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So, title says it all...
I was working on my Sister's of Steel this morning (as I usually do). Let me set a little of the scene. I work in an extra bedroom set up for my hobby, so filled with thirty years of stuff. I like music while I work, so have a speaker system set up for my laptop to plug into so I can use playlists etc (I know, you all get it..) So, today my task was pinning several models. I use a drill with a 1/16th bit and florists wire. Well, since I had a dozen to do I got impatient and did not use my vice but chose to hold the mini's by hand braced on a convenient flat surface on the left side of my table. Anyway, I got distracted while just about through a mini by my cat attacking my shelf of Sister's of Battle...Before I had realized it, the drill had popped through the min and punched through the base box of the speaker system i was using as my brace (yes, stupid but I've done it so many times before)...Since it was active there was a wonderful show of sparks, and I had to go find a new set of boxers.
Fortunately, nothing blew up, and a simple wire splice saved me...but it was pretty stupid.

A second mishap I saw but did not know the individual (and hope he is okay...) While attending Gamesday in southern California (yeah I'm old, and this was way back when GW cared about Cali...) walking into gamesday you crossed a busy entrance to a large shopping center. The group ahead of us had the typical stack of cases and cardboard boxes full of their army. One guy, so busy talking to his friend , walked into the overhanging branches from a shrub. Unbalanced, he stumbled to the side and his stack of boxes began to fall. Reacting as any true gamer, he lunged after attempting to catch three or four cases in only two hands...Unfortunately his lunge took him into the roadway, and a line of cars exiting. They all slammed their brakes on and the clsosest stopped literally touching him....sadlay, the delivery truck three cars back did not, and the whole line was smashed forward. The dude went down, but wasn't run over. He stumbled up shaken, while twenty gamers all stared at the flattened cases under the car...and wept tears of sympathy.

Okay, I started it...so go for it and share what your worst (or funny) hobby disasters.

Hi guys
long time lurker had to respond to this post as it made me laugh , apart from the normal hobby mishaps cut fingers drill bits in fingers and glued fingers, the worst thing I've done in my long time in the hobby came last June, I had just treated my self to a imperial knight castigator and promptly started to clean and assemble it, chuff with my purchase I was assembling the feet sections so I putt my little dabs of superglue into the recesses and lined up the O ring peice pressing nice and gently I felt a shooting pain in my right eye, air had escaped as I pressed it down and glue came shooting out straight in to my right eye and tearduct, promptly noting on all glue packets to rinse with bucket loads of water I tried to wash it out, a bit embarrassed I phoned my wife at her work to say what had happened, as any wife does she calls me all the stupid things under the sun and tell me to get up to casualty to get checked out, lucky for me my contact lense took the brunt of the glue and I only damaged the white of my eye and tear ducts a trip to casualty and a week long trip in and out of the opticians and a year that I could not wear contacts later, I was told I was lucky not to loose my eye so now I wear ppe to assemble all my forgeworld minis not just for sanding but gluing as well lol, so always be vigilant and safe when assembling your minis

Severed a nerve in my index finger while trying to push a new blade on to my scalpel with a pair of pliers.
My finger bone stopped the blade going all the way through.

Mouthful of turpentine after dropping a huge container of the stuff.

Vallejo Game Dwarf Skin ...the dropper tip was dried/clogged but I kept squeezing anyway - POW!! ...the top part of the dropper blew off and sprayed my newly finished 10 man BA squad entirely with 'dwarf skin' paint; only 1 out of 10 models survived the mess.

I was assembling this land raider primaris or whatever it is, first time assembling a land raider. So I was doing sub assemblies and glued it all up - used elastic bands to keep it all secure while drying.

Unfortunately, I used too much glue, or too many elastic bands, because it warped the tank to the point that the top no longer fits, and the tracks don't go on.

I think I've managed to salvage it, but I pooped myself a little bit...

I've drunk plenty of paint water, super-glued myself to the phone, incised my thumb deeply enough with an Xacto blade to permanently alter my fingerprint, and my top achievement, pushed a Dremel engraving bit through my fingernail.

Anytime I pick up a paintbrush.

In my early days, soaking a Land Raider in a pot of Ethanol.
Knowing I'D have to do some scrubbing to get it clean, I sat down in front of my PC (different painting setup at that time...) listeining to music while violently scrubbing. Looking up after a few minutes, my monitor, desk and speakers where all covered with tiny, dried droplets of Army Painter Bone primer.

Still did not managed to clean it all off after about 4 years.

nobody's gonna take the cake from the guy who almost gave himself a home vasectomy as far as personal injury goes

as for modeling mishaps, other than multiple spilling of entire contents of washes, my personal worst was spilling an entire bottle of plastic melty glue all over my plague monks as I was working on them... at least they got nurglified at the tend tho

I once slipped with a Scalpel blade and sliced deep enough into my knee to warrant a trip to A+E, complete with blood transfusion and surgery to repair the ligaments. While only two inches long, I could see bone through the wound, and I bled enough to pass out.

The one that still pains me happened recently. I get attached to brushes, 80% of my work is a size 1 and for the past year it was my Scharff.

I had earlier dabbed a bit of super glue on my work table to make sure it was flowing, and when I switched back to brush I managed to dip my scharff right into the super glue. Nothing I did was able to save it and return it to its former glory.

It was the catalyst for me switching to W&N.

Iv had a whole fresh bottle of vallejo liquid gold spill onto and through my pants.

just call me gold member.

I had made a "low melt metal" mold for some models I modified / sculpted.
I was doing my first pour with my friends around me and I was holding the mold.
A disk the size of a quarter squirted onto my hand between thumb and forefinger: the web of my hand.
The pain was excruciating and I was smelling burnt skin but I could not throw the mold away, flail or any of those things.
Calmly turned around, placed the mold down, peeled the disk off my skin and then run for the nearest tap.
I had to tell the doctor twice what happened.

1 year later, I had set up a mig welding jig to weld 3/4" booster pins into brake pedals.
Trying out the third part, a red glowing pin "inserted" into my forearm about a 1/4".
Got to see my doctor again and commented that me and heated metal is a bad combination.

Countless times putting my paintbrush into my tea.

Also sliced my thumb open with a scalpel when assembling the Carmine Dragon from Forge World.

 Talizvar wrote:


1 year later, I had set up a mig welding jig to weld 3/4" booster pins into brake pedals.
Trying out the third part, a red glowing pin "inserted" into my forearm about a 1/4".
Got to see my doctor again and commented that me and heated metal is a bad combination.

Oh god i hate that.

my favorite is when a bunch of smaller splatter gets into the back of your jacket and behind the neck.

Ate a plasma pistol.

 Buttery Commissar wrote:
Ate a plasma pistol.

How'd that taste?

Like Dettol, tinfoil and mild panic.
Gonna go ahead and assume it wasn't lead.

How'd that happen?

I left my mouth open when I really shouldn't have.

 Buttery Commissar wrote:
I left my mouth open when I really shouldn't have.

At least you aren't dead.

The worst thing that's ever happened to me is I slipped whilst trimming the excess plastic off a Tactical Marine and I sliced into my thumb next to the nail.

Pinned a wraith to my finger.

starting. now i have no money and no space for all the little plastic dudes i have

I sliced the top of my thumb off....... just above the bone, which you could see peeking at the top. I can't even remember which model I was cutting although I do remember the phonecall to my local surgery on whether I could go to them of A&E....

Weirdly enough despite the nurse saying it was extremely unlikely the missing flesh would grow back, it did. She did ask if I had the missing flesh as she could glue it back on..... I didn't seeing as soon as I cut it off my cat jumped off my bed and ate it right infront of me......

serves you right for owning a cat haha crazy story though

 Buttery Commissar wrote:
I left my mouth open when I really shouldn't have.

Heh its ok lots of kids swallow legos and stuff.

hoping it wasn't a spiky chaos plasma

I once sat on a plastic Bloodletter while in the middle of putting them away.

 MechaEmperor7000 wrote:
I once sat on a plastic Bloodletter while in the middle of putting them away.

This is as amusing as Buttery's swallowing of a Plasma Pistol. Do explain further.