"Do you ever drop things?" Topic

I don't know if it has something to do with advancing age (heaven forbid!), but I've noticed a growing tendency to drop the figure I'm painting. Maybe I've getting carried away with my brushstrokes, or maybe my attention shifts and my grip momentarily loosens.

At any rate, I was drybrushing one of those multi-part plastic figures last night, and the darn thing slipped from my hand and crashed to the ground, whereupon it shattered!

I have found the base, and a gun, but the figure itself is nowhere to be found. Based on what I heard, it must have skipped and jumped a few times!

So sometime today, in better lighting, I will launch the expedition to find the lost figure… There just aren't that many places to hide in my workroom!

Yes, I've dropped everything--twice--in my time at the brushes.

And that was when I was YOUNG.

In fact, I've dropped the bloody BRUSH.

Being born a klutz gets really old. Especially as I'm getting REALLY old.

TVAG

Yep…..

Tally Ho!

I drop small critical bits all the time. When they hit the floor they are sucked into an alternate dimension never to be seen again even if it's on linoleum.

Constantly -- until I got one of those mini-holders from Citadel: link

There are even fancier ones out there.

No, but I wish the Mrs did!

(I'll get me coat…)

Yep, even more than I used to. Another argument for going to larger scales.

When an older fellow drops something from a hand that normally can be trusted, and then he must crawl around on the floor to find the pieces and parts… it is most often his body forcing him to do a bit of exercise.

Excuse me. I had to pick up a fig that I dropped while painting it. What was the question?

I now mount figures to be painted onto corks. I haven't dropped a cork yet. Brushes is a different case ….

…. and I knocked over a whole bottle of brown wash last week ….

I drop stuff so much a friend of mine bought me a jeweler's bib. It's like a smock, but it has Velcro buttons that attach to contact points you glue under your work surface.

Constantly, and things disappear when they hit my floor! I've often thought of putting a white floor down under my painting space.

I've dropped 15mm minis into bottles of paint a few times… :-p

Remember the old Freikorps metal they used for casting? The really hard and really, really brittle metal?

How about dropping a painted SYW regiment of those figures onto a concrete floor.

Now they're just a bunch of black gaiters sticking upright on flocked stands. My friend, who owned them, and was the one who dropped them, still has nightmares about that day.

Frequently and I sometime fall asleep while painting.

The best part is knocking things over as I reach to pick up something I dropped.

Yes indeed.

Yes and getting worse with age so gird your loins.

Found it! Nestled between two objects of similar color… camo!

I do it so often now that I paint over carpet. Dropped a sculpture I was working on yesterday. Ah, good times. 🙁

A few times – more frequent is knocking something else off the table.

I gave up and let younger people paint my figures.

I do drop things more than I used to, and I was always kind of clumsy. Funnily enough, after 20+ years of martial arts, I often catch the thing I've dropped, which is somehow amusing.

I have developed some workarounds, like not holding small fiddly objects over the floor. So when I paint, I'm seated at my table and oriented forward, over it, not leaning back (tempting as it is to examine something I've done by lifting it to my face and the sky).

I always hold my watch over my inbox when I change watchbands, so that when I drop it, it won't fall far, will land on soft unopened mail, won't bounce much off the soft unopened mail, and will be constrained by the sides of the inbox. (My watchbands are nylon "NATO style" and just thread through the posts; I never have to remove those invisible spring-loading disappearance artists.)

A trick I learned 20+ years ago from an old timer of the model railroading world: sew Velcro onto the bottom of an apron and onto the edge of your workbench. Attach them when working and it makes a safety net that catches most things from falling into the oblivion.

Yep.No feeling in the tips of my fingers. You should see me out for a meal and trying to pick up the tooth pick that just slipped out of my grip! Paint brushes too!!

All the time!

I'm on a first name bases with the carpet under the table.

I drop the bass, I drop the mic, I drop names, and I play my guitar in drop-D tuning.

Only by accident.

Old guy, essential tremor, failing vision – I'm lucky if I hold onto anything long enough to get some paint on it.

LT

@Tony S
Remember the old Freikorps metal they used for casting? The really hard and really, really brittle metal?

How about dropping a painted SYW regiment of those figures onto a concrete floor.

Now they're just a bunch of black gaiters sticking upright on flocked stands. My friend, who owned them, and was the one who dropped them, still has nightmares about that day.

Oh GAWD, DO I?!?!
Wait…do I…?
Oh yeah, I dropped a freshly primed Hussar figure, now most of the floor here was covered with old carpet except for tiny little square inna corner, like a guided missle the fig headed straight for that little spot and WHAM!!!! it literally exploded, head one way, torso another, horse over that-a-way, base some where over my head and into my book shelf. I of course hit the deck waiting for the shrapnel to stop flying lest I take a hit. Wow!!! managed to find the bigger pieces and with the copious aid of most of a tube of Krazy Glue managed to piece the poor lad back together, mostly.