I was upset about a bad day at work and went into work on some scenery on the layout. I opened up a bottle of craft paint and squeezed it into a paint cup, BOOM - Like mustard or ketchup, it went everywhere, on the backdrop, track, trees, scenery - Yellow paint. Well, I sprayed water/alcohol on it and it broke down a bit. Now I have to re-do the backdrop, re-sand it, paint it, cloud stencil and re-apply the backdrop cut outs. I am an idiot.
Welcome to the club!! You can send your membership fees when you finish with the back drop.
Well, if you didn’t go in mad, you returned that way. But as Bob Ross says, there are no mistakes, just happy surprises. I think a yellow fall scene would look just fine,or you could do a Alascan Goldrush scene and have yellow snow.
If nobody ever made a mistake, they could leave the erasers off all the pencils.
At least you had the excuse of being stressed out. My usual problem is that I’m half asleep - which is what happens when the only time that the train room is habitable is by the dawn’s early light.
Chuck (modeling Central Japan in September, 1964 - with well worn erasers on his pencils)
Just my good luck so far, but the only time I have gone into the layout angry was the time I reached out, closed determined fingers over a bad section of track, and gave a quick and vigorous yank. Didn’t make me feel any better, but it got me to repairing that section properly so that I could run trains again.[banghead]
Sorry about your bad day, Chuck. Maybe a bit of a pause before you dive in and see if you can recall some mental notes of things you’d like to change…it would be the time to do it/them now.
-Crandell
LOL…so true. Welcome to the exclusive “live and learn” club.
David B
I find that if I am upset or mad, I can go down there and it calms me down. But, I do know not to start anything complex right away.
Mmmmmm…[:D]
Your membership card is in the mail!
I’m one of the founding members[:-^]
Fergie
So true… So true. You could almost put that on a T-shirt. I force myself to keep a cold one in my hand if I go out there cranky. One, after the cold one is gone, I usually feel better. Two, Its lot harder to muck something up with one hand…
Your no idiot. Heck, it was only ONE tube after all!
Its not like you knocked over a cup and half of freshly made acholol/water/glue mix that spilled across 5 tracks of your scenicked yard. [:-^]
When I have a bad day at work I use my two word cure.
DRIVING RANGE
Close, but not quite…
HOT TUB
So Chuck…I have a question.
You might want to exit the train room before you read it.
I’ve squirted paint out of bottle into cups before, and yes, air bubbles in the bottle do cause problems.
Sometimes, especially if the nozzle of the bottle is above the rim of the cup, it splatters a few drops of paint around the cup, onto whatever it’s sitting on at the time.
Radius of maybe…six inches?
I’m thinking back, and just not remembering any “BOOMs”.
“Splat?”
Yes.
“Plop?”
Sure, why not?
“BOOM?”
Coming up dry.
My question then, is this:
How much of the paint you describe really sputtered out of the nozzle, and how much more exploded out when the bottle ruptured after it flew across the room?
Juuuuust checking, inquiring minds want to know.
I mean, if you’re using exploding paint on your layout, the rest of us could use some guidance as to the brand and model number, so we can avoid similar…detonations.
Can you clue us on effective blast radius?
1/64th scale splatter in two foot either direction. I am now pouring the paint on the workbench. Too often we use the unfinished sections of layouts as work space. Not a smart idea. I have the scenery all fixed, I will fix the backdrop this weekend.
Example from the real railway (UK).
Years ago I went in to take the late shift at a signalbox (tower to you guys). The early turn man went to get a newspaper before picking his stuff up and going home…
So he came back into the box saying “Hey! They’ve got chocolate milk! I haven’t seen this stuff in ages”. It had a foil top you’re supposed to peel off. So he tried to push through it with his thumb…
Two years later we were still finding places that brown goo had got to.
I try to recall to not open anything liquid near models… or computer…
[sigh]
When I have a bad day at work I use my two word cure. DRIVING RANGE |
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[Close, but not quite…
HOT TUB]
***Target ball, speedbag, weights, coffee…not necessarily in that order. It’s the only time I will not touch a painting. [C):-)] Rob
Hey, look on the bright side, you didn’t try to find out if the $500 steamer bounces. (Nope, haven’t tried, don’t have a $500 loco. But I here it doesn’t work)
Right…like the time I was handlaying the ties for a turnout using white glue and needed something heavy to hold thenm in place while the glue set. Used an almost full can of black paint which somehow over balanced and fell through the frame work onto a rug floor and popped open. Can you say new rug after many swear words.
I recall working on my old layout, all handlaid track, I had a can of spikes, big lots of spikes, I had it on the layout, POOF, down it went to the floor.
I picked up every teeny tiny spike I could find.
grrrrrrrrr Dumpha Joo!!!
I am mad all the time so should I stay away from my train layout? hmmm
I’m mad because I don’t have a train room.