GW plastic health risks?

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**AffliKtion**

Hey all,
I know some of you can relate, but filing and cleaning models before I prime and paint is the biggest issue for me. I often stick small components of models in my mouth to clean them off real quick and It just occurred to me that this might not be the safest thing, minus the whole choking to death dilemma.

So this is my question; is there any health risks associated with ingesting/breathing in the plastic particles from filing the models?

Thanks.

**Mattlov**

Not really, unless you are ingesting HUGE quantities.

Resin is a little more dangerous, but again, it is required in large amounts to be really dangerous.

**asmith**

I don't have an opinion about the health risks involved in eating plastic, I do want to say I don't think you are getting as thorough a cleaning of the parts as you might think by slobbering on them.

**mikhaila**

Yeah, probably a bad thing to eat plastic. You might be able to figure out a better method of cleaning them off.

**Bat Manuel**

nasty

**ixlar**

You shouldn't lick your models clean?

**Orkeosaurus**

I inject melted space marines into my blood on a regular basis, nothing bad's happened ygarnocmb
ljksrhkxwbeasdafjkbd

**wittzo**

Inhaling the particles is bad but it tends to be resin that's a concern because they're finer, plastic doesn't stay in the air long enough to reach your nostrils or mouth.
I wouldn't lick on anything, you don't know how clean the guy's hands were that touched it last.
Eating plastic won't hurt you as long as you don't eat plastic fruit and toy food thinking it's real.
I blow or wipe stuff off. I try to avoid licking anything because I also have some lead miniatures I work on occasionally and I want to remember first grade.
I used to lick my tools to keep them moist when working with green stuff, but a cup of water works a lot better.
I do stick dry brushes and thread in my mouth to make a sharp tip, but that's different and not weird at all.

**AffliKtion**

I wash my sprues in soap and water before I start anything. It's not like I'm sticking whole miniatures in my mouth lol.

I have tried brushes and cups of water, but nothing works as well as rolling 'em in my mouth for a second. I don't know, Maybe it's the spit?

**garret**

i think its like ceramic dust
if you there day after day for 30 year its bad but other then that your fine

**ixlar**

I just smoke my figures.

**CT GAMER**

ixlar wrote:I just smoke my figures.

You could save money by just smoking crack instead, it is cheaper then GW models...

**ixlar**

Yeah, but nothing smokes like Ork.

**Ketara**

Nothing quite like plastic krack, as Neal would say.

**JD21290**

Try washing them in water instead of partially eating them

**fatal_GRACE**

Orkeosaurus wrote:I inject melted space marines into my blood on a regular basis, nothing bad's happened ygarnocmb
ljksrhkxwbeasdafjkbd

I lol'd

**robertsjf**

No risk from plastic. Hell, I have a Macaw that chews up sprues after I've stripped them. Granted, I do wash them with soap and water from a painting standpoint....

**Brother Bartius**

Resin particles (filing FW stuff) is cancenigeric (spelling?).

**Hollismason**

GW gruel Recipe:

2 Boxes of GW product.

Pot of boiling water

two tablespoons Green Stuff

Your Favorite GW colour.

Cut paper into bite sized pieces place in boiling water; after it comes to a boil add seasoning with Greenstuff then your favorite colour.

Eat and enjoy Dysentery.

**warpcrafter**

The human mouth is already full of noxious bacteria, so what's a little plastic?

**MrGiggles**

I always thought that the bigger health risk involved the intro sets. Including a couple of pointy sticks in a game which involved geeks and fights with chainsaw swords has always seemed a little risky to me.

**Hollismason**

The biggest health risk is those fething Hobby Knives.

**shrew**

If any of you use to eat paint chips from the wall when you were a kid I don't think it will be a problem.

**garret**

Hollismason wrote:The biggest health risk is those fething Hobby Knives.

no its getting beat up by the varsity football team
Bunch a fething monkeys

**warpcrafter**

garret wrote:
Hollismason wrote:The biggest health risk is those fething Hobby Knives.

no its getting beat up by the varsity football team
Bunch a fething monkeys

That's where a hobby knife would come in handy.

**Cheese Elemental**

Oh yeah, hobby knives are like the new concealed carry weapon. Forget your crappy 9mms and shotguns, I've got a hobby knife! Just yesterday, I brutally slashed a helpless bodybuilder. I strung him up like a fish and gutted him with that deadly 1" blade.

And another time, I forgot my rapier when I went to fencing, so I used my hobby knife instead. I was banned after I accidentally sliced off both my opponent's arm. Man, he was bleeding like crazy! The room started filling with blood and everyone drowned but then a gay transvestite knight riding a My Little Pony (tm) came down from the sky and rescued me and took me to the magical land of candy and fluffy bunnies and homosexuality.

Then the marijuana wore off, and I was sad.

**Orkeosaurus**

Because you had to leave the land of homosexuality?

**Hollismason**

To be honest the Land of Homosexuality is not that bad ; everyone is well dressed usually and can make a hell of a margarita.

**Grot 6**

If someone drops my stuff, it could lead to a health hazard.

I've been known to kick some azz in the event of dropping one of my Predators on the floor.

Another hazard is to hit someone in the head with plastic sprues. Throwing them can lead to a healthy case of blunt force trauma.

**BLARGAG!!!**

No cuz the people in the room weren't really dead.... quite a shame really