Okay guys (and you gals out there) 'fess up. What is your worst modeling injury.......Aside from sniffing in those great glue fumes #:-) #:-)

Mine is pretty lame. I was paring down some model piece, the knife slipped and I had a nice #11 sized cut in my thumb. I felt kindda sheepish coming upstairs to get a band-aid 'cause I had just given my wife c#%p for her cutting habits! Needless to say I didn't get to much sympathy that night! :-)

My ego.

Shaved off a few layers of my fingertips when I was using double-edged razor blades to clean my parts. Happened when I was about 7 years old and starting out with the hobby. My models then had glue strings and globs all over, fingerprints on the clear parts, sprue attachment bits and bloodstains.

Hola!

Well, I also screwed up with a new X-acto blade and cut my self several times! Although I had a buddy who was carving a bath tub from a wooden block slipped with the knife and cut him self down to the bone! Yiiiiiiikes, man he was pretty pale walking down the stairs

Oh yeah, I have another one! Was on the phone talking modeling, was rokcing on the chair, fell over, and there was a picture frame there, and somehow it busted and a piece of glass went right clear through my foot :
Next morning I decided id better go to doctor and I ended up with 7 very painful shots right in the cut and 6 stitches

I guess we all have X-acto stories. I was at work one night and was cleaning up some seams when I cut my finger. Of course the only thing to do was say I cut my finger washing dishes so that workman's comp would pay for the sutures. :-)

I am embarased to say that I also know that CA glue has no taste, but does make your tongue feel funny.

Patrick

Chainsaw in the leg...oh, wait, it's *modelling* injuries we're talking about!

A couple of months ago I slipped with the Xacto, and took the tips of two fingers off. On my middle finger I could see blood spurting from a couple of veins. I bound the fingers up tightly, and a few days later, when I took the tape off, the fingers were healing nicely.

If course I've had hundreds of knife injuries over the years...

I always cut my finger with a new blade, no matter what blade it is. It seems to me that I have to share a drop of blood so that the blade serves me well...

The worst accident may be the time that I CA glued my hand to my face. Luckily it was the skin on my hand that gave up...
This happened years ago. I´m ok now but I still cut my fingers.


No pain, no gain...

Toni

I have also slipped quite a few times with the old x-acto knife......ever have one start rolling off your bench towards you and you instincly try to close your legs to catch it....and then realize.....WHAT THE HELL AM I DOING?!?!?!?!? just in time? Well....once I didn't realize it quick enough......OUCH!!!! I can feel your sympathy....(and hear you all groaning and crossing your legs)
Hey....does this mean we all put our blood behind our work???

No serious injuries... just some cuts in my fingers...
The worst thing is that when I get this cuts, the fingers gets so sore that I have to stop modelling for a couple of days... WASTE OF TIME... :-)

Well let`s see my worst modeling injury trough the years. mmmmmh

the knifes I use for scalemodeling are comming from the hospital where both my parents work and we have always a big suply of them. The profit is that the scalpels are really sharp while they using them for operations and stuff. Problem is that they are so sharp that you mostly don`t feel it when you cut yourself and you get aware of it when you are seeing blood dripping over your models (speak about realistic blood) and then thinking by yourself mmmmmmmh blood.........................BLOOD!!!!! walking down the stairs getting dizzy bandage around it and happily go further

I can tell for hours and hours about all the cutmarks through the years and if you hear about that, you might think that I don`t have hands anymore.

Another strange or I can better say idiotic thing I had was..
Once I was modeling and I tipped my bottle of CA glue. the bottle tumbled over and started to roll over my desk fell from my workbench and landed on my leg. here comes the stupid part. First thing I did was cleaning my desk so that no glue would come on my freshly painted model not watching to the bottle on my leg. When I finished the cleaning of my desk I noticed the bottle on my leg that was happily leaking glue. I grabbed the bottle and saw a puddle of glue about 5cm. in diameter on my trouser and worse of all trough the textile on my leg. What came after that you may guess about but I can tell you that it hurted as hell and I screamed so hard probably the whole village where I life in could hear it

so these were my two cents of injuries have fun about it

The worst I have done apart from a small cut or two was to super glue a small part to the model and the tweezers at the same time. However the tweezers were also superglued to my fingers and the fingers were also stuck togeather.

Cliff (I'm a driver not a private)

The most hurt I ever felt is looking into my wallet after visiting a specialist hobby store. I guess everybody in the hobby has been effected with this one.
No serious accidents worth reporting though!

When I worked in a small town hobby shop, I had a customer come in, and shop for about fifteen minutes. Then as he was leaving, he said, "Oh, By the way, Do you have any debonder? My wife is stuck to my building board." He had his wife helping him hold parts, and glued her hand to his benchtop. I am not sure what the eventual injury to him was, but I am sure it hurt! Next time I saw him I asked if he got his building board unstuck...

I also took a flying model club member to the Emergency room a few years back after he went to the bathroom without realizing that he had just spilled CA on his hand. He had glued his fingers to his... well we threw a blanket around his waist, and let the nurses laugh their heads off! This happened after a field repair at the flying club site. Always wipe your hands before using the porta potty. (He's lucky he didn't walk into E.R. with a porta john door glued to his hand, or something like that.)

Dave

Worst was when I nearly sawed off a third of my thumb. I was making a wooden base and, having no power saw at the time, I was using a regular saw. Well, stupid me got me thumb in the way and... YEEEOUCH! I really thought I lost it.
EDIT: Other than that, the usual knife cuts - my hands are IMO overly abused.
2nd EDIT: Then there's the small plastic scrap that flew and hit me in the eye...

Well - mine is a toss up between two. One was a brand new razor saw, Niiiice and sharp. Anyway I was holding a piece of wood with hand and ready to cut my part. Anyway, I put to much pressure on the saw, it jumped the wood and found my hand and put a nice slice into it.
The other time was my fingers and super glue! Did a number of them. I was thankfull for a brand new #11. I used it to gently cut my fingers apart.

One I am afraid of --- I have small circular saw bit for my dremel!!! I hold my dremel with one hand and parts with the other. That little blade ripping around at 15,000 rpms gains a great deal of respect from me.

February 1982. Cutting a sprue "pintle" to make a working mount for a door MG in a Lynx helicopter in 1/72. I had just repositioned to avoid a potential cut and went right back to the same position. The #11 went through the plastic, through the tip of my left middle finger and stuck into my interior right thigh. I looked at a half inch wide by half inch long inverted U shaped flap of meat hanging off my finger as the blood began to flow. It took 10 stitches to close that cut up.

My worst injury is strange.I opened up a box(Tamiya 88) when I was about 8 or 9 and contracted a wierd desease.Obsessive-compulsive disorder! 26 years later I recieved the injury.My marriage fell apart and we seperated for a year.We are back together now only because I took the time to examine myself and come to the conclusion that I have enough models and don't have to spend $100-$300 a week at the hobby shop.My dealer was upset at not seeing me for over a year but we have made up and I only buy supplies now.If I do need a detail set or other part,I discuss it with my wife first and she is usually understanding.Her complaint was that I was sneaky and uncaring about anything else but modelling.We have discussed alot and i no longer have to say,"Oh,I've had that for a long time"without meaning it truthfully.I will say this,no cut,bruise,or broken model hurt half as much as the emotional pain I caused with my compulsions.

Could've been a lot worse, but....

One summer day, I knocked over a bottle of thin super glue, it emptied out on my lap on to my shorts and started to seep thru the material to my skivies.

If this old boy wasn't as quick as he was, my skivies would have stuck right to the 'material' underneath. Needless to say that all was saved with the exception of my shorts and skivies and I have lived 'happily' ever after.

Thanks,
Kevin Keefe
Mortars in Miniature

OK guys, your beloved wolf-leader has the best one around and to this date still makes me cringe. It was June 2, 1982, I had just bought my first dremel tool. Boy was I excited. It came with all the nice attachments including the ever wicked circular saw. I was, at the time, building a diorama that needed a srcatchbuilt building. So I proceeded to use my circular saw blade to cut some boards, planks and some dowels for my diorama. At the time I did not have a vice to hold the dowels that needed to be cut, so I had to hold them. Everything was going well so far untill the blade bit [jamed or pinched]into one of the dowels. Ok guys you might want to close your eyes for this one! When the blade got stuck in the dowel, it yank the wood out of my hand and the force and speed of the dremel tool threw the wood on to the other side of the room. Now when that happened, the saw dropped into or should I say in between my thighs, still going at about 1500 rpms, and started to slice and rip through my shorts and into both of my inner thighs. By the time I grabbed the tool and turned it off I and about 2/3's of my hobby table were covered in BLOOD! It was so damn quick that by the time I knew what the hell had happened it was to late. Let us just say that it looked like one, something from the movie "Scarface" or two I just casturated myself [ I am not sure of the spelling]. At the time I was not in any pain untill I stood up and started to walk then my thighs [excuse the punn] started to throb. I tried to put a turnicate on both legs so that I would not loose any more blood, but the wound was to high. So I got into my car with towels round me as bandages, and I proceeded to the hospital. When i got to the hospital a doctor was taking a brake outside when he saw me and came running over to give me a hand. He then took into the emergency room and treated my wounds. He said that on my left thigh I was 1/16 of an inch shy of hitting my artery, but my right thigh hit the artery and the I needed to go in surgery to get it repaired. I spent the night in the hospital and had 110 stiches, mostly internal. When I got home I was to walk with a cane for about 6 weeks. I went into my room to get it cleaned up, what I saw was like something from a Horror movie, BLOOD everywhere!! I really did not know how bad I really was untill I got home. Oh by the way, guys I still have that same circular blade. Can anybody top it? I hope not for health reasons.

Wolf-Leader - can you see my jaw sitting on the floor!!!!!!!!!!

Ohhh Mannnnnnn Jim - get this guy a purple heart ribbon.

Yeah I agree with slodder
this guy really is nominated for a purple heart.
this is also the kinda horrorstory wich the old modeling grandpa tells all the modeling youngsters on one dark rainy sunday afternoon

Wolf leader...

You win

Im still cringing!!!

Hey, slodder,
Thank you for the Purple Heart. I needed it. So let's see, how about this for a modeling horror movie "The Demel tool massacre" HA! HA! Hey at lease I have a sence of humor about it.

Wolf-Leader - How do you explain those scars to your significant other??

Now there's an opportunity for creativity! #:-)

Slodder, When I told her at the hospital all she did was shook her head and said "YOU HAVE GOT TO BE MORE CAREFULL!!!" I will be damned if a stupid modeling tool is going to be the death of you.