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Cut my fingers open a few times with modeling knives (I'm used to it though, I did 3D Design at college and had loads of scalpel accidents , believe me when I say that I saw some nasty accidents from other people in college...belt sanders + fingers and chisels + fingernails?)

Someone I know who used to work at GW slipped with a pin vice once- it went straight into his finger, down to the bone. His advice when I finally bought a pin vice myself was:

"Pin vices hurt. A LOT."

Obviously, not an injury, but I lose count how often I accidently stick my fingers together/to a model with super glue too. Good times.

I've got way too many scars on my hands. Scalpels are sharp. And I keep gluing my fingers together..
By collecting chaos and 'Nids I've received lots of injuries from spiky stuff - thanks GW.

I cut a rather deep gash on my left index finger and it really hurt i nearly passed out and hey i have a nice scar too

I have a habit of painting/modelling whilst listening to the TV, nothing on that actuallly requires my full attention.
When I first got together with my wife, on the rare quiet moment I was converting a white metal Model, forget which, Instead of using Clipper to remove the excess sprue I used the knife. Unfortunately it was not that sharp where I first started cutting, I kept at it until suddenly I found the sharp part or the Knife and cut clear through the Model, my trousers and cut a 10" gash in my leg.

The wife was the first to notice, due the my blood splattering over her.

What followed was some first aid, a trip in an ambulance, and a short stay in the Hospital.

I still painting/modelling whilst listening to the TV, still nothing on that’s actually worth watching, but there now a modelling board on my lap, that has saved a repeat performance once or twice, this was the wife’s idea, now she'd probability leave me to bleed to death and claim on the Life Insurance

Myrthe wrote:

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 !!!

Don't know how many times when I've leaned over to the floor to get something out of my box of supplies and heard my X-acto rolling across the unlevel desk and had to jump back to keep it from dive-bombing into a body part. Because you know, if you just sit still and hope it'll land butt-end first or hit the floor, it's going to do just what was quoted above.

It finally drove me to put a triangular lump of green stuff on my knife to keep it from rolling.

man, when i'm not using my xacto, i keep a blob of wall putty around the blade, doesn't roll, and if it falls the putty keeps me safe

Oh, I learned a "pointed" lesson that day, that's for sure !! From then on, I've only used x-acto knives with either a cap or a clip (like a pen) or, ideally, both !!

i was messing around with heating up models (as you do) to get them to beng, to make interesting poses (tyranid tails for example) anyways, i was quite tired on the day and for some reason i decided to take a boiling water soaked, almost melting hot model out of the saucepan and then drop it on my forarm. i now have a big pink scar to remind me that melting models is baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad

I cut fingers with a hobby knife accidently.
As well as some skin riping off after i superglued some fingers together

Khornholio wrote: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".

Yea, my father told me as a very young person to always cut away from myself. I usually did, and now I always do. Many years ago when I was 17 I filleted my right thumb with an exacto knife. Nine stitches down the tip, three through the nail. Ruined my dart game, but I have a unique thumbprint now. Ironically, the piece I was cutting to use as a sword for an early edition Dragon Ogre, I didn't even end up using.

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

The most painful, was having a SM with a pointing finger, stab me in the thumb tip (Im still not sure how the hell that worked out) but it bled like CRAZY and hurt for days

Twice when I was using my electric grinder on some of my space marine heads, I lost my grip on the heads and they flew up and hit me in the eye. Now I always wear safty glasses when I grind anything. Other then that I have some super glue and cut injuries.

i shanked my self in the side of my hand with exacto knife it wasnt a cut but more of a stab after impaling it even more by hitting it against my knee first though deep cut, apply preasure of hand to jeans i now own a pair of red jeans

Taking a Space Hulk Genestealer off the sprue.

Quick tip: Rending Claws REND!

Went all the way into my Thumb. I did not like it.

I try to avoid modelling whilst drunk now. Always ends in pain, the GW modelling saw is the worst, i sliced down to the bone between my thumb and index finger with it whilst trying to butcher a killa kan for gubbins. had to call my mate to rush me to a&e as i couldn't drive. to this day i have never seen so much blood and my mate has never forgiven me for bleeding all over his car!

Let it be known that Chaos terminators make excellent caltrops when trophy racks are installed. Particularly the metal ones.
I was limping for a week after an ill advised dash for the phone into a dark hobby room... missed the phone call too.

i use a medium thickness plastic glue..... on the back of the bottle it has a HUGE label that says its a fast skin bonder. got some my finger.... rubbed a itchy closed eye..... three hours of putting scalding hot water on my eye and rubbing to get it off.... mom still never found out

Years ago when I got into the hobby my little brother was playing with my goblins as I went to bed. First thing the next morning I jumped out of bed to find myself standing on a unit of the old plastic spearmen. I spent two days in the hospital having spear tips removed from my foot, and I was on crutches for a month.

Cut my thumb open with an exacto blade twice. Same thumb too.

While shaving flash off a car model I was assembling (32 Ford 3-window if you're curious), I implanted the X-Acto knife into my right thumb. Didn't feel anything, and it didn't bleed, but it did do massive nerve damage. By that I mean that I can't feel it what-so-ever. As a result I never notice the cuts that leave the several lines of scars that now adorn my thumbprint from shaving flash/mold lines off of miniatures (never was too good at cutting away from myself...)

I was using a pin vice on one of the Orks in the AOBR set and I forgot how soft plastic gets when it heats up and what do you know I drill through the plastic and then straight into my finger.

once dropped a knife and impaled my left testicale OUCH!

I have done just about everything

Taking chunks out of fingers and thumbs with exacto knife
Sprue in the eye
Sitting on spears, pointy symbols, pointy hats, etc.
Superglue on hands
Superglue on face
Superglue on hands AND face

And the worst one was when i almost cut my thumb off with a razor saw, i had to go to the hospital
I was unconscious from blood loss and i had cut part way through the bone.

just yesterday i had two injuries. i was pulling apart a car radio, when i stabbed my wrist with srewdriver, and something flicked up and hit my open eye lol. ive had like 100+ metal glue on finger, then hurting finger from biting of the friggin glue. i also once somehow managed to get superglue on my tounge!!!!!!!!!!!!!

warboss spinetwizta wrote:once dropped a knife and impaled my left testicale OUCH!

You win one Internetz...

I am blind in one eye after i got superglue in it... dont know how but know i cant tell if someone if on the left of me.

I was eye-accidented too but in my case it didn't was so serious...

I was using superglue with my new Valquirie and I don't know how, in the next second the superglue was in my left eye. I was in the hospital, they put some strange liquids in my eye and I was well again in a few days.

Other accident that I had some years ago was with a metal chaos terminator. I was walking without shoes and I didn't see the terminator figure was fallen from the table. You can imagine how it finished...the unpainted chaos terminator looked like a khorne's berseker.

And, like all, I usually have some superglue in the fingers and small cutter injuries...

I have completely unnatural fingerprints on account of the many deep gashes that are now a permanent feature in the flesh of my fingertips. Damn hobby knife.

I've got a scar on my face where I managed to get part of a WiP terrain piece superglued to my forehead. I was really drunk when that happened (didn't find it until I woke up next morning either)

Also jammed the blade of my last hobby knife into my hand when it slipped. I promptly took a hammer to that knife, THEN went to get stitches once it was in an adequately destroyed state.

I don't have a mark from this, but I also managed to drop my hobby knife on my foot, blade down. That hurt.

And lastly, I once cut my finger open on an exceptionally sharp set of Assault Termie Lightning Claws


All this, paired with my drunken 'Ideas' (riding laundry baskets down my basement stairs, putting out cigars on my shoulders, trying to break a bottle on my head, etc...) has made me well known on a first-name basis with the staff in the Emergency Room of Royal Inland Hospital

I wear glasses so I am protected from most eye injuries (yaaay for polycarbonate!). My worst injuries have all come from continuing to use a blade that is far too blunt to trim stuff. Most recent injury of note was a moment of inattention leading to the knife being jammed into the muscle between thumb and fore-finger... I'm sure I saw a few different layers of flesh in there. Thankfully it didn't actually hurt very much and I now have a lovely 1cm long ultra-straight scar there

Myrthe wrote:
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 !!!

This happened to me, but it actually bounced off. Thank the Emperor that the knife I dropped happened to be my old GS sculpting knife, so it's about as sharp as a baseball bat.