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What is the worst injury you have taken in the line of hobby?

2 days ago, I cut the head off a Cadian to mod him for a fraeteris militia. After cutting the head off, I needed to make room for the new head. I tried drilling with the GW hobbyknife, but slipped off the surface of the Cadian, and slipped the knife tip first into the tip of my middle finger. In one clean slip I went down into the finger about 1/3rd of the length from the finger and then, as the sharp edge of the blade was pointing away from the finger, I opened the finger up from the inside like a sausage. My Cadian was baptised in blood. (And so was my sofa, carpet, floor and table.)

An intern at the hospital gave me three stitches, but the way the edges are bulging I should have gotten 2 more.

So, am I alone in my extreme clumsiness, or are you guys also collecting battle scars?

The worst I've done is the occasional cut from a knife.

I had a friend hold a tube of superglue between his teeth while working, bit through it, and spent the rest of his day with his mum picking his teeth apart with various small, sharp objects..

None related to Warhammer 40.000.

I have not been injured besides minor cuts but I have caused a lot of butthurt at tournaments by beating people with my beastmen army.

Mine would have to be,,,,,after cutting off a hand from one model to glue onto another I sat the knife in my lap,,,,shifted to better hold the model getting the hand,,,bumping the knife off my lap into the top of my foot...it sorta hurt.

Almost cut the end of my left thumb off when I was hacking out a new turret ring on a Leman Russ. I slipped and cut into the top of my thumb sideways, feft the few millimeters of my thumb hanging on my a thread like a little door, had it bandaged for ages.
The Leman Russ looks good though.

A friend of mine wore contacts and was assembling models well into the night. He went to bed with his super glue on his bedside table. Wakes up in the morning, reaches for eye drops, glues his eye shut.

Not once, but twice.

A friend of mine glued a hobby knife to his fist then chased the rest of us around the house screaming "Chainfist!!!". It was all fun and games until we found out the glue had bonded to his skin perhaps too well...

As for mine, thick plasticard plus a cheap set of knives resulted in my first custom meganob being primed... with my own blood.

I've glued myself to a couple things. I know that the warning label cannot be correct "bonds skin instantly", as nothing is truly instant. This is little comfort when it takes 23 milliseconds, and my reaction time is nowhere near fast enough to realize I touched something with glue and try and move before it bonds.

Never cut myself, but my brother has been at my house working with either models or terrain, and many times required a quick break and a retrieval of the first aid kit. Only once did it require a hospital trip as he slipped once when my other friend bumped him, and buried the hobby knife into his hand just below the base of his thumb and required 3 stitches. You know my brother is accident prone when I walk in to the ER with him, and the nurse says, and I quote "you two again", and doesn't even need to see his health card.

Was using a bottle of pretty potent plastic glue that was much runnier than GW stuff, had the consistency of water. Well I'm packing my stuff up and the bottle falls off my shelf, unloading it's contents into my face and eyes...

When I was hacking together some kustom meltaguns I cut into my thumb not once but twice. My models were covered in my blood. Oh well, anoint them in blood to gain favor with the blood god says I.

Thankfully only cuts from the hobby knife or hobby saw.

My thumbs are riddled with cuts from my knife... i just glue the wounds closed and move on

I've actually done the opposite. Managed to cut myself on mundane other things whilst I happen to be modelling, or just before, then accidentally get superglue onto the cut. Funny thing is, it doesn't sting, didn't make me ill or anything and kept the cut clean and covered right through to being fully healed. So, these days... the glue is perhaps less "accidental".

DISCLAIMER: DO NOT TRY THIS YOURSELVES, I may just be really luckily immune to toxins or something, I'm not suggesting this is a good idea...

I superglued my hand's together. The lid came off my cheap superglue bottle and splattered over my left hand. So, genius that I am, I tried to rub it off with my other hand. After a lot of frantic flailing, in the end I was stuck in the prayer position.

Took about 3 hours for my friends to help me split my hand's apart, 2 friend's pulling each of my elbows. Probably could have done it quicker, but it really really hurt, and I kept giving up on it, and just sat contemplating my life with no use of my hands. Wasn't fun, felt like I was wearing half a latex glove on each hand for a good while, and some of my left hand was still stuck to my right hand.

Thankfully, no permanent damage, aside from mentally scarring me to the point where i really don't like using superglue any more

:derp:

 Super Ready wrote:
I've actually done the opposite. Managed to cut myself on mundane other things whilst I happen to be modelling, or just before, then accidentally get superglue onto the cut. Funny thing is, it doesn't sting, didn't make me ill or anything and kept the cut clean and covered right through to being fully healed. So, these days... the glue is perhaps less "accidental".

DISCLAIMER: DO NOT TRY THIS YOURSELVES, I may just be really luckily immune to toxins or something, I'm not suggesting this is a good idea...

Actually superglue was originally invented as a means of bonding skin on cuts instead of getting stitches, so your on the right track.

My worst injury was when I cutting pieces off a sprew with an X-acto knife because I couldn't find my clippers. It slipped and pierced straight through my index finger and to this day I have two thin scars and a patch of skin with no feeling in it.

 Super Ready wrote:
I've actually done the opposite. Managed to cut myself on mundane other things whilst I happen to be modelling, or just before, then accidentally get superglue onto the cut. Funny thing is, it doesn't sting, didn't make me ill or anything and kept the cut clean and covered right through to being fully healed. So, these days... the glue is perhaps less "accidental".

DISCLAIMER: DO NOT TRY THIS YOURSELVES, I may just be really luckily immune to toxins or something, I'm not suggesting this is a good idea...

superglue is *safe* to use on wounds, considering it's origins. Ye old "medics using it to close wounds in vietnam" story. It is toxic though, kills the cells around the applied area.
The "medical grade" superglue is just a non toxic version.

Can't say I've done anything super bad, stuck myself with a piece of spiky terrain today though.

Imperial Deceit wrote:
Actually superglue was originally invented as a means of bonding skin on cuts instead of getting stitches, so your on the right track.

It was actually developed for clearing gunsights in the 40's. Cause it stuck to everything it was rejected and then forgotten about. Then it was repacked as a glue 30 years later, they found it could be used on turtles and then the medics got their hands on it.

When I was assembling some Russes I managed to slice my finger in the same place twice.

Medical super glue is in use. I opted for it instead of sutures when I injured myself (although that was playing rugby not modelling).
I've never actually damaged myself more than the occasional poke with a pointy bit of metal or plastic. Although I'm not much of a modeller other than gluing things together and removing ugly bits of plastic/resin/metal.

I'm currently recovering from surgery after helping my friend take apart a Predator that was caked in glue.
My beautiful new craft knives, sharpened to an edge akin to a surgeon's scalpel, got their trial by fire. I drove one blade into the base of my thumb, followed the movement inwards and upwards towards the joint. Chipped a bit off the bone, severed every nerve I hit and almost severed my flexoid tendon and carved a good deal of flesh away. Needless to say, there was blood everywhere. So yeah, 14 weeks projected recovery time, can't use my left hand at all for two more weeks, won't ever regain total feeling, probably going to remain weak and stiff for some time, no idea when I'll be able to get back to painting.
Remember kids, cut AWAY from yourself!

I'm actually extremely careful when it comes to knives of any kind since I accidentally slashed my wrist open once. Was kinda startling. The knife was new and I didn't even feel it. Was really creepy watching my skin flay open without any blood. Took a few seconds and then blood everywhere. Try explain that in the emergence room that it was an accident and I wasn't trying to commit suicide.

Gahzkull did draw blood with one of his spiky bits when I was assembling him.

 Sir Samuel Buca wrote:
ERUGH!

I think we have a winner.

 Griddlelol wrote:

 Sir Samuel Buca wrote:
ERUGH!

I think we have a winner.

I sincerely hope no one can top that. For their sake and my stomachs sake.

I need to get some new blades for my hobby knife. Last time I cut into towards/into my thumb I caught the side of the blade and it didn't even break the skin.

4TheG8erGood wrote:

 Griddlelol wrote:

 Sir Samuel Buca wrote:
ERUGH!

I think we have a winner.

I sincerely hope no one can top that. For their sake and my stomachs sake.

I need to get some new blades for my hobby knife. Last time I cut into towards/into my thumb I caught the side of the blade and it didn't even break the skin.

For your own sake, don't buy any new blades. I too hope no one can top my tale though, I just hope that I can serve as an example to others, don't do anyone a favour if it involves a knife.

I hope you recover as well and as speedy as you can Sir Samuel Buca!

I accidently superglued a wing of a sanguinary guard on the side of my palm. I refused to go to school the following day

4TheG8erGood wrote:I hope you recover as well and as speedy as you can Sir Samuel Buca!

Why thank you, it's very boring having one useable hand.

Vivster wrote:I accidently superglued a wing of a sanguinary guard on the side of my palm. I refused to go to school the following day

What did you manage to do to warrant a refusal to go to school?

 Sir Samuel Buca wrote:

4TheG8erGood wrote:

 Griddlelol wrote:

 Sir Samuel Buca wrote:
ERUGH!

I think we have a winner.

I sincerely hope no one can top that. For their sake and my stomachs sake.

I need to get some new blades for my hobby knife. Last time I cut into towards/into my thumb I caught the side of the blade and it didn't even break the skin.

For your own sake, don't buy any new blades. I too hope no one can top my tale though, I just hope that I can serve as an example to others, don't do anyone a favour if it involves a knife.

I learned 'cut away from yourself' by nearly disemboweling myself. Luckily, I just cut a huge hole in my shirt.

Fiancee was not amused.

 -Loki- wrote:

 Sir Samuel Buca wrote:

4TheG8erGood wrote:

 Griddlelol wrote:

 Sir Samuel Buca wrote:
ERUGH!

I think we have a winner.

I sincerely hope no one can top that. For their sake and my stomachs sake.

I need to get some new blades for my hobby knife. Last time I cut into towards/into my thumb I caught the side of the blade and it didn't even break the skin.

For your own sake, don't buy any new blades. I too hope no one can top my tale though, I just hope that I can serve as an example to others, don't do anyone a favour if it involves a knife.

I learned 'cut away from yourself' by nearly disemboweling myself. Luckily, I just cut a huge hole in my shirt.

Fiancee was not amused.

I tested my new blade by pretty much cleaving off the top layer of skin on the underside of my left arm. Was holding the mini in my left hand, cut towards myself for the first (and only) time in my life, slipped, and sliced it clean. Took me a couple seconds of looking at it to realize what just happened before it all hit me.

I still have that blade on display in my modeling area, as a reminder to never cut towards myself again.

 Sir Samuel Buca wrote:
I'm currently recovering from surgery after helping my friend take apart a Predator that was caked in glue.
My beautiful new craft knives, sharpened to an edge akin to a surgeon's scalpel, got their trial by fire. I drove one blade into the base of my thumb, followed the movement inwards and upwards towards the joint. Chipped a bit off the bone, severed every nerve I hit and almost severed my flexoid tendon and carved a good deal of flesh away. Needless to say, there was blood everywhere. So yeah, 14 weeks projected recovery time, can't use my left hand at all for two more weeks, won't ever regain total feeling, probably going to remain weak and stiff for some time, no idea when I'll be able to get back to painting.
Remember kids, cut AWAY from yourself!

He would have had to write this with his right hand and it would have taken him ages haha