So I’m really starting to make progress on my C.202 paint scheme tonight, I’m doing a neat little tricolor pattern and have the first two colors laid down (all free hand mind you) and am getting the third color ready, the cat is snoozing off to the side in his little bed, the wife is downstairs watching tv - all is calm. The bottle is full of paint and thinner – I’m carefully stirring the paint when the bottle goes ZING out of my hands, spins across the desk spreading paint everywhere, flys off the desk and lands in my lap, bounces from the left leg to the right leg (still spinning) and drops to the chair seat between my nicely painted legs. There still plenty of energy left in this bottle as it makes a little bounce and heads for the floor (now completely inverted). The floor is hardwood so when the bottle hits it gets a pretty good bounce and heads across the floor. It’s really amazing how much paint fits into one of these Tamiya paint jars. This entire process took all of three seconds and the paint bottle has gone out of sight somewhere under the desk. I’m going SH*T!, My wife is downstairs asking me if I’m all right, paint is running down my thighs and dripping off the edge of the desk and the cat is gone (he’s smart). Ya know what? There is not a single stray drop of paint on the model, not one. It seems to be the only thing that spinning bottle missed. Tomorrow morning I’ll hit the local hobby shop and pick up another bottle of paint. The chair is slightly stained, everything came off the floor and desk, my legs have an odd tanned look in places and I still have not seen the cat.
Luck is definitely on your side tonight swanny, that’s for sure! [:D]
Ah yes, I can see it now, or actually I saw it two weeks ago in my workshop, only it was a large bottle of Floquil Old Silver. The cement floor is going to take some time to recover, the Levis are long gone, and the sneakers are now second string. The cats were previously banned due to too much stray hair in gloss finishes.
I clearly sympathise with you!
ROFLMAO thinking about what that must have looked like.
Darwin, O.F. [alien]
ROFLMAO…Oh man…have I seen this happen before? Like in person? Bugger…If it had never happened to me, I’d feel terribly sorry for you and be overwhelmingly sympathetic…well, I AM sympathetic…because I’ve done just what you’ve done…on several occasions…but normally, I do it on carpet - not good.
Cheers, Brother…we all feel your pain. LOL
THanks for sharing the story, Swanny…I could feel the anger, embarassment and then relief with each step! I went through 3/4 a bottle of Micro -Set last night in about 3 seconds, but now I feel fortunate compared to your story.
Any chance of pics of this tri-colored warrior?
LOL! Knock on wood, I haven’t dropped a bottle of paint.
Yet.
Ha ha ha, you have soooo cursed yourself now ;o)
Actually, this is not kinetic energy, it is called entropy.
Hence the “knock on wood.” Lord knows I’ve dropped or knocked over everything else. [banghead]
I hate it when that happens [:D].
Regards, Rick
I feel your pain, Swanny! I had a similar experience, except my spill was 100% acetone, and guess where it landed? Not a bit of damage on anything except my nearly completed RM 1:48 F-104C, which promptly dissolved into a slag pile! Couldn’t even make acrash scene diorama out of that one!
Brian [C):-)]
Ever have your gravity feed cup pop off your air brush. It happened twice to me. Neither time did it do any damage to my work but I think I would have prefered losing a thirty dollar model than ruining my carpet and then wallpaper. You will notice the nice Zinc Cromate yellow tint to my carpet and the nice brown splash on the wallpaper. My chair is and old heavy wood chair with thick arms. When the metal cup fell off it bounced of the solid arm of the chair and shot foward like a bullet. As far as clothes being ruin I only model at night and am always in my jammies so there was no great loss there.
Soulcrusher
My model bench is in the basement over a plain concrete floor. The floor in front of the work bench has some very unusual “splotches” on it. Each one has a story to it, some horrific, some just mundane.
Darwin, O.F. [alien]
Maybe we can call it the humorous release of kinetic energy.
I actually had a large sticker made for the back of my work trailer. It says Ek=1/2 m v2 PASS WITH CARE.
I think theres about three people in this world that get it.
sigh
but thanks for the story.
[(-D][(-D]
Its happened to me as well! Glad the model was OK Swanny, could have been much worse…[;)]
I keep one of those big industrial entry-way carpets they sell at Home Depot under my work table (which is actually my dining room table - I’m not married!).
Its nice because it keeps stuff from bouncing, doesn’t eat stuff like most carpet monsters, and I can throw it away if it gets messed up.
3 seconds to anyone else watching. What you saw was probably in painful slow motion like a scene form the 6 Million Dollor Man(Yes I know I am dating myself)
Exactly, I think I even heard that weird music as the bottle bounced from point to point.
Dropped a bottle of paint when stocking the rack at the LHS I used to work at. It broke, most went on my pants leg. Flat black on tan pants, brand new first time I work them and the only time one ever broke.
PS Any sign of the cat yet?