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Close Calls: Life and death modelling

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  • Member since
    March 2007
  • From: Carmel, CA
Posted by bondoman on Thursday, September 22, 2011 7:32 PM

I was shooting a stainless steel .45 I used to own, at the range. Infernal gun. It jammed in half recoil, so while carfefully keeping the muzzle down range I grabbed the slide with my left hand and tried to force it back and forward. Then I noticed that my index finger was neatly curled over the end of the barrel.

Models wise probably with a knife, like you say. Burned my left forearm on a soldering iron on the bench.

One time at work back in the day, in the drafting room, I was drawing and smelled strong chemicals. I looked up and the guy whose desk faced mine back to back was cleaning his drafting surface with a rag and a can of acetone, with a cigarette hanging out of his mouth.

 

  • Member since
    January 2006
  • From: Earth
Close Calls: Life and death modelling
Posted by DiscoStu on Thursday, September 22, 2011 7:12 PM

So I'm cleaning my airbrush after a quick paint session.  I get to the stage where I blow back the air feed and a huge splash of paint shoots past my finger tip and splats right in my eyes.  After the initial shock and .7 seconds of fear that I'm blind, I'll never see my daughter grow up, I'll never get used to not having my sight and "Damnit! My wife spent a small fortune getting me lasik and this is what I do". I calmly walk to the sink and clean myself up.  No harm/no foul.  But it got me thinking about all the close calls I've had and how modelling should be considered a hazardous choice of hobby.  How many of us have come close to biting it "Final Destination"-style?

  • Exacto knife with brand new #11 blade slowly rolls off the bench and nicks your thigh when it was just a fraction of an angle off from embedding itself in your femeral artery.
  • Sat in a room building for 12 straight hours in enough chemicals, dust and solvents of various levels of toxicity to have your hobby room legally declared a haz-mat zone.
  • Trimming the burrs off some recently snipped sprue only to realize you've let the Exacto with the brand new #11 blade slit your thumb in twain.
  • Rummaged around the floor searching for that "Fiddly Bit" before the carpet monster devours it only to find your hand pushed neatly onto the dull #11 Exacto blade you just replaced and somehow dropped.
  • Releasing the pressure on a troublesome fuselage join only to realize that the super strong liquid CA superglue you resorted to using to "Teach this kit to mess with me" has backfired on you and you and the unpainted plastic are now one.
  • Your wife brings in a scented candle into your room to "Get rid of that chemical smell" only to ignite the FAE mixture of paints, thinners and glue and send the whole house 3 counties over.

So what are your close calls?

"Ahh the Luftwaffe. The Washington Generals of the History Channel" -Homer Simpson

  

 

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