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I lost a tiny bit of my thumb skin to superglue.... yup

Also, at Studderingdave's comment, Ba dum tish, I lol'd XD

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!

They dont need ideas

Its Chaos.

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

A stormboy nob, that is hilarious
I can literally see the thought process in that one
*hmm.... he DOES fly rather well*

Mistress of minis wrote:

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!!!




You better believe this guy is a bad-ass.

I was using a pair of clippers and they snapped, one of the blades embedded itself 1cm into my leg.

UPDATE!

I just angrily slammed my hand down onto a regiment of Dark Elf Warriors with spears, palm open. It's a curious sensation.

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 cutting handles off guns and had one fly up and hit me right in the eye. So now i cut stuff inside an old rhino box.

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.


GG

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...

UltraPrime wrote:

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.

Sorry, double post

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.

My most recent injury was putting a dremel drill bit into my thumb.

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.

UltraPrime wrote:

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.