The freshness of new plastic.

[MyBradKeselowski]

AW!!! The smell of new kit plastic, nothing smells better

[Junkman]

I'm the same way. I walk out of the hobby shop, get into the car, and open the kit. I look it over, do a bit of "grokking" and test fitting of loose parts, and put it back in the box for the drive home. I've done that for just about every kit I have bought over the last 35 years.

Same here. In the olden days a friend and I would occasionally set off to Switzerland for plastic shopping. We usually ended up with a bootful of kits and a good few on the rear seat. We always pulled over at an arrestingly beautiful rest area in the mountains and inspected each and every kit on one of the wooden tables provided just for this occasion. The other people resting there must have thought we are a bunch of total lunatics and always took off pretty soon after we started our activity.

Edited February 6, 2010 by Junkman