worst modelling based injury competition, post yours.

Just so you all know, Superglue was actually developed as a surgical tool to replace internal stitches during surgery. It allows sealing the wound, then the superglue breaks down and is eliminated by the body.

That way you do not have to be opened up again to remove those internal stitches when they are ready to come out, it is a great aid to more effective and more rapid healing.

When my wife had a Laminectomy (sp?) that is three vertebrae fused in her lower back there was not one single stitch!!! it was all super glued, for the exterior of the surgery wound a piece of sterile gauze like material was super glued in place. When the wound was healed the gauze simply fell away.

Personally being on blood thinners because of heart problems I find Super glue most useful to stop bleeding if the blood doesn't want to clot on its own. Since the blood is flowing out the Superglue isn't flowing in, no worries.

Best advice, do not be as careless as I have been over the years. Follow safety precautions!! Modelling without injuries is a lot more fun. :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
 
A Styptic pencil (scuse any spelling errors there) as found at any good chemists/drugstore will also stop bleeding
(and sting like a motherf*&^%r) It's made of aluminium (or aluminum for our American buddies) sulphate and talc and comes in a little stick, moisten and apply (generally used on shaving cuts, but if you guys are cutting on yourselves and want to stop the bleeding....)
 
Rob_alderman said:
xeoran said:
Rob_alderman said:
Cardiff all the way!!
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Cardiff, phah! Dont you know only pussies live in south Wales! North Wales is the hardcore....
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I think this should be modded LBH :D

Who says I want to be 'Hardcore'

:p
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LBH can mod it...if he's hard enough! :wink:

Everyone wants to be hardcore. You then get dispensation to grow a 70's porn star mustache....
 
Do not meddle in the affairs of moderators, for they are subtle, quick to anger, and can call in a strike from Ted Chang!

:lol:

LBH
 
lastbesthope said:
Do not meddle in the affairs of moderators, for they are subtle, quick to anger, and can call in a strike from Ted Chang!

:lol:

LBH
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Aye! Nor meddle in the affairs of Ted Chang, as you are crunchy and tasty with ketchup :p
 
Stupid me not believe in safety precautions or that modeling knives generally come with handle for a reason. So as the handle was missing I held the blade in my hands. This wasn't most effective way to cut model pieces out of sprue so I needed to put some extra pressure...

All fine and dandy except it suddenly went straight through couple of pieces in one go and sliced small part of my finger from other arm that was below...

Funny thing is it didn't feel at all despite chopping part of fingernail as well. I just stared how my fingers top started to turn red wondering how that happened.

Taught me a lesson it did :lol: Now the finger has even grown itself back to what it used to be. Was bit of weird for a while to look at finger which ended in straight line.
 
It's certainly not the worst, but years ago I was cutting some card with a scalpel, like all good safety manuals will show you, with a steel rule and cutting from side to side. So far so good. Completely forgot to see where I was holding the ruler and with 1 swift, clean stroke sliced the ends off 3 fingers. Boy, it stung! :shock:

I keep a big bottle of superglue debonder handy when I model now, from experience! Stuck far too many bits of me to bits of metal, plastic, other bits of me.......

Also managed to break a pin vice drill bit, then shove the remaining sharp end through my thumbnail, into the flesh and finally stop at the bone.

In another incident, I sliced through a bit of plastic, then into the end of my index finger, directly in line, so it went through the nail and flesh of the finger and hit bone. Theres still a red line there on the finger where it went, this is some 25 years later!!
 
Oh, and Rob Alderman, the Welsh are Brithonic Celts, which means they are descended from the Romano-British settlers. The Scots and us Irish are the real deal, Goidelic Celts. 8)
 
Injury update!

I was having fun making a secret bug killing machine(have I said to much :shock: ?)

And sliced through my finger nail and some of my finger, and guess what? The same damn finger that always suffers modeling injuries :shock: , almost to the bone, but with my brains at hand prevented the wound from bleeding and I was right back to working on the project :)
 
Some time ago I was redoing bases for Tau Piranhas, EE minis. Well I picked up some brass rod to make flying stand for but there were a bit bigger than the plastic stand that came with the mini. So I drag out my nice and powerful cordless drill and started in. Not wanting to make a hole in the tabletop I was working on, I held them in my left hand while I drilled.

Which was a mistake. Base 3 I'm drilling, the bit catchs and I hold on harder to the base I'm drilling. Since the whole hold thing was instinctive, I pushed in on the drill quite a bit harder than necessary. Bit punched though the base, and then punched through skin on my palm. Just wait, it gets better

The drill bit ended up embedded in one the hands in bone(I had let off the cordless trigger as quick I as I could, otherwise It would have gone straight through). I realized it was embedded in the bone when I tried to yank my hand off the drill bit and the drill went with it. I VERY carefully hit the reverse on the drill and got it off my hand, which then sent I nice little jet of blood out. Some super glue and a trip to the hospital later, I got a faint little scar thats approximate 1/16 in diameter near my middle finger.

S'kinda funny. Never actaully hurt myself doing any sort modelling except for that time (superglueing body parts together not withstanding
 
EEEEEEEEEEWwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!!!!!

I remember when i was in GW and some superglue was spilled and we were telling people NOT to put there hands on the table.....




And yes someone did place there hand on the table not me tho
 
Rick said:
Oh, and Rob Alderman, the Welsh are Brithonic Celts, which means they are descended from the Romano-British settlers. The Scots and us Irish are the real deal, Goidelic Celts. 8)
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lets not be pedantic now, besides, that was the past, who knows what kind of dirty crossbreeding has gone on.
 
been to the dentist today, so now my mouth is all numb :( testing how numb it was i poked my mouth with some scissors !!!!!!!!!!!

din hurt though :D
 
putting some home made spears on my crusader army - yeaaaaaaaaaaars ago now, pushed the home made spear through the hand of the knight,and his base (as was the plan) straight into my index finger (i was pushing a little too hard) and right into the tip of the bone. I had to get it pulled out by a doctor with pliers and also got a nasty infection with that one as the sewing needles i was using for spears were really old and rusty. Nasty nasty nasty. still the squelching tchock noise it made when the needle came out, and my mum a trained nurse going pale - definatley worth it :wink:
 
I stabbed myself in either index finger this week whle reposing a Warjack - the right one with my craft knife, and the left with my pin vice.
 
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