The Little World

It is the Ancient Modeller who stoppeth one of three

” Take heed, Sirrah, to what I say

Or suffer along with me…”

The experiment went ahead as planned with the porous paper, the Golden Syrup ( Australian version of Karo ) and the warm oven:

a. Syrup brushed on paper. Soaked right in. Paper a soggy mess that never actually dried but which stuck to everything in the kitchen while fresh.

b. New paper. Not porous. Syrup beaded up on surface of paper  and stuck to any surfaces as yet untouched by the previous try.

c. Every ant in the suburb converges upon my kitchen with a joyous cry.

d. Every subsequent paper type tried also an abject failure.

e. Kitchen scrubbed clean. Ants sprayed. Syrup poured over ice cream and waffles.

So a great scientific venture has finished and a new principle re-affirmed; you cannot make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear.

The Testors paper is still missing, and looks likely to stay so forever. All the Testors paints in my local hobby shop are being sold out at discount and the rack is emptying. Whoever initiated the business decision in the parent organisation cut off all support from this country – and it looks as if this also is the case in Europe. Who knows what they are thinking…Fortress America in the toy paint business?

I shall hoard the remaining sheets in a miserly fashion and seek alternate suppliers from the eastern states or eBay. If it is no better than the Testors material, it can at least be no worse.