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
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.
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.
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 :(
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.
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.
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.
wittzo wrote:
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..
Years ago(like 8 or 9) I was drilling out the slugga barrel on a metal nob. The bit in my dremel bound up as happens sometimes. I went to turn the dremel off, but, being an old dremel (I got it like 20 years ago for christmas- the other bimbos got barbie- I got a dremel! ) the switch can be a lil fiddly and it went into high speed mode. So, with a nob on the end you can imgaine it started bouncing/bucking quite a bit. So I grabbed it with both hands to try and get it steady so I could try the switch again.
As soon as I got a good grip on it- the wildly rotating nobs weight + the force of spinning was all onto the lil drill bit- which of course snapped.
The nob flew, very fast- straight up, and stuck into the ceiling. Like, lodged in the dry wall.
I wear safety glasses when I dremel now.
And Im thinking about adding shoes with a safety toe after yesterday.
Oh- and the nob survived, and I thoght it only fitting he become a Storm Boy Nob.
It wasn't a model that was directly responsible, but I was painting my friend's Great Unclean One (a really heavy son of a bitch), and I put it down for a moment on the edge of a book, and it fell over and bumped my hand that was holding my mug, spilling hot black coffee all over my crotch which then proceeded to soak through my flimsy pajama pants.
Not only was it the single most painful thing I have ever experienced in my life, my pajama pants now have a nasty brown stain all over them (it spread, OK?) which makes it look like I had dysentery.
I was magnetizing my predator so i had to shave some pl;astic off some pieces. I slipped and my hobby knife went trhe better part of a centimeter into my left index finger. Bled for an hour and a half but it's healing nicely.
I've never had ANYTHING bad happen to me while modelling, but after reading this thread I'm so paranoid.
It never really occured to me how dangerous modelling knives and superglue can be... freaky...
A few years ago I was gluing a friend's Tau battlesuit back together. The superglue bottle was a little clogged up, so I squeezed it, causing it to explode. Superglue covered both of my hands and part of my forearms. I absent-mindedly wiped the still-wet superglue on my jeans. I pulled my hands away before they could get stuck to my jeans, but I was pulling superglue off my skin for days. I also managed to ruin a pair of pants. I guess I've been lucky that's all I've lost, given how many drillbits and x-acto blades break and go flying all over my hobby area.
Shortly after reading this thread yesterday... I knocked my exacto knife off my desk and it fell point down into my wooden floor and embedded itself in it. Stop giving my hobby tools ideas on how to injury me!
When we're converting and making stuff- we're enjoying it (Slaanesh!!). And with every fig we change Tzeentch gets his due. Khorne occasionally gets jealous and demands his due. And Nurgle is content since Plague Marine are currently OP
wittzo wrote:
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..
Years ago(like 8 or 9) I was drilling out the slugga barrel on a metal nob. The bit in my dremel bound up as happens sometimes. I went to turn the dremel off, but, being an old dremel (I got it like 20 years ago for christmas- the other bimbos got barbie- I got a dremel! ) the switch can be a lil fiddly and it went into high speed mode. So, with a nob on the end you can imgaine it started bouncing/bucking quite a bit. So I grabbed it with both hands to try and get it steady so I could try the switch again.
As soon as I got a good grip on it- the wildly rotating nobs weight + the force of spinning was all onto the lil drill bit- which of course snapped.
The nob flew, very fast- straight up, and stuck into the ceiling. Like, lodged in the dry wall.
I wear safety glasses when I dremel now.
And Im thinking about adding shoes with a safety toe after yesterday.
Oh- and the nob survived, and I thoght it only fitting he become a Storm Boy Nob.
Mistress of Minis next idea. No hobby can hurt you now!!!
I left a whole bunch of arms (with superglue on them) on my cutting board to set, I then move over to find my models (for the arms) and set my arm down. Well you can guess what happend, I (super)glued 8 Imperial guardsmen's arms onto my own arm it hurt to take them off,
I was salvaging a maimed inquisitor coteaz I got off ebay about six months back, I had stripped it of paint and was trying to separate some stubborn glued on bits (specifically his hammer). I was prying with an exacto putting more and more tension when all off a sudden the hammer pops off and flys directly into my eye. Appearantly I was guilty ofsome form of heresy, who knew.
I was cutting off chunks of superglue from a model I got used, and a bit flew off and got stuck in my eye. I ended up having to pick it out with a q-tip.
I've cut my self several times with the hobby knife, but the worst incident was with a pin vise. I was drilling a hole in one of the old metal nobs. I put too much pressure on the pin vise and the drill bit broke. Of course my other hand that is holding the model is right there ready to get stabbed by the broken drill bit. It went into my thumb about a 1/4". That was really painfull.
While sneaking into my overly-cluttered room to retrieve my hobby knife, I stepped on a safety-spring off of a Bic lighter and had it slice into my insole fishhook-style. Most interesting puncture wound I've ever had.
Also, if you're in the habit of storing your blades with the tip pointed inside the chuck, watch out for the bit of exposed blade. It's usually the sharpest part of the blade even after heavy use, and can slice you plenty deep. I nearly severed a tendon by reaching over a vertically-stored knife in this configuration when I was in high school.
My most embarising injury involves superglueing myself to myself.
I was glueing models together and had apparently gotten some glue on my index finger. I wiped my nose and the glue bonded to my nose hair, dear lord was that a painful predicament.
CF Scout wrote:My most embarising injury involves superglueing myself to myself.
I was glueing models together and had apparently gotten some glue on my index finger. I wiped my nose and the glue bonded to my nose hair, dear lord was that a painful predicament.
I really thought you were going to say something else...
CF Scout wrote:My most embarising injury involves superglueing myself to myself.
I was glueing models together and had apparently gotten some glue on my index finger. I wiped my nose and the glue bonded to my nose hair, dear lord was that a painful predicament.
I really thought you were going to say something else...
I remember some story on the B&C that had someone using liberal amounts of superglue while naked that probably comes closer to what you're thinking of.
Going back, the post has been edited to make it less vivid. That's unfortunate, as it was hilarious.
My worse hobby related injury was sustained playing DBM and involved 15mm Pikemen of some sort at a club game. The modeler had substituted pins (you know, the sharp pointy kind) for the pikes because they would not bend. In the course of the game, I managed to trip over a backpack that had been left RIGHT in the middle of the floor and pawed at the table trying to avoid hitting the floor. My hand of course found the 20 strong block of Pike. After removing them from my hand (pin cushion anyone?) the owner just smirked and said they would perform better for me now that I had given them their due. We lost horribly, but the pins did not bend.
I was helping an old friend of mine move. He had a habit of sticking exacto blades into erasers so as not to lose them (and keep the dangerous tip covered). As we moved his desk, he stepped on one which had fallen aside unnoticed earlier- it pushed through the eraser, through his shoe, and into his foot. Not too deep, but deep enough to give him a limp for a few days.
Well, atleast you haven't screwed up and accidentally had one go into your thumb, twice... You think i would've learn to be careful with sharp stuff by now. Atleast i could claim that the bloody effects on my models were authentic .
Just earlier today I, like the majority of people here accidentaly cut my thumb with a hobby knife. At first it didnt look bad but then I realised there was a slice right through my fingernail with blood oozing out of it. On the bright side I managed to find a band-aid unlike the last time where i had to use toilet paper.
CF Scout wrote:My most embarising injury involves superglueing myself to myself.
I was glueing models together and had apparently gotten some glue on my index finger. I wiped my nose and the glue bonded to my nose hair, dear lord was that a painful predicament.
I really thought you were going to say something else...
I think you can tell where this is going..... I managed to glue myself to my parts while glueing my converted emporer's champion. I was wearing jeans but it was still bad and i had a fun time getting them off
I've had a lot of small cuts in my finger from hobby knives in the last 17 years, but my most impressive injury was:
- cutting the corner of my fingertip off almost to the bone with an unimaginably sharp knive while cutting foam to transport my mini's in (I was 14, I did some dumb things back then).
This in itself was not so painfull because the knive was so extremely sharp.
But when they put a bandage onto the wound, they had to press the bandage on tight to stop the bleeding.
The words I was screaming for the next ten minutes were so profane that they made the nurse and my mom blush...
I once drilled into the tip of my index finger with 1mm dremel bit. I knew better, and I even had a vise on the desk in front of me. But to save time and get more control, I was holding the model I was drilling with my finger supporting the part I was drilling into (duh). The bit punched through and went in a mm or two only, but it was a very curious sensation and produced a fair bit of blood.
Took a couple of weeks to heal up completely. Turns out that pressing on the pad of one's index finger is something one does hundreds of times a day, but it's much more noticeable when there is a hole in it.
Don't have any injury stories from wargaming, yet. I got most of my scars doing labwork.
By the way, a tip for the superglue users out there, get some acetone nail-polish remover, I mean the cheap, foul, EPA will hunt your ass down flammable stuff. The acetone in it dissolves breaks down the linkages in superglue. It'll screw up styrene, too, so be careful with it, but it's great for getting off of fingers.
Oh, and make sure to rinse thoroughly after using something like this. Had a friend once that went for a smoke afterward...hilarity ensued.
Nothing much serious but not something I was expecting. I was holding a terminator really tightly, my thumb on the base edge and finger on the head. I was using a knife to scratch off the mould lines.
The knife failed to do any harm but the base sliced my thumb open and when I let go of the model it started bleeding quite badly. A bit like a paper cut but with plastic and a bit deeper
Worst: I was sitting Indian style on the floor of my room cutting some marines up for leg swaps and I set my knife right next to my foot. The phone rang I and pulled my leg up under me as fast as possible raking the exacto knife though my foot. It bled forever, and the worst part was I had to do PT on it for another week before Christmas break!!!!!
Needed many a new pair of socks.
2nd Worst: My sister had borrowed my exacto and threw it on my bed when she was done. I reached to grab the covers, squeezed down, and kablam right through the finger and the nail. That required another fair few stitches.
You know, reading these threads makes me realize how stupidly insanely lucky I've been in my Hobby Career with regards to injuries.
And not in the "Oh, I must just be very careful!" kind of way. I'm about as careless and oblivious as a mule.
I must drop my hobby knife, saw, and/or clippers every time I do any modelling. I usually leave the cutting tools in my lap while I work. Then I will stand up without thinking and have about a second of heart stopping sheer terror as I watch them fall toward the tops of my bare feet, only to land harmlessly on the floor scant inches away, or to land handle first on my feet or toes, bouncing away with a minor thump.
I regularly cut and sand toward my fingers or face. I very often leave super glue bottles uncapped and lying on their side. I continue to get WAY too close to my plastic cement while in use (This one may be actually effecting me, as I get dumber by the day...). And I rarely actually injur myself.
The most severe being a good slashing with an x-acto across my thumb, with about a centimeter deep gash. The most recent is my first saw related injury. I was sawing a small model and had to hold it with my fingers in the path of the blade. Luckily I only gave myself a small slice to the index finger before I stopped cutting. Hooray for responsive pain sensors! The cut didn't hurt that much but it's still there after 2 weeks, which is creeping me out.
Today I stabbed myself in the thumb with the same x-acto knife that bounced off my bare leg not long ago. I did not bleed, as I own the dullest x-acto blade on the planet.
A friend of mine stabbed me in the arm with the old 2nd edition plastic gretchin model, head first. It drew blood.
I haven't managed to injure myself badly through modeling, but with my other hobby (needlework). You'd think it would be safer, right? Nope.
I was sitting on the floor, there must have been a needle that I'd dropped earlier, I stood up and 'ow'. Pain in foot, half a needle stuck in the carpet. The other half was inside my foot. Needed x-rays to confirm it was there, and then had to have surgery under a general to remove it.
I have never required stitches for anything yet, though my most annoying 'injury' to date is when a spilt a quarter of a bottle of games workshop super glue all over my hands model and worksurface... You would not believe how hard it is to scrub the glue off when your arms are attached together, not much leverage.
And by the way people, this is one of the most entertaining posts I've seen in a while. My favorite ones still the increadible flying nob though, loved that one!
edit: missed four words in a sentance, don't know how I did it...
Just got 4mm drillbit in my thumb whilst magnetising a Carnifex with a 14.4v drilldriver, drinking wine, watching TV and chatting.
I kinda deserved it!
i picked up some guys painboy which he replaced the needle with a pin that was very sharp and i cut my finger, my mum yelled at him.
lol jokes if youve read one of the other threads here youll know what im on about.
here is the quote that it took that story from:
After getting my Pain Boy needles bent time and time again by kids picking them up by the weapon I finally got some payback last Apoc game.
I had already replaced them with small metal rod that had an extremely pointed end from me cutting them to size. I left them because they looked better with a little off set cut to the end.
After asking a child to please stop picking up the models on the table (we were in the middle of a game) and putting them back in the wrong place I received some attitude from the mother about what harm could he do.....seconds later he broke the roll bar off of not one but two ork trukks.
Before I could teach him a new word he moved over to my boyz nob, guess what he grabbed? Yup....the pain boy. When the mother saw his little finger bleeding she proceeded to yell at me! The red shirt kindly explained I had asked her little ones several times to please not handle the models and he had already broken two.
I hadn't intended that to happen but sometimes what goes around comes around.
BTW, my 8 year old plays with the same orks all the time and has never cut himself, know why? He listened and doesn't pick them up by the weapon.
I'm getting tired of being other children's parents.
Rant off....sorry.
this one is true though:
cutmy thumb with a hobby knife straight down the middle of my thumb-print in the middle of a conversion competitio at my local gw store. didnt feel it but the next thing i know someones going "*myname* stop gluing you thumbs cut."
i looked down "oh" got taken to the staff only bit of the store to was my hands came back finished the conversion and got 3rd place (not because of my injury my conversion was actually good).
My most recent one was simply having a daemonettes hair stab me, didnt hurt but the b***h drew blood! Luckily I've never managed to stab myself with my knife, YET, but I did have some funny incidents when first using super-glue, as I imagine most have...
Oh, one funny moment, when much younger, my brother was using a hot glue gun whilst modelling, after wiping glue off the nozzle he tells me not 2 touch the glue because its blooooody hot, I wonder how hot and promptly stick my finger in it, that hurt!
Like many people I have cut myself many times with a hobby knife. The worse injury I have ever given myself was when I was pinning a model and was pressing it very firmly for sometime that the tip of my finger had lost alittle feeling from the pressure. It took a second to figure out that I had drilled through the mini and into my finger. A second worth of drilling into fleshy bits. Then the hard part of pulling it out as it seemed not to want to leave.
The thought did cross my mind to leave it in a second before wrenching it out. Yeah not fun.
Lopped off tip of left middle finger with an exact-o blade working on the dammed Sky Shield landing pad....
It's an over priced POS by the way...
That was the worst one yet. I needed stitches and did not get them, took like 1.5 months to heal, and bled for like 2 days straight even with good amount of pressure.
I bought a sentinel a few sentinels a few months ago, but have been distracted by expanding my chaos daemons. Anyway, I decided to assemble a sentinel today. You know the exhaust at the back? I have alot of chaos bits, so I replaced an exhaust with one of the daemonic heads from the chaos pred sprue. I attempted to bite off the end off one of the exhausts, and managed to make a pretty big scratch in my gum-and now a non-wonky tooth is wonky-ish. Another time, my friend threw a modelling knife at me whilst we were converting, and it nicked me in the arm. He threw it really slow with a theatrical twist, expecting me to dodge. I was too busy assembling renegades.
my friend is so unlucky 4 or 5 years ago my friend got super glue under his eye lid and well lets just say he lost an eye lid
and then he made a game board one or 2 years ago with a few nails in put his hand on some scenery scenery and crash it collapsed nail through hand ouch
I'm a sucker for drilling my fingers with the pin vice. Think i have pin myself like dozens of times during the last few years. Good think I got all my tetanus shots.
Back about 1989, I was at the local hobby store and we were playing a game of Space Hulk.
My opponent, a gent by the name of Thomas, was carving some original miniatures from hardened putty to sell to a miniature company for mass production. It was how he planned on paying for his college at art school.
Well, Thomas was known for having quite a temper and the fact that he had run with a gang when he was a couple of years younger and lived in Texas. Keep this in mind....
I was playing the Marines, and Thomas the 'Stealers. I sent a Termy with heavy flamer around a corner to lob a ball of flame into a room full of bugs. Thomas sat on the corner of the table staring intently at my die roll to hex me into rolling the misfire that would result in my flamer dieing and the bugs living. No such luck for the soon to be incinerated 'Stealers.
Thomas pounded down onto his calf crossed over his knee with a "d***." Um...well, he was carving with an exacto knife that he had reversed the grip on while focusing in on my roll.
He put the entire length of the knife blade into his calf.
The whole group sat, tensely waiting for the explosion of self directed profanity and violence.
A moment passed, and in a complete dead pan, without even looking down at the wound, Thomas said the following profound words:
When I was younger and into modeling I stabbed myself in the finger on a slip of the exacto knife. It pierced the flesh right down to the bone. A couple stitches fixed that up, but damn did it ever bleed. I have been very careful since to always point knives away from my flesh when cutting/trimming, and to use a piece of wood to cut against if I need to apply much force.
Lesson: stabbing oneself hurts. Who'd have thunk it?
The worst I have ever done doesn't even involve modeling. I cut the tip of my finger off while working in a resturant. Come to think of it, I have yet to work at a resturant and not cut myself somehow.
As far as modelling goes, I've sliced the palm of my hand a couple of times, but never deep enough to have it seriously bleed.
the worst one i had was when i was filing flash off ghanzgul, i got so angry i started filing very hard and fast and within about 10 seconds i had rammed a hooked end file into my index finger and it hit the bone, and to top it all i had to walk about 2 miles to A&E to get a rather chunky file pulled out of my finger, i still have the scar.
My favourite hobby injury was told to me at Warhammer world by a store manager.
When he was but a lad him and his friend were gluing in their FLGS . . . his friend was gluing away not noticing that his failed atempts at gluing together an elf was getting super glue on the table. Some frustration later, his friend decided to slam his head on the table.
So yes, don't glue your head to a table it's not a good idea. But yeah both him and his mate are GW managers . . . scared? =p
I shouldn't even be allowed around sharp objects without powered armour on, I have had sooo many injuries! To give a brief rundown, have had stitches in both hands, ( 19 in the left, 6 in the right) three seperate times. 2 were work injuries, one was an exacto injury. When my son was maybe 1.5 years old,I dropped an exacto into his calf, it stuck for a second, he shrieked, I was horrified, pulled it out, his mom still dosn't know about that one, as it would likely result in divorce. The exacto cut to the left hand was in 1993, I was doing something stupid with the blade, (which is sort of a pattern with me), hacked into my index finger around middle joint, laid it open to the bone, blood gushing, I slapped a paper towel over it and asked my brother to take me to the hospital. He was going through this "paramedic" phase, and wouldn't take me unless I agreed to show him the wound, which he wanted to try treating himself. After much argueing and bleeding, I showed him the gash, he looked shocked and responded " dude,you need to go to the hospital". 9 stitches later, I'm back home, still trying to disect a metal space marine with a dull exacto blade. It's a wonder I still have hands. Was maybe not the dumbest thing I ever did, but definitely in the top 3.
You really should wear clear safety goggles when doing any hobby sanding, super-glueing, filing, cutting, etc. But then again I'm overly careful, (I wear goggles and earplugs when I mow the lawn....)
RxGhost wrote:I know, right? My wife was pissed that I made such a mess. I made my We'll Be Back roll though, so it was no biggie.
We'll be back eh? Mine was feel no pain. Beeing 100% honest, I didn't really see how that helped me out, seeing as my head had been cut off. But I'm still on Dakka, and that's all that matters.
RxGhost wrote:I know, right? My wife was pissed that I made such a mess. I made my We'll Be Back roll though, so it was no biggie.
We'll be back eh? Mine was feel no pain. Beeing 100% honest, I didn't really see how that helped me out, seeing as my head had been cut off. But I'm still on Dakka, and that's all that matters.
Well, with the obstacle (read: head) removed, there's nowhere for those pain signals to go, sounds good both RaI and RaW.
OuCH man that sux. When I was in College. I went to my desk to start painting. I was wearing sox and no shoes. There was a tooth pick on the carpet and it went through my sock and got wedged at just the right angle so that it went about 3/4 of an inch into the webbing dirrectly in between my big and 2nd toe. On my left foot. At first I decided to shrug it off thinking I just stepped on somthing and the pain would go away. It didn't. It hurt more. I looked down and saw a tooth pick sticking out of my sock. I hopped over to my drawer and got out my scissors cut away my sock and saw a tooth pick sticking out of my foot this time. Had to drive myself in a manual transmission car to the urgent care office where they pulled it out.
That hurt. I was hobbling for 5 days.
Automatically Appended Next Post: Also one time a hobby knife slipped and I cut my left index finger so deep I have permanent nerve damage. Esp, since at the time I had no money for stitches. I just left it be. still have the battle scar.
hmm...
just got one yesterday...
sent a knife through the tip of my finger digging straight through the nail too...
o well, left pinkys are pointless, right?
I'm a sucker for cheap super glue. Y'know, the ones that don't give an eff on the amount that splurges out of the tube. I swore off buying anymore Warmachine Man o'War minis after the umpteenth time I bonded with them.
my most recent one was trying to glue a grot head on its body. I couldn't find the head for some time. Apparently a glob of superglue leaked out onto the head, which then proceeded to attach itself to my hairy arm. painful.
A tip for using cheap-a superglue: place the tube on paper. That way you don't have decorative superglue tubes on your desk that won't come off.
while glueing my converted emporer's champion. I was wearing jeans but it was still bad and i had a fun time getting them off 
