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MY new modelling knife got its first taste of human flesh just now. Word of advice, though super glue works like a charm, don't use Citadel plastic glue to seal cuts.

Where's the pictures? :p

Well, super glue was deigned for cuts in hospitals.

Plastic glue was designed to inflict pain and suffering.

Pics or it didn't happen.

Don't use super glue. There is medical grade super glue which is designed for it. While it was the original design for super glue non-medical grade stuff can end up being toxic so if you do use it be careful.

Interesting fact, the cut starts to close up after a few seconds. Well at least thats what the guy at the hospital said after the stiches.
Bandaids or sticking platser also work.

Lol, salt in the wound! Or in this case plastic glue. I can imagine you shrieking in pain as you put the glue on your cut, falling off your chair and and then wailing tearfully on the floor, this thought makes me smile.

Plastic Cement hurts like a [Censored], doubly so if you get it in the eye. For maximum glue pain though, apply lots of super glue to a hot surface (in my case, recently cooked Super Sculpy). The resulting vapour is like pepper spray; it assaults your eyes and mucus membranes.

illuknisaa wrote:Pics or it didn't happen.

There was a DAKKA member that seriously cut his thumb open and posted pictures of it. It was a horrible, "youve got to be kidding, Im thinking your suicidal" horrible. But still funny.


My best was I was carving the "horns" off of some berzerkers years ago to make jump troops and such. And I was watching TV and stopped paying attention to what I was doing and the knife slipped and stabbed right into the top of my knee. I let go of the knife in that "oh crap" moment, and it just stood straight up. Once removed it bled like crazy.

And ya, super was made for quick battle field stitches, plastic glue OTOH, well theres a hint for what it was made for in its name

Plastic glue to seal a wound is like using sand

Commercial superglue is NOT for sealing wounds. Special surgical glues are, and they tend to dissolve harmlessly into the bloodstream whereas super glue designed for building purposes may poison the blood through various toxins etc.

Plastic glue is even worse; it was designed to join plastic to plastic by melting them together, and whilst it may bond skin and other objects, the hold is extremely fragile and wouldn't work anyway.

Next time, grab an antiseptic dressing or wipe and clean the wound (hot water will suffice), dry the wound if using water and apply sterile dressing (most dry gauze dressings found in supermarkets fill this requirement) to any large wounds, making sure to seal it tight and re-dress regularly. Smaller cuts might need less dressing or a simple plaster, but re-dressing/re-plastering is still essential.

Moral of the story: When you're next in the Chemist, stock up on medical supplies. Don't use modelling glue.

Wish they had used super glue on this pesky things those hobby knifes lol

Modelling with your feet, whilst impressive, generally isn't the way forward

PArdon my messy kitchen


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Perkustin wrote:Lol, salt in the wound! Or in this case plastic glue. I can imagine you shrieking in pain as you put the glue on your cut, falling off your chair and and then wailing tearfully on the floor, this thought makes me smile.

It was more of a guttural growling, but thanks


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bullyboy76 wrote:Wish they had used super glue on this pesky things those hobby knifes lol

Holy cow... what third world country did they stitch that together in? Looks like Dr. Frankenstein stitched you up with baling wire and a knitting needle. Sheesh!

Avatar 720 wrote:Commercial superglue is NOT for sealing wounds. Special surgical glues are, and they tend to dissolve harmlessly into the bloodstream whereas super glue designed for building purposes may poison the blood through various toxins etc.

QFT. Regular superglue can be used in an emergency, but I wouldn't do it very often. What you really want is surgical or "skin" glue.

I'll use duct tape if I need to.

Duct tape...is amazing....d

yes, closes wounds, fixes cars, you can even creat a makeshift chastity belt

Mad4Minis wrote:

Avatar 720 wrote:Commercial superglue is NOT for sealing wounds. Special surgical glues are, and they tend to dissolve harmlessly into the bloodstream whereas super glue designed for building purposes may poison the blood through various toxins etc.

QFT. Regular superglue can be used in an emergency, but I wouldn't do it very often. What you really want is surgical or "skin" glue.

Superglue was originally invented as skin glue, thats why it bonds skin instantly. The only harm that will come to you using it as "stitches" is if you have a reaction to it. But thats because you have a reaction to it, not because superglue is bad for you. Its perfectly fine to use it to close an xacto knife cut. Sheesh kids these days are so damn paranoid of stuff

chuckwilliams wrote:yes, closes wounds, fixes cars, you can even creat a makeshift chastity belt

Duct tape is like the force.

It has a dark side.
It has a light side.
It binds the universe together.

With regards to the "not using plastic glue to try closing a wound" issue - I'll file that in the "No duh!" file.

There are some things that you really don't HAVE to experience to know they are a bad idea.

Allowing teenagers to use anything sharper than safety scissors and a ride on the short bus seems to be two of them.

(I never cut myself as a teen. I had, however, managed to stand on my soldering iron and leave a 5cm long, 1cm wide burn on the sole of my foot. Made walking rather interesting for the next week or so.).

Regarding use, I'm with KingCracker on this one. Superglue is great for cuts. When I was a Climbing instructor, I used it fairly often when on trips as a quick fix for cuts, cracked finger pads (yes, as painfull as it sounds) , etc.

However, if I may clarify an urban myth... Superglue was not invented as a skin adhesive. It (cyanoacrylate) has been used medically, but it was not created for that purpose, rather, it was a failed attempt to make a transparent material for gun sights that was developed into an adhesive and only later used medically.

more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyanoacrylate

Aaaah, this tale is a tangent of doctoring your own cuts.

I lived with a buddy of mine in my early 20's, I worked grave yard shift for a bit while there. We were young and had friends drinking at our house often. I come home one morning and start getting grub, when I notice quiet a bit of blood on the couch. I yell for my roommate asking if I missed a fight or something. He comes out of his room stinking of beer, with half a torn t-shirt electrical taped to his hand. It was apparently doctored up by someone nearly as drunk as him (and probably shirtless). He broke a beer bottle in it while holding the wide part of the beer, not the neck. He now knows the proper way of breaking beer bottles but has a couple nice scars on his hand. The tip of his pinky finger healed to look like an ass crack, he says it is to remind him not to be one again. Lucky he can still use his fingers!

Anyways, lesser of two evils would be the non toxic (maybe unsanitary?) T-Shirt n tape!

Forget the cut!

There is a UFO on your stove!!!

Well superglue isn't that intoxicating if you really squeezse shut the 2 parts of the skin cut,its a bit painfull,but your sure that you won't get anyglue that would dwell inside of it,or at least not enought to give you a heart attack.

Stump wrote:Forget the cut!

There is a UFO on your stove!!!

Blimey, you're right!

Makeshift chastity belt?

I can count the number of times I've quickly needed a chastity belt on no hands.

chowderhead13 wrote:Well, super glue was deigned for cuts in hospitals.

Plastic glue was designed to inflict pain and suffering.

Superglue was originally developed as a bomb sight. When it didn't set up the way it was expected, they put it into a scanning electron microscope and accidentally glued it together.

The first part of that story is true, the second part my just be urban legend.

Superglue is just fine.

The big boogeyman of it is that superglue is cyanoacrilate, which, among many other things, can break down into cyanide over time. The thing is, though, such a miniscule percentage of it breaks down into cyanide in the first place, and secondly, you're not putting superglue IN your wound, you're putting it OVER your wound.

Superglue is my go-to for my endless chain of little stabbeties. In fact, I have some on one of my fingers right now, due to one of said stabbeties.

As for GW plastic glue, it isn't actually glue. It's just acetone with a tiny amount of some sort of thickener (it might be corn starch, for all I know). Acetone is a solvent, not a solute, so it will do the OPPOSITE of bind your wound together.

I painted a ripper basecoated in Dheneb Stone and then colored and shaded with the blood from minor nicks while modeling.
I intend to use it to make an objective that I will hold in capture/control games.

Doomthumbs wrote:Makeshift chastity belt?

I can count the number of times I've quickly needed a chastity belt on no hands.

Obviously we never ran in the same circle of friends nor dated the same women.


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Doomthumbs wrote:I painted a ripper basecoated in Dheneb Stone and then colored and shaded with the blood from minor nicks while modeling.
I intend to use it to make an objective that I will hold in capture/control games.

Epic win...