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Don't have any injury stories from wargaming, yet. I got most of my scars doing labwork.

By the way, a tip for the superglue users out there, get some acetone nail-polish remover, I mean the cheap, foul, EPA will hunt your ass down flammable stuff. The acetone in it dissolves breaks down the linkages in superglue. It'll screw up styrene, too, so be careful with it, but it's great for getting off of fingers.

Oh, and make sure to rinse thoroughly after using something like this. Had a friend once that went for a smoke afterward...hilarity ensued.

Nothing much serious but not something I was expecting. I was holding a terminator really tightly, my thumb on the base edge and finger on the head. I was using a knife to scratch off the mould lines.

The knife failed to do any harm but the base sliced my thumb open and when I let go of the model it started bleeding quite badly. A bit like a paper cut but with plastic and a bit deeper

Worst: I was sitting Indian style on the floor of my room cutting some marines up for leg swaps and I set my knife right next to my foot. The phone rang I and pulled my leg up under me as fast as possible raking the exacto knife though my foot. It bled forever, and the worst part was I had to do PT on it for another week before Christmas break!!!!!

Needed many a new pair of socks.


2nd Worst: My sister had borrowed my exacto and threw it on my bed when she was done. I reached to grab the covers, squeezed down, and kablam right through the finger and the nail. That required another fair few stitches.

You know, reading these threads makes me realize how stupidly insanely lucky I've been in my Hobby Career with regards to injuries.

And not in the "Oh, I must just be very careful!" kind of way. I'm about as careless and oblivious as a mule.

I must drop my hobby knife, saw, and/or clippers every time I do any modelling. I usually leave the cutting tools in my lap while I work. Then I will stand up without thinking and have about a second of heart stopping sheer terror as I watch them fall toward the tops of my bare feet, only to land harmlessly on the floor scant inches away, or to land handle first on my feet or toes, bouncing away with a minor thump.

I regularly cut and sand toward my fingers or face. I very often leave super glue bottles uncapped and lying on their side. I continue to get WAY too close to my plastic cement while in use (This one may be actually effecting me, as I get dumber by the day...). And I rarely actually injur myself.

The most severe being a good slashing with an x-acto across my thumb, with about a centimeter deep gash. The most recent is my first saw related injury. I was sawing a small model and had to hold it with my fingers in the path of the blade. Luckily I only gave myself a small slice to the index finger before I stopped cutting. Hooray for responsive pain sensors! The cut didn't hurt that much but it's still there after 2 weeks, which is creeping me out.

Today I stabbed myself in the thumb with the same x-acto knife that bounced off my bare leg not long ago. I did not bleed, as I own the dullest x-acto blade on the planet.

A friend of mine stabbed me in the arm with the old 2nd edition plastic gretchin model, head first. It drew blood.

I haven't managed to injure myself badly through modeling, but with my other hobby (needlework). You'd think it would be safer, right? Nope.
I was sitting on the floor, there must have been a needle that I'd dropped earlier, I stood up and 'ow'. Pain in foot, half a needle stuck in the carpet. The other half was inside my foot. Needed x-rays to confirm it was there, and then had to have surgery under a general to remove it.

I have never required stitches for anything yet, though my most annoying 'injury' to date is when a spilt a quarter of a bottle of games workshop super glue all over my hands model and worksurface... You would not believe how hard it is to scrub the glue off when your arms are attached together, not much leverage.

And by the way people, this is one of the most entertaining posts I've seen in a while. My favorite ones still the increadible flying nob though, loved that one!

edit: missed four words in a sentance, don't know how I did it...

Just got 4mm drillbit in my thumb whilst magnetising a Carnifex with a 14.4v drilldriver, drinking wine, watching TV and chatting.
I kinda deserved it!

ouch.

i picked up some guys painboy which he replaced the needle with a pin that was very sharp and i cut my finger, my mum yelled at him.

lol jokes if youve read one of the other threads here youll know what im on about.

here is the quote that it took that story from:

After getting my Pain Boy needles bent time and time again by kids picking them up by the weapon I finally got some payback last Apoc game.

I had already replaced them with small metal rod that had an extremely pointed end from me cutting them to size. I left them because they looked better with a little off set cut to the end.

After asking a child to please stop picking up the models on the table (we were in the middle of a game) and putting them back in the wrong place I received some attitude from the mother about what harm could he do.....seconds later he broke the roll bar off of not one but two ork trukks.

Before I could teach him a new word he moved over to my boyz nob, guess what he grabbed? Yup....the pain boy. When the mother saw his little finger bleeding she proceeded to yell at me! The red shirt kindly explained I had asked her little ones several times to please not handle the models and he had already broken two.

I hadn't intended that to happen but sometimes what goes around comes around.

BTW, my 8 year old plays with the same orks all the time and has never cut himself, know why? He listened and doesn't pick them up by the weapon.

I'm getting tired of being other children's parents.

Rant off....sorry.

this one is true though:

cutmy thumb with a hobby knife straight down the middle of my thumb-print in the middle of a conversion competitio at my local gw store. didnt feel it but the next thing i know someones going "*myname* stop gluing you thumbs cut."
i looked down "oh" got taken to the staff only bit of the store to was my hands came back finished the conversion and got 3rd place (not because of my injury my conversion was actually good).

Umm has noone noticed the threadnomancy.

Of course someone noticed it...... congrats on the +1 post number MWAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sometimes you get injured and just want to add to the mistress' thread. That too happens

I lol'd at KingCracker...

My most recent one was simply having a daemonettes hair stab me, didnt hurt but the b***h drew blood! Luckily I've never managed to stab myself with my knife, YET, but I did have some funny incidents when first using super-glue, as I imagine most have...

Oh, one funny moment, when much younger, my brother was using a hot glue gun whilst modelling, after wiping glue off the nozzle he tells me not 2 touch the glue because its blooooody hot, I wonder how hot and promptly stick my finger in it, that hurt!

I love how the "low temp" still burns the ever living hell out of your flesh.

Like many people I have cut myself many times with a hobby knife. The worse injury I have ever given myself was when I was pinning a model and was pressing it very firmly for sometime that the tip of my finger had lost alittle feeling from the pressure. It took a second to figure out that I had drilled through the mini and into my finger. A second worth of drilling into fleshy bits. Then the hard part of pulling it out as it seemed not to want to leave.

The thought did cross my mind to leave it in a second before wrenching it out. Yeah not fun.

Lopped off tip of left middle finger with an exact-o blade working on the dammed Sky Shield landing pad....

It's an over priced POS by the way...

That was the worst one yet. I needed stitches and did not get them, took like 1.5 months to heal, and bled for like 2 days straight even with good amount of pressure.

Holy thread necro

Might as well continue now that it's up.

I just cut my thumb with a boxcutter (my "hobby knife") about ten minutes ago. Not much bleeding from there these days though.

I bought a sentinel a few sentinels a few months ago, but have been distracted by expanding my chaos daemons. Anyway, I decided to assemble a sentinel today. You know the exhaust at the back? I have alot of chaos bits, so I replaced an exhaust with one of the daemonic heads from the chaos pred sprue. I attempted to bite off the end off one of the exhausts, and managed to make a pretty big scratch in my gum-and now a non-wonky tooth is wonky-ish. Another time, my friend threw a modelling knife at me whilst we were converting, and it nicked me in the arm. He threw it really slow with a theatrical twist, expecting me to dodge. I was too busy assembling renegades.

my friend is so unlucky 4 or 5 years ago my friend got super glue under his eye lid and well lets just say he lost an eye lid

and then he made a game board one or 2 years ago with a few nails in put his hand on some scenery scenery and crash it collapsed nail through hand ouch

I'm a sucker for drilling my fingers with the pin vice. Think i have pin myself like dozens of times during the last few years. Good think I got all my tetanus shots.

Wow guys. I just had an awesome idea.

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Back about 1989, I was at the local hobby store and we were playing a game of Space Hulk.

My opponent, a gent by the name of Thomas, was carving some original miniatures from hardened putty to sell to a miniature company for mass production. It was how he planned on paying for his college at art school.

Well, Thomas was known for having quite a temper and the fact that he had run with a gang when he was a couple of years younger and lived in Texas. Keep this in mind....

I was playing the Marines, and Thomas the 'Stealers. I sent a Termy with heavy flamer around a corner to lob a ball of flame into a room full of bugs. Thomas sat on the corner of the table staring intently at my die roll to hex me into rolling the misfire that would result in my flamer dieing and the bugs living. No such luck for the soon to be incinerated 'Stealers.

Thomas pounded down onto his calf crossed over his knee with a "d***." Um...well, he was carving with an exacto knife that he had reversed the grip on while focusing in on my roll.

He put the entire length of the knife blade into his calf.

The whole group sat, tensely waiting for the explosion of self directed profanity and violence.

A moment passed, and in a complete dead pan, without even looking down at the wound, Thomas said the following profound words:

"F*** me."

When I was younger and into modeling I stabbed myself in the finger on a slip of the exacto knife. It pierced the flesh right down to the bone. A couple stitches fixed that up, but damn did it ever bleed. I have been very careful since to always point knives away from my flesh when cutting/trimming, and to use a piece of wood to cut against if I need to apply much force.

Lesson: stabbing oneself hurts. Who'd have thunk it?

The worst I have ever done doesn't even involve modeling. I cut the tip of my finger off while working in a resturant. Come to think of it, I have yet to work at a resturant and not cut myself somehow.

As far as modelling goes, I've sliced the palm of my hand a couple of times, but never deep enough to have it seriously bleed.

the worst one i had was when i was filing flash off ghanzgul, i got so angry i started filing very hard and fast and within about 10 seconds i had rammed a hooked end file into my index finger and it hit the bone, and to top it all i had to walk about 2 miles to A&E to get a rather chunky file pulled out of my finger, i still have the scar.

LunaHound wrote:Holy thread necro

Yea, I dont think it counts as thread necro if 8 people continue on topic.
Holy +1 posts more like it

KingCracker wrote:

LunaHound wrote:Holy thread necro

Yea, I dont think it counts as thread necro if 8 people continue on topic.
Holy +1 posts more like it

The original post was definitely a necro. A one word reply that contributes nothing to a 3 month old discussion is class A thread necro.

My most recent injury was a neat little cut (and I mean neat) about 3 cm in length, going down my arm. What happens when plastic cutters go wrong.

I thought it was impossible to hurt yourself with clippers