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16/09/2016 at 22:41 #48781
Victoria Dickson
ParticipantI’m trying my hand at making a terrain board, it’s all going quite nicely. It’s for an alien planet, sort of sandy terrain, some rocky bits, a large crater in the middle. I’ve just glued the sand on and stand back to admire my work, feeling quite proud of how it’s looking. I decide to make a celebratory cup of tea, and pick my mug up. Turns out it wasn’t empty after all, goes all over the terrain board, which now seems to have a lake in the middle of a swamp…
So, to make me feel like I’m not alone in this, anyone want to share any of their oops moments?
16/09/2016 at 23:01 #48783Paul
ParticipantAnd all you said was “oops”? I would have said another word. Also four letters though ☺
I had a trip to the ER in the middle of the night for a few stitches when the first inch or so of my thumb and nail lost a fight with a craft knife.
Other than that, I have dropped a lovingly scratchbuilt feudal Japanese building and also found the casualties after my son got hold of my Black Hat Green Martians
Those are brave men knocking at our door. Let's go kill them!
16/09/2016 at 23:23 #48788McKinstry
ParticipantGrabbed the can of matte sealant spray to put the final coat on an 18 figure unit that only took about 18 full hours to paint. Only one problem. Due to aggravated brain flatulence, it wasn’t clear matte sealer, it was white primer.
Oops.
The tree of Life is self pruning.
17/09/2016 at 02:18 #48796Mr. Average
Participant17/09/2016 at 03:27 #48797kyoteblue
ParticipantI dropped a box that had a fully painted New Kingdom Egyptian in 15mm for DBM with all the Chariots………
17/09/2016 at 03:30 #48798Just Jack
ParticipantMost of my ‘oops’ have to do with me sticking an X-acto knife into some part of my body.
I’ve also had my kids break all the wheels off some 6- and 8-wheeled vehicles, pry the magnets off some of my 1/600 aircraft, and drop some 10mm bases on the ground, KO’ing them.
And one time I had a platter full of 10mm bases lined up to be spray matted, and I gave them a nice coat of white spray primer…
V/R,
Jack
18/09/2016 at 05:04 #48840Norm S
ParticipantThumb slightly over the edge of a metal rule when the craft knife ran down the ruler.
Playing a hex and counter game, saw the hand of My daughter reach up onto the table and take one of the beautiful cavalry unit counters. By the time I got out of the seat and around the table, the counter was in her mouth and chewed!
18/09/2016 at 17:00 #48869Cerdic
ParticipantLook at it in a positive way. A tea coloured wash can give a great natural look to a piece!
18/09/2016 at 17:46 #48873zippyfusenet
ParticipantNot an ‘oops’, but an ‘oh %[email protected]#&*!’. For no reason I can identify, two of our five cats started a whizzing contest in my library. Several of the lower shelves got hit bad. I completely lost at least a dozen volumes of wargame rules, Ospreys, you name it. I salvaged many other volumes with minor ‘water damage’. There’s an enzyme solution that kills the smell, but you can see that the paper has been soaked with *something*. I can’t lock them out, my library/game room/workshop is the finished half of our basement; their proper litter boxes are in the old coal cellar, they have to pass through. I tried everything I could think of to break them of the behavior, but they still do it from time to time when they’re quarreling. I won’t get rid of the cats, I like them better than I like most of my family. I’ve wound up duct-taping heavy plastic sheeting around every bottom shelf in the room, to block the streams of cat pee. And I clean up after the little monsters. Really, most of my family causes me more trouble than that, and makes more mess. Really.
You'll shoot your eye out, kid!
18/09/2016 at 18:26 #48876Guy Farrish
ParticipantAre they neutered?
Never had a neutered cat behave like that – and it doesn’t hurt at all as long as you remember to keep your fingers on the side of the bricks.
18/09/2016 at 21:13 #48888zippyfusenet
ParticipantOh yeah, they’re neutered. But these trouble makers are girls. Much worse than the boys in their dominance contents.
You'll shoot your eye out, kid!
19/09/2016 at 04:39 #48902The Gorb
Participant@zippyfusenet – Ewwwwww! I have two cats and with luck they will eventually pass away quickly, quietly and without pain.
Most of my ‘oopsies’ involve a slip of the xacto knife as described by ‘Just Jack’, though I had one episode of a can of spray primer spit out chunks of primer rather than a fine spray. Off to a two week soak in Simple Green with that unit for a good two week soak and brush cleaning.
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