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cut a guards men in half verticaly (so as to put him face down in a canal I was making) and cut my thumb almost to the bone. took two months and alot of puss and blood to heal.

Put a gash in my left cheek whilst using a knife a week or so ago:

Face was itchy so I scratched it absent mindedly. With the hand holding the knife...

Seems to have healed up OK, which is good as I would have had to have thought for a suitably manly explanation for the big scar on my face than "playing with toy soliders"

My other good injury was drilling straight through a jump pack i was magentising into my hand.

Should definitely lay off the grapejuice whilst modeling...

Wow...I am so glad I am always extra careful with any tool I use. Except for cuts with knives when I was little, I have had no serious injury while doing my hobbies. Then again, I've only been in the hobby for 2 years, there's no telling when I might slice off my finger or glue my shirt to my chest.

Freaking Super glue and Metal models are a bad combo for me

I was stupid enough (when I was younger) to try and cut wood with a Stanly knife. Cut across my finger and could see the bone for a split second before it started pouring with blood. For some reason (not sure why) i didn't hurt, I was actually laughing because I though blood was bright red, its almost brown (lol)

I've cut myself a few times with xacto knives, sliced into my thumb pretty good once..
Worst "modeling" injury would probably be taking a chunk out of a finger with a pair of wire snips while cutting mini's off a sprue.

My poor wallet never knew what hit it.

Couple of stanley knife cuts, one or two superglue gluings and a few hot wire cutter (games workshop used to sell them) burns. but my most impressive was a cut to the bone with a saw, trying to make a base for some terrain.

my head exploded when the missus painted a wall of skulls from one of the GW building kits (she was going for a stained glass effect)

looked like a wall of skittles...

o_O

snowman40k wrote:my head exploded when the missus painted a wall of skulls from one of the GW building kits (she was going for a stained glass effect)

looked like a wall of skittles...

o_O

..Priceless.
...Not to come across as sexist ...but it is funny to me how often I read stories about folks " Missuses" and " Bright and interesting" paint jobs...
Of course my own Missus has a horde of bright Pink CSM...so..

Same basic cuts from xacto knives, but nothing major at all. For those of you drilling into your hands, what the feth are you doing? I use a dremel, a high-speed rotary tool, to drill out holes for magnets and such, and the bits on that thing can't even break my skin, let alone drill a hole through it.

Always cut myself with the hobby knife always

Little cuts, some deeper than others - the worst thing though was I was doing a conversion, I managed to knock the superglue off the table and it hit my jeans. I'd been trying to glue the damn thing together for a while, the superglue started reacting and I had to hold my jeans up with one hand to avoid them sticking to my skin, whilst holding the conversion until it was dry and blowing away the fumes - not recommended

I was modelling in my kitchen one time. When i tried to move my feet i found that one foot simply didnt move. Looking down there was a open tube of superglue by my foot. I have debonder but it was no where near me and since i was literally glued to the spot, i had to take drastic measured. I yanked off the sole of my foot. to this day it is still stuck where i left it. It hurt but not as bad as you would imagine.

You know they say that Xacto knives and box cutters are the most dangerous tools in the box and they're right.

I've gotten myself a few times. Worst was trying to cut a Killa Kan from his base (I had just spot glued for painting). stabbed myself right in that spot where my thumb meets my hand.

It didn't bleed for like 5 minutes, but when it started it was brutal.

Anyways, this entire thread deserves a prize for the cautionary lessons contained within

I can confidently say I know what the inside of my hand looks like.

I lay open a finger or two every once in a while, now. It is just one of those things to deal with like rolling a 1 as a catastrophic failure every now and then.

The Gluse is just another story to tell. skin grows back and its a minore inconvienience, but cold water, or gasoline is a good remover.

A fellow poster mentioned "gaming / model" casaulties which I thought of this morning, 2 examples both from tournment play.

1. Rogue Trader at the former Dark Tower in NJ. I had a CSM Defiler when they just game out in the corner lobbing battle cannon rounds into a guard player. Which back then, felt like the greatest thing in the world. A gamer at another table backs into the table, knocks the Defiler over, and steps on it. Bam... busted model un repairable, i'd owned it for 2 weeks and only used it in that event. I was pretty ticked. I ordered parts and ended up assembling the top half again, fusing the bottom half to Chimera treads. It ended up looking kinda cool.

2. Rogue Trader, GW Cherryl Hill, NJ. Back in the days of that store. I had me a nice Forgeworld CSM dreadnaught... had is the key word after a gamer knocks it off the table when he is rolling dice, it hits the floor and evaporates itself into about 100 pieces of chunks of resin. His comment "can't you just glue it back together." Shop owner explains to him, how all that left over dust on the floor is parts of the models, and does he have the money to order me at least the core portions. I won't have been sore at him.. if I hadn't on turns 1 & 2 mentioned the way he was rolling dice for his "pimp roll" was an accident waiting to happen.

Lots of cuts of varying severity but the best was with a pin vice. I was pinning an old metal chaos terminator when i was working in the hobby shop and i was likely sing too much pressure, and got distracted. The bit cleared the other side of the model, through my thumb to the nail. Catching me by surprise I dropped the model and vice but when i looked at the skewered finger the initial pulse of blood streamed a solid 6 feet across the room.

Like i said though it caught me off guard so it didn't hurt, it just surprised me so i got a lot of concerned looks, for my sanity not my finger mind you, when i started laughing about it.

I used to get the usual nicks and cuts but have found that I don't really have these problems now that I work at a descent desk and have a cutting mat, hobby vice and mitre blocks to work from.

My most recent one though involved using cheap liquid super glue (more hassle that its worth) and getting super glue on my thumb sealing the thumbnail down, not painfull just a distracting discomfort.

I used a sculpting tool to try and free the nail and stabbed myself under the thumbnail. I thought that was quite painful until I started using debonder on it afterwards, that stuff kills in an open wound.