[unofficial weekender] Forum is on fire

[sundancer 42900xp 1]

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First time visitor to OTT? Then please introduce yourself in the New Member Thread and look around in the Project System. Then come back and read on…

Read all of this before you start as it will save any trouble later.

First thing you must do is make your “pledge”. It can be anything gaming related, big or small, and you don’t even have to finish it. No, in here, happiness is the road. Have fun doing whatever it is, but it is not a race. Accompany your work with pictures or we might think you are do something sinister and just using us for cover.

You are also presented with a few questions. It is to get the conversation started. Try and keep your answers ‘conversational’, no text speak, and certainly no “basically”. This is how we all get to know each other better. While you are here feel free to tell us a story, show a picture, joke, tales of love or woe, or just add your own little bit. This is the whole point…in here it is just us.

If you have never taken part before we may bark and bite, but we also like a cuddle! It is all done in the best possible taste and it is character building. feel free to give as good as you get.

A few other things to note: NO RELIGION & NO POLITICS! Glasgow pub rules are in effect. If you need to make a better point then it is fine, but don’t take the piss. And always keep it civil.

Play plenty of music to go with your work. Loud and through proper speakers. Write us a playlist of things we might not have heard before.

Now, after all of that there is only one ‘real’ rule in here and it cannot be broken: NO DICKS! (Exceptions may be made for little fighting men with little plastic/resin/metal wieners)

And don’t forget the highlights of the weekend: The Weekender on Friday and XLBS on Sunday. And the little show that is the unofficial Hobby Hangout over at twitch.tv

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Questions:

• Injuries: what was the worst injury you inflicted on yourself whilst working on anything hobby related?
• What advice on safety do you wish someone had told you before you started the hobby?
• Coffee: yes please or are you a heretic?

Discuss!

[sundancer 42900xp 2]

Pledge: not fall asleep on the keboard

• Since I mostly to painting and miniatures with only a bit of building… I think the worst I had was a small cut with a hobby knife. Or I am just good at handling tools. (Then again I broke my phone trying to take a picture of a table WIP)
• The thing about not mixing hot clue and superglue (thanks Mel for that in your book). That sounds *really* scary.
• Yes, thank you.

And now off doing the household stuff… dishes, clothes etc.

[danlee 22433xp 3]

This week’s pledge is to hammer out a load of the terrain crate scatter terrain.

A combination of the cold weather preventing undercoating (my excuse) and discovery of the PC game RimWorld (the real reason) stopped me doing any hobby last week. Last night while watching the weekender I forced myself to start painting the scatter terrain and I remembered how good it feels to see something progress on your painting table. I’ll be trying to get back into paint a bit each day routine again.

 

1. Injuries: what was the worst injury you inflicted on yourself whilst working on anything hobby related? – a little cut with a hobby knife is as bad as I’ve had.
2. What advice on safety do you wish someone had told you before you started the hobby? – hobby knifes are rarely needed. Good clippers and a mould line remover do over 95% of the work and are much harder to hurt yourself with.
3. Coffee: yes please or are you a heretic? – Heretic. I never could get used to the taste of tea or coffee. I’ve always stuck with water or juice.

[sundancer 42900xp 1]

Rim World? You’re late to the party 😉 That game is really a time eater XD And it keeps getting better

[timchubbKeymaster 3166xp 2]

1. Many injuries Slipped with a Stanley blade buried in my palm cut a nerve now have very little sensation in left little finger.
Whilst drunk I fell onto a tray of 40k 2nd Ed gretchin trip to a+e to have one removed from shoulder pointy bloody hats!
Epoxyied hand to desk
Knife rolled off desk landed point down in thigh
Passed out from fumes and inadequet ventillation

But the all time worst is a splinter from a bamboo skewer under my thumbnail, which got infected not only was the splinter agony but the infection was grim and couldn’t use my thumb for a week or two

2. I actually have an artical drafted for the site on this topic!
So tldr preview is:
Buy a mini sharps bin from amazon, put all ur old blades in it, if you have kids you won’t panic (that they will hurt themselves, you will panic for your minis) if they are in your hobby space, you won’t find your binbag lacerated when you take bins out

Get a magnetic parts tray and put your tools on it so they don’t roll off work area

Ventilation, by the time you notice the headache it’s too late

Cut away from your self

Snips and embroidery scissors are much safer than knifes and do a better job for most assembly tasks

Keep the lids on your glues

Wear a face mask if you sand anything especially resin, most dusts are carcinogenic if you breath them in.

Loads more but they are top tips in my book

3. Blacker than priest socks, stronger than iron

Building gundam this weekend, kids stuck inside so no glue fumes it’s all push fit and just need snips and wet and dry sandpaper (use wet reduces dust getting airborne)

[timchubbKeymaster 3166xp 0]

Superglue by a radiator is worse than hot glue, situational awareness ftw

[timchubbKeymaster 3166xp 0]

If you superglue your self to anything naphtha is the main ingredient in debonder, so have a can of zippo or bbq lighter fluid to hand, also good for rescuing ebay minis just test on spare sprue if using on resin some just melt

[sundancer 42900xp 0]

@timchubb  you sure you want to stay in the hobby? Man, that list of injuries XD Is there anyone on here (except @warzan ) that has a worse track record? XD

[timchubbKeymaster 3166xp 0]

@sundancer that’s about 30 years worth of learning experiences 😉 so on average its *only* one every 5 years :p

[sundancer 42900xp 0]

I’m roughly 25 years in and have not nearly anything that severe XD

[horus500 11505xp 2]

When I was a teenager I was cutting some baslawood with a hobby knife, slipped and stabbed myself in the thigh.

My advice on stafety is that it’s better to do things slowly and properly than fast and cut corners.

I never drink more than 1 weak coffee per day. I’ve tried to be a coffee drinker for years but it makes my heart race and has a diuretic effect on me. I’ve had to hide this fact for fear of being the laughing stock of the worldwide law-enforcemnet community.

[sundancer 42900xp 2]

“See him? That’s the cop that can’t take a coffee…. how does he eat his doughnut?”  XD

[scribbs 14506xp 1]

• Injuries: what was the worst injury you inflicted on yourself whilst working on anything hobby related? Just the odd nick with a hobby knife, nothing very serious at all.
• What advice on safety do you wish someone had told you before you started the hobby? I think @timchubb has written up a good list!
• Coffee: yes please or are you a heretic? Yes please!

I’ve got a few 28mmm Vikings undercoated this morning, so my pledge is to work on those this week. Depending on how I get on, maybe I’ll prep some more Napoleonics.

[crazyredcoatParticipant 13642xp 1]

Hello, all! Work continues on the banner of my Lannister. It’s coming along quite nicely and with Reading Week finally here he might be finished in the next day or so! Still have some assignments to work on…and by the looks of things some computer checks (my fan is super loud and my browser is crapping out every 20 seconds while typing this…), but I have a bit more time this week.

Injuries: what was the worst injury you inflicted on yourself whilst working on anything hobby related?

Hobby related? Probably a cut on my thumb; I do that a lot. It usually isn’t a problem until I get some salt on my thumb, then it hurts. I cause much more damage outside of hobby time! 😛

What advice on safety do you wish someone had told you before you started the hobby?

Don’t drink the paint? I don’t know; it was a while ago. I started with Airfix kits as a child with humbrol enamel paints with the tiny mini paint tins where you needed a screwdriver to get the lid off. Those were the days…

Coffee: yes please or are you a heretic?

Heretic. I don’t drink coffee at all. Back in the Better Times before The Event it always amused me when I’d go out for a coffee with friends and never drink any coffee. I’m easily amused…

[timchubbKeymaster 3166xp 1]

Just remembered another hobby trip to a+e gave my self a corneal abrasion from getting a tiny sliver of plastic in my eye, must have rubbed my face and got some ditritus from my cutting mat on it, any way clear plastic is hard for them to spot and you have to have your eyeball died for them to spot it, on the plus side I thought the eyepatch I had to wear was badass…

Was lucky though they managed to remove it by flushing, otherwise would have needed injections in the eye, I’m OK with needles but draw the line at that!

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