Paint Smell

[jaxenro]

I moved a few years back and lost all my modeling tools and paints. When I started my latest build I needed to rebuy supplies so I went with Testors Enamels (model master) instead of the acrylics and spray dupli color I had been using. 

Brushed on a coat of flat black on the tires today and that smell took me back 45 years to those little square bottles of testors enamel. I understand people are moving away from enamel because of the smell but I actually enjoyed it

[Snake45]

Me too. 

I miss the various smells of the AMT lacquers. Though SOME of the new Testor lacquers sort of smell a little like some of them. 

[vettecote]

Yes, I like it too! Every time I smell that enamel, takes me back 50 years to my build bench in the basement when I was a kid!...Joe

Edited July 7, 2018 by vettecote
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[1930fordpickup]

Well here are 3 of the people that led us to be stuck with the smell proof glue when I started building. LOL 

Yes that smell takes me back to my older brothers room when I was a kid also. Mom would yell up the stairs are you painting? I as a young dumb kid always said NO! LOL 

[NYLIBUD]

1 hour ago, 1930fordpickup said:

Well here are 3 of the people that led us to be stuck with the smell proof glue when I started building. LOL 

Yes that smell takes me back to my older brothers room when I was a kid also. Mom would yell up the stairs are you painting? I as a young dumb kid always said NO! LOL 

Oh man,every time I would paint anything (model related)in my house growing up,I would always hear my parents yell up stairs,"Are you painting again,after we told you a million times not to paint in the house?"I would lie and try to get away with it,but more often,I just had to stop painting.I sure did use a lot of Lysol growing up.Lol  

The magic cure..

Edited July 7, 2018 by NYLIBUD

[1972coronet]

The unique smell of an MPC kit ; the odour of Pactra paints ; and the scent of Monogram's instruction sheets ...  Countless happy connections between our hobby and childhood .

Amongst my favourite smells ? The sweet smell of spent leaded gas ----- leaps and bounds better than the garbage "witches' brew" pump gas that's around these days .

[High octane]

One of my favorite smells is of spent nitro fumes as it is really sweeeeet. I love the smell of lacquer and do most of my painting outside, however sometimes I spray a part or two in the house and my wife asks me if I've been painting. I always respond with "I might have" and never admit that I was. LOL!

[bbowser]

They say that smell is a powerful memory trigger.  I've always liked the smell of paint, my better half not so much !

[Art Anderson]

As a boy (way back in the dark ages known as the 1950's), I loved the smell of Pactra or Testors paints, and while I am sure my Mom didn't, she was the single biggest booster of my model car hobby--she NEVER complained about it, not one bit!

Art

 

Edited July 7, 2018 by Art Anderson

[Art Anderson]

1 hour ago, NYLIBUD said:

Oh man,every time I would paint anything (model related)in my house growing up,I would always hear my parents yell up stairs,"Are you painting again,after we told you a million times not to paint in the house?"I would lie and try to get away with it,but more often,I just had to stop painting.I sure did use a lot of Lysol growing up.Lol  

The magic cure..

And Ron, as a teenager (Pactra 'Namel rattle cans came on the market when I was 14!) I used to spray paint in our furnace room--old fashioned coal furnace, but never bothered to care about the potential for an explosion!),  and while Dad would go "harrrumph!). Mom never said a single word, for as long as I got my grades in school, she approved of every model car I built back then!

Art

[dimaxion]

It was the great outdoors only for me . Thanx .. 

[Phirewriter]

I too enjoy the smell of old model paint. Both Testors and and Pactra had their own unique perfume. These days I tend to use Tamiya and Vallejo acrylics and automotive based paints for my builds, but there's always something I use those little square jars for.

BTW, the best olfactory (and visual) stimulation for me are the upcoming vintage races at Road America and the delightful smell of spent and raw racing fuel!

And... I was blessed that my father was a model builder, I got to paint inside just as he did. Yes my mother protested but given her taste in food and lack of cooking skills she had nothing to complain about.

Edited July 8, 2018 by Phirewriter

[NYLIBUD]

Oh yea,I sprayed a million models down in my basement,with a natural gas furnace on the other side of the basement.Yup....

[moparfarmer]

22 minutes ago, NYLIBUD said:

Oh yea,I sprayed a million models down in my basement,with a natural gas furnace on the other side of the basement.Yup....

So did I..

 

[Ballroad]

I miss the smell of Floquil, but have grown a real liking to the aroma of fresh opened bottle of Tamiya acrylics, ... thanks

[Art Anderson]

On 7/7/2018 at 11:42 AM, 1930fordpickup said:

Well here are 3 of the people that led us to be stuck with the smell proof glue when I started building. LOL 

Yes that smell takes me back to my older brothers room when I was a kid also. Mom would yell up the stairs are you painting? I as a young dumb kid always said NO! LOL 

Mom's old cedar chest is about 4' from me, now holds my TV,  but that appliance does not hide the blotches of Pactra and Testors paint from when I used it, in my bedroom, as a model car workbench--way back when I was about 9 or 10.  Moms sure can be forgiving, or at least look the other way--but I still chuckle at those paint blobs--remembering which model project left THAT smudge, to this very day!

Art

 

[Art Anderson]

9 hours ago, Ballroad said:

I miss the smell of Floquil, but have grown a real liking to the aroma of fresh opened bottle of Tamiya acrylics, ... thanks

Nothing like the perfume smell of Aero Gloss Dope though! 

Art

[Lunajammer]

Thursday, while walking back home from dropping my car off for service, I smelled lacquer. About half a block farther I passed a guy in his driveway painting metal railings he'd just welded. I had to stop and tell him that I liked that smell because that's the smell of fun projects.

[unclescott58]

I too kind of like the smell of bottled enamel paint. But, I could never seem to get away from brush marks until I switched to acrylic paint. The spay enamel always gave me orange peel. No matter what I did. So for that, I switched to spraying lacquer. My models look 100% since making those switches years ago.