I almost want to cry...

[BarstoolProphet]

I\'ve been working on a Khorne Chaos Champion for some time, now, with the intent of entering the single mini category at GD Toronto, this year, just to see if I could get past first eliminations (I have no delusions about winning - I\'m not THAT good), and yesterday, I was doing some gold NMM work and was horrified to find that while it accented my red highlighting the way I wanted it to, it also revealed a flash line that I had somehow missed in the cleaning process.
It\'s very fine, but frackin\' LONG, and I\'ll lose about 35 hours of work filing it away. I don\'t have time to do that much work again, and still be able to finish in time. There\'s less than a week to go, and I have my real job taking up most of that time.

*sigh*

I don\'t know what to do, now. Enter it anyway, and pray for blind judges, or just give it up and try next year?

 

[INFERNO]

First of all try to fix it...and enter! It would be the worst thing if You wouldn\'t do that.

Try coat this line with a varnish and repaint over it..

 

[generulpoleaxe]

turn it into battle damage if neccasary.

 

[Aliengod3]

G. Poleaxe made a good point.

You should post a picture of it because it may help us give you better advice. I will say that if it were my mini I would not scrape it off. I would take my chances.

 

[Shawn R. L.]

Originally posted by generulpoleaxe
turn it into battle damage if neccasary.

On cloths the flash line can be a seam and no one is the wiser.

 

[BarstoolProphet]

It\'s on the armoured shoulderpad, just beneath the horn, and runs nearly a quarter inch. I think the battle damage is going to be my best hope on it.

I\'d post a pic, but my photographic abilities aren\'t good enough to get a close-up of it that will show it.

I just showed it to a friend, and it took him five minutes to even find it, so it might not be as bad as it looks to me. But I\'m still going to do something to hide it more. To me, it looks like a cliff, now that I\'ve seen it.

Thanks, guys.

 

[Einion]

God I hate it when you\'re at the painting stage and you spot a mouldline you missed, happened to me on Friday night/Saturday morning finishing off a couple of speedpaints, doh.

Originally posted by BarstoolProphet
It\'s on the armoured shoulderpad, just beneath the horn, and runs nearly a quarter inch.

In that case you could try filling it instead of filing it! Less \'damage\' to adjacent areas so less to repaint.

But battle damage is the way to go otherwise; I\'ve done the same myself more than a couple of times!

Einion

 

[Aliengod3]

Happens to me all the time. I try to clean the mini and then after I primer I examine the mini again to see if anything else shows up. Mould lines are easier to spot with primer blocking the shininess of the metal.

 

[freakinacage]

Originally posted by Einion
In that case you could try filling it instead of filing it! Less \'damage\' to adjacent areas so less to repaint.
Einion

aye, an often overlooked approach to mould lines

 

[BarstoolProphet]

Well... I painted on battle damage, and I think I did it pretty well, because even knowing where to look, I can\'t see the mould line anymore.

However, it being my first time doing battle damage, I\'m not sure I did it very well.

I\'m crossing my fingers for that, and moving on to the last NMM I have to do.

After that, it\'s just the tail hanging on his shield, and he\'ll be ready to take to the show.

If I do this GD entry thing again, I\'m starting a lot earlier.

 

[Einion]

Originally posted by BarstoolProphet
If I do this GD entry thing again, I\'m starting a lot earlier.

That\'s the show entrant\'s mantra!

Einion

 

[Trevor]

An no one ever does it.

 

[BarstoolProphet]

Well....

This piece may not be getting entered until next year, now. I just got word that my father is going in for coronary surgery on friday, and I\'ve sent word that if they need/want me there, I\'ll drop everything to go.

They\'re putting in a stent. I just read up on what the heck that means, and the wikipedia article isn\'t greatly reassuring.

It isn\'t doom and gloom, either, but it doesn\'t say how successful they are, though it does mention that certain kinds of stents cause problems and some fatalities two years (on average) later.

So, I\'m practically on the edge of my seat, with a bag already packed if they want me to head up north.

Part of me just wants to go straight away, but they haven\'t told me which hospital he\'s going in to (probably on purpose). This indicates that they\'re confident that all will go well, up there, but I\'m still worried, some.

*crosses fingers*

On a weird note, I\'m not sure which I\'d rather endure... sitting in a hospital room waiting for word of successful surgery, or standing around at the GD, wondering about how far my mini will go in my first ever seriously competetive effort.

 

[funnymouth]

if the mould line is accessible i cut em\' off with the tip of a brand new exacto. it reduces damage to nearby painted areas.

 

[BarstoolProphet]

Dad\'s replied in person to my email.
He said to wait for the July 1 weekend to go up, as we\'d already planned.
The surgery\'s only an hour long, and he\'s not worried, so that bolsters me significantly.
Now, I just have to paint the furry tail on the shield, and this guy\'s all done and I\'ll get to hang at GD Toronto for the day, and possibly buy something big for next year\'s entry.
I\'ve already got a diorama idea in mind for next year.

 

[War Griffon]

Originally posted by Aliengod3
Happens to me all the time. I try to clean the mini and then after I primer I examine the mini again to see if anything else shows up. Mould lines are easier to spot with primer blocking the shininess of the metal.

Tell me about it I spent ages cleaning up a Female Samurai figure and then sprayed it, went back to it three days later and found some more mold lines and areas where I had done a bit of gap filling that I wasn\'t happy with I could have cried :no:

 

[crazyboyae1]

you know people make such a big deal out of mold lines, but i spoke to tin lison about it and he told me that its not such a big deal and if there is a mold line, its no big deal

 

[paintingploddy]

Good luck to your dad. The stent is very effective. Mum had one put in 14 years ago and is going like a trooper today.

 

[Amazon warrior]

Originally posted by BarstoolProphet
On a weird note, I\'m not sure which I\'d rather endure... sitting in a hospital room waiting for word of successful surgery, or standing around at the GD, wondering about how far my mini will go in my first ever seriously competetive effort.

Well, I\'ve done the former but not the latter. But having been through the waiting at the bedside in the scary hospital, going over all the confusing medical-speak because there\'s nothing else to do and clinging to any shred of hope, I can confidently say that it\'s something I\'d never want to go through again (although chances are that I will at some point, life being like that). However, I wouldn\'t have wanted to be anywhere else at the time because at least we could support all each other in that dark time. By comparison, I reckon GD would be a breeze. The worst thing that can happen is that you lose. You can still go back next year and try again.

Best of luck for your Dad, tho. I\'m under the impression that stent ops are reasonably routine, so they should have had plenty of practice on other people. Good luck for GD too, if you end up going.

 

[alextheartist]

I think its funny how most people I know (including myself) have not been nervous when about surgery...

I knew when i had emergency surgery I would much rather have the surgery than hang around waiting (in my case if I has I would have been dead ... lol)