The Smells of Experience

Tanker-Builder

Member since
October 2019
From: New Braunfels, Texas

The Smells of Experience

Posted by Tanker-Builder on Monday, September 27, 2021 8:23 AM

Here's a chronicle of modeling Smells;

Here's where you get to crunch those grey cells and figure what era I am talking about. First.The place where the model is being built smells of burning Hoof and Candles

Second: Still smells bad but now like some kind of fish!

Third: Wow, that smell knocked me off the chair!

Fourth: Bad smell again but there's powder everywhere too!

Fifth; Ooh-Plastic, geez open the window!

Sixth: Uh -Oh ! Mom's gonna think yer sniffing it!

Seventh: Ooh, it's liquid an don't smell too bad. Window open a crack!

Eighth; And last. No detectable smell but how do I tell Mom, the spilled glue Removed the color from her laminated Tabletop?

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MR TOM SCHRY

Member since
July 2015

Posted by MR TOM SCHRY on Monday, September 27, 2021 8:34 PM

Oh man, this posting brought back memories. How many times my mom walked into our kitchen to find out that I either spilled one of those little square bottles of Testors enamel paints or a big blob of the red Testors tube glue was on the table, while I was working on a model.

TJS

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HooYah Deep Sea

Member since
August 2019
From: Central Oregon

Posted by HooYah Deep Sea on Monday, September 27, 2021 8:47 PM

My experience jumps in at about time zone 5 / 6, with testors wood or model glue, the little square bottles of paint, and butyrate dope (once used by mistake as paint). And, there is the terribly scarred desktop where I did all my cutting . . . much to my parent's displeasure.

"Why do I do this? Because the money's good, the scenery changes and they let me use explosives, okay?"

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Real G

Member since
May 2011
From: Honolulu, Hawaii

Posted by Real G on Tuesday, September 28, 2021 12:11 AM

Hoof and Candles? Was that when George Washington had to carve his wood model airplanes by candlelight? That might just be a legend, because as we all know, Abraham Lincoln himself cautioned us to not believe everything we see on the internet!

I only remembered the smell of lemons when mom bought the non-toxic Revell glue for my models.

I do remember Duco tube cement that felt cold as it dried. It got so stringy right out of the tube! It was pretty useless as a plastic model glue because of that.

And then there were those tiny tubes of Cemendyne glue found in Japanese kits. I would always get apprehensive about running out before the job was done, which was pretty much every time.

I didn't experience the joys of dope fumes until I tried building flying models in high school. But me and my friends never "huffed" - that glue or paint was EXPENSIVE. I seriously don't think the glue and paint sniffer idiots actually built models!

“Ya ya ya, unicorn papoi!”