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I recently slashed my pinky finger open doing something stupid with a knife I bought for cutting Polystyrene.
Bled for a couple minutes and I actually put on a band-aid for once. So not too bad, but still bad enough.
I don't generally believe in using band-aids, but this was a bad enough cut to warent one.

I've sliced the hell out of my thumb more times than I'd like to admit.

I was trimming flash off some resin bits for my GK conversion one night after the wife went to bed (I worked nights @ the time). It was rather late & I was getting sleepy. I was in my boxers & things were.. how should I put it.. 'hanging loose'. I use a Testors X-acto knife, the handle is all metal & it has a bit of weight to it. Brand new blade too.

I finished the last piece & the blade was angled down & the knife slipped out of my hand - again, point down, sharp side away from me - and buried itself into my scrotum between the boys.. I screamed & jerked causing the handle to fall forward, creating an incision about a 1/2" deep & 1" long as it fell forward.

Worst part was the local anesthetic they had to administer to the area for the 4 stitches. Dr. said I was lucky I didn't sever any of the working parts & give myself a home vasectomy.

I don't model w/o pants anymore.

~Vryce

Ah yes, ye olde battle-wounds thread!

A few years ago on a late Friday night after the lady-wife was abed, the sleep did not takest me and I chose to apply the holy Xacto to some plactic. A few hours, and a few shots, later: Lo, the blade caught in the plastic I was shaving, I struggled mightily, and not realizing me own strength, I pushed the blade with too much force. Hence, didst it slide lthrough the plastic like a hot knife through butter. Unfortunately, my left index finger was in the path. I looked up and saw a chunk of finger fly.
Lol, anyway, I chunked off the end of my finger! Angry red blood spurted, I rushed to the bathroom to place said wound under running water to see how bad it was. When I heard my wife ask "Why is there blood everywhere? ... What piece of you is laying on the blanket?". Well, we got to the ER and eventually made it to surgery to have the end sewn back on. That's my worst!
Moral: NEVER drink and use a brand new xacto blade!!!!

 A Town Called Malus wrote:

 PrehistoricUFO wrote:
The worst thing that happened to me was when I was using krazy glue, the runny formula. I thought that the tube was nearly empty so I squeezed the tube VERY hard to try and get some out. Turns out a bunch had leaked onto the tube seconds prior, and the force of me squeezing for 30 seconds or so ensured that my thumb was VERY well stuck to the tube. At first I panicked, I was really concerned about how I'd get it off my thumb without tearing the skin like crazy. Then I calmed down and I submerged it in super hot water for a good while and then peeled it off. It hurt quite a lot, but it didn't break my skin. Yay!

Nail Varnish Remover is really good for dissolving superglue on your skin. Worth a try next time

Nail Varnish Remover: DISSOLVER OF ALL!

I'm fairly cognizant of what I'm using and how when it comes to sharp knives and superglue. I always cut slowly and carefully, away from myself as much as possible. I know that a knife can't cut human skin if it's pushed against it (try it sometime, but I shouldn't have to tell you to be careful). I've gotten superglue on my fingers but I've never stuck my hands to anything.

I had my Xacto knife sitting blade up in a cup. I was just being careless. I walked by the table it was sitting on and accidently drew my hand across it. Not that big of a deal, but it bled for a bit.

My scars are many.

I have had my hobby knife constantly stab into my finger, inhaled too much superglue and gluing my fingers together.

I would say my worst scar is super gluing my fist together and then opening said fist. I lost a lot of skin that day.

at the local GW store there was a guy who's finger lost a fight to a dremal

 A Town Called Malus wrote:

TheMostWize wrote:When I first started hobbying many years ago I was working on trying to cut a space marine arm in half.

Well I was not so smart and had my fingers on the opposite side of the arm. The knife shot out the side and right across my index finger.

Needless to say waking up mom at midnight when your supposed to be asleep is not a goo idea so tape and paper towels were my solution.

Should of gotten stitches...

No super glue lying around the place huh?

Same thing happened to me when I was rebasing some old Dark Eldar jet bikes I had. The knife slipped off the glue left on the base and gashed the middle of my thumb. I sat there in pain, stopped the blood flow and put super glue on it. Pretty dumb, as I still have the scar, but thems the breaks.

Same thing happened to me when I was rebasing some old Dark Eldar jet bikes I had. The knife slipped off the glue left on the base and gashed the middle of my thumb. I sat there in pain, stopped the blood flow and put super glue on it. Pretty dumb, as I still have the scar, but thems the breaks.

PROTIP of the Day. Tape your thumb up and index finger with first aid tape on the hand you are holding your model in. I also use a deerskin glove as well at times when I don't tape up. It will help keep those gashes to a minimum.

I took a chunk out of my thumb while cleaning my titan. It wasn't fun.

 jonolikespie wrote:
I took a chunk out of my thumb while cleaning my titan. It wasn't fun.

Spoiler:

OUCH

Last time I replied to a thread like this was just the usual minor cuts from modeling.

But the biggest one right now was a "near miss" that scared the sh*t outta me. I don't remember how, but I was this close from losing an eye because my hobby knife was in a weird position and I have absolutely no memory how it got there.

Someone chucked an old war wagon at me and split my head open... i guess its hobby related.

On the self inflicted side petty much cut part of my finger off which the nice people of the NHS put back on for me.

I was using a swiss army knife and it closed on my finger.

I don't know what annoyed me the the most - The knife or having to clean up the trail of blood which went all the way from my upstairs bedroom to the downstairs kitchen.

Edit:I tell a lie, I hate cleaning.

Many small cuts in my finger.
But the most remarkable was when pinning a metal figure with a drill, i was putting to much weight on it and the drillbit snapped off.
Was annoyed as i had no spare , so was trying to look for the broken off part, to maybe use that, i couldn't find it, until i looked at my left hand's thumb, there it was sticking through the thumb and peeking out of the nail, then it started hurting off course.

I still have a scar on my left index finger. I was choppin' out a gaping opening for my potato-head stompa, "Mistah Monorkul", so I could fit the huge LED maglight I bought for a buck in as his light-up Eye of Mork (Gork?) monorkle.

I cut pretty deep. Bleeding wouldn't stop after like 40 minutes and half a roll of paper towel, and none of my roommates were home for a lift to the hospital for stitches. So I hop on the bus, finger wrapped in paper towel and held up somewhat to prevent too much bleeding, and went to the hospital. A half hour bus ride later, I pull in and wait an hour for the triage nurse. There were some worse cases than me coming in, so I let a couple people with kids go before me.

ANYWAY. Nurse checks finger, says "Doesn't look too deep, but I can still sterilize it for you and bandage it properly if you want."

"Sure, I'm already here."

Nurse pulls a wastebasket over, has me hold my hand over it, begins pouring antiseptic solution. Now I should mention that at this point it had stopped bleeding. When she poured the antiseptic however, it opened up somewhat and began gushing.

"Oh, my. Oops." She says.

She applies gauze again and applies pressure before checking a moment later. When she pulls away, it is bleeding steadily. She applies gauze and pressure again, waits longer, pulls it off, same deal.

At this point, the nurse looks at me and says in a very cheery voice "Well gak. That might be deeper than I thought. Let's get you some stitches."

40 minutes later I have 6 stitches in the tip/side of my left index finger. Didn't hit anything vital, it just felt tight whenever I tried to bend it prior to healing fully.

 Adam LongWalker wrote:

Same thing happened to me when I was rebasing some old Dark Eldar jet bikes I had. The knife slipped off the glue left on the base and gashed the middle of my thumb. I sat there in pain, stopped the blood flow and put super glue on it. Pretty dumb, as I still have the scar, but thems the breaks.

PROTIP of the Day. Tape your thumb up and index finger with first aid tape on the hand you are holding your model in. I also use a deerskin glove as well at times when I don't tape up. It will help keep those gashes to a minimum.

Very good idea! Wouldn't have thought of that, but that tape is certainly enough to deflect a slipped knife. Thank you for saving me from further mishaps.

It didn't end up being a 'scar' per se, but it was frightening at the time:

I was putting together some tight-fitting plastic pieces - Blood Angels if I remember correctly - and the pieces snapped together so tightly that the Zap-A-Gap I use splattered right into my eye. I immediately dropped the model and headed into the bathroom. I flushed my eye out vigorously and, about 30 minutes later, I opened my bloodshot eye and looked side-to-side. No real damage, but I could feel the raised bump on my eyeball from the dried superglue. Every time I moved my eye it was like a grain of sand rubbing along the bottom of my eyelid.

Luckily, your body is an amazing machine. The eye, when presented with a foreign object will isolate the proteins around it and expel the object. So, when I went to sleep that night, I was thinking of how I was going to live with this for the rest of my life, but in the morning I woke up and the piece had completely sloughed off. No scar, no mark, no real damage. However - I learned my lesson. Don't hold the model so close to your face and probably don't use quite as much Zap-A-Gap.

Years ago I put a number 11 exacto blade the long way totally into my thumb. It was so deep that it made a sucking sound when I pulled it out. It didn't even bleed right away, then it never stopped. I still have a scar on the pad of my thumb, after many years of use. Aaahhh good times.

I was playing a game of 40k with one of the American lads near Fallujah, when suddenly......

 puma713 wrote:
It didn't end up being a 'scar' per se, but it was frightening at the time:

I was putting together some tight-fitting plastic pieces - Blood Angels if I remember correctly - and the pieces snapped together so tightly that the Zap-A-Gap I use splattered right into my eye. I immediately dropped the model and headed into the bathroom. I flushed my eye out vigorously and, about 30 minutes later, I opened my bloodshot eye and looked side-to-side. No real damage, but I could feel the raised bump on my eyeball from the dried superglue. Every time I moved my eye it was like a grain of sand rubbing along the bottom of my eyelid.

Luckily, your body is an amazing machine. The eye, when presented with a foreign object will isolate the proteins around it and expel the object. So, when I went to sleep that night, I was thinking of how I was going to live with this for the rest of my life, but in the morning I woke up and the piece had completely sloughed off. No scar, no mark, no real damage. However - I learned my lesson. Don't hold the model so close to your face and probably don't use quite as much Zap-A-Gap.

Good lesson here kids. Get goggles or even a face sheild. I have a sheild for chainsawing wood and I also use it to dremal models. Protect the mug!!

Other than being stabbed everytime I go near a chaos mini. I got hit in the eye by dice flying across the room durring a game. Once during a game at a games store in a city I was visiting. A guy I was destroying in 40k pulled a knife and place it on the table as a subtle hint (I might have been gak talking a little). I being a rather large and rather tattooed guy told him what he could do with that knife if he didnt put it away but I will not lie I about gak myself when he did it.

The funniest injury i've had was trying to brace myself on my unit of plastic lizardmen with spears i had just done by trying to get up off the floor where i was building them. I had a bunch of tiny little punctures from the spears. I was really impressed with the strength of the plastic and how sharp they were.

I've had all kinds of great injuries from the 3d printer i eventually built including covering both my hands in liquid abs plastic and having it solidify before i could do anything about it.

If you ever have a few beers at dinner time.And you fancy doing some work on your metal minatures.DO NOT!!!
After going down the pub,I was cleaning up my Ork Blood Bowl team, with a SCALPEL I got from my mate who said '...the sharper the blade the less likely you are to cut yourself..'
Suddenly my orks were being painted with a nice blood red colour, yet all my paint pots had their lids on....

A 1 inch scar on my thumb.(Only 2 hours in A&E and 4 stiches.)

Left load of spare blade heads on my carpet. I then stepped on them, realised what they were and quickly jumped off them.

Fortunately, the blades only rolled 5 ones and a two for their attack, and I easily came through unscathed with my high defense value of 5!

EDIT: Immediately after writing this I go out to spray some models. I get my spray can out, check the wind direction and start to spray. Huge gust of wind suddenly occurs and my face is a coal black all over. All in my eyes too. I am very embarrassed...

I haven't had any in a long time, but when I was a kid I cut my finger. It was a Sherman tank I was building, and I was cleaning it off with a razor blade. It's quite obvious what happened after that. Also it's quite embarrassing to tell your parents after your bed time and have to wait in the ER for almost 6 hours. And then have to go to school the next day.

It still baffles me how stepping on a lego hurts more than cutting your index finger with a razor blade.

Cut the top of my thumb off.

Super Glue in the eye.

Chewed on a hormagaunt during a party for a while... gums destroyed.

Melted foam board with a heatgun in my basement... no ventilation... the burning was horrible.

Electrocuted while examining Space Wolves in my basement... I was still in a towel and unplued me radio... oops.

Stabs, cuts, slashes all filled with superglue.

Spent most of highschool chewing the glue off my finger tips (thanks 3rd ed Hive Tyrant!).

 A Town Called Malus wrote:

 PrehistoricUFO wrote:
The worst thing that happened to me was when I was using krazy glue, the runny formula. I thought that the tube was nearly empty so I squeezed the tube VERY hard to try and get some out. Turns out a bunch had leaked onto the tube seconds prior, and the force of me squeezing for 30 seconds or so ensured that my thumb was VERY well stuck to the tube. At first I panicked, I was really concerned about how I'd get it off my thumb without tearing the skin like crazy. Then I calmed down and I submerged it in super hot water for a good while and then peeled it off. It hurt quite a lot, but it didn't break my skin. Yay!

Nail Varnish Remover is really good for dissolving superglue on your skin. Worth a try next time

It's funny but in 36 year of life I never knew this nor had it occurred to me.

The time it would have saved me filing/sanding dried superglue off of my hands!

Cheers!

Myself I have nothing hobby-related to report (at least not this hobby, what I have done to my hands over the years while working with wood is another story).

But I was witness when the Khorne demanded what was his with a game of blood bowl...

So we had this Blood Bowl league, once, when the world was a happier place and 40k second edition still to come (or so I think). It was a lively and crowded league, with first and second league both with 4 divisions, sometimes even a fifth. Endgames were a spectacular event, with lots of visitors, emotions high and windows shaking from the roars of the crowd.
Now this particular endgame was a tight thing until the very end. Time is running out, and the outcome of the current offence will decide the new winner of the series. And success! The crowd is cheering the winner, juicy curses are uttered, fists poke holes in the air and generally big gestures are made, while the winner heads off leading the crowd to the bar of the youth club the whole event is taking place. He gives a mighty roar and jumps into the air - only to be stopped by the metal door frame he is just passing... what is a little pain on the head for a Blood Bowl trainer? Nothing, I say! 'Eadbanging while wearing spiky helmets is standard tactics!
So he marches on and orders a coke. The bartender is looking at him totally shocked. Wasn't he a ginger? Now he's a redhead... "Oh my... what happened to you? Let me order an ambulance..." Why?" the lucky winner asks, then following her looks, touching his forehead, looking at his bloodstained hand. "Oh..." Got stitches and a nice shave, and wore his battle scar proudly.