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For others who use hypodermic needles to apply glue, CA accelerator, etc..  Where do you buy just a couple of needles?  Specifically 28 - 32 gauge needles.  I looked on eBay and you can get them there but the smallest quantity is like 100, don't quite need that many.  Any ideas or sources?  (Don't know anyone who injects insulin.)

We know that issue 175 is out and about in the hands of happy Styrene Addicts!! 

So the question is who's labor of love is in the 2013 Contest Issue?  There are some real beautiful models in there, nearly all of them that would make any builder proud to have their name attached to it.  Just a flip through and I see a few familiar names from here!

Here's your chance to let every one know you are famous in print!!  Way to go lots of eye candy, lets hear who made it!

Please don't combine this with the other issue 175 thread, the intent here is not to let everyone know who got their magazine on time.  It is to recognize individuals for their amazing works of art.

This is sort of a spin-off of Derick's "This years Darwin Award goes out to..."  Hopefully we can humor his injured digit back to full function with a few laughs at our own expense.  We've all done something really stupid, so let's hear about it.

I've got two to start off with.

First, I was using a Dremel "slit saw" in the flex shaft (no guard of any kind) cutting into a chunk of aluminum. Next thing I know there is a redish spray and a slight pain to the tip of my left ring finger.  I quickly shut the Dremel off, examined my finger which is split open from the tip through the nail to the nail bed, not bleeding yet!   My wife came to see what all the four letter adjectives, asking if she should look or not, "no just get the car out of the garage so you can take me to the ER".   The Doctor thought that this was a very humorous injury, even calling another Doc over to look at it.  The nurse throually enjoyed scrubbing it out with a "wire" brush as the feeling had now come back with a vengence!  I was told that they didn't stitch up these type of wounds anymore they just superglue them together.  They even gave me a couple of tubes so if things opened up again, I still have one in the garage and the other in the hobby room!  Finger healed up nicely, it was more embarrassing than anything.  Lesson learned, just use a razor saw, as in the right tool for the job.

Second,  While sitting at the drawing table that I was using to build on at the time an exacto knife went rolling down the table top between my knees.  Now I knew better than grabbbin the thing with my hands, I might get cut!  Without a thought as the flying exacto was dead center between my legs, I quickly brought them together, with enough force to impale myself halfway up the knurled tightening ring!!  Hole in jeans and leg, oops!  Worst of all hole in flesh is squirting blood, just barely knicked an artery!  Again ask the wife to get the car out so we can go to the ER.  Evidently the Doc felt compassion or just didn't want to get blood everywhere and got me sewed up quickly!  I was lucky that the cut to the artery was small otherwise they would have had to do it in surgery.   Two lessons learned.  First - if an exacto knife becomes airborne get out of the way and let it fall.  Two - feminine hygene products are good for more than their intended use, don't be embarrassed to use what you gotta use!!

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OK, now that I've got your attention!  When you post a picture what size do you post it so that it is bigger than a medium sized thumbnail picture like the ones I always get. I've tried messing around with the pixel counts but don't want to get something that is so huge that it takes up a whole screen, the one above is 800 X 597.     Some of you guys get a really good sized picture in your posts.  What's the trick for the rest of us "Image Post Challenged" users?  Help please...

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Occasionally I use liquid cement to glue butt joints or panels I have a dedicated cheap paint brush for this purpose that I've marked with tape to keep seperated from my other cheap brushes used for paint.  It keeps the little bits of melted plastic out of the paint both on the model but in the paint container itself.