When I packed up all my models over 20 years ago, There was one kit I picked up somewhere and started to build, but when it came time to move, it was packed away and forgotten. And boy do I mean forgotten! A few years ago, I noticed that my conex, developed a leak and a few of my boxes I had stored in it was getting wet. So, of course I had to dig through everything and besides the stuff that was ruined, I found a long lost model I forgot I even had. The model? A Tamiya M20 Armored Car, in a very old and moldy box. I decided to put it with the growing stack of new models I’ve been purchasing and stashing for later.
So today, I am rained out of work, I decide to build my very first model in 20 yrs and I pick the M20.
I open the box and whoa! It’s covered in black mold. The nasty stuff! Umm, I gotta get this thing out of my shed! So I take it outside and begin rummaging thru the box. I find an old tube of Testors glue…dried solid. A couple of old envelopes containing car insurance bills due in 2004, the decal sheet, of course destroyed, and the instruction sheet. Faded, covered in mold but readable. I take a few pictures of the instruction sheet so I can build this thing without the danger of mold exposure. I take the sprues inside and drown them in bleach, then a rinse in hot water. Then I start to build.
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