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Other Stuff => Workbench => Topic started by: Heldrak on 28 November 2010, 04:01:51 PM
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Sliced myself good and proper attempting to cut a Heroclix Mr. Fantastic figure free from his clicky base, requiring a trip to the emergency room and four stitches :o
Behold the terror that is... FRANKENTHUMB!
(http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u219/Heldrak/Self/Photo23.jpg)
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Ouch! Why the splint? Cut tendon?
Commiserations. :'(
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Nah, tendons OK (fortunately). The splint is just there to keep it immobile and help keep the cut from reopening. I actually get to take it off today.
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We've all had our run ins with the hobby knife.
Brian
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Medical superglue is expensive...
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Medical superglue is expensive...
That's why I use cheap super glue to attach myself to figures they act both as a anti-slip guards and as a splint when you finally do slice your finger off. Very hard to pick your nose however!!
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Heal quickly my friend
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An impressive wound.
Hope you heal quickly, as painting and modelling (not to mention typing) with that on must suck!
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Ouch! I feel your pain and have felt it repeatedly building architectural models! :) I remember once I was using a cutting ruler and a scalpel cutting a 4mm thick cardboard. The scalpel jumped onto the metal edge of the ruler and onto my index finger slicing through it length-wise. For a while I was a 10 fingered man with 11 fingernails... Fun for the entire family.
Hope it mends well, Heldrak!
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That Which Doesn't Kill Us Makes us Stronger.
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That Which Doesn't Kill Us Makes us Stronger.
Still bloody hurts though lol
I got a plastic one that encompassed the whole thumb when I did mine. Four stitches is quite impressive though. I hope it mends well :)
cheers
James
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What you need for Christmas
http://www.weivo.com/meat-mincer/steel_mesh_gloves.htm
I just took a bunch of them off bases too only a slight stab i got off lucky
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I use clippers to gt mine off bases.............. 8)
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Ouch!
Much, much easier to do: Put them in the freezer overnight. The next day, they will snap off quite easily. Something to do with the chemical properties of the glue they use. Has never failed for me.
-Doc
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OMG! lol
Memories, I am thinking of the time I stabbed myself in the hand with a pocket knife I was using to finish removing some flash from an airplane model :D
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You'll mend soon enough! ;)
Did you have to explain how you did your injury in the hospital?
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Behold the terror that is... FRANKENTHUMB!
Well done! :-*
You have to try sinking the blade into your thigh... but I would let the thumb heal first. ;)
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Boys... Ask you mums to help you next time you use anything sharper than a spoon. ;)
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Boys... Ask you mums to help you next time you use anything sharper than a spoon. ;)
Hush you! lol
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That Which Doesn't Kill Us Makes us Stronger.
Yeah, but Neitze was a hypochondriac that never painted a figure in his life! lol
That looks a bad one, my own personal war story involves instinctively catching a dropped scalpel between my knees :(
I also unknowingly dropped an offcut of steel spear in a trainer, found it a day later when it went into my foot while in a restaurant :'(
Anyway, no pain no gain ;)
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Yeah, but Neitze was a hypochondriac that never painted a figure in his life! lol
That looks a bad one, my own personal war story involves instinctively catching a dropped scalpel between my knees :(
I also unknowingly dropped an offcut of steel spear in a trainer, found it a day later when it went into my foot while in a restaurant :'(
Anyway, no pain no gain ;)
Mine was grabbing the business end of a soldering iron.
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What you need for Christmas
http://www.weivo.com/meat-mincer/steel_mesh_gloves.htm
I just took a bunch of them off bases too only a slight stab i got off lucky
Thanks, I was thinking that I should invest in some kind of chainmail oyster-shucker's glove... ;)
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Youch! I can't say I've sustained any huge injuries from hobby tools... yet. Hope you get better soon! (And hopefully you didn't dribble any gore on to the package you're sending me ;))
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At camp one day (and there can be no good end for any story that begins this way) I was woodburning a project. I nicked my knuckle with the wood-burner, and of course I dropped it...on my leg.
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Youch! I can't say I've sustained any huge injuries from hobby tools... yet. Hope you get better soon! (And hopefully you didn't dribble any gore on to the package you're sending me ;))
No fear, your figures went out before "the incident" ;) I do find it is much, much harder to pack figures without the full use of both thumbs, though...! :(
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Still bloody hurts though lol
The trick is not minding that it hurts. ;)
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WOW, frankenthumb is scary :o .try cutting sprue into rubble with a medium size wire cutter and then finding out that your left middle finger is too close to the sprue! let me tell you it really throws cold water on the whole creative urge. :-X
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From the website "Learn From My Fail":
"When you knock a razor-sharp carving chisel off the benchtop, let it fall. Catching it turns out to be a bad idea..."
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Updated picture of Frankenthumb sans bandage here (not for the faint of heart or weak of stomach...):
http://s169.photobucket.com/albums/u219/Heldrak/Self/?action=view¤t=Photo25.jpg
Now you can see why I named it Frankenthumb...! :o
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Updated picture of Frankenthumb sans bandage here (not for the faint of heart or weak of stomach...):
http://s169.photobucket.com/albums/u219/Heldrak/Self/?action=view¤t=Photo25.jpg
Now you can see why I named it Frankenthumb...! :o
Jesus... I just felt my gonad retract up my abdomen. :?
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hum... i wonder how do you use the cutter.. o_o
i've sliced my thumbs manymany times, but.... that is a scar! now you're a veteran!
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That's gonna be a good one :)
Here's a picture of my zombie thumb after I had the thumb nail ripped out and 'almost' stitched back on again by a very pretty French doctor in Cannes a few yeas ago
http://s279.photobucket.com/albums/kk138/jimbibbly/?action=view¤t=n634397517_957283_1268.jpg (http://s279.photobucket.com/albums/kk138/jimbibbly/?action=view¤t=n634397517_957283_1268.jpg)
They were talking about it so much that the anesthetic wore off and I have to admit that it was one of the most painful things I've ever had done (they tried to stitch it back on through the side). The bloody thing fell of after a couple of weeks anyway ::)
cheers
James
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This is turning into one of those threads... lol
My toe looked a lot like Jim's thumb in the pic above a couple of months ago when I had an operation for an ingrowing nail. Hurt like hell and the podiatrist was flipping useless. They had to cut both sides due to his fiddling about where it wasn't necessary... I had a hernia fixed up at the same time.
No pics though... you don't want to know, seriously.
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lovely! :-*
by the way, even if i like the idea of a post where to post all the wounded thumbs, i suggest to change partially the name of the thread, at least with some [gore inside]!
i don't think that here on LAF there will be many children or faint of heart, but... who knows! ^^
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That's gonna be a good one :)
Here's a picture of my zombie thumb after I had the thumb nail ripped out and 'almost' stitched back on again by a very pretty French doctor in Cannes a few yeas ago
They were talking about it so much that the anesthetic wore off and I have to admit that it was one of the most painful things I've ever had done (they tried to stitch it back on through the side). The bloody thing fell of after a couple of weeks anyway ::)
cheers
James
Gah! :o
In deference to the more sensitive members of the forum, I suggest that you remove the in-topic picture of Zombie Thumbnail and just post a link (as I did with the more graphic photo of Frankenthumb) so that those forum members who like to peruse topics over breakfast don't receive a nasty shock...! ;)
Likewise any other posters who might like to share war stories of their injuries in this thread. If you have a graphic photo that folks might take exception to, please post a link (and a warning) rather than putting the photo up in-thread.
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Have done :D
cheers
James
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Updated picture of Frankenthumb sans bandage here
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Awesome!!!!!
Looks like it is mending quite well. ;)
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Awesome!!!!!
Looks like it is mending quite well. ;)
Thanks, I'm actually a very fast healer normally (usually I heal up like Wolverine slathered in Neosporin...!).
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Sorry for the threadomancy but I took up the challenge of horrible injuries and did my best... lol
Well, I can laugh about it now... Last week on Monday I was shacking some coconut milk over our sink vigorously, in which I had placed an open tin, lid still attached and propped up... Needless to say... My finger met the lid edge with a vengeance!
5 stitches and one course of antibiotics (got to the bone sadly) later I am looking forward to having my stitches removed next Monday and then taking a shower with two hands!!! Sadly I also haven't been able to paint.
EDIT: Here's a picture after the stitches and the tourniquet (just a link in case someone hates stitched flesh! :D)
http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa49/Histamenos/photo1.jpg
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Here's a picture of my zombie thumb after I had the thumb nail ripped out and 'almost' stitched back on again by a very pretty French doctor in Cannes a few yeas ago
Hadn't noticed this before :o
Love the color... well done!
Too bad you don't have a pic of the Doctor... ;)
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Here's a picture after the stitches
Excellent craftsmanship... what!
Gotta love nice clean stitches.... ;)
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Excellent craftsmanship... what!
Gotta love nice clean stitches.... ;)
I agree, I had some stiches on my chin and the man did a horrible job. Next time my girlfriend can do the job, she learned to stick the plastisurgic way, and she learned how to do it from a vet so she knows how to handle the hair!.
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this thread is turning into a great source of info references to paint zombis lol lol lol
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JESUS... I had missed the French doctor thumb thing! Yikes! o_o
Yeah, stitches and dressing afterward were absolutely ace. That's the QMC in Nottingham for you. The walk-in centre in town on the other hand did a horrible job at changing and re-dressing the finger. It took them an hour to get it right. I am glad they didn't stitch me up.
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Yeah, the annoying thing was I got a bill for 108 euros about eight months later ::)
cheers
James
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That's the positive side of the German health insurance. With it I am insured all over Europe. :)
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I feel for your pain gents, seems I've been mashing my fingers all week non-stop. Lovely burns, dremel gouges, mysterious macerations, and other interesting injuries. I don't know what little I've pissed off, but he's made sure to reduce me to the point where I don't have fingers to use so much as flippers to flap.