Imperial Fists 5th Company Detachment: Hammer of Wrath

From the moment that I saw this model while cruising Forge World's website, I knew that I had to add it to my detachment force!  The model is just beastly (and is actually quite heavy).

This wasn't my first Forge World model but it certainly was the biggest one I have done.  I'm not kidding when I say you could hit someone with the model and probably do a lot of damage the thing is so solid and heavy. 

Being my first big model, I did a completely stupid thing....

And nearly took my thumbs off.  I was using a basic hobby knife to cut away the resin like you would with mold lines.  The sprues this thing comes on are huge and they didn't break cleanly when I removed each piece.  So I went to cutting and scraping and....

How I got both thumbs is the knife slipped off of the resin, across my left thumb (I was holding the piece in my left hand) and stopped just enough to allow my right thumb to go across the top of the blade.  What isn't shown is my palm which was also cut as I drew both hands back and the knife spun and cut my right palm as well.  I was out of the hobby game for a month before the thumbs healed sufficiently where I could hold something again! 

The offending piece

Once I was able to get back to working on the model, I removed the pieces from the sprue and then used a dremel to get rid of any extra resin (and wore a mask when doing so....safety first...wish I had practiced that before starting this thing!).

I finished the model and (still) really love it!  I haven't had a chance to use it in a game as of yet since my friend and I predominately play Space Hulk.  Once I finish my last couple of models of the detachment, I think we can get a game in and see how it goes.