So I don’t know if anyone’s asked this before but I woke up this morning and thought it would be fun to share stories of your best/funniest/most gruesome modeling injury.
So my most painful happened about 3 years ago. I was working on a little kit of two french tanks that came with a little street scene. I can’t find the box right now so I don’t have more info on it. I was trimming the little nub of sprue off of a piece and suddenly my eye hurt really bad. I thought I’d gotten an eyelash in it so I blinked a few times and tried to keep working, but the blinking made it hurt worse. I was kinda panicky at this point and went to the bathroom mirror. My girlfriend came to help and after prying up my eyelid said there’s something green in your eye. It was the big piece of sprue! She was able to pull it out and luckily I didn’t scratch anything. I haven’t worked on the kit since. I’m kinda scared of it.
Aside from the normal finger tip slices that come with this hobby, the fact that I pass out if I cut a fingertip is pretty embarassing[+o(]. I don’t have a problem with seeing my own blood (seen lots of it!), it’s the feeling of seperation inside my finger that does me in. I’ve gashed open arms, legs, my side…no problem…little sliced finger…I’m out…retarted!!!
The worst was when my knife rolled off the desk, straight down, right between the bones in my foot…the full length of the blade. Going in was fine, pulling it out sucked. So, a piece of sprue was taped to the knife handle, so it couldn’t roll again.
OMG fermis. I had one roll off the desk and land right next to my foot. It sank into my chair mat on the floor and freaked me out. I’m still too lazy to fix it though.
(A) FSM has shown various ways to improve hobby knife safety from time to time. Triangle grips (cut down to ½-inch thickness) are my favorite:
(B) Liquid vitamin E (far more concentrated than what one gets in a supplement) can help your body repair scar tissues. It works best when used in massage. I’ve done professional massage, and vitamin E has erased all the scars in my palms.
Got a drop of glue in my eye. Woke up in the morning with a pea size white spot on my eye. Hurt bad. Went to the doctor he said I had an ulcer. That glue did some damage. I had to use ointment (yup, in my eye) and take oral meds for two weeks. Plus I had to go back to the doctor every 3 days. He said if the ulcer kept getting worse, I would need surgery to repair my cornea. That experience scared the heck out me. I now model wearing eye protection. No joke…
I dropped a sprue cutter while at the work desk. It was “jaws open”. I quick snatched it out of the air before it hit the floor. I’m quick like a cat you know, and to grab the falling object is instinct. Bad news was one of the jaws sunk well into my thumb. I was quite surprised how sharp that little sumbitch was. Hurt big, bled lots. Fermis you should have felt that separation of tissue inside my thumb. Hey, a little clean up and a band aid and I was back at the Spitfire. We’re modelers and we’re tough. Excuse me now, I’m feeling a little queezy. Rick.
While working on an vac formed X-Wing pilots helmet (1-1 scale) I was scribing the Mohawk to remove some material and slipped off the curved edge into my leg with the xacto blade.
Did the whole Young Frankenstein thing.
Made moving around quite painful for a couple weeks especially getting in and out of the car.
If you’re serious, hie thee to an apothecary. You want the stuff that’s thicker than congealing Future, say 30,000 i.u., roughly 1,000 minimum daily requirement. The downsides are that (1) this is NOT a rub-in-one-and-done fix — it takes substantial TIME to massage the vitamin E into your skin, plus you leave it on overnight, several times a week, over a course of months — and (2) your palms (and soles of your feet) are the thickest parts of your epidermis — it also takes serious effort to WORK that vitamin E into your hide. Warning: Don’t get this stuff in any cuts or in your eyes! It stings like a [dinkywongo]!
This isn’t my best but someone I worked with. This guy was blind in one eye. While building a R/C plane, he got ca in his good eye TWICE in the span of 24 hrs. He finished the plane, only to crash it in a tree on its second flight.
I stabbed myself in the left cheek of my azz with my knife…
I was working on some small items while sittin’ on the couch watching TV, set the knife on the cushion next to me, forgot it was there, and slid over to get a better angle on the TV…
