I received my long awaited 1/35 British Archer tank destroyer by Maquette. Hard to find, and especially hard to find at a decent price. I opened the shipping box and was hit with this strange aroma…like concentrated moth balls, only stronger. Getting into the kit there’s a bag of yellow, smelly parts. The box stated that there were “some resin and metal parts”, so I concluded that the yellow parts in the bag were the resin parts. Did I get a set of bum resin parts, or does resin always smell like this? A real nose opener!
I must confess to liking the smell of sanded resin, although I use a mask. It reminds me of riding behind the DDT bug killing trucks on my bicycle when I was a kid. Good times, good times… SteveM
Yup that can be the odor of the resin. I got a Corbitt 6x6 truck from PSP at the AMPS Nationals and it reeked to high heaven. All you need to do is just open up the parts and let them air out a bit. My Corbitt doesn’t smell at all nowadays.
On a side note, U should know that Maquette pirated their resin from Accurate Armour’s Archer kit.
Maquette resin seems to be particularly noxious for some reason…not sure if it’s what they use for casting or as a release agent, but the few resin parts that I had in my Flakpanzer I kit also reeked and had a strange oily film on them. They weren’t cast very well either, so it comes as no surprise to me that their Archer pieces are pirated copies.
Are only the resin parts pirated or is the whole kit pirated? If just the resin parts are, I wonder if Accurate Armour still has the Archer parts available. I don’t use pirated software and I don’t intend to build with pirated model parts. If I can’t do it legit, the kit is going onto the shelf for a long long time. I guess there’s always vacu-form. I remember my brother having one of those when we were kids.