Hobby Hatreds

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What are the things you hate in the hobby of miniatures? I'm not talking rules, etc.

Couple things I hate;

Cleaning flash
That one friggin hair that pops out from my paintbrush to lay down a fine line of WRONG in the section next to the one I'm painting

[Raven]

[Squire]

May 12, 2013 1:57:53 GMT @60mm said:

What are the things you hate in the hobby of miniatures? I'm not talking rules, etc.

Couple things I hate;

Cleaning flash
That one friggin hair that pops out from my paintbrush to lay down a fine line of WRONG in the section next to the one I'm painting

Completely agree with those two

I hate when I'm painting and the paint on my brush keeps drying so I'm constantly cleaning the brush

Drybrushing generally. Such a tedious process

Painting the same stuff over and over and over again (termagants mostly)

[killercroc]

I hate when my exacto goes dull fast.

I hate when my glue gets gummed up at the tip.

I hate when my superglue hardens inside the container.

[robomummy]

i hate when the models do not want to stick to the glue, then you are left positioning it when the glue is still wet which leads to either gaps in the model or ruined detail.

[WestRider]

- I haven't seen this happen in ages, but I've still got some older Models that I've never finished because of it: Mold slippage, where the two halves of the mold didn't quite line up, and so the front half of the model is like 1/16" to the left of the back half. Only ever saw it on metal models, so maybe it's a thing of the past.

- When the sprue attachment points for a bit are way down in the recess between a couple of bits of really fine detail. The Valkyrie kit has some of the worst examples, on the thrusters on the ends of the wings.

[commandersasha]

Painting. If I could afford it, I would have everything commission painted. Someone should teach the kids in the Nike factories to paint, I'd happily pay them twice what they make from sewing trainers.

Oh, and stepping backwards into the army box that you stupidly left on the floor, crushing irreparably an entire Ravenwing. That really sucked.

[jinx]

I hate the fact that GW's paint makes bits stick together better than their glue does (which rlly is saying something)

I hate the fact that no matter how good i store my minis,the ones i painted best always end up damaged.

I hate that while replacing arms on my warriors one broke off leaving a gap and some more filled with useless plastic and ruining a 12 euro model!

[mantisstalker]

People who don't stop talking about how good their army/deck is.
I'm here for fun not to listen to how many ways you can win.

[Overread]

Hmmm things I hate:

1) Cleaning flash/mold lines - seriously it takes freaking ages to clean off and one blast of spray paint always shows up more!

2) WestRider - I've seen that thing where two parts of molds don't line up perfectly a few times with resin - although not too bad where I've encountered it its again a pain to fix like the flash cleaning

3) Models that are metal and all spikes - because gluing them together is an exercise in pain!

4) When models don't stick together well and you end up with superglue running places it shouldn't and at least one finger stuck to the model giving you yet more "finger print" lines to clean up

5) PAINT --- I just - my brain refuses to "click" on getting how to get paint from a paint pot and onto the model.

[Hellbreaker]

Dropping a piece onto the floor. /thread

[GestationPool]

Flash lines and such. Also when I paint one section color A and then go to paint a near by section color B. Color B gets on the area that I need to be color A (the areas are too small or weird shaped to be masked.) So then I go back and cover up the misplaced color B with color A, and end up getting color A were I wanted color B to be, Ad infinitum...

If that makes any sense .

-GP

[Psychichobo]

I hate long spindly bits like spears and spikes. Trying not to snap them during transport is impossible.

[WestRider]

May 12, 2013 15:46:59 GMT Overread said:

2) WestRider - I've seen that thing where two parts of molds don't line up perfectly a few times with resin - although not too bad where I've encountered it its again a pain to fix like the flash cleaning

3) Models that are metal and all spikes - because gluing them together is an exercise in pain!

Bummer. I was hoping new technology would have rendered that problem obsolete. At least Resin's easier to fix than Metal.

And oh, Freddie, yes. So much pain assembling all my old Chaos Terminators

[mantisstalker]

1- Ball joints on your Dark Eldar skimmer. I mean just why GW? What is the point?

2- When you accidentally glue magnets to said flying bases in the wrong position -_-