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Hi everyone, since i just super glued my fingers together it got me thinking. What is the worst injury YOU have sustained with anything related to warhammer? This can be stepping on a model, bumping your head against ur desk, cutting your finger with the saw, or ever super gluing ur fingers together *cough*...

One day trying to cut a metal model I sliced my finger with an exacto knife.

One time, I looked at some ones crappy painting on their Yarrick Miniature.... I lost sight in my left eye for a few days.

Aside from the usual minor exacto cuts on my fingers, I did manage to throw my back out for a week after a game that I spent bending too much over the table. To be fair, I had actually injured my back 2 weeks before, but oh man did it get aggravate the problem.

*Disclaimer* This is both true and somewhat heebie-jeebie inducing for those who visualize things well.

A friend was visiting while I worked on building some figs. We were chatting about nothing (always dangerous to have your attention diverted). At one point I noticed my exacto start to roll toward the table edge. I think I had both hands very occupied gluing pieces. It was one of those you-watch-it-all-happen-in-slow-motion moments. It rolled off the table, I tried to move my bare legs, it falls point down and sticks into the side of my ankle (on the inside just above the bone bump). The worst part? Rather than continuing on to the floor, the knife simply fell over, still stuck into my leg. So now it was hanging over, skikn folded in a gruesome fashion with blood trickling down my foot. My friend, the former military policeman and all-around tough guy, slumps over in an attempt not to pass out from watching. The funky part was trying to figure out how to remove the knife without doing further damage.

One day trying to cut a metal model I sliced my finger with an exacto knife.

+1, was bledding for 10 minutes, dang those things are sharp as I didn't even feel it

Aside from that I have had a very stiff back after some games that I had to play on the floor (of my house)

Nothing major. But still silly as the injuries where the results of painting/playing with miniatures

I had one of those brush applicator pots of lock-tite super glue, and accidentally dumped it on my jeans.

First I was pissed, thinking I had ruined my jeans. Then they started smoldering. Things went downhill from there.

Skull Pass Night Goblin Spearmen.

Those 5 words make many cringe.

I had one of those brush applicator pots of lock-tite super glue, and accidentally dumped it on my jeans.

First I was pissed, thinking I had ruined my jeans. Then they started smoldering. Things went downhill from there.

Wha...wait...smoldering?!

Cyanoacrylate (super glue) undergoes a marked exothermic reaction when applied to cotton, especially in quantities as large as a superglue pot.

2 things.

Tripped over my dog and stepped on Kroq'gars spear driving it an inch and a half into my foot.

Didn't know I had a bit of glue on the back of my hand when I rubbed my eyelid, walked into the emergency room with my hand glued to my eyelid and my eye burning like a

Worst I've had was when I was trimming a model with my exacto knife - wasn't paying attention, the blade was kind of dull, and I was using more force than necessary...

Basically, the knife slipped, went halfway into my pinky, and fell to the floor (thankfully it missed my legs - my feet were raised up since I was sitting on a stool). Went to ER, had to get stitches and I no longer have much feeling in that finger.

Oh, and I did once (don't ask me how I managed this) manage to stab myself in the thigh with my knife. ...even I don't know how I did that one.

Well maybe I can one uppeth y'all.

Was using a pocketknife when I first got my pieces to work on some Dreadnoughts. See, at college, I didn't have power tools. So how do you think I cut into them to fit the magnets? Knife. And using magnets from legos was, of course, fun as hell.

Anywho, got through one dreadnought and moved onto the second. Partway through, knife folded. Onto my finger. Blood Was everywhere, so I wrapped it up and cleaned up, freaking out a bit. Didn't really panic till I looked at it and saw how deep it was. Rode down to the nearby clinic on my bike with about 10 paper towels masking taped onto it. Closed.

Went back to my room and waited with friend deciding what to do. Even called future (now current) girlfriend for advice. Needless to say I got mocked for toy soldiers, then it started bleeding anew, so me and friend went to hospital. Six hours there, because the doctors saw I cut so deep that I might've hit a nerve or tendon. I DID nick a tendon. That and I bled continuously for those 6 hours, it alternating between dribbles and outpouring. Eventually they stitiched it up with 2 stitches IN my finger and 4 on the surface.

Even now, 6 months later, I still can't bend that finger all the way and I have a wicked scar.

I use power tools now. A Drill is my best friend, EVER.

Even now

Not warhammer, but miniature related... when I was a kid I was shaving flash off some army men, and put the blade of an exacto all the way into the meat of my left hand, between the thumb and the other fingers. I was so freaked out I just wrapped a towel around it, never told my dad, and after a day or two it stopped bleeding. Plus side was that's how I learned left from right... left side is the one with the scar on it.

I had to get 6 stitches in my hand when i slipped with a modelling knife.

I cut my hand when I cut myself when I was assembling my Manticore. It cut pretty deep, but didn't hurt at first, and I though: "Oh , this is going to hu-AAAARGH!"

Also, while gaming, I hit my hand on one of the top of an Imperial ruin, the ones with the spikes. It hurt a ton.

Cactus dropped on my foot whilst playing 40K with said succulent as scenery.

I managed to cut myself just under my right thumb nail, hurt like a bitch, so i washed it, it stoped bleeding for a while so i went back to modeling, so i was glueing with super glue and managed to get super glue on that cut and by god did that hurt!

I also managed to tread on a IG junior officer with powersword, that hurt but what the worse thing happened after that while i was hoping arround like an idiot i stubbed my little toe on the other foot and fell other and guess what I landed on... that same dam officer.

Doctadeth wrote:Cactus dropped on my foot whilst playing 40K with said succulent as scenery.

THIS WINS THE THREAD!


Remember the old 2nd edition starter box gretchin with the kaizer helmets? knelt on some of them while playing a game on the floor, needless to say if I needed a large number of similar helmet spikes in a hurry I could have used my knee as a press-mold for about 3 days!

I cut the bottom of my big toe with a scalple, was like an inch long and wouldn't stop bleeding

I was trying to push a very thin metal rod into a small hole I had drilled in my trygon, and as it was too small/thin to grip or push in with my finger, I ended up pushing it with the underside of my thumbnail.

Long story short my thumb slipped and the rod went right down under my nail. I believe some places use a similar technique as a method of torture. Let me tell you it is extremely painful.

Cutting with a cheap-arse cutter a couple years ago while cutting stuff for some Necromunda terrain.

The blade broke and the flying piece landed on my hand and started bleeding a lot, but since it wasn't deep I fix'd it with my deodorant and a zippo xD

Pvt. Jet wrote:Well maybe I can one uppeth y'all.

Was using a pocketknife when I first got my pieces to work on some Dreadnoughts. See, at college, I didn't have power tools. So how do you think I cut into them to fit the magnets? Knife. And using magnets from legos was, of course, fun as hell.

Anywho, got through one dreadnought and moved onto the second. Partway through, knife folded. Onto my finger. Blood Was everywhere, so I wrapped it up and cleaned up, freaking out a bit. Didn't really panic till I looked at it and saw how deep it was. Rode down to the nearby clinic on my bike with about 10 paper towels masking taped onto it. Closed.

Went back to my room and waited with friend deciding what to do. Even called future (now current) girlfriend for advice. Needless to say I got mocked for toy soldiers, then it started bleeding anew, so me and friend went to hospital. Six hours there, because the doctors saw I cut so deep that I might've hit a nerve or tendon. I DID nick a tendon. That and I bled continuously for those 6 hours, it alternating between dribbles and outpouring. Eventually they stitiched it up with 2 stitches IN my finger and 4 on the surface.

Even now, 6 months later, I still can't bend that finger all the way and I have a wicked scar.

I use power tools now. A Drill is my best friend, EVER.

Even now

I have a leather guard for my fingers for when im using a pen knife, proberby woud of done somthing like that if i wernt for that piece of leather.

not really an injury but I hate gluing my fingers to a fig I'm working on.

I know a guy works for GW. Basically he was on his own building some minatures out of a Black Box using superglue, when all of a sudden the model slips and lands on the floor. No problem, he bends down to pick it up lying his face against the table in order to do so. Unbeknownst to him, the table had actually been covered in superglue due to the bottle falling over whilst he worked.

He ended up face superglued to table, back to the shop door which was open and nowhere near a phone. He had to throw the keys to a regular who came in (30mins later) to lock up the shop and call an ambulance to un-stick his face from the table. Took about 2.5 hrs if I remember correctly...

Oh, and about £700 worth of box sets also miraculously dissapeared whilst he was stuck there.

Suffice to say he doesn't work for GW anymore...

L. Wrex

I cut my thumb a lot while trimming off the excess on my models. One time i sliced about a centimetre down the side of my thumb right next to the nail. I was using a fairly dull Stanley knife so it was my own fault. It wasn't bleeding badly at all but hurt like a . I still had most of a squad to finish off, so I reached for the super glue bottle that was in a handy spot and glued the flap of my thumb back down. About 10 minutes later it happened again. only this time it was an almost perfectly perpendicular cut from the first. So now I have a chunk of thumb flesh holding on to where I had glued it back down originally. So again I glued it down and bit back the pain. Wrapped it up in a couple layer thick coating of Band-Aids and finished off trimming. My mum saw my thumb wrapped up later that day and quite rightly gave me an ear full for being such an idiot. Now I only use sharp blades.

I took a corner off my thumb

I was with a guy when the marine he was glueing snaped. Some glue got in his eye and he needed to go to the hospital. He had an eye patch for 2 weeks.

Super glue in eye...
not me but someone I know

A friend of mine always used to glue either his fingers together, his hands together or his fingers to a minature. One day he got the bright idea that if he used latex gloxes this would happen. It turns out that latex gloves are porris enough for super glue to pass through.