Whats your experience with selfinflicted injury while practice your hobby

[DELTADOG]

Ok While I read a thread in the painting and conversion forum how to make a wound I had the Idea for this thread.some comments there are very good stuff for comedy.
So if you ever had this one moment while your are bleeding like hell and would to kickass yourself cuting in the wrong way feel free to post it here. shared pain is half pain

 

[supervike]

they call it \'figmata\'

Somebody coined the phrase on the Visions in Color page. Instead of \'stigmata\' it became \'figmata\', which is hilarious enough.

Thankfully, I haven\'t hurt myself too badly, but I did stab a sharp needle file into my palm while trying to put a hole in a 40mm base.

Nothing a little super glue couldn\'t repair.

 

[Dragonsreach]

1: Pin Vice drill breaks and digs into soft tissue under fingernail.---Ouch!
2: X-acto knife slips and sharp edge runs over and through Index finger leaving cut fine as a paper cut, when removing seam /moulding lines.
3: Cutting thin piece of brass wire for pinning, Wire decides to go into close orbit mode and then land on carpet. Carpet is beige. Eventually finds said piece of wire with Knee. (the soft fleshy part just below bone.) Dogs runs away yelping at extreme loud noise eminating from otherwise engaged male lying on floor swearing, and trying not to cry. (Me)

There, thats my three worse escapades in the last two years.

 

[DELTADOG]

I don`t want but I remember as it was yersterday i cut styrofoam with a LARGE knife ca 450 g weight. This tiny little knife slip off my hand .... and Newton his force of gravity and my poor sorrow foot.... it impinge direct on..in .. trough my right foot ...what a feeling. but this wasn`t the major problem but the woodfloor under the foot, the knife plug inside this *?&§$>! floor.In those situation find the brave to pull it out.

 

[Tuubje]

I have experienced the worst pain a man can imagine,

The Almighty Papercut

 

[PStafAllen]

I have slipped cutting open a blister pack with a medical scalpel and cut a 1cm DEEP cut completly across/through a fingernail and finger. That was messy.

Pin-vicing a dragon leg whilst on pain meds, and talking to someone, I didn\'t notice until the blood welled up that I\'d drilled right through the piece and into my thumb. Odd.

And the old classic, middle of the night, barefoot step on a Gazghkul Thraka.

P.

 

[freakinacage]

ooh the paper cut - why is it that they hurt soooo much?

hmm let me think? numerous cuts from scaplels while trimming the mould lines. stuck myself to numerous objects (and myself) with superglue. also burnt myself and bonded myself with hot melt glue gun (aargh). burnt with paint stripper. and once, i was pinning an arm and the bit broke and a few slithers of metal stuck in my hand. thought i had them all out but the pain persisted and three weeks later, i pulled out two more. that felt sooo good.:bouncy:

 

[dauber22]

I was working with a brand new Xacto knife (#1 blade) that had this nifty little safety guard on it. When I was finished, I tried to put the safety cover on the knife, but it slipped out of my hand. The boy genius (me) tried to catch it as it fell and stuck the blade straight through the palm of my hand.

 

[freakinacage]

ah yes - forgot stepping on countless miniatures if they have fallen on the floor. i don\'t know which is worse the pain or the time wasted when you have to redo the paintjob. i\'ve got to the stage now where if i feel enything underneath my foot in my house i can immediately stop or fall over and do a silly little two-step so i don\'t crush whatever it is.

 

[Infidel Castro]

I confused am?!

Firstly, DELTADOG said...

\"I don`t want but I remember as it was yersterday i cut styrofoam with a LARGE knife ca 450 g weight this tiny little knife slip off my hand .... and Newton his force of gravity and my poor sorrow feed.... it impinge direct on..in .. trough my right feed ...what a feeling. but this was`t the major problem but the woodfloor under the feed and the knife plug inside this *?&§$>! floor.In those situation find the brave to pull it out. \"

Okay, DELTADOG, it sounds really painful, but I\'m buggered if I understand just what it was that happened to you lol. Are \'feed\' FEET? If so I may be a little closer to sorting out exactly what happened on that dark, fateful night lol.


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PStafAllen said...

\"I have slipped cutting open a blister pack with a medical scalpel and cut a 1cm DEEP cut completly across/through a fingernail and finger. That was messy.\"

I am feeling really weird five minutes after reading that one :wow:. I don\'t think I\'m that squeamish normally, but blimey, I wouldn\'t fancy that! Surely that must be the worst anyone can suffer?

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The one thing that gets me all the time (apart from the old superglue/finger/cat\'s arse problem) is hot minis. If I\'ve just scrubbed up a piece and need to dry it quickly for priming, I head straight for my wife\'s hair dryer. After a couple of minutes on top-level, blowtorch-style hot wind action, I pack away the hair dryer and pick up my minis in my hands...then throw them across the room whilst swearing like my old Nan used to!
lol Hot I tells yer, hot...

I do the same when casting sometimes - the heat on those moulds sneaks up on you and then show you a pretty wild time. In fact I gouged some flesh out of my hand with a chisel/blade trying to clear over-spill one time. That hurt and I\'ve still got the scars 6 months on :wow:

Oh, and a mate of mine took his eye out with a needle file, slipped in his panic and severed his leg on the blade of a Crusading Knight (28mm). Being lead (good old days!) he suffered a slow and agonising death .

Still, can\'t be as bad as PStafAllen\'s cut. :|~

Ho ho ho! And who said we don\'t lead wild and dangerous lives!

Rev :innocent:

 

[DELTADOG]

OK you are right I edit my post with the `\"feed\" I`m not native english speaking and such mistakes sometimes happen.But i see in the posts until now that here is a potential for paintherapiepatients.... And no one reading this thread should eat while reading

 

[laurence]

The pains & pleasures of our hobbies

@ everyone

OOOWWWWWWWWWWWWWCHHHH !!!

I seriously feel weak after reading this thread \')

 

[Errex]

I have been scorched!

Once, a long time ago, I got me a Book called Heroes for Wargames. I live in Mexico City, and at the time (late/mid 80\'s), there was just no way of getting lead figurines around here that resembled anything near what the book showed.

Nonetheless, the Book mentioned something about the process of casting miniatures, and , since I had taken Arts as an optional in school, I felt quite confident about sculpting my own, and I figured that plaster molds would be the easiest, cheapest way to go.

So, I made my \"green\" from plastiscene, and managed to make a two part mold out of plaster. I carved the mould lines, and melt the lead in the stove.

Once the lead was melted, I proceeded to pour it into the mold. Now, Physics Laws are funny, in a way, and there and then I learned that when you suddenly cause the temperature of the water trapped in the pores of plaster to rise, like, say, by pouring molten metal on it, you get a veritable fountain of lead and steam.

Luckily, I got away with only one drop of molten lead on the back of my right hand\'s ring finger (still have the scar), and some ruined clothes.

 

[SaxonAngel]

This is a good thread

The worst three modelling injuries I have sustained were:

1) Recently I was drilling some small parts with my handy-dandy Dremel. I\'m too cheap to buy new bits so they are quite warped and dull. This results in slipping of the dremel and three small but deep holes in my left hand. Coincidently they only hurt when I\'m holding something very small (like a mini ). It still aches a week later.

2) As a know-it-all teenager, one day I decided my hand was steady enough to hold a model while cutting it off the sprue with my Exacto. A cutting board seemed beyond my comprehension at the time. Of course the model slipped and the exacto buried itself in that nice soft web of skin between my thumb and forefinger on my left hand.

3) Making my first diorama when I was 12, I thought making a glowing campfire out of a nightlight would be really cool. Feeling the light was a tad too dim, I tried to bypass the transistor(?not sure?) to up the power to the bulb (bear in mind I was only 12 and knew nothing about electricity). Needless to say the bulb exploded, the nighlight melted in my... yet again... left hand and I got a good zap. For most of my adolescence I had freckles on that hand from the melted bits of copper and ceramic. Perhaps my parents should have been watching me closer????


And yeah... I\'ve sustained many a paper and knife cut. My fingers are callused in places from all the abuse, thus harder to cut.

Peace!
Saxonangel:innocent:

 

[Infidel Castro]

This is geting stranger and stranger...

Have any of you considered the Small Claims Court? I reckon we\'ve got enough material to shut down every gaming company in the world and live on their money lol.

Can you imagine, a world without our hobby? Strange days...

 

[Corvus]

My right thumb has been hit numerous times by a knife when removing mold lines.

Also one time a small piece of sprue launched itself into my eye when removing it with a knife... not so funny

 

[supervike]

GW \"blisters\"

OH I forgot to mention the infamous GW blisters....

No, not the nice little package that the mini\'s are tucked in, but the stupid PAINT POTS, the GW \"blisterMAKERS.\"

How many times have you tried to open up one of those darn things, only to rip open the skin on your hand horribly. Usually the first one is not bad, it is that second color, after you already have a blister that hurts like the dickens.

 

[Panza]

I once put my scalpel into my knee (behind the cap!) as I was trimming a vinyl Hulk kit. It went in deep enough for the blade part to dissapear from view, but came out pretty darned quickly.

It still throbs on a cold day.

It\'s strange, but if I don\'t at least nick myself with a brand new scalpel blade then I tend to wonder what i\'m doing wrong.???

 

[Dorrus]

i\'ve sliced off the tip of my index finger a while ago while cutting off dark eldar from spruce.... oh boy i couldnt go to skool for a while cuz i couldnt write...

NOTE TO SELF: If you are right-handed, don\'t use the modeling knife with your left hand!!!

 

[airhead]

superglued

Not me, but I was there. A friend was superglueing a canopy on a model airplane (large radio controled model - 9\" canopy). I was holding the plane and canopy. He was dripping superglue on the joint. Neither of us noticed the glue running off of the plane on the other side and dripping onto his pants leg. Got enough to make a spot about 4\" across before that stuff set off. Man it gets hot (smokes too). He goes dancing around the room trying to get his jeans off but they are glued to his thigh. Funny to watch and may have been the start of break dancing.lol