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 chromedog wrote:
Bruised head when an opponent hurled his drop-pod at me after I destroyed his "hammer" unit inside it.

He wasn't invited back to the club. He got to keep the pod, though - and he was also banned from the venue (they have a zero tolerance policy on offensive language, and he just couldn't stop mouthing off on his abrupt way out).

Wow. Just...wow, that's pretty extreme. Takes WAAC (and TFG) to a whole new, worship of the dark gods level.

Canine Gallows wrote: I haven't really been hurt whilst enjoying 40K

I've had glue on my finger nail for close to a week now, does anyone know how to get glue off fingernails? it looks like I've had one of my nails done at a salon.

Whilst trying to gut something from my first ever Flames of War model I sliced my thumb with a stanley knife, nothing too bad though, just let the blood cover the cut and carried on... I kind of figured that as long as the blood was covering the cut it would be clean and relatively safe. Sadly I think it left a scar.

Oh! I almost glued either my ring finger or my middle finger to the palm of my hand by accident when I got the glue on my nail. Making Ork Nobz is fun but dirty work! Atleast I did a good job!

Rub it off while running it under warm water.

I've used a stanley knife for twelve years in this hobby and given myself a few papercuts with it.

The once time I ran out of blades for it and tried to use a 'proper hobby knife', I slashed my finger open to the point where it needed three stitches. We remember it fondly, because I was talking to my partner on gtalk at the time (she was in class), and all I had time for before rushing off to patch myself up was 'oops, brb'.

Oh! Then there's the time I had to borrow someone's knife at the store, and the tip of the blade snapped off and scored a 2cm long scratch in my glasses before sticking in the wall behind me. ^^; Thank the gods for short sightedness or I'd probably have lost the eye instead.

One day while trimming flashing, I made a smart remark to something my wife said in the next room. Jokingly, she threw a d20 at me. It hit the hand holding the knife, and I sliced finger pretty good when I jumped. My FLGS now has a strict 'no throwing things' rule.

More recently, I punctured my thumb on the tip of an HK missile while painting it.

Blew my back out after hunching over an entire day of playing , next day I cooed barely get out of bed and walk ( was also lifting heavy boxes prior so a combination of both )

Stepping on Forgeworld resin blisters.

Almost all the pain from modelling I've had are superglue and hobby knife related. I've glued myself to both myself and several models. I've glued myself to the hobby knife.

And I've had several overcutting incidents where I bury the tip or the full blade into a finger. Never completely cut a chunk off, but left many a thin white scar on my fingers.

I've sliced my fingers and thumb a bunch of times with a variety of tools. I got the worst cut from the hobby saw. I was so focused on getting a nice straight, clean cut that I didn't notice my finger in the path. I held the cut closed with superglue.

I've been attacked by my own Trygons a bunch of times trying to take them out of the figure case. They have so many spiky bits.

The worst mental injury came when my mother accidentally knocked my Caestus Assault Ram off my table and one of the wings broke off.

Broken wrist trying to catch my nicely painted Ghaz as the sodding cat knocked it off a high shelf.

Caught the Ghaz, but my wrist came down on the brick edge around the wood stove..

The cat was smart enough to vanish and not come back for a few days..

Worst Injury..hmmm

The damage to my bank account

and had a dremel tool mishap with a drill bit and my foot.

Had to go to troop medical center, I told them it was a training injury , patched me up and went back the next day a dremeling away .

I once killed a suit by spilling superglue on it when I decided to "just stick this one thing together" when I got home from work before I got changed.

I was not entertained

Hobby knife plus stubborn plastic= inch long cut in index finger. That was a good day


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 chromedog wrote:
Bruised head when an opponent hurled his drop-pod at me after I destroyed his "hammer" unit inside it.

He wasn't invited back to the club. He got to keep the pod, though - and he was also banned from the venue (they have a zero tolerance policy on offensive language, and he just couldn't stop mouthing off on his abrupt way out).

I would if thrown him out on his head for that


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hellpato wrote:
Super glue in an eye

How do you do this?

I usually go by undammaged, but I once hit a friend in the eye with a piece of plastic sprue.

I glued myself to every single metal Tyranid model I own at least once. Super glue and I don't exactly get on too well. I've never cut myself with a blade though, so I count myself lucky considering the silly stuff I do.

Either burning my hand with a glue gun or getting cut with a hobby knife.

Generic knife finger cuts like everyone else.

still thinking broken toe and a concussion to the head wins.

When I was first getting into the hobby I used an X-Acto knife to cut everything off the sprue.

Several minor to major cuts on my hands later, I now use hobby clippers.

I'll also second the injury my bank account has suffered to the hobby.

Tried to open a saw using a hobby knife. Slipped, sliced my wrist open.

I once managed to fall on top of a boat load of spare bitz and scenery, and my left hand landed on top of a sharp spire on top of a 40k ruin, it went almost the entire way through my hand, but luckily missed anything vital. In a rather odd display of resilience, my hand barely bled at all, and after a quick bandaging and three days of not using my hand, the entire thing repaired itself.

Don't usually hurt myself much, most annoying thing is I had superglue on my fingers, rubbed my lips and suddenly had glued my mouth together. That wasn't fun to get apart.

Me and a friend were working on cutting foam for scenery and his knife slipped, nice long cut across his wrist and down his arm. I learned a few new swaers that day.

dpal666 wrote:Severely lacerated and broken toe from dropping an old metal talos on my foot.

How do you break your toe dropping less than 5lbs on it?

Evileyes wrote:Superglued my finger's together for a full week. When they finally came apart, I had a chunk of one finger, still stuck to the other, and not only was it horrid to look at, it was chuffing agony. xD

Hard to look pretty, with bit's of your own flesh stuck to you.

That's a lot of superglue...a lot...sounds made up

SilverMK2 wrote:I once killed a suit by spilling superglue on it when I decided to "just stick this one thing together" when I got home from work before I got changed.

I was not entertained

This I believe and is the worst accident I've heard of outside of hobby knife cuts that required significant stitches.

 Da Kommizzar wrote:
Is it bad that this whole thread about others' pain cracks me up? Have not laughed so hard since I saw a Snuggies commercial.

And I thought it was just me!

Did you know that a Swiss army knife can remove a thumbnail? (I have never lost a actual hobby knife since.)

my freind was dreadsocked the death

 Amaya wrote:


How do you break your toe dropping less than 5lbs on it?

The metal talos iirc is very spikey and has sharp edges like a chisel. its possible. better then the 10 pound chaos dread

I dropped a couple spiked bits after cutting them. Later, I stepped on them.

Every post in this thread is making me cringe so hard

Anyway just today I cut into my index finger and now my fingernail has a nice split halfway through

 Desubot wrote:

 Amaya wrote:


How do you break your toe dropping less than 5lbs on it?

The metal talos iirc is very spikey and has sharp edges like a chisel. its possible. better then the 10 pound chaos dread

I've dropped much heavier things on my feet (albeit with shoes) and not broken anything.

Stuck my hand into my friends army case (cardboard box full of crap) and had a hobby knife go right into my palm. Oh I also once stepped barefoot on a really pointy sprue and got a bunch of cuts and stabs on my foot.

Superglued my head to a desk. 3 times.

You should probably stop reading Dakka while modelling, hotsauce

I'm sure someone has superglued their hand to a certain blood filled organ.