Syringes, where to find?

ive gotten mine at walmart, cvs and walgreens. you simply tell them that its for a hobby and fill out the log book. ive gotten about 4-5  this way at about .25 per. that reminds me i have to get some more for my p47 for doogs GB!

ahh that would explain the weird looks

Avoid the hassles and pick up some tubing from Albion Alloys (available at Sprue Brothers in the US).

Tubing Conversion Chart

Hawkeye- YES!!   Thanks.

You can also try stretching Q-Tip handles like sprue...  The tube will retain it's "hollowness" even after stretching (although it'll take a little practice at first).  It will curve a bit though,  in lengths longer than a 1/4-inch or so, but inserting a piece of wire, like from a twist-tie, will prevent that...  After all, all that's needed is for the last milimeter to be "hollow"...

For larger barrels, around a scale .50 cal and 20-30mm blast-tubes (ala' P-47 and/or MiG 15/17), Evergreen Styrene-coated wire works really well, and is far cheaper than metal.  Just cut the styrene with a razor-knife and pull the wire out a bit.  Plus, it works great for scratch-building boarding ladders and scaffolds, because it's styrene-coated and regular model-cement works on it, so you needn't be proficient with a soldering pen, heat-sinks, and flux...

Here's an example of Evergreen blast-tubes on my Monogram F4F WIP:

A little Steel paint, then a tiny drop of black wash for depth, and yer done...  Also, it works well for adding the angled,  muzzle-end blast-tubes seen on B-26 and B-17 tailguns, as well as B-17 chin-turrets.

(BTW.... Nothing wrong with your monitor's color-management... That's a US Navy CPO/pilot I'm painting there... I'm trying to depict one of the "Flying Chiefs of Fighting Two" (VF-2 "Rippers") from the U.S.S. Lexington... Not enough "contrast" between the summer flightsuits and a Chief's Khaki uniform, so I'm employing a bit of artistic license with the dungarees...

http://www.docstoc.com/docs/11038233/Scale-Gun-Barrel-Chart

Here's a chart to go with the site that Hawkeye gave you. Hope it helps you.

Jim

Hans von Hammer

Here's an example of Evergreen blast-tubes on my Monogram F4F WIP:

A little Steel paint, then a tiny drop of black wash for depth, and yer done...  Also, it works well for adding the angled,  muzzle-end blast-tubes seen on B-26 and B-17 tailguns, as well as B-17 chin-turrets.

(BTW.... Nothing wrong with your monitor's color-management... That's a US Navy CPO/pilot I'm painting there... I'm trying to depict one of the "Flying Chiefs of Fighting Two" (VF-2 "Rippers") from the U.S.S. Lexington... Not enough "contrast" between the summer flightsuits and a Chief's Khaki uniform, so I'm employing a bit of artistic license with the dungarees...

Good idea about that styrene coated wire.

Hmm..........That US Navy CPO/pilot looks a bit like you, Hans.

Sprue-ce Goose

Hans von Hammer:

Here's an example of Evergreen blast-tubes on my Monogram F4F WIP:

A little Steel paint, then a tiny drop of black wash for depth, and yer done...  Also, it works well for adding the angled,  muzzle-end blast-tubes seen on B-26 and B-17 tailguns, as well as B-17 chin-turrets.

(BTW.... Nothing wrong with your monitor's color-management... That's a US Navy CPO/pilot I'm painting there... I'm trying to depict one of the "Flying Chiefs of Fighting Two" (VF-2 "Rippers") from the U.S.S. Lexington... Not enough "contrast" between the summer flightsuits and a Chief's Khaki uniform, so I'm employing a bit of artistic license with the dungarees...

 

Good idea about that styrene coated wire.

Hmm..........That US Navy CPO/pilot looks a bit like you, Hans.

...paint those pants a nice pink tone and then it will look like someone else we all know.....

That US Navy CPO/pilot looks a bit like you, Hans.

I'd never wear a little "Boston Blackie " mustache, lol..

Heh.. Mine was the bane of many a First Sergeant and Command Sergeant Major while I was still in the Army...  I kinda went "AR670 Dash Hammer" with "facial hair"... 

I tried to paint a period mustache on the Chief there, one that fell within Navy Regs but was still "1940s"...  It ended up getting turned into a "Joe Foss at Cactus" goatee... 

Hans, by heat stretching it, how thin can you get that Q-Tip-type tubing?  Can you get the interior diameter to appreciably decrease, or does the plastic wall itself just get really thin while the inner diameter remains more or less the same?

Yeah, the inside diameter decreases as you pull...  I can get down to about a scale .30 cal, but it's really, really thin then, and needs wire inserted..  Remember, it's more like vinyl than styrene..

One other O/T thing about that figure... It's a resin copy of the Monogram TBD pilot...

Dre

So, if I wanted to try and use some medical syringes for gun barrels where do I find them?

I just had the occasion to be at a pharmacy and asked them about it and all I got was one weird look....

The chemist (or drug store for you US folk), its where I get mine. Like $1 each, cheap as _b 

Gotta have a prescription in this state to get them...  Or go to one of them places that offers dopers and junkies free syringes...

I had a good supply back when I was married to ex-wife #3, as she was diabetic, but alas... One more thing she took from me, lol... (and about the most useful thing she had to offer...)

Probably why liberals build better P-51 Models than crackers.I have never had any luck cutting syringe tubing.

Who cuts 'em... The needles on the 25s my ex used were only about an inch long...   I use the applicator tubes from the Testor's Black Bottle liquid cement too...  I cut 'em to length with the Dremel and a vise...  One tube will do a 1/48 P-47and F6F easily..