The Horror, The Horror

[YellaMoon]

Has anyone had A bad day like this?
I've just started paintin the Andrea WWI Trench Raider, You Know the one with the weary looking face. Yesterday, I started painting the face. After three hours it was done. It looked great! Bloodshot eyes, sallow complexion, raggedy 5 o'clock shadow, it looked great! Now it was time to paint the helmet (still not attached to the figure). I mixed a field gray color and painted the inside of the helmet. After it was dry (jist a few minutes, I paint with acrylics). Now comes the scary part. I test fit the helmet to the head to see if there were any unpainted places showing. The head, pin and all, pops off the body and lands PLOP!, up to the bridge of the nose, into the blob of field gray paint.
Shock! My face..... My great painted face!!! I Here my wife calling from upstairs, "Who's that screaming like a woman down there!"
After a quick wash (not quick enough) in clean water I have a gray green tinted face from the bridge of the nose down
Evidentaly there was an air bubble in the epoxy when I glued the head on.
Back to the old drawing board!
RWD
Anybody else have any chilling tales of figure painting?

 

[Edson]

Man!! that`s a raeally sad tale, sorry to hear that about your great painted face , in my case....Once upon a time a happy painter we`ll call him "Edd" he were painted a resin kit (i hate resin kit, they broken in your hand , and you can`t believe it :angry: )... well continue with the tale, it would be a figure for a friend I mean he buy them, I help him to paint.

After a good primer, and basic color in the skin (BTW the kit was WWII Michael whitman, seated, like to put it in a tank) when all looks great , I stand up to get some water...and

1.-I stand up
2.- the bench start shaking
3.-the figure jumps to the floor....

<---my face.....
4.- Mr. Whitman now is on 4 pieces(just the head and torso..) no wait 8... oh no 10.....

have a nice day Mr. Whitman (RIP)

......
NEXT KIT PLEASE!!!!

Cheers
Ed :lol:

 

[KeithP]

I don't think that I have had a figure NOT take a header off the bench.

Current - Pegaso 54 mm Teutonic Grand Master arm with spear takes dive off bench. Bends spear tip so bad had to replace.

Recent - Red Lancer bust torso take dive off work bench after wet on wet of blue. Spent most of that day picking carpet lint off...

Everyone has these... I think there are a couple of threads from Craig on a few of his busts...

Keith

 

[phc35]

One time at band camp......But really folks,I thought a little time in a toaster oven
would dry the coat on a finished fig. When I returned,I stared at a puddle of
white metal!!! DOAH!!!!! :lol:

 

[Anders Heintz]

Oh yeah, that is most definately a horror story!


I really can't recall something like this happening to me lately, although one little mishap in a little different way was when a buddy of mine and I was doing some modeling (when we were like 14-16 maybe), he made some smart ass comment about something while he was cutting out a bathtub out of a block of wood, and I was going down stairs to get something and after his remark I said man I hope you cut your self in a jokingly way, and when I get back up like 2 min later he is like, man I cut my self up real bad, and I thought he was joking, but man did he cut him self up, you could see through to his bone on his pointing finger. I felt so bad about that for the longest time.

 

[Anders Heintz]

Oh yeah!! I did one of those melting DOH!'s.

Was painting the face on a 120mm DML figure, this was back when I was torturing my figures with oils and I set it infront of a light bulb for it to cure, and when I came back there was a big gaping hole in the dudes chest! I have pictorial evidence of the mishap!

http://www.armorama.com/modules.php?op=mod...rtid=120&page=2

 

[garyjd]

Anders, :lol: , Sorry.~Gary

 

[rdclaeps]

Spattered some CA glue and took a drop in the eye. This resulted in a trip to ER where the doctor scraped the glue off the eyeball with a hypodermic needle.

 

[Robert Merz]

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[Guy]

Robert........I paint in enamels and tube oils and when I am done each night, I leave my paint rag that I use for wiping the thinner off the brush, right on the top of my desk.......my 2 cats hate the smell and leave my desk alone.

As to mishaps........probably the most serious was after driving 15 hours to the Atlanta show......competing in their show........and 15 hours back home. I was unpacking my Series 77 Mounted Mountain Man when I tilted the base a little and figure....and groundwork slid right off the base onto the floor. I now use elmers glue mixed into the plaster I use and have not had that problem since. The Mountain Man was repaired and mounted back onto the same base and now sits in my display case.

 

[Pete_H]

Once during a late-night painting session, I reached over for my glass of beer. Just as I was to take a sip while staring at a 1/35 head through an optivisor, the taste of silicoil told me that wasn't beer in my hand.

 

[Anders Heintz]

Hey Robert!

Great to see you back in business!!

Pete,

There is that saying that "Sin punishes it self. . ."

 

[Jason W.]

Originally posted by Edson@Aug 30 2004, 05:54 PM

4.- Mr. Whitman now is on 4 pieces(just the head and torso..) no wait 8... oh no 10.....

have a nice day Mr. Whitman (RIP)

Hey...Hey...Hey!! I'm still here! No bones broken :lol:

I hope you mean panzer ace Michael Wittmann.

Just kidden Ed. Sorry about the figure.

 

[Grizzly]

Oh man i could write a small book of the modeling mishaps,from glueing parts to my fingers etc.!! but id have to say my worst is at a show little over a year ago,my first 120mm figure (serious one that is) awesome job i thought,put it on the table went to check out the vendors,not too long after that this little kid about 5yrs. is running around the table with my figure in his hands!
Tried to catch him along with a few other modelers,finally cornered him and instead of surrendering the figure the little you know what! threw it right smack into a concrete pillar! :angry:
Once had a nice figure now i got a puzzle.

 

[Edson]

Originally posted by Jason W.@Aug 30 2004, 09:05 PM
Hey...Hey...Hey!! I'm still here! No bones broken

I hope you mean panzer ace Michael Wittmann.

Just kidden Ed. Sorry about the figure.

lol, sorry Jason I did mean Wittman the panzer Ace , hehe :lol: :lol: ,
anyway the kit is gone hahaha

Cheers
Ed

 

[Uruk-Hai]

Originally posted by Grizzly@Aug 30 2004, 10:00 PM
Oh man i could write a small book of the modeling mishaps,from glueing parts to my fingers etc.!! but id have to say my worst is at a show little over a year ago,my first 120mm figure (serious one that is) awesome job i thought,put it on the table went to check out the vendors,not too long after that this little kid about 5yrs. is running around the table with my figure in his hands!
Tried to catch him along with a few other modelers,finally cornered him and instead of surrendering the figure the little you know what! threw it right smack into a concrete pillar! :angry:
Once had a nice figure now i got a puzzle.

Gee Thomas!

I cant imagen how furious I would be had the figure been mine. What did the parents do?

 

[Jim Hockett]

Let's just say it's a really bad idea to have clear flat and primer in similar spray cans. Clear flat on an unprimed figure, no big deal. Primer over tartan, aaarrggghh!

Jim

 

[Mongo Mel]

Hi Rhodes,
Here's a link to my own horror story that Keith mentioned.
Disasters
For what it's worth, I got lucky and managed to bring both of these pieces back fron the brink of the trash can :lol: .
So, hang in there and good luck!
Craig

 

[YellaMoon]

Hey Craig,
Never the less, if that was the same bust you had at the D.C. show, It was fine work.
RWD

 

[Grizzly]

well Janne,they didnt do anything! the kind of parents who let their kids run wild.
At least the people at the show asked them to leave.