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Hoping this hasn't been done already

I've only ever had two incidents with my models.

The first was when I was sat on the floor and painting my models on our low table with my case at my side. As work progressed I realised I need to shuffle across so i picked up my metal case which resembles a brief case with one hand and stood up to carry it. I'll mention at this point that i had been lazy as I had left the lid open and my other hand was holding a model i was compressing until the glue held. As I began to walk over I tilted it slightly causing the lid to swing closed, leaving me with a dilema, do I drop the box to save a injury and risk damage to my models, or do I take the hit and save the models? ....
... ... ... It took 4months for my thumb nail and skin to fully heal after it cracked it and indented a large gash at the top of my nail.

Another time I was cutting models off the sprue, and even though I knew in the back of my mind my finger was in the way I for some unknown reason continued to cut a thick piece of plastic sprue with great force, ending up by removing a 10mm by 5mm chunk of flesh from my index finger requiring medical attention.



Yes I'm aware that I was fairly stupid and possibly deserved them both lol

Have any of you dakkaties suffered some nasty or just painful injuries during the pursuit of your hobby?

I once pierced my thumb on a chaos undivided symbol. Them things are sharp.

Had one this past sunday.
Impaled my forearm on a clubmate's %$^%$^ piece of CoD terrain.

%^#&^%&^%& spikes.

As to the 'hoping this thread hasn't been done before' - ooh boy, are you sooooo wrong about that. Pretty much at least once a month.

My index fingers are cover with scars from 20+ years of lackluster x-acto knife work. I know you should cut away from yourself, but sometimes you just "can't".

I got mauled by a Space hulk genestealer. Freaking thing clawed my thumb.

My fingers are constantly cut up from files and scalpels. And then you put the alcohol based hand sanitisers on them for work. Pain ensues.

Sorry but this type of thread has been done already.
There is both a 'Worst modelling injury' and a 'Most recent modeling injury' thread.

Mods: I would like to see the 'Most recent injury' thread stickied (with blood). It's kinda fun! http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/247403.page#825461

I too admit to being spiked by the Space Hulk Genestealers in the last 48 hrs!

I drilled through the nail on my thumb with my Dremel tool.

Just the usual - scalpel slicing the fingers is fairly common for me + the old 'super glue on fingers' shenanigans

My most recent one? That would be the multitude of scratches and raw fingers from assembling some Dark Elf Corsairs. They have realistically sharp swords, I'm sure of it.

Before I even started the hobby, I read one of these 'horrific modeling injury' threads, and since then I've been using them as a bible on what NOT to do.

So far my worst injury is snipping off a chunk of dried super glue, and having it fly up and hit me in the eye.

I have cut my pointer finger and thumb so many times with my exacto knife that I've lost count. Some cuts were pretty deep.

Since it usually happens when cleaning metal minis, I have taken to wearing a leather glove when I have to trim the mold lines off metal. I sometimes wear it with plastic minis, too.

*double post*

Sat on a night goblin last week, didn't sit down again for about three hours

Beastmen spears are pretty nasty, never reach blindly into a dark box full of them..... its kinda like a punji trap.

Alex Kolodotschko wrote:Sorry but this type of thread has been done already.
There is both a 'Worst modelling injury' and a 'Most recent modeling injury' thread.

Mods: I would like to see the 'Most recent injury' thread stickied (with blood). It's kinda fun! http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/247403.page#825461

I too admit to being spiked by the Space Hulk Genestealers in the last 48 hrs!

One better. YOu can edit the wiki and put your scars here:

http://www.dakkadakka.com/wiki/en/War%28gaming%29_Injuries

Ha! Never spotted that. Thanks Malfred, now i'll know where to go next time I have a paint pot lodged in my temple after an hilarious pet induced modeling accident!

Trying to file ork Kommando, slipped and recovered it just in time to jam the file under the thumbnail, got it in there a good cm + I actually debated leaving the blood on the blade....

most serious was building a V2 rocket replica. A slipped hobby knife cut into my index finger almost to the bone. Whenever I play bass I still feel the nerve pinch.

That was 6 years ago.

Up until last weekend i used to pride myself on my worst hobby related injury being pricking my thumb on a plastic goblin spearman.

However.... last Saturday I was waiting for the girlfriend to turn up, she was running late so i thought that i would get on with cleaning up the terminators from Space Hulk. I was plonked in front of the telly with all my files and clippers happily beavering away and must have lost track of time, there was a knock on the door and i jumped up from the sofa without thinking. At that point I felt a tingling in one of my toes, i looked down to see that said toe was impaled by my hobby knife After some swearing i managed to get the knife out and answer the door. The girlfriend seeing my foot covered in blood took sympathy and agreed to play a game of Space Hulk with me, so it wasn't all bad

About a week and a half ago I sliced the inside edge of my pointer finger, right at the joint under the tip. Bled through two band-aids, and is scarring as we speak.

Blood for the hobby god!

I installed a magnet with the wrong polarity on my SM Commander Arm and needed to take it out. So, i decided to drill through his shoulder and force it out with my pin drill before the superglue dries. Well, the magnet popped out with alot of force and the drill bit speared through my thumb.

My worst model injury was the day i casted models
it was prince august mold i melted white metal and when i wanted to put it in the mold i missed it and drop the hot lead my hand ,getting a 3 rd degree burnt ( 15 years ago i still have the scars !)

I lost most of my little finger on my left hand due to a dremelling acident.

I like super glued my hand to my chest, when I made my first Chaos Marine's. I had to tear out skin and hair to use my hand again.... yuckie D:

hmm... i think i remember glueing every single part of a guardsman to myself before... and my friend melted most of a necron warrior in plastic glue before... that same warrior is now mine. another of my friends COMPLETELY melted down a troop (cant remember what it was.) the little plastic men- the real casulties of modeling (in the wrong hands) may we ever mourn thier passing.

worst I've done is glue a magnet to my index finger. It set so quickly and so flush I had to cut around it with an x-acto until I had all the glued layers of skin seperated; thank the Empr0rz for sharp knives!

Speaking of which, sharp knife+cutting away from you=saves you from 95% of cutting injuries. A stuck/stuttering blade is a deadly one. It seems slightly counter intuitive but sharper=safer, people!

I cut myself on Fenris (the WM character) and got a fair amount of blood on his swords. Which is rather fitting i might add.

One thing: Kroot guns hurt. 'Nuff said.

My pin vice fell off the table and stuck in my foot, it went so deep it supported itself, and its still healing.

TheFirstBorn wrote:My pin vice fell off the table and stuck in my foot, it went so deep it supported itself, and its still healing.

Similar episode for me ...

My exacto rolled off the table and landed upright in my thigh. Thankfully it was a new blade and went in smooth like an olympic diver !! Still hurt like hell, though !!!