Fires of Communion – backfire!!!

 An odd post this one, basically I thought I’d elaborate on a disaster that occurred yesterday…

So the pic below is my painting station, it’s an old writing bureau that I picked up for about £35 a few years ago, they’re ideal because they can be folded away (hiding whatever crap you’ve got on the desk) and look quite tidy in a pinch, which goes down well with the other half.  They’ve got loads of storage space and places to put a war gamers modelling equipment - great stuff I hear you say!

My Command Centre (painting and modelling area)!

So in the spring cleaning spirit I cleaned this bad boy out, giving it a good old dust and polish, scoring some major brownie points and folded it up and away - nice and tidy.  This is where it all started…  You’ll notice a black flexible lamp which I use with a daylight bulb to paint with; well this got put under the bureau after said tidying.  What I didn’t realise was that my little nipper found it and played with the on/off switch and unbeknown to me left it ‘on’, though the main power switch at the socket was off…  Later in the day however I turned the main power switch on to use the computer (on the same extension socket), which unfortunately also turned the lamp on, I didn’t notice the lamp was on as it was face down on the carpet...

After a short while I could smell something burning and found the face down lamp had melted the carpet away and left a nice scorch mark in a roughly CD sized area directly under the bureau… OMG!!!!

Below are a couple of images of the damage:

The fires of Communion (GW paint pot for scale)

So the moral of the tale is don’t piss Sevvy off by playing away with shiny Skorne toys as he’ll feat and burn you!

Or just don’t tidy a lamp away and be messy!

Still it could have been a lot, lot worse (boosted Ashes to Ashes) and I’ve managed to place a new piece of carpet to hide the damage which looks OK.

The damage zoomed in