The Little World

Or dried glue?

Modellers are sometimes healthy and sometimes not, and it is surprising how many of their ailments are self inflicted:

a. The cement scab noted above. I have found them weeks old in some pretty odd places.

b. Acrylic asthma. You can do a great deal of no good with an airbrush full of solvent and even more if it is a rattle can in an unventilated space. It rivals the effects of photographic chemicals and organic solvents in giving you a noticeable wheeze.

c. The cut of a thousand deaths. This is the one you do repeatedly just before you dip you finger in the thinner. Real enthusiasts then plunge the throbbing digit in a dish of salt and fall unconscious over the workbench.

d. The Quasimodo. You hunch over the bench long enough and eventually you’ll look like Charles Laughton. ” The bells! The bells! “