Paint a model to match an existing scheme, only to realise the main colour you've used on the main one is not the main colour you used on the earlier ones.
Dropping a small bit while assembling a mini (head, hand, pouch/weapon, etc.) and having it disappear for a time despite the efforts.
Then having it reappear just at a random moment.
Having the X-acto knife roll off the table and embed itself in your body.
Bonus points if you somehow manage to achieve this after sorting out a way to stop the knife from rolling in the first place. (Triangle pencil grip, green stuff blob, etc.)
Painting a miniature without worrying about box art, templates, example pictures, lore or anything else except your own imagination and the story you want to tell.
Main one that comes to mind is initially deciding that a single small-ish container will be "perfect" for storing all your extra bits in, only to then realize a year or two later that you probably should have gone with a Plano organizer or equivalent. Makes searching for a specific bit way easier.
For the record, my first bits box/bin was a Ferrero Rocher one with a hinged lid at the top. It's handy for storing all sorts of sizes of bits, but oh boy, trying to find an axe, or a head in all that mass of plastic just doesn't work that well. I have a Plano for each scale I work in now...
Assembling an absolutely gorgeous model from any designer focused 100% on beauty and 0% on ease of build. The "you need tweezers, a hobby vice and an endoscope to hold it while it sets" school of design.
If you started with GW: explore any other company's games and especially their paints
If you didn't start with GW: Getting some organization into your hobby with mini friendly storage solutions and some paint organization
A few: Spilling the Nuln Oil, mistaking the water for cleaning brushes with the coffee cup or whatever you're drinking, dropping a bit and it mysteriously vanishing from the face of the earth, painting crooked eyes (many of them)... Etc.
It really has to be spilling Nuln oil (or Agrax/SS).
Older version would be gluing yourself to your multi-part metal miniature using super glue while failing to actually glue the mini together (looking at you 1st edition ork dreadnought).
Cutting a vital model piece of the sprue and having it ping off into the void, vanishing from existence, never to be found despite there being nowhere for it to hide...
Buy a mini solely for use in a conversion/kitbash, not do it, then three years later, use it in a completely different project in a completely different way than you intended.
Me and my group of friends managed to avoid most GW stuff for the last 10 years, except, I think, some Warcry or things like that. I can't say I miss anything, and I can still laugh at the 40k memes. I think if I liked historical stuff it would be even easier.
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That & build a metal Land raider crusader with GW superglue.
Believe me I speak from experience.
Behold the result of my most expensive spillage so far:
dirty down rust!
I’ll keep this like a trophy.
Then having it reappear just at a random moment.
Bonus points if you somehow manage to achieve this after sorting out a way to stop the knife from rolling in the first place. (Triangle pencil grip, green stuff blob, etc.)
(The Howling Griffon on the left is from 2023, the Space Wolf on the right is from this afternoon.)
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I still suck at painting faces.
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That moment where all your problems wash away, the stimulation is low, and you're feeling content with simply existing.
Also, he’d owe me a bunch of stuff 🤨
I see.
Endless corridors. The occasional plastic thumb and forefinger
If you didn't start with GW: Getting some organization into your hobby with mini friendly storage solutions and some paint organization
Older version would be gluing yourself to your multi-part metal miniature using super glue while failing to actually glue the mini together (looking at you 1st edition ork dreadnought).
Negative: Having your jump Captain fall off the table and snap the tips off his lightning claws you custom ordered
The last one is a bit specific to me, I think.
Start an army and not finish it.
Cut yourself while constructing a model.
Roll all 1s or 6s when rolling more than 3 dice.
Painstakingly paint a model, start to finish, sit back and look at the finished product and go ".....nope, hate it".