"Your best bad idea is?..." Topic

mine is for painting yellow:

painted white, then inked with yellow. I swear the brightness of the yellow could be named Tchernobyl fluo.

Probably not that unique, but when I started to experiment with black primer I primed a unit of medieval archers black then painted their tunics red

Not a pretty sight

Priming white. Using a strainer to paint digital camo.

When I painted elves, I was fond of painting the cloak a light purple, heavy handed orange drybrushing, and then a purple inkwash. Weird effect but I liked it. For evil types , they often got black with a blue inkwash or bronze/copper with a green inkwash.

Phil

Using a strainer to paint digital camo.

Hehe. I once tried that with cross-stitch material and an airbrush. An interesting effect, but not useful.

Doug

metallic purple epic scale space marine army. yuck! still pains me when i see them

handing my beer to somebody and saying "Watch this…"

I tried clear plastic for bases. Just didn't look that good.

Re-marrying.

Painted 24 foot for a customer once, real late nighter, thought now Ive finished if I push it ten minutes more I can varnish em……. so tired I picked up plasticoat black rather than their varnish and made 2 passes before noticing, whatapillock.co.uk

Got impatient and tried to spray matte varnish on a hot, humid day. My black orcs were covered in little white flecks… like salted pretzels.

Same as mgaffn1 – not checking the weather before spraying with varnish.

trying to do an Austrian army corps from 1809 book in 6mm at 1 man=20 never having a/ painted white uniforms before b/painted 6mm before and c/buying all of it at once, 1200-1500 figs + guns.

Wrote a set of gaming rules for my club that had a lot of color coding. I forgot that two of the guys were color blind and it didn't go so well.

Allen

I keep repeating this bad idea every six months or so, depending on what I'm painting.

Think that an ink and/or liner wash under a color is going to make a darn bit of difference. The base coat always covers it completely.

Thin your base coat down a bit more. I use orange and yellow as base coats under horse colours and it works well.

Spraying a finished unit with matt varnish which was actually white primer.

Bill

Priming a model jet in black, dark blue, dark green panel-shaped patches, thinking they would show through the spray can top coat of silver and would look like different tones of metal.

The result was a lovely uniform silver.

Learning from my mistake, I didn't bother priming the next aircraft at all and tried to spray white paint over light blue plastic. The primer wasn't going to show, right? Wrong. Seven coats later I could see blue plastic under white paint.

Figuring out the best way to paint Star Wars Imperial Stormtroopers.
The technique resulted in award-winning paint jobs with one judge who was a model-maker who had worked on "The Abyss" telling the other judges on the panel: "Do you have any idea how hard it is to make white look that good?"
It was a triumph and a curse, because I now have 32 beautiful Stormtroopers, but I just can't face spending 8 to 10 hours per figure to expand my army any more.

Go on then. What is the best way to do white? The difficulty has to be with how to shade facets of the armour according to which way they are angled, right?

Metallic copper on royal purple shield designs in 15mm.

Every time I sit down at the painting table bad things and ideas have a habit of coming to fruition.

4th Cuirassier; with white try using an off white, and only use pure white for high lighting. Please read first paragraph first!

Trying to use Krylon spray acrylics for base coats!

Using water colors and then spraying with a water based clear flat. It washed the paint off.

I've had many, another I just did. It was adding sand to the bases of figures before I spayed primed them. I though that by doing this it would help secure the sand to the base. The spray paint, however, blow sand dust up onto the figures.

H'mmm! I do that all the time and never have that problem. What are you using for a fixatif?

Ohhhh Shiny……

I really need those unpainted figures like a hole in the head, yet, I walk away with them….

To add to the already large pile…..

Adding to the lead pile is a good thing or else why would so many Gamer's always be doing it!"wrgmr1" rest easy, you have done a good thing.

Changing figure scale or basing continually, therefore never getting anything finished!

Thinking that one small "starter" can of white spray in a "starter paint set" really will be a box of paints that will "be everything you need to get STARTED!"
Then spending the rest of my budget for the next couple of months on figures.
The 20 perry brits I've painted look wonderful- it's the other 16 line 4 riflemen 8 dismounted dragoons 13 mounted dragoons and 3 mounted colonels that will sit on my table staring at me while I have the time to paint them but not the money or paint to even do phase one of my painting style.
In other words I can't get STARTED!
:)
Bloody Marketing! Who's the more foolish? the fool or the fool that follows it?
Cheers- NB

Hit up the local hardware store and get some cheap white spray. Less than $5. USD You don't need to buy hobby spray for primer.

buying a box of romans because they were so cheap and having no interest to play or paint them

Cutting that last large blob of flash with a new Exacto blade while very tired.

DM

Not testing a new can of dulcoat prior to spraying some units. I've had some cans that came out high gloss instead of dulcoat. Of course this only happens when you're in a hurry to finish them off.

The 20 perry brits I've painted look wonderful- it's the other 16 line 4 riflemen 8 dismounted dragoons 13 mounted dragoons and 3 mounted colonels that will sit on my table staring at me while I have the time to paint them but not the money or paint to even do phase one of my painting style.

You think 44 figures is a lot of unpainted models?

You should see the shelves in my basement…

• Worst thing I ever did: prime in grey instead of black.

• Worst thing that ever turned out AWESOME: more figures, followed by… more figures.

Cheers,

The Bandit

And backing up Scott on his opinion of a lot of unpainted figures:

I've got something like 3500 unpainted Napoleonics, another maybe 300-400 unpainted ACW and then maybe 200 unpainted WW2.

And I am pretty sure as far as unpainted goes I am not a heavy weight.

Cheers,

The Bandit

Getting into wargaming to start with?

Just thought to buy a few Figures…………..ACW WW1 Veit nam ORKS an`1879 BRITS Paints brushes bit & pieces & the total is……….HOW MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!

First time I applied static grass to the bases of a unit of Warhammer Empire soldiers and another unit of Warhammer Orcs I had painted, and then sprayed them with spray varnish.

Didn't know up until then that spray varnish MELTS static grass. Came back and the grass was melted down to a shrivelled gray.

That was the moment I learned, spray varnish first, and static grass last!