"I have bled for the cause!" Topic

I have shed my blood on the workbench. The tool slipped, and I have sacrificed my plasma for the greater wargaming cause.

The wound is slight, but I bear it with honor, knowing I am now the first nor the last to pass this way.

I will reconsider my ways, knowing it is my responsibility to wargame safely, yet I know that someday, somewhere, on some future workbench, I shall lay my blood down again.

This model is now bonded with me, and will perform valiantly on the day of battle.

Nothing like sealing the bond between gamer and mini with blood

Not that I planning on doing it!

Gonna give Bill a medal, the "Purple Paintbrush".

New, very sharp Exacto blades have a way of getting under my skin occasionally.

Of course, big-time, and still have the scar to prove it.

Lesson(s) learned on several occasions.

I find significant auto repair jobs require a blood sacrifice to the automotive god as well.

Been there, done that, got the tshirt.

I have also gotten some extremely painful paper cuts from RPG character sheets and play aids.

Yup. Xacto knives are always hazardous.

I don't think it is possible to be very active in this hobby and not shed a little of your own blood occasionally. I would say that I draw my own blood in some sort of hobby related accident about twice a year (and I am a very careful person). That said, I always wear some sore of eye protection any time there is a chance of eye damage. Slicing a finger is one thing, but damaging one's eye is an unacceptable risk.

Drop an Xacto and see how fast you legs go together to stop it…..with the subsequent blade stuck in your thigh.

Definitely. And I have used the byproduct of my carelessness at times to "touch up" some of my Zombie figures…for that "realistic" look! :-)

Men, I sliced the top of my thumb in half and drove myself to A&E holding it together where they glued it back together. I had foolishly used Gorilla glue to stick miniatures to painting sticks and was trying to pry them off with a craft knife!

Have managed to wound myself whilst playing, carelessly reaching down to pick up some figures including one with steel pin for the standard…ouch….

But by far the worst wound was a potato peeler, that I accidentally slipped within peeled off the tip of one of my fingers. Got patched up at a chemists, went to the supermarket where the patch fell apart and I bled on the floor… back to the nurses who took 30 minutes to re-do the patch.

I glue myself to things more than I cut myself.

I skewered my finger on an Argonaut 1250 scale destroyer mast. It went deep, but the pinwire used was so fine I never bled.

I have a 1cm round scar on the back of my right hand from a burn I suffered from cellophane that rolled into a candle while heat riveting the treads on a 1/35 scale MkIV.

I have contributed untold dermal layers to figures to whom I managed to CA glue myself.

I have suffered significant allergic reactions to spray paint propellants I tarried too long amidst.

I have suffered significant upper respiratory reactions to being too long in the company of heavy smokers at cons.

I regret none of it.

"Pain heals. Chicks dig scars. Glory… lasts forever."

Yep, scarred fingers and thumbs from bad knife work and sharp wire.

Still have a scar from time razor saw slipped – 50 years ago.

Also took pat in blood donation drives with gaming club – unfortunately can't nowądays – heart medicines

I have several 'Purple Paintbrush' awards already, and even ended up in casualty once with a badly lacerated thumb from converting a metal Wars of the Roses dismounted knight!

So what was the model?

Hot melt glue gun – napalm effect while stupid enough to be using the stuff while wearing shorts.

I have a scar between my right thumb and index finger, that I have had since 1970. I was trying to carve out a mortar pit from a piece of balsa for a Vietnam War riverine craft. Knife slipped and went right in!

Anytime you hook me up with an edged tool of nearly any type, blood is sure to flow.

I still have the scar from 50 or so years ago when I decided to attempt a major model aircraft conversion with a dull Scout knife; I learned two things that day:

1-- Use the right tool for the job, and
2-- A man's got to know his limitations.

2-- A man's got to know his limitations.

Got to luv Clint!