Injuries, mishaps, and all around bad stuff.

[Kaldoth]

Every so often, we hobbiests experience mishaps during this love-hate relationship we call 40k. Sometimes you nick your fingers, sometimes you spill glue on a model that ought not have glue spilled on it, a pot of paint water gets spilled onto the carpet, or whatever else. But, whenever a really good one happens... One that makes you sit back and ask yourself "why me," I create a thread so that everyone can share stories and laugh at the mutually shared misery that sometimes comes along with the hobby.

The first major incident I had was August 31, 2005, one day after my fifteenth birthday. While building a defiler on my hobby desk, I had unknowingly knocked a bottle of superglue off of my desk, which subsequently spilled all over the floor. This also happened to be the place I decided to put one of my flip flops without looking. After finishing my project for the day, I slipped on my flip flop and attempted to walk away from my hobby desk, only to find my flip flop glued firmly to the ground and me tumbling face first into the concrete floor. The defiler was broken in the process.

The second one was more of a freak accident. I was simply shaving seam lines off of some Space Marine legs. Nothing too extraordinary. As I was shaving them, I was also watching TV. Needless to say, I wasn't paying attention, the x-acto knife skipped off of the miniature, and I managed to jab that sucker about a half an inch under my skin running parallel with the bone.

And now, my latest and greatest hobby disaster. I actually was not present for this. I recently found myself in a new relationship. My girlfriend and her two dogs have moved in with me. Besides a couple of accidents on the carpet, nothing too extreme. Both of them are very well behaved most of the time, and we haven't had any issues leaving them out. Well, that is until my neighbors from across the way got a dog, who loves to hang out in the window adjacent to the one right behind my hobby desk. I came home from class this morning to find this...

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Needless to say, the dogs will now be kenneled whenever we are out of the house. On the bright side, the dogs can now freely interact with the dog in the window across from ours due to a new-found shortage of blinds in the house I'll admit, two dogs came very close to becoming dinner today, but after my initial blood rage, I noticed one of them had paint all over her face. She looked chewbacca met the really cheap clown from a child's birthday party, and I couldn't help but lose my mind laughing. Nothing permanently broken besides a few brushes, so I guess all you can do is laugh about it really

So fellow frater, what are some of your your favorite hobby mishaps? The good, the bad, the homicidal-thought inducing, and the ugly

[BassWave]

Well, there was the time when I spilled super glue on the table and tried wiping it off with an old rag, not knowing that super glue creates an exothermic reaction... So the glue bled through the rag, glued me too it, and proceded to  burn. I had a pretty big burn blister on my pinky for a month. Luckily it didn't catch on fire...

[Carlson793]

My pinning drill bit has spent roughly as much time in the models I've pinned as it has in the thumb holding said model. Even when I get a starter hole going, just that odd bit of pressure and I spear myself.

 

Then there's the classic 'oops' that has led to its own design (mind you, I still have the problem with a Solo cup for rinsing and an X-Men mug for coffee...)
 

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[Teetengee]

I was trying to cut through a metal meltagun to get the front of the weapon. Exacto knife went 1/4 into my thumb right through the fingernail. Was painful and not healing for weeks until I realized it had shoved a portion of fingernail into my thumb that was being dragged forward through the neverhealing flesh by the growing process. Healed real quick once I pulled out that piece.

[Gurth]

A long time ago, I guess about 25 years, I was trying to get some glued-down part of a model loose with an X-Acto knife, and — you’ve probably seen it coming — slipped. The knife hit my thumb and cut me alongside the nail, but it didn’t seem too bad right away. Soon, it was bleeding fairly badly so I wrapped a piece of cloth around it until it stopped. When I then examined the wound, I found a much smaller wound below the large one, indicating the knife went into my thumb and the tip came out on the other side, then luckily went straight back out instead of toward the front.

 

Oh, and last month I was trying to close a stapler after checking if there were still staples in it, and I managed to shoot one into that same thumb. It’s a really weird sight to see a staple about a millimetre above your flesh.

[GrandMagnus]

I once cut the top of my thumb off (right above the nail) while removing mold lines with a hobby knife. It was funny because my thumb turned out flat for a year, but its mostly "grown back". Theres only a little round scar left, hardly noticable.

 

Its seems most people have accidents with their knives. 

[Canadian_F_H]

I've cut myself a few times with the exacto knife, super glued the wound shut and got back to work.

 

A buddy of mine from my old gaming group, wfb dwarves and 40k tau, flipped an exacto knife into the air some how and it stabbed him in the theigh to the hilt... I understand that's surprisingly common.

[Olis]

The blood god has had more than his fair share of life-fluids from me but I do recall one recent incident quite well - skinning my knuckles with my dremmel. There was surprisingly little blood but the ragged skin hurt like Nurgle's own plagues for a while afterwards. I was trying to dremmel off the head of an Ultramarine honour guard (I had already dealt with the other iconography) when the bit slipped and my hand holding the model took a heavy hit from a spinning piece of hot metal. Thankfully, the skin has healed well but I'm cautious with my knuckle-cracker now (I still hold the models by hand, like the idiot that I am though). ;)

[Aqui]

Never remove bitz from a sprue with a brand new knife blade whilst holding it in the air and then sneezing. My left middle finger has a scar from such an occurrence (the cut was quite deep and bled for about twenty minutes), and whilst it's healed up quite well, I do have a little loss of feeling in that area.

Needless to say I use clippers now!

[Interrogator-Chaplain Ezra]

I still have a scar in my left middle finger from a knife that went in and stopped in the bone. That one finally taught me to heed well the old adage that you always cut away from yourself.

 

I also once nearly sliced myself downstairs. I was sitting crosslegged on my bed and tampering with a Space Marine kit. Dropped the (very pointy and very sharp) scalpel I was using to clean the bits. It went point first into the mattress close enough for me to feel it against my right frag grenade.

 

Other than those two memorables, it's mostly spills and accidentally dipping the brush in the wrong cup (or even sipping from the wrong cup).

[GrandMagnus]

A buddy of mine from my old gaming group, wfb dwarves and 40k tau, flipped an exacto knife into the air some how and it stabbed him in the theigh to the hilt... I understand that's surprisingly common.

Whaa... just... auch. That has got to hurt like

[deathspectersgt7]

While having my hobbie room being refurbished was painting up some Blood Angels. Had to leave the room for the front door had the cats rampage across the dinner table knock off opened Paint pots on white Carpet. Prissy  Girlfriends and white Carpet never again.

[Stercus]

I can recommend never using a blunt bladed knife.

The amount of pressure needed to cut anything makes accurate cutting impossible. What's worse though, is that moment when you remember that you have a new blade in the drawer, change it, but your hands for some reason insist on pressing at full force as they had to for the blunt blade. And then the new razor sharp blade rips through your painstakingly crafted librarian's neck, neatly severing his head, before coming to rest embedded up to the hilt in your thigh muscle.

Must've been twenty years ago, and I'm still real pissy about always using a sharp blade.

[Hyaenidae]

Converting Pewter Dreadnoughts. I don't think i need to say more. *looks down at scar-covered hands*

[Pearson73]

Top of my thumb's been sliced off more than I care to admit...

[Monstra Sumus]

Was really tired one night, new exacto blade, fumbled knife, look down, sticking out of foot. 

 

There's patches all over my hands where I don't have feeling due to slashes and I've given myself more blood blisters than I care to count with my clippers. It always feels like hobby toys are made for children, my gigantic hands just aren't compatible. Stabbed myself in the eye with a brush too. 

[lfhoule]

My pinning drill bit has spent roughly as much time in the models I've pinned as it has in the thumb holding said model. Even when I get a starter hole going, just that odd bit of pressure and I spear myself.

 

Then there's the classic 'oops' that has led to its own design (mind you, I still have the problem with a Solo cup for rinsing and an X-Men mug for coffee...)

 

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Sort of same experiences when using my spring powered pin vice when drilling the holes to pin the previous edition's daemonette arms into place... I think some of my 'nettes secretly worship Khorne...

[Bryan Blaire]

I dropped an Xacto knife into my heel from about three and a half feet above after I accidentally flipped it off my work station. I felt the blade hit the bone, scrape sideways a little bit, and then stick there, straight out of the back of my foot. It clearly sliced the nerves or sent me immediately into shock, because I didn't feel it at all until I pulled it out and used the towel my wife had gotten me to cover the wound. Then it started to sting like crazy.

[Firepower]

The old metal dreadnought, I filled the recess of the arm with glue and pushed it on to the peg. A bit too much glue, evidently, because it squirted out and hit me square in the eye. I was just a wee little nosepicker, and my rather worrisome parents were already annoyed enough that I found a hobby involving regular use of razor sharp blades. Add to that my father being an optometrist (multiplies stereotypical 'You'll poke your eye out' warnings exponentially) and I was too afraid to tell my parents.

I shoved my head under the sink, turned my eye to the faucet, and spent...I dunno even how much time there. Went to bed with my eye still feeling funny. One of the dumbest decisions I ever made in my life.

As luck would have it, my eye turned out fine. But seriously, that was freaking dumb from start to finish.

I've never cut myself with my knife in almost 20 years of hobbying, but if you asked me in advance whether I'd take a deep cut or superglue in the eye, I'd choose the cut hands down. That being said, every time I've dropped my knife has been horrifying, especially when I drop it in my lap.

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[CommodusXIII]

I'm pretty sure that I still have the tip of a broken pin vice bit buried in the meat of my left index finger.

 

Also, I once managed to firmly superglue my hand to the old metal Vindicator I was assembling at the time. I'm talking full-on palm-and-five-fingers grip.

 

Other than that, just knife cuts of varying severity. Bandages are kept a short hobble away from my workstation at all times.

[Brother-Chaplain Kage]

I'd take pictures of all the tiny little scars on my fingers, but I guess one of the good things about an X-Acto blade is that it makes really clean cuts that leave faint, tiny scars behind.

[Firepower]

I'd take pictures of all the tiny little scars on my fingers, but I guess one of the good things about an X-Acto blade is that it makes really clean cuts that leave faint, tiny scars behind.

 

Funny thing, when I am shaving models for a few hours, I end up with a hundred super shallow cuts on the tip of the thumb.  Never draws blood, but it's like having a plethora of tiny paper cuts. :lol:

[Stoic Raptor]

A very long time ago (25 years, perhaps), I was painting a model with an airbrush.  I reached around the compressor to turn it off, and my forearm came into contact with the cooling vanes on the head of the compressor.  Of course, they were very hot - and I got a burn scar just below my wrist that looked like a runic "F".  I would have been fine keeping that scar for life - it's a very Space Wolves sort of thing to bear - but sadly, it faded over time. :(

[Firepower]

A very long time ago (25 years, perhaps), I was painting a model with an airbrush. I reached around the compressor to turn it off, and my forearm came into contact with the cooling vanes on the head of the compressor. Of course, they were very hot - and I got a burn scar just below my wrist that looked like a runic "F". I would have been fine keeping that scar for life - it's a very Space Wolves sort of thing to bear - but sadly, it faded over time.

Damn, ow The second worst part of a bad burn is the smell. I would've happily gone my whole life without knowing what cooking human smelled like.