Ok Puma, you win yours is the funniest although Oldbean is a close second, I hate to laugh but I can't help it :-) :-) :-)



Bruce

This falls into the category which includes: "Never fry bacon in the nude"

I have a good one or bad one depends on how you look at it, when was about 18 i was building a model car on my bed with my legs crossed and i had just changed the blade in my exacto knife and put it down on the bed, i went to uncross my legs and the blade went into the heal of my foot, well i left a trail of blood from my bed to the bathroom, man the cut really did bleed ouch!

I will be honest and say as I read this, I was fearing something completely different!

Jeff

I was shaking a full bottle of black enamel paint by hand when the lid came loose and off...no medical drawbacks...just a big mess all over the shop

At least I'm know I'm not alone in the A&E category for most of the things mentioned here.
I glued my eye closed once with CA glue, but fortunately it didn't get on my eyeball. I also have had numerous cuts in my thumb (always remember to use the blade AWAY from you, boys and girls).
Recently I spilled a bottle of Tamiya Flat Aluminum all over my modelling bench. Fortunately, it didn't get on the rug (I'm in a rented apartment), but it also got all over my favourite modelling chair!
And also remember, it's embarassing to go out with paint on your face! :-) (I've done that a few times.) I guess it's better than having egg.......

When I was a kid i had a model of the Bismark, so one day me and me mate decided to re-act its sinking.We filled the kitchen sink with water took the propellor and shaft out of the stern and stuck a penny banger in there (firecracker)set it alight braught all turrets to bare BANG, There we are covered in black stinking water its all up the walls everywhere,and Ive got a lump of superstructre hanging out of my face.We come from the east end of london where things are delt with directly my backside glowed in the dark then dad came home from work it glowed even more :-)

No chemical spills to date. (Now watch tonight I'll drop a full bottle of Tenax on my Bradley)

Did jam an x-acto blade clean through not one BUT two fingers on separate occasions. Funny as you look down at the blade in your finger there is some portion of the mind that say, "Damn did I really do that?"

Never got any stitches - although a lot of band aides were used.

OMG, some really brutal stories here!
I've had my fair share of the ol' #11's dropping and going into my foot, (almost seems like a monthly occruence :-) )
Well my worst mishap was years ago when I got back into the hobby.
I was building A Tamiya race car that had a three tone paint scheme. The main color went on fine. This was enamel. The second color was well, I think you know where I'm going with this, Lacquer. Me not knowing what happens if you put lacquers over enamels merrily sprayed away. Then something happened. Something terrible. My paint started cracking like spiderwebs all over the place, wrinkling, and just plain going to hell. In a panic I grabbed my trusty bottle of paint thinner. And, not knowing what that does to plastic, started wiping the car down with thinner. I thought I had the paint off, when the plastic decided it would replicate a Transformer, and mysteriously changed shape. Into the shape of a big ball of gooey plastic. Freaking out, I phoned my local HS and asked what had happened. I was then informed of the wrongness of applying certain types of paints over top of one another. One very expensive kit down the toilet.

Let me add one more... I was carving a hunk of resin plug off of a large scale figure. The kids were running around screaming and yelling, I looked away for a second (I swear) and the next thing I knew, I had jabbed the point of my X-Acto into the joint of my index finger. Finger hurt like heck for a while and then started to swell up pretty good. Finaly went to the the Dr. he said there was nothing he could do put to forbid me from using hobby knives anymore. :-) Now anytime I do something stupid, the wife just tells me she's going to tell the Dr. on me.

Jesse

I CA'd my finger to my cheek one time... did I mention that I had photo-etch?

hi guys..well..i was not nude..just that there was really lots of cement througn my boxers

had mineral spirit all over my hands and lit a lighter lol, wasnt anythign seriouse. but my worse injury is deep down in my heart, what makes any modeler cry more than a cut or wound... glue over your painted model... but thanks to my buddys at armorama this was fixed

Frank

Though most of my scalpel-wounds were strictly accidental, one was the result of opening a plastic bag with a blade - while resting the bag on my leg. D'oh!

Not quite as bad as the illustrators I used to work with years ago, in the days when 'cut and paste' was something involving knives and glue, not pressing keys. Anyway, he used to scratch his head with the safe end of his scalpel, until the day he forgot. One trip to A&E later he told the doctor there how he did it, to get the reply "yes, we use them - sharp aren't they?".

Another one sliced the very tip of his thumb off while running a blade along a ruler , not looking what he was doing......

If we're going to have model-destroying stories, then I might as well include this one from many years ago.

While I was destroying my Lindberg Monitor, I decided it wasn't burning fast enough, so I tried to accelerate the fire by pouring lighter fuel onto it. So the neck of the lighter fuel bottle caught fire too. Seeing this, I threw the bottle down, only for it to splash up the wall of the garage and burn merrily there. Luckily it was volatile enough to burn off without causing noticeable damage

The one thing Everybody can have is Accidents, I'm saying this more for the younger crowd here, like when Steeldog said he had learned his lesson, when his Father told him under no circumstances, use any blades or super glue when he wasn't present, when he was younger to what happened to him.

Your Parents would never try to hold you back from learning, shoot they want you to learn as much as you can, so you can support yourself later on in life.

The reason they tell you things like this is, they love you, and never want to see you hurt. The statistics say millions of accidents happen in the home every day across the world, and TIME is the most important thing when you have an emergency, and if there is nobody around to help you get the right help, you could be in a real bad hurt, maybe a lot worse then that.

Most of these tools we use are DANGEROUS, and you should know that. The knives can cut clear through just by their own weight, the glues can blind you, if not used properly, everything can be safe and fun when you know how to use them properly, and with adult supervision.

Your parents only want to keep you safe. Now I've had accidents, where I dropped my knife, and try to grab it before it falls, it takes a lot of restraint, but I finally learned, after I had to get out the band-aids twice to fix where I caught it before, but now I just let it drop to the floor.

Fear is your worst enemy, you can't think right when your scared, and that was what I used to do, when I drop something, I would think to catch it, cause of the fear that it would brake. Well I know it won't brake, so I just let it go, and have your feet out of the way.

Now on my knifes when I put that masking tape wrapped around the back end several times then run out a little extra and stick it together, so it has a flap to keep it from rolling, this also made the back a lot heavier, so when it falls, the sharp part is sticking up when it lands, that helps a lot if you don't wear shoes, and can't get your feet out of the way in time.
Just an idea if you still have the round knives.
I hope this will help someone, if it can keep anybody from getting hurt, then I felt as though I contributed.
Kerry

Where were you when I needed you Kerry? :-) Many years ago when I had much better reflexes, I saw my X-acto rolling towards the end of the card table my parents had set up for me to model on. Well, as it fell, I swiftly reach out and snatched it from the air. I saved it from crashing to the floor. Unfortunately I got th #11 point first in the palm of my hand. It stuck into a bone. It didn't really hurt (at first) but it scared the pants off of me. I was eight or nine at the time and I thought I was going to die from some sort of poisoning. :-)

Thats the whole thing, they are so sharp, they really don't hurt at first, it might be the salt from your sweat or something else or infection that will bring pain.

Once when we were kids we were setting beside a ball diamond, this other kid thought he would cut my pants leg with a broken pop bottle, he didn't mean to do my leg clear to the bone, but he did.

I never even felt a thing out side of the pressure of him pushing, cause it was so sharp, I was watching the ball game, I was playing in, and I thought he had just took something and wrote on my pants leg, until I looked down, and the game was so exciting I never even done that, until he screamed saying he didn't mean it.

But we had some parents there and they cleaned it up, put pressure on it, and taped it together, and it mended fine.

But a lot of kids learned to not fool around with broken glass that day, we were so young, that a lot of them were crying cause they thought it should hurt, they kept asking me don't that hurt, cause I wasn't crying, just setting there normal and they were crying cause they thought it hurt, cause it did look real bad it looked worse then it was for some reason, I guess all the blood. You know how some little kids are, you would think they were the ones that got cut. Course I was glad they thought that much about me back then.

The thing now is controlling fear, like I said it took me twice to the band aids before I learned control, to let that knife go, don't try to catch it let it go, then if you got the back end heavier, that way, it will land sideways or back-end first, not causing further damage.

They should come out with them knives having the back end filled with lead or something heavy like that, that way when you drop it, the point will always be up.

Well I don't know where to start.....LOL no just kidding, I'm not such a large disaster.

The only things that ever happend were some mistakes with hobby knifes (not cutting the plastic but my finger) and the nice german camo I sprayed on my hand

we've got really dangerous hobby :-)

Wow... Martinnnn...

German camo sprayed onto your hand? How could that've happened? It sounds pretty strange. The only way there would be german camo on my hands is if I purposely painted them... Or if a bottle of Field gray fell on them.


Rob