The Perils of Miniatures Gaming

Our family welcomed our latest edition two weeks ago, so I haven’t done much gaming recently. So unfortunately, no new battle reports at this time.

I did surprisingly have a little bit of free time this past weekend after the kids went to bed to work on a model that’s been sitting on my shelf for some time: a Sisters of Battle Repressor.

This model consists of a standard GW Rhino tank fitted with a Forge World resin kit. Nothing too complicated, right? This was my first experience working with Forge World bits and I’d heard a few bad things. However, the kit I received seemed to be just fine: no unsightly bubbles, no unsightly deformations.

Everything was going quite smoothly until I discovered that the elevated crew compartment didn’t fit quite right on the top of the Rhino. The problem wasn’t with the Forge World resin compartment, it was the Rhino itself. Some of the raised texture details on the rear top of the vehicle were sticking up a bit too much.

I thought, well I can just mangle this thing with my clippers or try to finesse it with the hobby knife. In opted for the finesse. Bad choice.

One slip and the blade drove deep into my right thumb. It didn’t really hurt, but the blood came gushing out. I tried to apply direct pressure to stop the bleeding, to no avail. After several attempts at bandaging the wound failed, I wound up driving myself to the emergency room.

Two hours, three stitches and a tetanus shot later, I was on my way home. While I was cleaning up the mess on the table, I thought to myself “you know, those space marines really are blood red.”