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Modelling related injuries?
Topic Started: Oct 1 2017, 08:57 AM (516 Views)
jvenables
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Hawk
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I awoke this morning feeling extremely dizzy and it took almost a half day for that dizziness to fade. It is the first time I have ever experienced anything like that. Nothing in my diet or lifestyle has changed, I had no alcohol last night and I'm not on medication. The only thing I could put it down to was working on a model for a while last night in a closed room - maybe too big a dose of Revell Contacta fumes and/or CA fumes (or a mixture of both).

Whatever the reason, it had me thinking... has anyone ever suffered (or heard of) any modelling-related injuries aside from the usual No.11 stab wounds and CA'd fingers?

James from Brisbane, Australia
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Dave Fleming
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Geoff Prentice, who wrote the Icarus column in Scale Models in the 70/80/90s thought his lung cancer was caused by modelling, as it was of a type usually seen in workers who worked in the chemical industries (He was an office worker).
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Dave Fleming,Oct 1 2017
05:41 AM
Geoof Prentice, who wrote the Icarus column in Scale Models in the 70/80/90s thought his lung cancer was caused by modelling, as it was of a type usually seen in workers who worked in the chemical industries (He was an office worker).

That is truly sad if that's the case Dave.

Warren
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John Thompson
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Dave Fleming,Oct 1 2017
11:41 AM
Geoof Prentice, who wrote the Icarus column in Scale Models in the 70/80/90s thought his lung cancer was caused by modelling, as it was of a type usually seen in workers who worked in the chemical industries (He was an office worker).

I still remember his last column before he left Scale Models magazine - it was certainly something to make you think, alright.

John
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woody
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I believe I have gotten sick from urethane resin fumes at times, but it was always while I was using it, not the next day. I don't know how old you are, but it could also be a sign of aging, possibly low blood pressure.
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Chuck1945
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Do X-Acto cuts qualify? :P

Geoff gave a presentation at the first IPMS Nationals I ever attended, I had always enjoyed his Icarus column, and I think it was shortly after that when he stopped the column. That was part of the impetus that drove me to a switch to Polly Scale paints.

The only real reaction I have fortunately suffered from modelling was when I was still wearing soft contact lenses and used stuff like enamel thinners and DiSol indoors. Even some some liquid glue fumes would affect the lenses making my eyes sting.
Chuck
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J.C. Bahr
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Had Polly S RLM 75 explode out the breather hole of the top of my Badger air-brush bottle (not sure how that happened... some sort of back-pressure at work)... but just happened to have my mouth partly open at the time and guess where the paint WENT? Yep, didn't taste too good! Just glad it was water soluble acrylic and not an enamel or lacquer!

Also had liquid CA glue somehow explode on me and a small bit went into one of my eyes... and oooh did it burn like a SOB!!!!

Lots of cuts/gouges, but none as bad as my years working in wood shop in high school! Amazed I still have all 10 fingers! Lot of battle scars all over them though.
J.C. Bahr

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Aaron_w
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The only experience I have had that resembles yours, was when a friend and myself went scrounging for supplies. We had paint but no thinner. His grandfather had been an artist (oil paints) and when he passed some of his supplies ended up in the basement of my friends house.

Not knowing any better we used some gum turpentine we found (thinner is thinner right? :P ).

It was not a warm day so we had the windows closed up. It wasn't terribly obvious while we were sitting at the table, but when we headed upstairs for lunch we were pretty tipsy. We had quite the headache afterwards too.

I can't imagine what glue sniffers and paint huffers get out of that, it was a pretty awful experience in my opinion.


I think that experience was partially responsible for my switch to acrylics a few years later when I was starting over.
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Aaron_w
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I have noticed that as a group modelers seem to have more health issues than other hobbies I am involved with.

That could very well be due to the higher average age, and it may just be an attractive hobby for those who have pre-existing physical limitations, but it does make one think sometimes.

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"Also had liquid CA glue somehow explode on me and a small bit went into one of my eyes... and oooh did it burn like a SOB!!!!"
Yeah JC, I too found that CA in the eye does indeed sting a bit. 3AM, home alone, blind, and in pain......thinking now WTF do I do?
Good times
Wayne Brinker, Langley B.C.
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Dave Fleming
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In terms of knife wounds, I've had the usual cut fingers, and sudden jumps backwards when I've dropped one, but my most unusual was when I stabbed myself in the ear by absentmindedly scratching my head whilst holding one of Swann Morton's finest.
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I've slashed myself a hundred different ways with an Xacto, but never had any sort of reaction to the lacquer and enamel paints that I've used since 1985. I do use a respirator most of the time, which (I hope) mitigates the long term consequences.
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dknights
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Get thee to your GP. I would not think your symptoms are modeling related, but don't ignore them. Could be simple dehydration, could be early signs of a number of things. Better safe than sorry. A check up is in order.

As for me I still use enamels and lacquers. I have a spray booth but don't really worry about fumes much as I don't paint for long enough to build much up in the way of fumes.

Now, don't get superglue on your skin and then spray accelerator on it. The exothermic reaction is a b*tch. Burned a blister on my skin you wouldn't believe.

As for modelers here in the US, the biggest problem I've noticed is excess weight. We aren't helping ourselves. We need to exercise and eat better.
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J.C. Bahr
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tigermoth,Oct 1 2017
01:39 PM
Yeah JC, I too found that CA in the eye does indeed sting a bit. 3AM, home alone, blind, and in pain......thinking now WTF do I do?
Good times

LOL! My incident happened when I was still living with my parents in my basement workshop and as soon as it happened, my thought was: "This is going to be fun explaining to the 'rents!" :lol:
J.C. Bahr

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jvenables
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I remember years ago reading a little story told by a modeller who accidentally knocked an open bottle of thin CA into his lap. It read like a comedy of errors but the mental image of shorts stuck to private parts and those tender private parts stuck to eachother took away the humour!!!
James from Brisbane, Australia
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