Stupid things, Chapter 2

[Dragonsreach]

Otter said:

me shedding my paint-soaked clothes on the dropcloth and frantically chasing my dog around the apartment in my skivvies.

Otter Please stop right there.! I have a visually orientated cortex!

MY embarrasing moments:
1:Shaking a pot of Pallid Flesh (vigourously) Only the top is not on properly. Which then proceeds to slip out from under my thumb, Fly across room without trailing paint and land on the hindquarters of sleeping Dog. (She\'s a cross labrador) Black fur & Pallid flesh don\'t go together very well. The dog stayed asleep until I had to apply the warm soapy water to remove paint.

2: Many years ago, I & a few friends went to McDonalds in Newcastle, after scoffing off the obligatory Fries, Burger & Milk shake. I collected all the trays & trash and took them to the waste bin. Threw in the rubbish. No problem.
While talking to said friends didn\'t pay attention to where I was placing trays. Missed the receptacle, and trays travelled over the back and caught an attractive young lady on the back of the head.
She turned round to face me with Lettuce, Mayo & burger plastered all over her face and up her nose! Needless to say Macdonalds was full to the brim and absolutley silent!.
I found out two things that day one; how red I can go & two that my friends can travel faster than the speed of light! (And yes I did replace the burger she got decorated with!)

That\'s all I care to share with you at the moment!

 

[Nomis]

How often do we want to reveal our most stupid moments to the world - this reminds me of the thread where we all told of our near death experiences with scalpels and other pointy bits!

There must be something to this thing with inhaling lead!

As far as paint goes my biggest hate is GW inks (can\'t live without them) particularly the flesh wash.

It seems to go every where when you open the pot - old flip tops and solidly stuck screw tops alike - havn\'t tried the new pots yet. Every time I open a pot I get more on me than in the pallet. - had my share of ink/paint on the carpet as well - wife very forgiving - I keep reminding her that if I wasn\'t in painting little bits of metal I could be getting up to lots of mischief elsewhere

Biggest mishaps (non mini related) have been -
My 2 year daughter being attracted to the bright orange of some paiella seasoning which she dumped onto the brand new cream carpet - makes dropping a pot of GW paint a minor problem! We still remind her of that eighteen years later! -no wonder I like Malcolm in the middle.

The other one was touching up the wooden ceiling on our first floor landing, missing the step ladder and depth charging the varnish all over the place - didn\'t matter too much as we wanted to get rid of the carpet any way (see above)
lol

 

[johnboyjjb]

Inks . . . UGH

I open every bottle of ink with the entire thing carefully wrapped in tissue so that when it leaks its ok. Didn\'t work when my dog was chewing on a full bottle of red ink.

 

[syco-pyro]

I had a bottle of super glue pull an \'old faithfull\' right in my lap and on my favorite t-shirt......you could amigine what it could be mistaken for.........

 

[DennisMech]

yeh, when you get zap-a-gap on clothing, it turns rock solid, and can eventually crack into bits, leaving holes in youy pants, or if it doesn\'t do that, just make your crotch look always wet

 

[SaintRigger]

Ugh.. i can sympathize.. i just cracked a tube of suberglue while I was sitting crosslegged on the floor the other day, so I got superglue all over my legs. Being a guy, they are hairy.. being superglue, it bonds instantly.

I gave myself an unexpected leg waxing

I\'m going to go cry myself to sleep in a corner now..

 

[slidedog]

I had a batch of Warmaster Orcs sitting about in a little box about half painted was doing a wash with some brown ink in some small areas, turned my swivel chair and... well you can probably guess. All of the orcs in the box got an instant heavy brown grundge wash, took a while to sort all of that out and make them look decent.

Then there was this time with superglue, let\'s just say I got very attached to that miniature!

 

[TW_JaM]

Dont talk about superglue, my fingertops just have their skin back ... lol well, most of it anyways.

 

[Aryanun]

*sob*

So, about a year and a half ago I finally pick up mini painting again after a 5 year hiatus which ended in me never finishing a mini. Last mini I finished was around 1990.

So I got some Reaper minis and started trying out all this new stuff.. blending, layering? What\'s this? I got this one Egyptian mini by Reaper, beautiful with lots of skin. I thought this would be a good way to learn real skin tones. I want a dark skin, so I start out with primer... that\'s old... and isn\'t really primer. Oops, into the stripper. Start over with real primer, but then I see mold lines. Oops, into the stripper.

So I start again, and again, and again... each time something isn\'t right. The skin tone, the colors, I don\'t have proper control, always something. Five or six times I try and fail and strip this mini of paint.

Finally I get a chance and head for the Dallas area. While there I visit Reaper, get a tour, and a painting lesson from Anne. NOW I understand and I\'m eager to go home and PAINT!! Yes !!

For three weeks afterwards I work on this mini. Every day, and finally I get the mini perfect, based, and she\'s gorgeous. Yes, I finished a mini. I\'m eager to show Anne, and the Reaper forums, and to finally post some pics on here.

It\'s about 8:30pm and dark outside, but it\'s not too hot or humid (a rarity in Austin mind you) so I grab my dullcoate and head for the door with my mini. My boyfriend grabs some minis to seal with me.

I\'m already nervous, I\'ve heard the horror stories about grabbing primer instead and all these things, and with the nasty moths fluttering about and people getting in my way I\'m pretty flustered but I get set up and start spraying.

First swipe, fine.

Second swipe.... fi...

Out of my hand, through a spider web, and into the small garden with wet dullcoat all over her.

I run down the steps of the deck, snag her up, hoping, praying...

and her staff top did a complete 180 and broke her arm off.

The first mini I had finished in 13 years....

The first mini that had blending, and layering, and basing, and a face that Anne painted while showing me...

The first mini that had freehand on it...

gone... covered in bits of dirt and spiderweb and with an arm so out of whack that even when I straightened the staff with the bit of arm attached to it, the arm pieces wouldn\'t align properly.

I was quite distressed, but have since gotten another of the minis and have started over.

I\'m even more determined to finish a mini now.

 

[DennisMech]

you\'ve made me cry

that is such an awful story. But now I\'m looking forward to this new mini of yours

 

[Nelson]

Oooh, I just had a new stupid mistake happen to me , so I\'ll add it in. It actually happened \'bout 15 minutes ago, so the pain is till fresh. I was startin\' to glue a dwarf together, but the freakin\' super glue was jammed. So, being the spastic yet intelligent person I am, I thought the problem out carefully. I had soon deduced with my intelligent super-mind that turning the bottle upside down, pressing really hard, and waving it around while screaming would do the trick. It did, in a big way........I am now the proud owner of a pair of jeans that have about half a bottle of superglue on them.


P.S. Anybody know how to remove superglue?

 

[DennisMech]

Originally posted by Nelson
P.S. Anybody know how to remove superglue?

The trash.

sorry to hear that, but i guess there\'s a reason it\'s called \"super\" glue and not something more friendly like \"elmers\". although elmer is a weird name.

scwewy wabbit

 

[JimG]

Getting Super Glue out

Taa Daa!!!!

Most craft stores sell it.

Flash Back Debonder.

Works on Cyanoacrilates (superglues).

Yer welcome.
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[JimG]

Crap

Sorry that last post was to include a picture of the product to get the superglue out of Nelson\'s jeans.

How do I upload a picture?

I guess it is appropriate that this is under Stupid Things.

 

[paintwidow]

Hi JimG. The way I do it is to right click on the image you want to show, go to Properties, and that will show you the address it\'s at. Copy that into the Insert an Image box, and voila! There it is!

 

[JimG]

Getting further off topic every second

Errr....

Does that work in the forums?

 

[Cerridwyn1st]

More war stories

I had decided to teach a youngster how to paint. So there I am, doing the thing you are NOT supposed to do - painting right out of the pot. You guessed it - made a wrong move and dumped the whole thing on my pants.

So, all inocent like, I turn to my student and say, \"See, THAT\'S why you don\'t paint out of the pot...\"

lol

 

[tooshy]

....deep breath.....

I\'m telling you this in the vain hope my sharing of this experience will help me lead a normal life......

I\'d been drinking with some force for most of the evening down the local pub, and I wasn\'t in too clever a state when I left - I had to follow that very helpful white line in the middle of the road to get me home.

The next day, I was a little off-colour and was struggling to get myself ready for work. Before I go any further, I need to describe the bathroom in my last house.....

Basically an \'L\' shape, as you walk in the room the wash basin, then toilet are down the righthand side, with the bath making up the bottom of the \'L\' going lengthways across the room. The only window being at the end of the room, alongside the bath (confused yet?!)..... To open the curtains, you had to stand in the bath - I had a really crappy curtain rail that stuck.

Right - the scene is set.

Yours truely stood in the bath as usual to open the curtains but when I left the bath, I didn\'t quite lift my foot up high enough and I tripped. I hit the floor with a reasonable amount of force - my shoulder hitting the loo seat on the way down. I finally managed to pick myself up off the floor and then quite literally went into a blind panic - \'cos I couldn\'t see a damn thing. I felt my way to the wash basin and could make out a dark shape - I\'d been holding my hairbrush (the kind with spikes all round for curling hair) and when I hit the deck, I impaled myself on the spikes. I removed it and found myself to be sporting a rather nice pattern of red dots all across my forehead, not too disimilar to one of those \"BCG\" jabs you had at school.

As if that wasn\'t bad enough, I then discovered to my horror that I had a huge carpet burn up my chin and on my elbow - the bathroom had a lino floor, with carpet \'pieces\' in front of the loo and wash basin only.

When I arrived at work later that morning I was the brunt of many jokes and thought the day would never end.

..And the moral to this story.....er... there isn\'t one \'cos I still drink, oh but I now have a roller blind in the bathroom lol

 

[finn17]

Truly heroic....

As an ex-member of the all England freestyle drinking team, I can really appreciate that situation.

I could bore everyone sh*tless with \'tales from the bar\' but a quick scenario from my youth might be appropriate

I was living in a very small house where, in order to go to the loo, you had to leave the living room and turn left to enter the bathroom.

One night, after several beers, I decided a visit to the boys room was necessary and went to the toilet, undid my trousers, pulled the lot down and sat down.

The only problem was, I had turned right outside the living room instead of left, and was now sat on my front door step with my trousers and grundies around my ankles. (worst bit was I had a coconut \'welcome\' mat on my step).

As it was a balmy summer evening and still light outside, my reputation with the neighbours did suffer somewhat

 

[Nomis]

Headlines

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Do the good people of Cornwall Know who they are entrusting their kids to?

I\'ll send account details for the blackmail payoff by PMlollollol