Whats your worst accident while modelling?
For me it was when i pretty much butterflied my thumb when i was about 10. my sister started yelling at me and i got distracted and slipped. It was great watching my sister shut up and go white as hell lol.
Worst modeling accident hasn’t happened yet, but I did manage to open up both thumbs this past weekend at the bench. #11 blades are really sharp out of the box.
Worst hobby accident? I was young, unsupervised and trying to re-prime some .45 cases with a field handloading set and something went wrong, very wrong and I wound up going to the hospital with a deep 2" wound in my left hand. Luckily the ER doc was a fellow shooter and understood the situation, so the police weren’t involved. Oh, but that was a fun conversation once Dad got home…[8o|]
Scariest? Resin set fire to a Kingfisher model as it was setting up… Bloodiest? Got an Xacto-knife stuck in my azz…
Hey, there’s clubs for that around here!
Personal injury: stuff in my eyes. Except once I reached without looking for a beer bottle from the spray booth and grabbed the wrong one.
To models- usually involves beer, as in the next morning WTF???
Once I got the slide stuck on my stainless steel ACP at the range. While I was yankin’ on it I looked down and saw that I had my left pointer finger curled over the end of the barrel. No longer own that POS. The gun, not the finger.
An Xacto knife withh #11 blade rolled off the bench & imbedded in my right thigh. Not too serious a wound, but hurt a lot.
Regards, Rick
Why izzat column thing over to the right now 60% of my screen width?
X-acto rolled of desk, straight down into the top of my foot, blade deep. That was about 6 years ago, haven’t been cut since.
had many a sliced thumb back in the day when i cleaned up everything with a no 11 blade against my thumb. and once took a half inch wide slice the full length of my thumbnail, all the way down to juicy stuff. that one stung, good job i didn’t know that many swears then. lol
I still bare the scar from a slip with an X-Acto #5 knife holding a #10 blade which entered the base of my right thumb near the wrist. It wasn’t pretty!
Bloodiest…a piece of PE fell onto the floor and embedded into the mat. I was stocking foot at the time and stepped on it. It entered my foot slicing deeper and deeper. I didn’t feel it at first, not until I felt a cold wet sensation on my sock. Looking down my white sock was anything but white. I’m glad I had good tweezers and a magnification lamp. A little surgery to remove the piece and some CA to plug the holes. I now make sure that I am at least wearing flip flops while in the shop.
After the incident I found several slivers of PE fret in the mat…amazing how sharp and durable these little piece can be and how much flesh they can slice without even feeling it.
Yep another X-acto, sliced my thumb…
Heh… The blood kinda filled the rear crotch area of m’ jeans too… Told the wife not to sweat it, it was just that time of the month…
lol nice.
On another site this question was asked and one guy was working on his army (wargamer forum) and his mate surprised his and he ended up with a 3 inch gouge in his forearm.
Just thought id share that
After several encounters with # 11 blades on my fingers, I have become EXTRA careful in order to avoid pain and that red stuff![blkeye]
I too join the legion of xacto inflicted wounds. Thankfully nothing TOO bad…little blood and a whole lot of cursing.
And for my “hobby” one I was shooting at a local indoor range. Plinking with some .38 wad cutters from my 4" GP100 I pull the trigger, gun goes bang, second later WHOMP right to the chest. I am like “WTF was THAT!” looked down and saw my mushroomed wad cutter sitting on the ground. Apparently it ricocheted off the backstop and hit me square in the chest. Hurt like a bugger, but not so much as a bruise from it.
Brian
Holy crap!!! You are lucky it didn’t hit you in the face!! I saw a clip of a guy shooting I think a .50 rifle when he too gets smaked by the round as it bounced off the target down range. Nothing hapenned to the guy either.
Was out shooting black powder pistols with a friend of mine, Mike Anderson one day… We were plinking targets we’d hung on this old oak tree… He lines up a target. let’s fly, and BAM!.. He does a flip, head over heels, is lying on the ground, and rolling around in pain…
The ball had hit a knot in the tree, richocheted back and hit him square on the head of his Johnson!.. Luckily, it had lost all it’s “Oomph” and didn’t do anything but hurt like hell and make his member swell up the size of a tennis ball…
He is still to this day known as Iron-D ick Anderson…
I saw an Xacto rolling of the table out of the corner of my eye and went to catch it, ended up with the blade jammed into my palm almost the full length of the blade. Fortunatly no tendons or vitals were hit.
HVH, that sound like the time I was out plinking and had a 22 round come back and plink me in the, umm, menber. I was wearing jeans and the bullet hit the zipper and stopped dead but left one HE!! of a bruise!
Ben
luckily I havent goitten a knife stuck in me yet…but I did come really close to slashing me palm wide open. I was trying to pry open a little Testors enamel bottle that had the lid “painted” shut with a wrench, when the bottle shattered in my hand and paint got everywhere. I only had a little knick on my finger, but it sure looked alot worse because of the red paint!
OWL