. Everyone loves good slapstick.If that's what winning feels like, I don't want to know what it feels like losin'! Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/275947-great-fails-in-the-hobby-department/#findComment-3379601 Share on other sites More sharing options...
reckoning Posted May 25, 2013 Share Posted May 25, 2013 I once attempted to paint a model. Was so disappointed with the result that I haven't painted anything since... Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/275947-great-fails-in-the-hobby-department/#findComment-3379711 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firepower Posted May 25, 2013 Share Posted May 25, 2013 I once attempted to paint a model. Was so disappointed with the result that I haven't painted anything since... Pah. That's like saying "I fell the first time I tried to walk, so I just quit." Man up and get better at it. ;) Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/275947-great-fails-in-the-hobby-department/#findComment-3379739 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Akylas Posted May 25, 2013 Share Posted May 25, 2013 Wow. I've had a few, like the "hey, let's paint the details first, easier to clean up around them. Then when I do the armor it's messy and I'm "cleaning up" 6 or 7 different colors of details" or, more often, having a piece fall off while painting leading me to wonder if I did something wrong or if GW glue just isn't very good (oddly, if I actually drop a model it's almost always fine. Pieces only fall off if I lightly touch one). Stabbed myself once or twice, but nothing that ever drew blood. All far too minor of an annoyance for this thread. I must not be doing enough modeling/painting. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/275947-great-fails-in-the-hobby-department/#findComment-3379892 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaeron Posted May 25, 2013 Share Posted May 25, 2013 I don't advise dropping exacto knives on parts of your body either - and I always recommend wearing at least shorts as a minimum requirement when hobbying. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/275947-great-fails-in-the-hobby-department/#findComment-3379911 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artemid Posted May 26, 2013 Share Posted May 26, 2013 I cut myself with X-acto knifes way more doing 40k stuff than I did in my four years of architecture school - though probably got most of them out of the way when I started 40k in middle school Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/275947-great-fails-in-the-hobby-department/#findComment-3380926 Share on other sites More sharing options...
reckoning Posted May 28, 2013 Share Posted May 28, 2013 I once attempted to paint a model. Was so disappointed with the result that I haven't painted anything since... Pah. That's like saying "I fell the first time I tried to walk, so I just quit." Man up and get better at it. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/275947-great-fails-in-the-hobby-department/#findComment-3381874 Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarriorFish Posted May 29, 2013 Share Posted May 29, 2013 Painting my Stormtalon and accidentally knocking the carefully painted canopy on to the floor. I was in the middle of some final details so I decided to finish them before picking it up only to end up forgetting it fell and stepping on it... Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/275947-great-fails-in-the-hobby-department/#findComment-3382500 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valkyrion Posted May 29, 2013 Share Posted May 29, 2013 Spraying indoors in an enclosed space and then spending a week picking black bogies out of my nose taught me never to do it again. Most common though is the instinctive reaction of trying to catch falling things regardless of what you are doing or holding. There is absolutely no reason to try and catch a falling hobby knife with your foot whilst both hands are trying to bond a metal daemon prince together, because you just end up with superglue on your hands, a stubbed toe, a stabbed foot, a daemon prince half in pieces on the floor, a bit of it stuck to your finger and another bit being guarded by the dog, because in my house anything on the floor belongs to the dog, or more accurately, the dog's mouth. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/275947-great-fails-in-the-hobby-department/#findComment-3382522 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SW1 Posted May 29, 2013 Share Posted May 29, 2013 I stopped hobbying for almost a decade about 13 or 14 years ago after 10k of vampire counts on a big mdf board got crushed. I'd not supported one corner properly and when I placed a really heavy mini (think it was the black coach) on that corner it flipped the board over. models hit the ground quickly followed by the board they had been on. The board hit me as well but the real damage was to the mini's. Skeletons snapped in multiple places they are not meant to snap in. Last year I managed to paint just over 600 models mostly being VC's stuff. There's anther 1,000+ models to fix up eventually. I've now gone back to 40k and the SW's for a break. The fun doesn't stop there as I've been disassembling OOP rhinos and realised that I near enough destroyed them 2 decades ago trying to convert them up. Out of 20+ I've not got a single one that's not going to need heavy duty fixing up with plasticard. Thankfully my hobbying skills have improved over the years so they will eventually be useful again I hope!!! Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/275947-great-fails-in-the-hobby-department/#findComment-3382528 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greylocke Posted May 29, 2013 Share Posted May 29, 2013 My failures tend to come after the model is complete. I once dropped 1500pts of marines onto a blistering hot gravel parking lot. The little melted imperfections and chips never looked the same. For your canopy, I've messed up many model airplane canopies as a kid. I found I could make my own using the original as a pattern. The materials are plastic from a blister pack (easy to cut and bend) and thin balsa wood for the frame work. If you need to bend or bubble the "glass" you hold it high up over a lit candle (high enough not to blacken it) then use a straight edge to bend it or if you need a bubble wrap the original in foil (so the hot plastic don't stick) and press the hot plastic blister on it to form the bubble curve. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/275947-great-fails-in-the-hobby-department/#findComment-3382685 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Odsox Posted May 29, 2013 Share Posted May 29, 2013 Reaching up behind Urkaz, my lovingly converted Chaos Dreadnought, to show off a Dark Eldar Scourge I'd painted, only to have my hoody cuff catch on a trophy rack and fling poor old Urkaz a good five feet onto the floor, shattering him into eight pieces. Admittedly my reaction was only to check that all the pieces were visible, then sigh, "Oh, bugger." Poxy xenos trickery. Od. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/275947-great-fails-in-the-hobby-department/#findComment-3382773 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Venerable Jazzman Posted May 29, 2013 Share Posted May 29, 2013 Cats, moths and painting at night do not go together http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v110/fatjazzer/aslightsetback.jpg Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/275947-great-fails-in-the-hobby-department/#findComment-3383034 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hasdrubal Posted May 31, 2013 Share Posted May 31, 2013 Mines tend to include airbrushes... - spending the 2 hours hobby time I had maanged to get fully cleaning an airbrush after I thinned Iyanden Darksun way to little for airbrushing (altough this could be counted as part of the airbrushing learning curve when onc is learning own his own) - sealing an airbrush shut this varnish, after believing white spirit could be a replacement for a varnish designed for thining and cleaning with turpentine. I never could get the dmaned thing to work again after 10+ hours spent cleaning it over and over again Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/275947-great-fails-in-the-hobby-department/#findComment-3384385 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firepower Posted May 31, 2013 Share Posted May 31, 2013 Cats, moths and painting at night do not go together http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v110/fatjazzer/aslightsetback.jpg Xenos psycher kittens strike again. How many times do I have to warn you people? ;) Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/275947-great-fails-in-the-hobby-department/#findComment-3384424 Share on other sites More sharing options...
depthcharge12 Posted June 2, 2013 Share Posted June 2, 2013 I was misled by my cat, I thought she was trying to be friendly and help me out, but i was tricked. When i told my cat i was making Cataphractii terminators she got jealous and knocked them off my table into little pieces. Cats are not astartes best friend Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/275947-great-fails-in-the-hobby-department/#findComment-3385278 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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