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So the other night I wasn't looking when I went to grab a model (Nork Deddog) and to my surprise I manage to stab myself with his knife! It was nothing serious but I was surprised to find that it had been enough to draw a bit of blood. It got me thinking about other injuries that have been caused by models! So go ahead dakka, let me know what your armies have done to you.

My list is long here ranging from stabbing myself with exacto's while cleaning models to stepping on the old DE models with all the spikes hehe. My favorite however was an opponents injury during a tournament, He was playing dark Eldar, again the old spiked models with spikes on the helmets. He dropped a dice and bent over to pick it up, slamming his head on the table. If that was not funny enough, when he stood up he had a DE warrior sticking out of his forehead. Drew a little blood but even he could not stop laughing heheh.

Another would probably be when a friend superglued a Tyranids arm to his tongue at games day.....lick the model BEFORE you glue heheh.

Worst ever so far is when I was working on a Forgeworld Stormsword. Cast in the old style super-tough green/grey resin. Was using a razorsaw to slice off a vent, slipped and the saw went clean through my thumbnail and deeply into the flesh. Luckily, the angle meant I didn't slice much, but bloody oath, that hurt...

 Fishboy wrote:


Another would probably be when a friend superglued a Tyranids arm to his tongue at games day.....lick the model BEFORE you glue heheh.

Wait, why was he licking the model arm in the first place? That just seems weird to me.

I was using an exactly to sort of drill out a hole at the top of a Guardsman's head, holding it with all fingers pointing upwards, drilling down. Slipped, and the exacto went straight down into the center of my middle finger.

In the split second it took it to travel almost down to the first knuckle, my brain made the decision to pull away the knife to prevent more damage... resulting in my opening up my finger from the inside like a sausage that pops on the fire.

There was a lot of blood.

 Kap'n Krump wrote:
[Wait, why was he licking the model arm in the first place? That just seems weird to me.

Why not? You pay for it, you can do whatever you like


My worst was trying to cut away part of a plastic model, think it was a 40k 2nd edition starter set Gretchin, wasn't being careful to cut away from myself with the craft knife, right down through the tip of my thumb to the bone. Really bloody, but a very clean cut, healed up with no scarring or anything, also I was pretty young (12 or so) so not as deep as if I did it now to my enormous thumbs.

You'd think I'd have learned but I've come pretty close to doing the same thing several times now, always with awkward starter set snap-fit models that I've wanted to modify, also some metals that are largely one big piece.


Otherwise I've had a pretty tense relationship with my metal Be'Lakor (one of the few things I've got a picture of in my gallery, as of yesterday); painting him was extremely painful as he has pointy bits everywhere so there's almost no way to pick him up safely, leading to a lot of tiny scratches, also daemonic possession and black outs in which I may have murdered people. Also after I spent hours painting him I dropped him and, with him being metal and super-glued, he exploded on the floor, requiring a few more hours re-assembling and touching up all the many chipped parts.

Any WHFB player will tell you the nightmare that is the Night Goblin spear. Oh god...the amount of pricks and stabs...

Also, dropped a piece of Screamer (metal) into some acetone. Tiny bit splashed out and hit my eye (single drop). The pain was insane. Thankfully I had contacts, washed my hands REALLY well, took them out, and used eye drops every couple minutes, and took a shower with the water going right into my eyes. Can see fine, no lasting damage, but be frigging careful with that stuff!

 Kap'n Krump wrote:

 Fishboy wrote:


Another would probably be when a friend superglued a Tyranids arm to his tongue at games day.....lick the model BEFORE you glue heheh.

Wait, why was he licking the model arm in the first place? That just seems weird to me.

Hah...maybe would have been better if it was slaanesh. Actually moisture causes super glue to cure faster. Lack of available water meant saliva was the next best thing.

My knight lancer had bad mold lines an d while trimming them stabbed my thumb to the bone.
My old pewter talos also nearly broke my toe when I dropped him while packing. To add insult to injury his pincers flew off as did his splinter cannons broken mini bruised toe wounded pride

 Purifier wrote:
I was using an exactly to sort of drill out a hole at the top of a Guardsman's head, holding it with all fingers pointing upwards, drilling down. Slipped, and the exacto went straight down into the center of my middle finger.
In the split second it took it to travel almost down to the first knuckle, my brain made the decision to pull away the knife to prevent more damage... resulting in my opening up my finger from the inside like a sausage that pops on the fire.
There was a lot of blood.

Dude.

My worst injury ws probably sitting with a scalpel and trying to remove a mould line, and managing to stab it into the part of the hand between the thumb and the pointy finger. Went in half a centimeter, hurt, no blood.

 Kap'n Krump wrote:

 Fishboy wrote:


Another would probably be when a friend superglued a Tyranids arm to his tongue at games day.....lick the model BEFORE you glue heheh.

Wait, why was he licking the model arm in the first place? That just seems weird to me.

Water helps superglue cure faster. Not sure about saliva though...

Wow there are some pretty serious injuries here. I have 2 boxes of the GW buildings which I made into 7 different buildings. Some of the tops have the pointy edging and I occasionally stab myself while putting them away or scratch my arm as I reach over them to move models or take measurements...

While holding a basic kroot together between my fingers because i was gluing its arms , i started losing my grip so i dropped my hand in attempt to catch it , but hit the edge of the desk i was sitting at and it sent that spikey bit on his backside almost a inch under my finger nail. I do no recommend this to anyone but a select few people

I was trimming a Gauss Rifle down to give it to an Inquisitor when my stanley knife slipped. I have a three inch scar down my middle and ring fingers and nearly lost function in both.

A model in and of itself has not injured me. However, my hobby knife has a lust for blood...

 kronk wrote:
A model in and of itself has not injured me. However, my hobby knife has a lust for blood...

Sounds like your hobby knife is suffering from a Bushido Complex

Stepped on a skaven with a spear

that was fun as it broke off and got stuck in my foot. honestly didn't hurt and no real blood so that's good.


i think i was more worried about the model than my foot lol.

but i never had a real serious injury from a model directly. plenty of hobby stuff.

 zedmeister wrote:

 Kap'n Krump wrote:

 Fishboy wrote:


Another would probably be when a friend superglued a Tyranids arm to his tongue at games day.....lick the model BEFORE you glue heheh.

Wait, why was he licking the model arm in the first place? That just seems weird to me.

Water helps superglue cure faster. Not sure about saliva though...

Saliva does. I've done this too.

Saliva is mostly water after all.

Well, I was cutting some flash off my 1:100 scale Karl Gerat and the knife slipped and hit my thumb.... There was blood everywhere and I mean everywhere. All across the model, floor and up the wall that was about four and a half feet away. My reaction: 'this may need a plaster'

Oh and the Night Goblin spears, the old ones. Those things where built by someone who hated gamers

Never done anything too serious, just the usual cuts with a knife and gluing models to myself. I did cut through my fingernail into the nail bed not too long ago which freaking hurt, and once I superglued my teeth together for a second or so (not even sure how now).

My uncle was working on his model railway and dropped the scalpel on his inner thigh once and missed the femoral artery by millimetres.

Cut off a finger nail with a stanley blade last year.
They couldnt get it to stop bleeding in the A&E which was darn scary but it healed ok in the end.
#shudder

I was reaching for a model on a walkway in some imperial ruins, and I managed to drive one of the spikes topping it under my fingernail. That was a howl-worthy level of pain.

 Kap'n Krump wrote:

 Fishboy wrote:


Another would probably be when a friend superglued a Tyranids arm to his tongue at games day.....lick the model BEFORE you glue heheh.

Wait, why was he licking the model arm in the first place? That just seems weird to me.

The bonding action of super glue is moisture activated.

I stabbed myself pretty badly with an exacto knife and bled profusely over an old metal Bloodthirster back in 3rd edition. I thought it quite appropriate.

So far in my two years nothing notable. A small bump on the head picking up a dropped piece.

I believe I top this list lol. When I was about 14 I was doing a model car for a project at school. I was impatient about waiting for my parents to get out of their haircuts so I started cutting out the pieces of the model with an exacto knife. At one point, the hobby knife got stuck in the sprue. Not thinking I yanked on it... Towards me...

Stabbed myself in the gut (about 4" to the left and level with my navel) with the hobby knife all the way to the base of the blade. Leapt out of the car gushing blood from my stomach, ran to the haircut places door that was right outside the car, and flagged down my parents. Showed my dad the wound which was spurting blood intermittently like a pulse.

Refused to go to the ER (in hindsight that was stupid), held it together as he took me home where I applied peroxide and gauze to it. Got woozy, fell asleep. All in all it turned out okay.

Got an A on the model and I joked that I should have gotten an A+ because I literally put my blood into it.

I use Zip Kicker on my models, so no getting them stuck on my tongue, but I have burned myself with the chemical reaction instead.

If anyone wants an improvised hand warmer, put a couple drops of zip kicker onto some crazy glue and wait for it to solidify. It gets rather warm. amusing when you use it to clean up spilled glue. Less amusing when it's on either of the quicks between finger and nail.

I am pretty lucky (or maybe just really handy ) in that so far I have managed to avoid any real hobby-related injuries. I have been stabbed by some of my miniatures, but never anything that really hurt or drew blood. Once I cut myself with a hobby knife while working on a model, but that was only a really tiny cut and did not hurt.
Of course, after I said this, you can bet I will get injured pretty soon now. That is just the way of things

I once had a friend get an airbrush needle stuck in his forehead and started bleeding down his face.

I can't leave that guy alone for a second...

I stood on a plastic gretchin that was on our living room floor/battle field.
It really hurt.
A week (maybe two) later I realised the pain wasn't from spiking my self on its helmet but from the spike originally on the top of the helmet actually being stuck in my foot and the skin had grown over it.
I soaked my foot for a while, dug the skin away with my hobby knife and then pulled the spike out with tweezers.
Then it bled for the first time.
It really hurt all over again.

So far I have never injured myself with a 40k model (although I did once glue myself to a bloodthirster), but in terms of injuries in the line of duty I did once manage to knee the table I was playing at four times over the course of the day.
(For those who have never banged their knee on a table leg before count yourself lucky)