The Worst Vac-u-form incident I had was when I was sanding a rudder down. After about 5 minutes of wet sanding something didn’t feel right. Not only had I sanded the rudder correctly I also sanded my fingertips down to about 1, maybe 2 layers of skin. I couldn’t touch anything for 4 days and had to wear band-aids on my fingers until I got some new growth. Not as bad as my original injury that I started this with, but a war wound as well.
I can see that none of us took our mothers advise, don’t play with knives!
My “war wound” occurred while trying to open a paint jar; you know the kind. I pried, I set it in thinner, I even heated it. I took a pair of pliers to it. You guessed it! The mouth of the jar broke open with a sharp shard cutting into my right thumb on the side ,infrount to behind the first knuckle. I’ve got a scare that people marvel at. I taped myself up and continued, just like the other fellow. Oh, yes, I did use the paint! I wasn’t about to waste it.
I was scraping some excess flash off a resin part with a #22 scalpel blade, holding the part down on the table with my left hand. As I was watching the blade flex a bit, I thought of what might happen if it broke. Well, when you think of things like that…the scalpel blade slipped off the part, ran into the table and snapped. Unfortunately, the rest of the blade still attached to the handle dug into the palm of my left hand and all I could think was how stupid and careless I had been while I drove to the emergency room to get 6 stitches to sew up the wound.
Many years ago, when I still lived with my parents, I stored all my tins of enamel in a couple of gallon ice-cream containers in my room. Now, being short of space, my ‘workshop’ consisted of a tabletop on the bed, with me kneeling on the floor beside it.
Now, one day, I was rummaging through the tins, looking for a particular colour. in doing so, I dislodged the lid of Airfix G1 - pillar box red.
Just as I fished the tin out of the tub, it’s contents, by now liberally covering my hand, my mother walked in.
I’ve never seen anyone turn white before.
“What have you DONE???”"[:D]
I think one of my worst injurys happened about 25 years ago.It was one of the last kits I built as a child .I think it was a 1/48 scale p-51,well I know it was a p-51. However my injury was not physical .You see years ago paints were a bit more toxic then they are today and I was painting in a small bed room. I painted the poor thing three different layers of gloss paint .My guess is a record number of brain cells were lost that night.I was rescued by my brother .( who was the one who got me in to modeling in the first place)Any way life go’s on .no harm done and I am teaching my childern to paint properly when they model…Have fun…
I think one of my worst injurys happened about 25 years ago.It was one of the last kits I built as a child .I think it was a 1/48 scale p-51,well I know it was a p-51. However my injury was not physical .You see years ago paints were a bit more toxic then they are today and I was painting in a small bed room. I painted the poor thing three different layers of gloss paint .My guess is a record number of brain cells were lost that night.I was rescued by my brother .( who was the one who got me in to modeling in the first place)Any way life go’s on .no harm done and I am teaching my childern to paint properly when they model…Have fun…
here’s 2. Once while measuring a piece of bass wood, I let the tape slide back into the holder while controlling it’s speed with my thumb…well duuuhhhh…metal tape edges are sharp. Had a nice gash across my thumb tip.
the other was when I was cutting a piece of fiberglass for a 1/12 remote controlled phantom (scratch) and the mat knife slipped and cut my left index finger from the end knuckle back to the middle knuckle - and no, I did not go to the hospital. gronk uses fiberglass and masking tape bandage, after throwing up and dealing with mass quantity of blood.
pneumatic nailer:
My worst modeling wound is on modelling’s periphery but a modelling wound none the less. On easter day three years ago I was nailing together a stand for my water seperator and pressure regulator to go onto my work bench in the house. I was holding two pieces of wood together with my left hand with a pneumatic nailer loaded with 2 1/2 inch finish nails very close to my fingers. As I pulled the trigger the tip of the nailer slipped but the saftey catch stayed pushed down by the corner of the wood I was attempting to nail. A nail shot through the flesh of my left index and middle finger, but luckily missed the bone. Easter is a pretty slow day at the emergency room, so I got more than enough ammused attention.[B)]
worst accident came from a disc in my dremel tool, i was cutting a sheet of plastic to form a fender flair and buried the disc to the center of the arbour in my palm. no blood as it burned it’s way in. hurt like you know what after realizing what i had done.
My worst wound is my Dads. After college when I was living at home for a few years. I had an old jar of paint that I just could NOT get open. I asked my Dad if he had any ideas. He said “I’ll do it!” and proceeded to hold it and pry it with a wrench. It ended up shattering in his hand. He ended up having to get stiches.
Pretty much the same stuff for me, it all runs together after a while. Sort of a modeling delayed stress.
Molten metal blow back from a not thoroughly dried mold.
The usual close quarters #11blade knife fight.
Flash fire from open flame and turps.
The old Dremel sawblade running up your hand/in the lap/down your shirt.
Mom and Dad finding out I spilled paint on the carpet in my room. (I did it when I was 14 and 30 years later I still get ribbed at family dinners)
And I wanted a quiet hobby…
Mike