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I've had my fair share of x-acto knife related cuts,some of them rather deep and messy.
However,it seems that super glue will be the way I do myself in,I've had several bad mishaps while attempting to unclog bottles,including shooting the super glue in to my eye,having a ruptured bottle glue my shirt to my chest,and on one memorable occasion,having a cloged bottle squirt out enough super glue to convert my goatee in to a gaint dreadlock.

I have a tendency to poke myself on the sharp claws of my Space Hulk genestealers, which sometimes leads to dropping them. I have since blunted their claws a tad with a file.

Today, I was studying a model I was painting and biting my nails, and bit too deep and drew blood. Does that count?

@Fitzz: Superglue: the new arch nemesis. Forget Chaos. I feel for you.

one time when I sat at a low table whatching TV and were killing mould lines wich a scalpel ( ), For some reson I hold my knife between my knees instead of laying it on the table, and when concentreted on other things I were stretching for something at the table and WOILA a straight and thin line on my underarm. It healed very fast and were not so dangerus but it were kinda stupid (lazy me).

Earlier today I cut myself with an old sculpting tool while cleaning old paint bottles...

I frequently forget where I put my x-acto knife, and on one fun occasion I reached into my large bitz box to grab a piece I needed and found my e-xacto blade pointing straight up, when it went thru my hand to the other side. Tetnis shot, and a couple stitches later and I was back to cutting.

For some reason, there's only ONE modeling tool that hasn't cut me...

The double-edged razor blade that I use without a handle to trim plastic minis. One of these days it's going to slice off my finger.

Lets just put it this way, on my modeling desk I have several very important things glue, x-acto, file, paints, bandages, tissue paper for paint/blood splatters, and first aid cream.......

Nearly required stitches from a slipped x-acto knife... I was actually trying to carve the sticky stuff from a sticker I no longer liked off my bitz box. Sigh.

What else... Mainly little pokes from slipped knives. Kind of sad, actually. Most of it could have been prevented.

Perhaps we should convince Legoburner to do a end-all poll on the psychological stability of a gamer with a knife. Apathy/laziness seems to be the leading cause of injuries, with downright stupidity and sharp models taking a close second.

Rico...

Wow it seems you could make a fortune selling tetnis shots to gamers hehehe. I have had all the obligitory cleaning model cuts but the one that hurt the most was a primered squad of DE got knocked on the floor by the dog. I walked into the room with the lights off and managed to step on a few of them with guns pointing up and some that managed to stand up after falling. Needless to say I had so many holes in my socks filled with blood that I left footprints on the carpet....and one pissed off wife hehehe.

Just about two weeks ago I cut the tip of my ring finger off with a poorly aimed X-acto knife trying to cut a wave serpent body from it's sprue. I was only using it because I couldn't find my clippers..... I found them the next day, much to my annoyance.

Assembling anything chaos / lizardmen, spikey bit injuries abound!

lol i am one of the 5% that would grab lawnchair and pocorn and yell jump bitch'.s

Yesterday, I was neatening up some metal figs, and I decided to get a sandwich...

So I make one, and as i'm coming back, I trip over the fu**ing carpet and fall on my little modelling table.

I impaled myself on my little steel ruler.

I now have a hideous ragged hole in my chest, and my dog ate my sandwich.

ld YOU ARE THE WINNER!

I glued myself to a chair.... enough said....

I used to cut myself all of the time and spilled superglue/plastic cement everywhere, having to shave it off my hands once it harded.

Within the last month I have been injury free despite assembling over 1 200 points worth of models. I don't mean five or so land raiders, I mean mostly infantry

I keep a bottle of nail polish remover near my workplace in case I get superglue on my hands. that stuff is a godsend because it eats the superglue up thus preventing a very annoying texture on my fingers. the acetone in the remover eats up the superglue and turns it into slippery wash down the sink.

I used to cut myself all of the time and actually kept a package of bandages near my work area, but I've learned many a lesson and don't cut myself anymore despite only modelling for less than six months.

Hmmm.. I might break some forum rules now, but if this is out of line, please remove this post, and I will remove the picture from my gallery.

This is what happend when I trimmed a bit of my Nurge DP wings.... The picture is after I have been stiched up at the hospital.... never cut agaist your own hand.... : ) I managed to cut away half of my thumb nail and made a deep cut into my hand whan I slipped. I used a carpet cutting razor....
Click the picture for a larger image.... : ) Maybe its my punishment for not sculptning the Blood God...
WARNING. NOT FOR THE WEAK MINDED.

I have and do often cut myself (or well I come disturbingly close) when I'm demolding things. I need to break down and get like a hoby file and not try to do everything with my knife....my poor dull knife ;( Edit: This thread has convinced me! New file is my next purchase!

I also can't count the times I've glued myself together, nothing serious has come of that though....yet.

Had a minor cut on left middle finger while sawing termy in half with a knife blade (w/out handle!!!!), nearest thing was bottle of superglue (gw stuff), one superglue 'accident' later and injury was solved...

Do not recommend this though, as in suitably large amounts the stuff is poisonous.

@ a94marbo: OH GOD, NOOOOOOOO!

That takes the cake. I put a hole in the other side of my thumb, but it was nowhere near that. I only had six stitches and they came out after about 2 weeks.

Harlequins are very pointy. Especially their swords. Right in my finger, then at least five minutes later, I held it in place (it was glueing), then after about ten minutes of pure holding, I stopped, moved my finger, and found a Troupe Master dangling off my finger (the blood still on his power sword). So, after a swift trip to the hospital, my middle finger is not what it used to be. Because of one figure.

ld YOU ARE THE WINNER!

WEWT!

I AM WINRAR!

anyway.... I just glued my cousin to a table!
Please say this counts as an injury!

i just cut 2 of my fingers, i did some maths and i cut my fingers over 20 times (except one which i never cut.

While popping off hero click models from there bases for chaos marines sliced 4 fingers wide opean with k-bar maby a little overkill but ran out of razors so grabbed what was handy did my own stitches man did that hurt!

I once drilled in my index finger with a dremel. I got lost in the act of making bullet holes.

I also cut my thumb rather bad, trying to reshape a chainsword.

Blood for the blood god!!!

I just started the hobby about a month ago and so far I have only had 2 injuries.

First while shaving the mold lines of an marine my Xacto knife slips and stabbed my index finger leaving a small puncture wound.
Second I knocked over some super glue without realizing it and glued my hand to the desk which requires some cuting away of skin.

I too started modeling just recently, so I don't have many injuries yet. But I do have a couple.

The first one still perplexes me to this day. I am right-handed, so I was trimming sprues off of a model (After clipping it!) with a scalpel in my right hand, model in my left. I'm not sure how, but the knife slipped to some extent that it went into my right thumb in two locations, giving me two mini scars on my thumb. Sadly, they have since healed over, but I still remember them as my first.

My second real accident was when I was doing the same as above (I know, I need some nice files to do the job instead of just the knife...I just know I'm going to lead my knife blade to an early grave the way I handle it at times) and was basically in total silence at my desk. Phone goes off, I'm startled for just a moment, and my knife ends up lodged in my thigh. Lucky it wasn't too deep, but I still remember feeling that knife go straight through my skin...

Oh, and if it counts, I didn't realize before that plastic models do nothing to weigh down a plastic container (I use plastic thread containers that are compartmentalized for storing infantry, bought at JoAnn's) when there's wind about. So while I'm outside using some rocks to weigh down newspaper on a folding card table, I hear a crash followed by me scrambling to try and save/find my still-drying models. Luckily the worst of my losses was a couple of arms, which I simply implemented on my models as war injuries.

Anyone else litterally clip off some of their thumb when trimming a piece flat. the skin seemes superficial anyway but hey there was alot of it.

i once got a nasty cut from somone throw those old pointy grots at me

I've an original one:

An airbrush malfunction filled the air in the immediate vicinity with rubbing alcohol and GW Skull White. I suffered a prolonged coughing fit.