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I tried to creat a real fusion cores for my Templars plasmaguns and it just went terrible wrong.







At least 3 are working now.

I need to get the hell out of this thread, I find myself gimacing constantly.

Nothing this terrible has happened to me. The worst I've gotten was a thumb sliced wide open by an x-acto blade on two occasions, but neither deep enough for anything more robust than a bandage.

Dark Scipio wrote:I tried to creat a real fusion cores for my Templars plasmaguns and it just went terrible wrong.

Although this made me lol.

I just got a funny look from the lady from Accounts Payable who was walking by.

I should do some work.

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

This.

Cut myself on an improperly filed metal figure

Superglue, Superglue, Superglue,Superglue, Superglue.

Scalpels,Scalpels,Scalpels,Scalpels,Scalpels,Scalpels,Scalpels.

Although TBH, I have sustained far more injuries from my cat. Damn, those claws are sharp.

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

/thread.

This man set has pants on fire.

Related to warhammer: Glued my hands together.

Unrelated to warhammer: Messed up my fingernail good when I had to pry apart the chest piece for a vincent model. There was only one hole that the connecter fit in to, and it jammed While I tried putting it in, so I had to try and remove it and replace it.

I think the guy who had his face glued to the desk wins this one haha!

I love this thread when it comes around:



Exorcist: 1
daedalus: 0

Normally, I threaten my friends with death if they take me to the hospital. One of my friend's girlfriend (the only one I could get ahold of) was terrified when I told her I cut myself and couldn't get it to stop bleeding. She was most terrified by the fact that I was completely calm about it. The two of them picked me up and kept me company in the hospital while I waited to be seen, right behind all of the people who looked like the worst injury they had were toothache/stomaches. There was one guy there who had very clearly broken his leg. They told me that they'd give me hell for it if I got any less than 5 stitches, because I hate hospitals so much. I got 6.

A week later I was diagnosed with H1N1. Those breathing mask dispensers apparently aren't just for show :(

The worst I have sustained (I don't count all the times I slice myself with an exacto...) was with and orbital dremmel saw. I was cutting a pewter figure, which it cuts like butter being a 30,000 rpm saw that is wafer thin with a serrated edge, and as the figure was heating up it bound and proceeded to run. Well my thumb was in the way.... and it cuts flesh even better than metal! I cut my thumb from tip to cuticle down to the bone. It took it 20 sec to figure out it even wanted to bleed. And after pouring a little hydrogen peroxide on it I proceeded to pass about for 5 sec. That has been the worst I have managed to injure myself so far with "hobby" tools.

My story is kinda funny, but also very painful.

Playing a game of Warhammer 40k outside (as the weather was perfect) and went to get some food. Slipped on some water, fell off the porch, and on to the stone patio. Needless to say, it hurt a lot. The same game, his brother slipped in the same place and fractured his ankle. I consider myself lucky as hell.

I once ended up with five Skull Pass night goblins sticking out of the sole of my foot after I stood on some by mistake. It was a dark morning, and I wasn't paying attention. I will never mock the weedy-ness of goblins again.

Happygrunt wrote:

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

/thread.

This man set has pants on fire.

The fumes really stung too, and the problem with wearing something trying to vigorously combust is that they follow you.

Although really, threads like this always make want to ask, 'why don't you people use clippers to get stuff off the sprue?'

Bookwrack wrote:Although really, threads like this always make want to ask, 'why don't you people use clippers to get stuff off the sprue?'

Actually, I do, the two times I sliced myself open I was actually shaving bits of sprue off of already-cut bits.

Both times, it was during the assembly of a Rhino or Rhino based vehicle.

...hmmmm.

I'll tell you another. Getting little droplets of thin super glue on your palm and then hitting it with Insta-set will wake you RIGHT UP! And the swirling wisps of white smoke coming off of your skin has a habit of damaging your grip on reality for a wee time. Ahem, "SHRIEK!"

HAHA i do you clippers, but when i need to shave something down thats when most of my injuries happen, or when im gluing metal to their base...

FM Ninja 048 wrote:I cut the bottom of my big toe with a scalple, was like an inch long and wouldn't stop bleeding

do i dare ask how this happened?

Coz im knife happay, I was using a GW hobby knife (exacto?) to cut open a land raider box from ebay.

Because of wrist problems from playing my PC on a bad table, I found it hard to cut the box, which was covered in sticky tape. I held one side of the box with my left hand, and cut along the edge facing me with my right. The cardboard was slowly cutting, then the knife slipped into the crack where the box opens, sliced through the sticky tape and went point-first into the webbing between my left thumb and index finger...

Didnt hurt so much but bled like hell. bandaids dont work well in those areas....

I find getting the flash from sprues off with a blunt knife, it works fine but doesnt cut the gak out of me when I cut gak.

Knife slipped across my thumbnail and bit into the skin at the base of the nail all the way to the joint. Weird flap of skin.

my friend and i were playing a game, and as we're playing he keeps messing with an exacto knife. i tell him to stop playing with it and he agrees. as he walks behind me he gets the briliant idea that pretending to thrust the knife forward would be hilarious. im kinda flinchy, so as i see the movement in the corner of my eye i swat at him (BRILIANT) and the knife goes into my middle finger. I probly should have gotton stiches because the entire night i bled over my pillow, but i didnt want my parents to get mad at my friend. It left a cool scar though......

I got quite severe hemroids from reading codex books on my toilet too long.

SmackCakes wrote:I got quite severe hemroids from reading codex books on my toilet too long.

Amen.
Done the same myself, although having all the imperial armour books doesn't help a jot.

I had a foot injury once, i was spinning my exacto knife like it was a pen and it slipped out of my hand and fell into my foot, gladly it didnt break the skin TOO bad

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

Similar to this. Was trimming the flash off a metal model with a GW hobby knife and it slipped badly. Had just replaced the blade with a really sharp new one and gashed my hand open. Needed stitches but healed fine thankfully.

I cut through my thumbs so many times that I have a thick layer of skin on each of them now.

I always get surprised when I change my blades for new ones as those are the only ones that manage to get through.

When I was younger and before I grew thicker skin I used to actually put superglue on my thumbs. Don't touch anything and let it harden and it would actually help protect. It took a few days to shed it away however so that ended up being annoying a few times.

I was bored and trying to prise open a model with a GW knife

Spent the next few minutes trying not to pass out (as I usually do when faced with grossness or Passion of the Christ ) and farting whilst a friend phoned for an ambulance as he couldn't drive and I obviously couldn't walk.
A special paramedic came out, as it was Friday night and they didn't want me stuck in A&E, and was chuffed as hell because he got to stitch such an unusual place It felt like my palm was made of leather when he was stitching it.

Whilst it healed I could feel the cut move everytime I moved my hand, which is creapy as hell!

A direct copy-paste of my addition to the Wargaming injuries article.

I have had a eye-related superglue incident. Some women complain that childbirth is the most painful thing ever; they have clearly never taken a large glob of superglue in the eye, which sealed the eye shut. I still have a blind spot.

S_P

I still have a scar on my forearm from leaning on a spare Dragonmage head that was on my painting table. It hurt but i couldnt see anything sharp around. This was because it was still in my arm. I was Not Amused.
S

I think someone mentioned a cat earlier, well i had just come home from town with my new set of firewarriors, while i was assembling them my cat was meow-ing at my bedroom door, so i let her in sit back down ad clip some peices of the new sprue, my cat jumped onto my lap so i but the clipper plier things on my leg and when i went to stroke my cat she moved away and the clipper "blade" stabbed into my hand an i lifted my hand an the clippers closed shut, and from then on i had a huge scar on the palm of my hand. And if someone asks what it is i say "ask my cat pilchard"

almost castrated myself nuff' said

*Raises eyebrow