Huang Da Wei Posted October 16, 2011 Report Share Posted October 16, 2011 Sympathy needed please. Just finished painting Collette and closed the pull down lid on my painting table ( actually its an old writing table) only to find it wedged her head and chipped off all the paint from eyes upwards. :-fate:-fate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dsmiles Posted October 16, 2011 Report Share Posted October 16, 2011 AAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh!!!!! My condolences. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J4CK Posted October 16, 2011 Report Share Posted October 16, 2011 i did something similar when i was painting my corphye duet i was just up to finishing the highlights on the face and arms when i drop it and all the arms break off Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thaehl Posted October 16, 2011 Report Share Posted October 16, 2011 my fiance is the painter in my little group of friends, she decided to repaint my Lilith, she had done a wonderful job, she handed it to me to matte coat it and i dropped it and chipped it all up, there is love here man. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Indio Posted October 16, 2011 Report Share Posted October 16, 2011 When I was just starting out with minis painting, I had a full, 10-man unit of Boomhowler & Co. Trollkin Mercenaries from Privateer Press. I had given them each special patterns on their kilts, carefully touched up the leather on their axe handles, picked out teeth and hair -- everything. Then I took them outside on a plate, set the plate on a chair, got ready to seal them -- and knocked the plate over. Onto the concrete patio. They say people can still hear my cries of "F***ING TROLLS!!" to this day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mergoth Posted October 17, 2011 Report Share Posted October 17, 2011 Solidarity. I'd just finished Ophelia and was about to dullcote her when I dropped her on the tiled floor so she could chip and go flying off her base. I said bad words. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guynamedFleck Posted October 17, 2011 Report Share Posted October 17, 2011 I was hastily putting the finishing touch on my warmachine gunmage unit the morning of a tourney. Not wanting to waste precious time taking them outside to mat seal them, I slide open the window, grabbed my sealer and gave the unit a quick blast. Not realizing the humidity level was through the roof that day, I quickly turned my beautifully painted unit into a cloudy, fogged mess. All that work for a painting score and it was ruined in one spray of the sealer... my heart felt sympathy goes out to you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maniple Posted October 17, 2011 Report Share Posted October 17, 2011 My condolences. I hope she can be saved. I resolved one day to finally undercoat my collection of 54mm Inquisitor figs that I had been collecting for a few years. I had about 20 of them, lovingly converted. The hardware store primer had been sitting in the garage all summer, but I thought it would be fine. I didn't notice it at first (sunglasses were on), but the primer all came out like gritty "texture" paint. When I got back inside it looked like they were made out of black sandstone, with all the detail completely obscured. $500 dollars worth of models ruined by a $5 can of black spray. Words were said that shall not be repeated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Posted October 17, 2011 Report Share Posted October 17, 2011 A few years back I had just finished putting a beautiful finish and a hard coat on a set of 15 commissioned, Iyanden Wraith Guard and I took to the spray booth to apply a layer of dullcoat....little did I know, I had grabbed a can of black primer in error. I had sprayed the whole front side of them before I realized my error. Luckily for me, it was a light coat and as I had used a relatively liberal application of hard lacquer, it was a small job to scrub off the black spray, but I was livid that I had made that error at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huang Da Wei Posted October 17, 2011 Author Report Share Posted October 17, 2011 Ok, panic over, repair job done and hopefully it looks ok. I am not the best painter but this has to be my all time favourite Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maniple Posted October 17, 2011 Report Share Posted October 17, 2011 Gorgeous! She looks great! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchethead Posted October 17, 2011 Report Share Posted October 17, 2011 Ok, panic over, repair job done and hopefully it looks ok. I am not the best painter but this has to be my all time favourite You mauled her face with a desk? I wouldn't know it to look at the repair job. Nice work! I would have called this thread: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ebonstar Posted October 17, 2011 Report Share Posted October 17, 2011 Looks great. Nobody will know what happened Crisis averted +1. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigkid Posted October 18, 2011 Report Share Posted October 18, 2011 What the hell happened to her face?!?! Great stuff! (You really can't tell that you tried to kill her with your desk...) I once finished a model, thought it looked great. Covered it in varnish then, whilst it was still wet, proceeded to drop it in a tub of flock... Oh how I laughed!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huang Da Wei Posted October 18, 2011 Author Report Share Posted October 18, 2011 It was part of her face and hat that took the brunt and the paint was chipped away. I just added some small areas to build layers again and then repainted cos I couldnt get it exact. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Shine Posted October 18, 2011 Report Share Posted October 18, 2011 Now base her on a desk for irony Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huang Da Wei Posted October 18, 2011 Author Report Share Posted October 18, 2011 good idea, i havent done the base yet as I cant decide how to do my showgirls Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghiest1 Posted October 21, 2011 Report Share Posted October 21, 2011 Hello, I have had a few of these moments. The first was a competion painted GW forest dragon, I was up till 3 Am lovingly painting highlights on each scale, and tinting the teeth smiling as the competion was in 7 hours. Steping outside to matte coat it I grabed the coat and it was dark as the devil's heart, no big I sprayed for about 2 minutes and realized at that point it seemed to be getting darker? I ran inside to find I had sprayed it with black armory primer><. The second one was a 10 year old child knocking my metal bloodthirster off a table, busting him to pieces, while the mother just looked on and said well it should not be out. (he was 2 feet into th egame table and the child picked him up and dropped him when his mom turned) I banned them both. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huang Da Wei Posted October 22, 2011 Author Report Share Posted October 22, 2011 dont it just get better, I am destined not to finish these showgirls any time soon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gardensnake Posted October 23, 2011 Report Share Posted October 23, 2011 A few years back I had just finished putting a beautiful finish and a hard coat on a set of 15 commissioned, Iyanden Wraith Guard and I took to the spray booth to apply a layer of dullcoat....little did I know, I had grabbed a can of black primer in error. I had sprayed the whole front side of them before I realized my error. Luckily for me, it was a light coat and as I had used a relatively liberal application of hard lacquer, it was a small job to scrub off the black spray, but I was livid that I had made that error at all. Did the same with grey primer. It taught me to double check the can before I spray anything now. William Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huang Da Wei Posted November 2, 2011 Author Report Share Posted November 2, 2011 Right, thats it, Colette can sit at the back of the table cos I am really really p***ed now. I managed to arrange only my 2nd ever game, took my bag of models to work so I could shoot off quickly and go and play after work finished. Someone asked what was in my bag, when I told them another colleague quickly jumped in 'you should see them, he paints really well' So I handed them Collette to see which they promptly dropped onto first a table and then it bounced off onto the floor. Needless to say I need a new model, there is no way I can paint this to look resonable now. :-fate:-fate:-fate:-fate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LonelyPath Posted November 2, 2011 Report Share Posted November 2, 2011 That is a serious run of bad luck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huang Da Wei Posted November 2, 2011 Author Report Share Posted November 2, 2011 back to mcmourings crew for the time being, it will allow me a deep breath and to calm down Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vagen Posted November 3, 2011 Report Share Posted November 3, 2011 At a house warming my Aunt carried my one year old cousin into my game room and let him pick up one of my newly painted figures off the top shelf, where I'd placed them specifically to be out of reach. My anut informed me it was OK for him to chew on my "little toy" because it was metal and he couldn't hurt it. I found him chewing on it and only got it back because it had swords that were only glued on and I'd hate for him to swallow one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huang Da Wei Posted November 5, 2011 Author Report Share Posted November 5, 2011 This just gets better and better. Finished Cassandra today and then turned to the mannequins, one of which fell over and its arm dropped off (its even pinned). This crew is fated I tell you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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