Oh shit! What have I done moment.

Mr Papafakis

Mr Papafakis

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Quite a few years ago now I was fortunate enough to pick up eight Jes Goodwin ogres on Ebay......incorrectly listed for about $40 AUS. In addition to these guys was an unknown (to me anyway) ogre. I had no idea who made it & to be perfectly honest, I didn't really care.....as far as i was concerned, I felt like I had just won the bargain of the century!

Anyway, once I got them in my hot little hands I tossed this other ogre in my bits draw & began work on my "proper" ogres.

It wasn't until two or three years later that I decided to use the unknown guy for a conversion. About a week after I had begun hacking into him I saw a pic of him on the net....turned out he was an early citadel FF Giant Troll!

http://www.solegends.com/citf/citff/citffpics.htm

Not sure if he was/is worth much, but the timing couldn't have been worse. He had sat in my draw for years, and I had not come across this mini "until" I started chopping him up.

Oh well, the damage had been done... no going back.

Has this error/fuckup ever happened to you guys? Or just me? :roll:
 

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Oh yes, I totally empathise! I've done that A LOT. I've butchered a band of unreferenced squat pirates I traded in a hobby store (the survivor finished his life in the collection of someone here though, traded for a "shorty" ratling...) and I can't count how many Jes Goodwin champions I've mutilated (Nearly got all of them in doubles)...
 
Yeah I went through that kind of moment... The first miniature kit I ever bought was the 2nd edition of space crusade in a yard sell, for 3$!
I was 11 years old at the time, not only did I paint these guys with Testor paint, I then decided to convert all the scouts into hybrids for a genestealer cult, what a butchery!
And just to make matters worst, I traded the box, the rules and the game boards for a bunch of plastic tyranids. :cry:
 
Asslessman":xgnrwj02 said:
Oh yes, I totally empathise! I've done that A LOT. I've butchered a band of unreferenced squat pirates I traded in a hobby store (the survivor finished his life in the collection of someone here though, traded for a "shorty" ratling...) and I can't count how many Jes Goodwin champions I've mutilated (Nearly got all of them in doubles)...
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That survivor now lives across the Atlantic Ocean, and with other squat pirates! Though I still need the one with the pirate hat, dang it, to complete the set.

Optimus, I will say that your conversion should not be regretted overly much, because it looks great.
 
Orjetax":3qopeqy4 said:
Asslessman":3qopeqy4 said:
Oh yes, I totally empathise! I've done that A LOT. I've butchered a band of unreferenced squat pirates I traded in a hobby store (the survivor finished his life in the collection of someone here though, traded for a "shorty" ratling...) and I can't count how many Jes Goodwin champions I've mutilated (Nearly got all of them in doubles)...
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That survivor now lives across the Atlantic Ocean, and with other squat pirates! Though I still need the one with the pirate hat, dang it, to complete the set.

Optimus, I will say that your conversion should not be regretted overly much, because it looks great.
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Yeah, even though it's quite possibly a rare mini, it's still an awful sculpt!
 
Aiteal":13szc663 said:
You gelded the poor bugger!
Mine's is missing the end of his club, the wooden one that is.
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Having grown up with the rebuild-able nature of Lego, very few of my old minis survived intact as I would constantly be kit-bashing kit-bashed minis. Basically all I have to show of my early forays into the hobby is a sizeable bits box full of mutilated and barely recognisable chunks. :cry:
I'd be kicking ten shades of sheiße out of my 11 year old self if I had time travelling abilities...
 
In 1998, I sold off my collection of every citadel chaos fantasy mini made between 1988 and 1991 because I was a broke student and had to pay the rent. In retrospect, I should have just sold bodily fluids.
 
I forgot to mention than the year I started the hibby, I was keen on electronics. How is that relevant? Well, I thought since multi-part models were made in lead, the best building option would be to weld the parts together. Let me just say it did NOT work at all. I still have remnants of these in the garage but I'm not sure yo want to see the pics, some Jes Goodwin chaos warriors and even a Great Unclean One were hurt in the process... :?

Oh And there also was that first mini I stripped with just a modelling knife... let's just say most of the textures were replaced by another kind of textures... :?
 
Asslessman":4u65mr52 said:
I forgot to mention than the year I started the hibby, I was keen on electronics. How is that relevant? Well, I thought since multi-part models were made in lead, the best building option would be to weld the parts together. Let me just say it did NOT work at all. I still have remnants of these in the garage but I'm not sure yo want to see the pics, some Jes Goodwin chaos warriors and even a Great Unclean One were hurt in the process... :?

Oh And there also was that first mini I stripped with just a modelling knife... let's just say most of the textures were replaced by another kind of textures... :?
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Ouch!!!
 
Don't worry- this ones not that rare. There are some inflated prices but he is ugly as a brick so gets valued low all the time- usually with a handful of other figures. The fiend is another one you see listed for huge amounts- ive got three of the blighters and nevwr paid much at all.
 
Years ago I inherited lots of Citadel villagers and townsfolk for free. I chopped them up and turned them either into zombies or 40k henchmen. I wasn't happy with what I did so I threw them away! :oops:
 
The worst thing I have done was sell about 9,000 pts of Epic orc's for £10!!!!!!! I had found them in my attic and had gamened for years and thought I wanted the tenner more. One year later I was back into gaming and realised the cost of the mistake I made.
 
Had a nice little battle set up today and I set my Chais army on the edge of the coffee table. This particular table opens up by sliding out. It was open. I had the army on it. The cat jumped off the sofa.


3,000 points including about a dozen flying stand went down when the side of the table flipped over.

pray for me...
 
mbh":pq9jjs2i said:
Had a nice little battle set up today and I set my Chais army on the edge of the coffee table. This particular table opens up by sliding out. It was open. I had the army on it. The cat jumped off the sofa.


3,000 points including about a dozen flying stand went down when the side of the table flipped over.

pray for me...
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Holy s*%&, I hope no olschool marine vehichles were involved :shock:
 
Asslessman":3pxzodu0 said:
I forgot to mention than the year I started the hibby, I was keen on electronics. How is that relevant? Well, I thought since multi-part models were made in lead, the best building option would be to weld the parts together. Let me just say it did NOT work at all. I still have remnants of these in the garage but I'm not sure yo want to see the pics, some Jes Goodwin chaos warriors and even a Great Unclean One were hurt in the process... :?

Oh And there also was that first mini I stripped with just a modelling knife... let's just say most of the textures were replaced by another kind of textures... :?
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When I bought my second citadel giant it had been welded together in places. It hadn't harmed the model, but the cleanup on it was a real b*tch.
 
I hope you guys mean soldered, and not welded. :grin:

And I feel for you mbh, I've had similar experiences - luckily I've always been a slow painter so I never had any big painted armies so most were bare metal.
 
Soldered ok,

Here is a "Oh shit, what has she done moment"

Yesterday I was looking for my "Slaves to Darkness" tome and couldn't get my hands on it. When I looked under the bed, I realised that my wife had used it under one of the bed's feet to wedge it... :shock:
Let's just say I was a bit disppointed in the choice of material...
 
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