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So, finally sitting down to work on my armored car project.

For some reason over the last 3 days Ive been paranoid about my exacto knives falling off my desk and into my toe. Dunno why.

So, when one rolled off my desk, and missed my foot, I thought "Ha! dodged that one!" and figured that was the end of my paranoid premonition.

So I bent over to pick up the exacto.

And the jumbo 'cutz-all' tool (jumbo sized plier/scissor mutant) rolls off my lap and lands blade first on top of my big toe.

Blood actually spurted out.

It frikkin hurts, but, thanks to a paper towel and my hair tie applying direct pressure- its not bleedin anymore.

And I can go back to attaching armor plates to my armored car and remind myself to close the safety catch on the cutz-all.

Safety first kids!

I hope that the delicious irony was worth the pain.

Also, I'm sorry to hear about your toe.

Ouch, I'm sorry to hear that. I just got super glue in my eye. Wasn't really an injury I guess, but I feel your pain nonetheless.

That's kinda funny.

captain.gordino wrote:Ouch, I'm sorry to hear that. I just got super glue in my eye. Wasn't really an injury I guess, but I feel your pain nonetheless.

If you wake up the next day feeling like theres a piece of sand in your eye, its because the glue took a chunk of eye when it came off. Happened to me a few years ago- it sucks. Plastic hospital eye patches are NOT at all fashionable...

I know the feeling.
Had an x-acto roll of my desk and land ker-thunk! into my foot. Instep. Went in to the ferrule (so, about 1").

Missed everything vital. I pulled it out, put a pressure dressing on it and continued with what I was doing. Hurt a bit, but now, there's not even a scar (it was over 15 years ago).

Two years ago I cut 1/3 of my thumb off trying to get a plastic fantasy wolf off a round base to put him on a Calvary base. Luckily my thumb mostly recovered but it still has a lovely dent on one side =D

An X-acto knife rolled off my desk and fell onto my leg, point-down.

Luckily it's the knife I use for modeling green stuff and sawing at metal. It's dull as a butter knife. It just bounced off my skin.

I nearly took off a knuckle when I was a kid. I looked up at a movie while cutting up sprues with an exacto knife, I remember realizing how bad the cut was when I got to the sink to clean it.

That does suck. My best/dumbest/weirdest involved a modified all metal chaos dred. I converted the CC arm into a whirlwind missile launcher (the old school solid metal ones) so I had a shooty dred. If you guys remember the cones on those puppies.... wait, that sounds bad? Anywho, it toppled off my desk, and smashed onto my little toe, missiles down of course. You want to know how to loose a toenail the fastest way possible? Do that lol

Last night I dropped my Temple of Skulls while painting it, but caught it before it hit the ground. The catch made it swing into my leg, pointy pillar first. Those spikes are _really_ sharp.

I somehow managed to glue part of a vox unit to my head three or so month ago.

And my buddy, ChaosBubbles, slashed open his leg while trying to shave off some mold lines o.O

I had an exacto knife roll of the table last week. You would have thought a grenade was rolling towards me.

Miss: do you have a pic or something of this cutz all thing? If it is what I am thinking about, you can use it to cut PVC pipe, hose, rope. A pretty heavy-duty utensil. They tried to go with those out here in the oilpatch a few years ago because hand injuries due to knives were up. So they take out box cutters, and hand us a device that can lop off all the fingers on your hand if you feth up. Idiocy knows no bounds.

chromedog wrote:I know the feeling.
Had an x-acto roll of my desk and land ker-thunk! into my foot. Instep. Went in to the ferrule (so, about 1").

Missed everything vital. I pulled it out, put a pressure dressing on it and continued with what I was doing. Hurt a bit, but now, there's not even a scar (it was over 15 years ago).

you can use the superglue to patch that hole too.. In fact IIRC, superglue was invented as a way to close deep wound before biodegradable stiches were in use.. I think the military used it as well in First-aid/Trauma situations.

Flea used it to heal up his thumb so he could keep slapping away at the bass.

Anybody notice a trend here is the Hobby Knife?

Well it is both perhaps the most ubiquitous tool in the hobby, and very very sharp, so that's not too surprising.

Not an injury but a warning: wear glasses. I put too much pressure on a blade (you know, that annoying bit that won't come off) and the point snapped off, embedding itself into the right lens of my glasses. Hysteria ensued.

Bookwrack wrote:Last night I dropped my Temple of Skulls while painting it, but caught it before it hit the ground. The catch made it swing into my leg, pointy pillar first. Those spikes are _really_ sharp.

I hear you. Not a modeling injury, but a gaming injury: In a tournament last year I was reaching over some Cities of Death buildings to move my miniatures down a road, then drew my arm back too quickly and carelessly. One of the spikes on the top floor of a 3-storey building carved a shallow but ~6 inch-long cut into the soft part of my forearm. Blood for the blood god! Except I was playing Nurgle :(

All I keep doing is cutting myself with my knife. Sometimes I don't event notice till I'm done and there are 3 cuts on my finger.

Skull Pass gobbos with spears, I've seen a (then) Red Shirt carelessly reach into a box of free painting models.

I think the funniest gaming accident I have had the honor to witness was a plastic lawn chair exploding under the massive bulk of a lone magic player. He got mad when his huge butt had to move because he was blocking the space between the tables during a tournie. He huffed and puffed and finally relized he had to work up enough energy to move that much mass through space and moved. He dropped, I would say was close to 450 lbs, into a well used green lawn chair from wal mart. I was looking at him and I saw the green plastic start to turn white from the stress and then CRACK! Shards from the chair flew across the store and I didn't even know I had a little cut on my leg from one.

Is it bad that I busted up laughing and quoted the classic Family Guy episode, "Oh, did Orsen fall down?" His bulk caused a small rumble in the store and a could boxes fell off the shelf. All the King's horses and all the King's men can't put the chair back together that humpy dumpty broke with his huge

I know some guys of that scale and I probably would have smirked too, but I probably couldn't be quick-witted enough to come up with an appropriate quote.

BrookM wrote:Not an injury but a warning: wear glasses. I put too much pressure on a blade (you know, that annoying bit that won't come off) and the point snapped off, embedding itself into the right lens of my glasses. Hysteria ensued.

OMG...

50 FW deathguard torsos
10 FW deathguard terminator torsos
2 FW nurgle demon princes
enough CSM plastics to make the above
2 defiler kits
box o termies for oblits
18 MELTA GUNS

latest modeling injury? my wallet!

Bookwrack wrote:Last night I dropped my Temple of Skulls while painting it, but caught it before it hit the ground. The catch made it swing into my leg, pointy pillar first. Those spikes are _really_ sharp.

yea I got one today they are REALLY sharp!!!

Oh schnaps MoM! Makes my toes uncomfortable just thinking about it. They're wriggling as we speak, trying to escape potential harm.

Totally worse than my misshap with a pinvise... its kind of neat when the thing cork screws into your palm....

Snapping and rolling blades seem to be a common danger. I had it my self a couple of times. Cutting my thumb is something I also did more than once.. By accident ofcourse!

A couple of weeks ago, I was trimming needles after I made rivets with them, I was holding the sharp end with my left forefinger and thumb and using some small wire cutters to clip them. One of them all of a sudden released and I felt a jab in my finger and yelped and said,"Gosh willikers, will you look at that?"* They said,"My goodness!" I started to freak out when I found out I couldn't seperate my fingers..I thought the pin fragment had tacked my fingers together, but it was a spot of errant superglue and I was okay after all, no penetration, just a jab. (That's what she said.)

I had a Dremel cut-off disk fragment scuff up my old glasses when it shattered. Another fragment hit the ceiling and made my buddy duck for cover. He changed his mind about buying one after that, he would have ME do any Dremel work for him instead..

I stabbed the crap out of my thumb with an Exacto a few months ago.

About a year ago, I crazyglued my eyelids together somehow..I guess I had some on my finger and I rubbed my eye or the fumes got absorbed..it sounded like velcro when I forced it open.

That's it except for minor nicks and cuts with Exactos..I got wounded worse at work with box blades and being hard headed.



*I would NEVER curse, no sir!