Painting Mishaps

airhead

airhead

Coffin Dodger / Keymaster
Had an airbrush clog one night. Something in the paint bottle. Tried to free it buy putting my finger over the needle and pushing down on the air trigger. 45 psi of air (doing t-shirts) into the paint bottle and out of the breather hole on top - along with about an ounce of paint. Neat splatter effect all over the walls, carpet, ceiling, me, shirt and virtually anything else in the room. Funny part is the paint almost matched the repaint we did of the room this summer. Also put in new carpet.

Wife won\'t let me airbrush on the new carpet.:(:rolleyes::innocent: I now have been regulated to the garage.
 
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Hoblit

New member
Well i had just started painting, my first ever models, a Necromunda gang, (Van Saar if you\'re interested) I\'d primed them and had them all sitting in a row on my desk. As these were the first models I was going to paint I was doing them one at a time. anyway, I had just finished the juve, when I knocked over the jar of paint, some brown colour. the paint went all over the remaining 7 models the desk and the bed next to the desk. 5 years later and I still haven\'t managed to get the paint off the pillow case.

As far as the mini\'s go, a friend told me about brake fluid, so that turned out okay.
 
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LouisCypher

New member
My carpet and painting chair are covered with tiny little yellow drops :innocent:

i glued myself several times, and glued many other things too: the desk, the chair, glued a mini on its base but the super glue ran over it and i tried to wash with water, transforming the whole thing in a big spider glue web and so on

Off topic, just yesterday i had a quite large amount of fuel for my motorbike right in my eyes (OMG, it burns a lot!) :cool:

more to come lol

Luca
 
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praetorian0_1

Guest
STUPIDLY PAINTING WITHIN 100 m of THE CAT. Try ultramarine blue on salmon carpet- not in my place either AARRGG.
Frantic dilution and Tide with bleach/color guard actualyy washed it out of the top layers of carpet enough to escape detection. Whew,:wow:close one.
 
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finn17

New member
Why not?

Originally posted by DragonsreachFrom some comments posted I think he hire\'s his. :D
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It\'s possibly cheaper and quicker than doing them myself and the results are ten times better.....
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johnboyjjb

Active member
Originally posted by Dragonsreach
B.T.D.T.
Long long ago (in a galaxy far far away) well any how many years befor I was married I tried to open a glass bottle of Gloss Black paint.
Shatered the top off the bottle, which then turned into shrapnel in my hand. Of course the contents of the whole bottle landed in my lap and proceeded to thence travel onto the chair I was sitting on.

My mother went absolutley \"Fruit loops\" (a not uncommon occurence with her!) about the state of the chair. This was despite the fact I\'m also bleeding like a stuck pig from several shards of broken glass in my hand.
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Hard to fish those bottle bits out of your hand when its dripping paint isn\'t it? Then you go to wash off (dripping paint all along the way) only to get your hands wet enough that you can\'t grip the bits of bottle you can now see. And heaven forbid you grab a towel to dry your hands as you slowly grind the bits deeper into your hand springing forth new pools of blood.
 
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Astonia

New member
I once dropped a whole mini in a paint bottle. I was painting my wood elf blood bowl team, and I was just about to finish the last yellow highlight when I just dropped him straight down into the bottle. Luckily I was quick enough to put him in the water bowl before the paint dried, but he still has a sort of yellow tone to him...which is pretty ok for a wood elf anyway ;)
 
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Aryanun

New member
I finished my first model in ten years. First time for things like freehand, layering, basing, blacklining, dark skin tone, highlighting, ... pretty much everything as I used to paint straight from the lid (ick) and never thought about doing shadows or highlights...

So, I go to seal the mini at about 10pm. Mini falls from the deck, through a spider web, and into the hard clay dirt.

Her arm broke and dirt adhered to the wet sealer.

Yay me.
 
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Grumbold Ironbrow

Guest
Worst F---Up for me...

Worst mistake I ever made was late one night. I\'d been working for several (4-5) hours on a couple of minis trying to get them finished. I managed to get one completed, went back to the paint booth to seal it, slipped the mini into the booth, grabbed the can of gloss sealer for the first coat, shook it like hell for a minute, turned to the paint booth, sprayed the sealer and managed to recoat the front of the mini with w/ a lovely new coat of white primer...:flame:

Threw the primer can across the basement, turned out the lights and went to bed. Ended up having to strip the mini and start all over..lol

Funny now, not nearly so funny then...

Cheers,
Grumb
 
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