Battle Wounds from modeling?

My worst experience didn't involve me, but my 2-year old daughter.  She wandered into the basement to see me work and in a flash managed to grab my extra thin CA, spilled a pool on the table and placed her hand in it.  In an instant she was stuck to my table screaming bloody murder.  The lesson here is never, EVER, take your eyes off a toddler.

Talk of rolling X-acto knives and modified roll-resistant ones reminded me that I do still keep one of the old style plain old uncolored aluminum ones.  I ordinarily use fancier ones for most things (but keep several on bench with various blades).  That X-acto knive, and the square bottled Testors paints go way back, over half a century to when I got my first gift of an X-acto knife set (when my folks felt I was old enough to safely use it), and the Square bottled paints to when I added plastic kits to the balsa ones (I started modeling in the balsa wood era).  Those knife handles and the square bottles show you CAN GO HOME AGAIN, at least for some things.  Oh, the nostalgia!

Worst thing I've ever had was a bottle of superglue spewing out all over my hand. Thankfully, I had the presence of mind to spread my fingers out, so nothing got glued together, but my hand got awfully warm, and it took a while for the glue to wear off my skin.

Well my battle wounds seem pretty minor compared to some of the stories! I've only cut my self with my knife twice. Of course I've super glued my fingers more then I can count.

Worst wound I got was while rebuilding a Panzer II when I was thirteen. For whatever reason the turret was stuck to the hull glue maybe? Anyway I ended up breaking the turret in half trying to to get it undone with some much pressure. No big deal keep working trying to loosen the other half of the turret. It comes unloose only one problem the tank is covered in red! A jagged piece of turret went straight into my thumb  I've never seen so much blood in my life. Patched it up but put me off from wanting modeling for a few days.

Everytime after I'm done working I always have glue and paint on my hands, fingers, arms.... Face... But a few times I get a small cut from my knife or sharp pieces of plastic. Once, I was trimming some plastic on a kit I was building, and the knife slipped and went straight into the fleshy bottom left portion of my left palm. It wasn't too too bad, definitely didn't require stiches, but it bled a bit... Once I almost cut the front segment, the Distal Phalanges, off. The blade cut down to the bone. My finger tip is still not straight, even 2 or more years after it happened.

thankfully, no self inflicted vasectomies listed  .....yet

I once had the knife roll off the desk....point down.......  Now I keep both feet firmly UNDER my chair!

As a former EMT, I knew what to do....once I regained conciousness....  Took my Household-6 to see me performing "bathroon surgery" on my in-grown toe nails to get me to a podiatrist that used lasers.  Those blasted 4 shots (anesthetic) per toe about did me in, though.

Never attempt to catch a falling X-acto knife, especially with a No. 11 blade mounted!  Now my round knife handles have the "press on" rubber erasers mounted so the knife won't roll.

After 50+ years of this hobby, I have had most of it happen to me.  X-acto cuts, Saw blade cuts, super glued fingers, glued to parts and or project.  I once had to replace the shop light above my work desk, hung it a little lower than the one I was used to.  After a session I stood up and crashed my head into the light and all came crashing down on my work desk and project, tools ect. Expensive project.  I have also dropped my X-acto into my lap, bounced off and landed blade first in my sock foot.  Feet bleed a lot.  Pulled a rattle can of paint from the cabinet in my utility room.  Pulled the nozzle for cleaning and for some reason paint started spraying everywhere.  By the time I got it outside I had silver hands, cabinet, washer, dryer, wall and floor.  Glad there was no wife cause I am sure my hobby would have ended that day.  Oh yes, lets not forget drilling a finger or two with a pin vise!   Other than those minor problems, I have had a great time in this hobby!

Those are some scary stories indeed. Makes a guy think, and hopefully slow down.

My return to the hobby has been relatively personal injury free, but a quick one to share....

Before my recent and first adventure with PE, had read how sharp the stuff is and was careful. The other day, having finished all the PE work I was going to do, I moved the leftovers and spare frets to their original packaging for spares storage.

Later realized I had a rather nasty paper-cut like cut on my finger. I guess all the warnings are right.

Not very exciting compared to the above tales, and I hope to keep it that way. Hope we all do, in fact.

Sliced a small patch of the epidermal layer off a digit; relatively minor compared to you guys.

Various cuts over the years.

Perhaps FSM should initiate a Purple Heart award for forum members.........

As a kid I did the fingertip thing.  Lately most of my wounds have been from dropping X-acto knife in my lap.  Have done the CA thing, of course, several times, gluing a finger to part of my face :-(  And yes, I have been hit in the eye with ends of clipped wires, but they either did not stick or hit the eyelid.  Couple of burns, too, from soldering iron or touching brass assembly- boy that stuff takes a long time to cool after soldering. I know dunk every assembly into the cup of water I keep on bench for wet sanding.

Those are some scary stories!!!

Over  the years I have cut myself too many times to count .  But the one "war wound " I remember most was the time I  was cutting a small piece of brass wire and the small cut part flew into my eye!  Took me 20 min and a pair of tweesers to get it out.

Doctors???   We dont need no stinking doctors!!!