The Smells of Experience

Oh, ah, yeah, right man........... what were we talking about?

Vaguely remember the hoof and fish glues.  Hoof stuff was used in furniture years ago, and it came in a block you had to melt, ie the old glue pot.

The most vivid odor I could remember is the Testors Glue in the white and orange tube, the stuff people got high on parents had to buy it for me.

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!

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.

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