Medicman71 wrote:I use super glue on cuts all the time! That's what they use in the ER for certain cuts that won't take stitches or staples well.
Except in the ER, they use a medical grade of CA. It's formulated differently than the CA we get at hobby shops. I had gone to the ER with a slashed finger and the nurse glued me together again. When I mentioned that several people suggested I do that back at the hall; she said that the CA I would have used would have caused more damage. She went on to tell me how many construction workers come in after gluing their wounds shut that they got on the job site because they were still in bad pain and the wound looked worse than when they got it.
Some of my essential tools:
Very fine-tipped tweezers like Docs use in hospitals.
-> Small hospital scissors for use on very small decals.
-> Flexible buffing pads of extremely fine grit for smoothing out my aircraft primer basecoats
-> Solvaset (the 'nuclear option') for those extremely difficult decals.
-> Mr. Surfacer 500
...and for those times I take my modeling to the Hall for St. Crispin's Irregular's Hobby Day for two days of almost uninterrupted building, there's this:
That's my tackle box I bought at Sports Chalet for holding everything I need (and more) for building models. It even has room for the tall bottles of supplies:
And there's plenty of room for everything else:
