"Hurts So Good?" Topic

I don't know about you, but I tear up my hands in the process of building and modding. So, how often does The Hobby(TM) leave you with noticeable cuts, abrasions, gashes, stains, patches of missing skin, crushed nails, etc?

Never
Infrequent and Minor (nobody notices)
Hidden (I have callused and scarred hands from something else)
Occasionally
All the Time, but Minor Things (people rarely notice)
All the Time
I am a Walking Scar

I am an "Occasionally".

Another occasionally, maybe we should start a club.

All the time.

Mostly I glue my fingers together.

Occasionally, though rarer now, due to previous experience, which is an excellent teacher.

Infrequent and minor.

Occasionally, though rarer now, due to previous experience, which is an excellent teacher

Maybe I should contract out to your experience and fire mine! :)

I carve hills and terrain with those skinny "clickable" blades and, as many times as I advise people not to cut towards themselves, I don't follow my own advice, with the resulting punctures.

Infrequent and minor, though I'm developing a really annoying habit of dropping things. Try to gently hold something I'm painting and next thing I know it is on the floor.

Glued fingers and stabbing myself with North Star pikes and spears are the only ones I seem to get.

Once in a while. The worst being the "slip" with an Xacto knife while converting a Grant Tank. Stiches etc.

Very infrequently. In fact, I can't remember the last time.

6 years ago the exacto knife slipped and I sliced deep the middle finger on my left hand between the flesh and the nail. It still isn't right… I'm starting to think it may be permanent!

Main thing that causes casualties is rebasing figures. That's why I have given up rebasing for the most part.

Tipped over the superglue and bonded my willy to my thigh once.

If it can be counted as a self inflicted injury I used to get sky-high back in the day I was using enamels and white spirits. A hot day and a long painting session was tantamount to solvent abuse. Thank god for acrylics.

I think my choice of colours was a bit more adventurous back then though. :)

Basically never.

Drop stuff? More than I like and yes it is frequent enough to talk to Doc…

Cut myself is infrequent but not so minor as I would like the past two years… Impaled my right thumb tip awhile back when home alone and I shudder now with the image in my mind. No choice but to carefully pull it straight away from the end of the phalange and stop the bleeding.

Occasionally. X-ACTO knives are the main culprit.

Every time I replace a blade.

My hands are all scarred, and callused, so little pain. Lots of bleeding tho. Keep a handy supply of band aids with hobby tools.

Infrequent and minor.

I checked with my wife, she says I am a "never."

I seem to have a knack for avoiding blades and nasty cuts and yet I do all the wrong things like cutting towards myself etc.

Minor,mainly with the super glue,but I've used a shaving razor to gently get the dried glue off of my finger.

@ Old Wolfman
Human saliva is a natural solvent for superglue, so suck your finger for a bit (once it's set), then you can peel it off with your teeth

So far I've lost:

5 legs, 53 fingers, 2 heads, 4 arms, one liver and 1 toe.

Lukily I'm friends witha certain "Mr" Frankenstein.

That occasional prick or slice of my fingertip with the x-acto knife when trimming metal miniatures. Ouch! These take forever to heal, too.

I know and they bleed like crazy. Usually not that much pain, just annoying.