Ok thank you I will need those. I have got many cuts and glued my fingers by accident many times. once with krazy glue that stuff works well at sticking I had to put my blade in between my fingers and it came off. It glues so fast too, under 10 seconds.
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Kirkland brand gives you the most āGloves for the buck.ā But do shop around for whatever brand you want and the shipping dateā¦many brands to choose from.
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Ok, thanks for the advice!
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I do have one thing on my mind that has been nagging at me. How do I preshade? Since Iām good at airbrushing.
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I had a scary almost cut moment my hobby knife rolled off the table and I almost did the reactionary leg flinch to catch it then remembered what was falling and just let it go. I donāt want to make the news for cutting my femoral artery in that manor.
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Thats happened a couple time to me. i cut my hand up doing that. learned my lesson
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You add a primer and/or secondary color to the model and then your top coat color.
Might look like a white/grey primer base coat, a black/dark color for the panel line/recessed area, then a thinned top coat of olive drab for instance.
The thinned coats allow the base/recess color to āchangeā the appearance of the top coat. You donāt get a single uniform color look across the model. It has variation.
You can also post shade by making the top coat color lighter and only spraying in the center of a panel.
Then add washes etc to tie it all together.
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ok, thank you!
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Yeah, absolutely who knew? Iāll see your multiple scars and raise youā¦
That was from a brand new blade 30 seconds old, but I was so glad I avoided slicing through a glove 
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Ouch. Thatās what my original cut looked like from thirty years ago. I was slicing a brake detail off of a loocomotive with a chisel blade. It went throught the body of the loco, and all the way into my finger. I held it above my heart while squeezing the hell out of it for about half an hour, and then glued it shut with CA. Could have ben worse, but it still has a weird numbness sometimes to this day.
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Amazon sells cut-resistant gloves. I never bought any because I seldom use a hobby knife these days since I work with resin and often use a razor saw underwater.
Many cut-resistant gloves to choose from. I guess it all depends on how āAccident proneā you are since the cut protection levels vary from Level 5 to Level 9, and theyāre not that expensive. Some of them probably wonāt stop a knife poke, but theyāll most likely stop a cut if the weave is tight enough.
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Those gloves look like butchers gloves
Maybe just a tad clumsy for modeling ā¦
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Who says modellers donāt have first aid equipment on hand 100% of the time.
At the cottage and home I always have a bottle of Gorilla CA glue and quick-clot on hand for cuts. I once had get 5 stitches in my finger while cleaning the kitchen mandolin blade. I used cut resistant gloves while using the mandolin, but who would have thought to use the gloves while washing the blade, dāoh!
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Likewise ouch & numbness ā and likewise clamped it with other hand for 30 mins. Added problem was my haemophobia, so everything went dark, cold sweat, luckily wife was present to stop me passing out. Quite a sight, head between legs & arm in Hitler salute. Wish Iād remembered the CA fix, better than stitches?
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Well itās certainly better than giving them to yourself. 
CA works extremely well. While it was not originally designed to, it was used extensively during the Vietnam War to close wounds. Just donāt use accelerator. I learned that the first time I used itā¦
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