Awesome modelling injuries
Posted: Tue May 08, 2012 7:11 pm
There's times when I just need to call it quits for the day and today was one of them. I was making some mold plates so that I could copy one of my molds and was having an abnormally difficult time. First I dropped the lego box twice and it completely fell apart both times, then I couldn't get my pressure pot to seal. Somehow a chunk of resin got under the gasket ring and prevented it from sealing on two attempts, which caused the resin not to set right as it'd gone up to pressure twice but then de-aired.
Already frustrated I should have called it quits and just stopped but I decided to clean some caked on resin off one of the lego mold boxes with a square uility razor blade. Something slipped and the entire corner of the blade vanished on it's way through my left thumb. I only felt the bite at the very end so I knew it was pretty deep and there was a white line running from my fingertip all the way to the knuckle joint. White is always a bad sign as the circulation hasn't caught up yet.
I let out a Mother F***er! that would have done Samuel Jackson proud just before the side of my thumb exploded like a Toho movie samurai getting cleaved in half.
It's the first time I've ever cut myself deep enough to see blood actually spurt from a wound. Left a pretty nice trail behind me as I ran upstairs for the super glue and a towel. For extra gross factor I noticed my dog happily licking up the mess as I was busy squeezing my thumb back together.
Then I got to drive myself to the hospital at 1 am with a throbbing thumb that was slowly turning purple. That led to stitches, which of course feel awesome when you're cut to the bone.
It's my second worst hobby injury to date, and I probably won't be doing much moddeling work over the next couple of days. Somedays you just need to quit while you're ahead....
Already frustrated I should have called it quits and just stopped but I decided to clean some caked on resin off one of the lego mold boxes with a square uility razor blade. Something slipped and the entire corner of the blade vanished on it's way through my left thumb. I only felt the bite at the very end so I knew it was pretty deep and there was a white line running from my fingertip all the way to the knuckle joint. White is always a bad sign as the circulation hasn't caught up yet.
I let out a Mother F***er! that would have done Samuel Jackson proud just before the side of my thumb exploded like a Toho movie samurai getting cleaved in half.
It's the first time I've ever cut myself deep enough to see blood actually spurt from a wound. Left a pretty nice trail behind me as I ran upstairs for the super glue and a towel. For extra gross factor I noticed my dog happily licking up the mess as I was busy squeezing my thumb back together.
Then I got to drive myself to the hospital at 1 am with a throbbing thumb that was slowly turning purple. That led to stitches, which of course feel awesome when you're cut to the bone.
It's my second worst hobby injury to date, and I probably won't be doing much moddeling work over the next couple of days. Somedays you just need to quit while you're ahead....