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Best Model Airplane Glue

Now that PBS Media Matters has brought it up, the best, the only, model airplane glue to use is Testors. I say this as someone old enough to have bought model airplane glue as a minor before it was put behind the counter and an adult had to be present to buy it; who still has part of his collection of model airplanes, ships, and tanks moldering away in a cabinet in his parents basement; and who has inhaled far more glue fumes unintentionally as part of building the models than anyone who did it intentionally but who didn't suffer brain damage. The Foker Triplane by Revell was my first plastic model kit, and still a favorite. Susan St. James' (of Kate and Allie fame) father is the guy who figured out adding mustard oil would cut down on kids inhaling glue, which put it back out on shelves again.