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I remember assembling plastic airplane models when I was a kid, damn that glue smelled good. Testors I think it was. LOL

Thanks for the memories. It was Testors model glue, in a red and white tube.

I built so many models, I'm surprised I'm not brain damaged.

I never thought to sniff the glue, but it did have a great aroma.And boy did it melt plastic--it was like welding for kids!

The models were made by Aurora, Revell,Monogram and Lindberg.

Reading and looking at the pictured boxes was as cool as making the models.

Of course, it you weren't like a professional model painter, very rarely did the model look like the box.

From 49 cents to $ 2.98 you could buy yourself a lot of fun.

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I never sniffed it but like you enjoyed the aroma.

And neither did my models come out looking like the box covers. But damn, it was fun trying. Never did understand how they painted them with such precision as me and a spray can never got along when I was a youngster.

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Of course, it you weren't like a professional model painter, very rarely did the model look like the box.

My brother and I spent many hours putting those models together.

Painting them was an exercise in futility for us.

Only thing I could do with the Testor's model paint was use it to identify the "contestants" in the cockroach races when I was in college at The Citadel.