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How long did you wait after applying the decals before taking the film off?

The revell p-51d in 1/72 is the worst kit ever

Glad European companies have a conscience, unlike Murrica. Our corporations spray our processed grain with Roundup and consider Kraft Dinner cellulose flour Mac and Cheese actual food. Murrica... 🤬 (Shakes fist)

I'm glad somebody who was better at biochemistry than I was figured this out. I dropped out of my degree program in 2003. I was meant to be an electrician, wish I figured that out sooner, I could've afforded my level of hobby addiction sooner. Electromagnetism is way easier to apply than chemistry...

Sweet, a corporation decided not to use toxic waste as a filler.

Fascinating.

Well done to you, Wurstschorf,and Vallejo!

I've been able to get a couple of Model Air colours here in Oz with the new packaging..yellow ring around the top of the bottle etc and it smells completely different..i put a post of Vallejo's Face Book page and asked was it new formula and they said ''On no we haven't launched the New Modelair yet..it's the same as before''...but that's not the case from what i can tell from the new ones i have..it's different paint..and as far as the what the paint thinner is made from changes to formula have been made to the Game Color and Model Color by Vallejo in the last year or so which could have caused the changes to MSDS rating of the thinner

These things are never going to be totally safe but it is good that they have lowered the toxicity of the product. However, even water is considered toxic if you drink enough. When using chemicals you should always protect yourself.

Thank you both for the extraordinary achievent! Keep up the good work.

You're welcome! 😅 and thanks for sharing the news with everyone! (The sheets for the thinner and improver were from 2015 and 2016 :P)

The worst video about kits of all times?

always use a spraybooth when airbrushing to suck away most fumes to outside, not recirculate. inhaling paint parts, dust or thinner mist is never a good idea. it might not be harmful instantly, but builds up over times. you could also wear a paint facemask with filters, like most common 3m facemask. If you consider all paints as unsafe/unhealthy and take precautions, you're safe 👍 but maybe that's because most of us are old scalemodellers that started with thinner based paints.

Interesting video. I've just checked the labels on my Vallejo cleaner, thinner and flow improver - nothing, The label on some recently purchased "Medea" airbrush cleaner (made by Iwata) however warns of "cancer and reproductive harm" !!!! I mentioned this to my modelling club who advised "it's those Californians - they worry about everything".....🤔

You are not totally off but you are seemingly lacking the background knowledge to correctly interpret the data you have shown. The safety data sheets mostly report information about hazard, i.e. if it says compound X is harmful when inhaled then this is a general property. However, what is actually important is the risk which is the combination of hazard and exposure. Just ask yourself if the acute or chronic effect thresholds are met in your case: if you spray a few drops of thinner per week in your basement, you will most likely be fine because the dose is just too low to do anything. If, on the other hand, you take up sniffing airbrush thinner as a recreational past-time, then this might be bad for your health in multiple ways. The same goes for pigments - if there is too much in the air, then it's bad. The same goes for all other things, of course. Just as Paracelus said: "All things are poison, and nothing is without poison; the dosage alone makes it so a thing is not a poison." Hope that helps.

Good research. Let me help you understand the translation from English. It can be ACUTELY TOXIC...this means harmful and can lead to death, it is not just toxic it is ACUTELY ( this means VERY) TOXIC. So the info says it is harmful to breath. It goes on to say it is NOT mutagenic, this means it will NOT effect(mutate) your genes. SO you may die but it does not alter your genes. It is also NOT carcinogenic, this means it wont cause cancer. SO overall, it says, you are safe from gene damage and cancer but breathing it in can be very toxic(fatal). Wear a mask....you will thank me later.

what a nutjob...

I have been trying the new atom paints with skin colors. They are pretty decent so far. I only painted a pinup duet so far and it is good so far.

They are non-toxic in "normal use" I believe is the term

I couldn’t care less if they are so called toxic, The only thing i care about is how well the paint performs…. Period

As a biochemist who has worked in, and run, research laboratories for around 40 years my advice is always assume a chemical maybe dangerous even if it isn’t considered so at present. Toxicity information changes all the time and things that were not considered toxic can eventually be considered so a few years later. Basically, when I paint my models, I use a booth and wear a respirator. After finishing a session I then remove all the residues from my workroom and open the window for several hours. Better to be safe than sorry.

Tough choice the new Airfix are fantastic kits but ICM started out strong and just keeps getting better. So it’s a tie.

The smaller the body area such as that of a child or pet the more toxic any chemical becomes. Many chemicals such as acetone have a cumulative effect so a small exposure builds up to toxic levels. Be safe with your hobby.

My rule is to always wear my respirator and have the spray booth fan on when using the airbrush. Regardless of acrylic or chemical based paints. I hope everyone else is doing the same. Stay safe and enjoy the hobby

The term acrylic paint is misused in the modelling community. It seems most people think that acrylic = water based = non toxic. This is false. Tamiya X-XF paints are acrylics, just not water based but alcohol based. Both types of paint contain acrylic resins and having a different solvent does not change this fact. We should handle any paint as dangerous and take necessary safety measures. Health > modelling. Even when hand-brushing enamels/oils etc, we should not leave thinners/solvents open in a closed/non ventilated space.

Great delivery of important information, love your thoroughness and mix of humor, makes for a great watch. Keep the videos coming 😊.

Thanks for the video! I'm currently planing on buying an airbrush and was thinking about chemicals in some of the used substances. As a former biochemists, I'm a little bit shocked how hard it is to find any SDS sheets from Vallejo (and also other manufacturers). I just found out that Vallejo might reformulated their thinner (and maybe the flow improver too) but I cannot find any current SDS sheets. The one you are showing is from 2015. I wil lreach out to vallejo and aks if the can provide a SDS sheet for the thinner. And (as already mentioned by another commenter): the chemical in the thinner and the flow improver is the same. So both are toxic if inhaled!

water is not toxic. but you breathe it in and you drown. non-toxic does NOT mean safe to breathe in! if you have a substance that is non-toxic but harmful, that's not much better. and a LOOOOOOOOOOOOOT of stuff is non toxic but harmful if breathed in. SILICOSIS is caused by just breathing in a ton of rock dust. read up about a guy who got "popcorn lung" from having an evening snack of microwave popcorn every night where he started by opening up the package and breathing in the popcorn aroma. acrylic is basically a kind of plastic. and the concern with breathing in particulates is that you are sucking up fine plastic particles into your lungs. that can't be good. please don't think that because acrylic paint is non-toxic, that it's safe to work with without some way of keeping the particulates out of your (and your children's) lungs. same kinds of concerns come into play with 3d printing in case you decide to get into that...

eating mcdonald’s is more dangerous

Hopefully this will go viral.

Great info all the way around!!!! Thank you for all the homework you put into this video!!!! Greatly appreciated!!!

I worked with PPG water borne paint for several years. Although they touted how environmentally safe and non-toxic they were, I consistently wore a respirator in the paint booth. However, many individuals I worked with did not. Now, some years later, many of those same employees have developed cancer, impotence, infertility and are suing the company. According to a ex plant manager from that facility, PPG water borne paint was directly involved in the occurrence of cancers and other life changing conditions.

Note that 2-butoxyethanol and butylglycol are the same chemical substance - the CAS number 111-76-2 is identical.

Let's be honest, everything in our hobby is pretty much bad for our health and our environment. Microplastic and resin dust from sanding, cement fumes, IPA, putties, pigments, enamels, oils, lacquers and the list goes on. Of course these are toxic, but there is a difference between being exposed to these things 7-8 hours a day via work for example, or 1-2 hours via hobby on an irregular basis. The amount and the length of exposure matters. Keep in mind the concentration as well. The thinner has between 2.5-10% concentration. That means that in a 1ml of thinner there is 0.1ml of butylglycol at most. I do agree with you that Vallejo should have it on the bottle, but not even Mr Hobby Lacquer thinners have text saying, don't inhale the fumes, while that stuff is literally killing your brain cells and can make you blind if it gets in to your eye. When I know that I will airbrush for an hour straight, I will put a mask on just in case, if I just do a quick airbrush work like 5 minutes on some pieces, then I think it's fine. I use Mission Model, AK 3rd gen, Ammo and Vallejo. All water based. If in doubt, take precautions. It's never going to hurt you being careful.

I remember when Vallejo Model Color had natural pigments in them like cobalt and such. They had to have warnings on the bottle, because it was in it, but it was such a small amount that you would have had to ingest about a 100litres or more of it to be of any minor nuisance You are still only using a very small amount of Valleo thinner. But with any paint when you are spraying, should be in a spray booth, and wearing a respirator, regardless of the the type of paint used

The airbrush cleaners that are sold are another issue i suspect. I picked up a few and some really get to me and i can barely breath and that's when using the paint booth with the fan on.

I know from hauling these type of paints from coast to coast. When I had to pick up a load of paint,I had to plackerd the load as dangerous and flammable. This depended on the amount and there containers. I know that when I had to haul it I had to carry msd sheet as well as placking the load. So in my mind this is toxic to a point. In the amount that a modeler uses it is not according to epa or ohsa due to part per million. 😊

Excellent video, research, and commentary. I use Vallejo Model Air paint too. Occasionally Tamiya spray cans. My homemade spray booth works quite well when airbrushing or using spray cans. Will also use a N-95 dust mask. Take care!

I have two of those inexpensive spray booths and I think they are worth the money. There are more expensive units out there and different types of vent systems but for the money they’re pretty good

I started building models around the age of 5 in 1971. Yup I’m an old guy. We use enamels then, no one really knew they should have concerns. The older I get the more I wonder about the safety of products we use. Thank you so much for doing the research for us like this I must admit I wonder but don’t look any further into it 😂. I hope you are also making a video of your P-51 build.

Faster, faster. Until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death.. -Hunter S. Thompson

Surprisingly, I never grew tumors having worked around Fluorocarbon metal coating and soaked up its solvent, Methyl-Ethyl Ketone, for 1.5 years at one of my less-glamorous dead-end jobs. I'm sure the PM Acetate and other organic solvents should've aged me in dog years, too.

Glycol ether, oooh boy. Just don't huff a Hunter S. Thompson Gonzo dose, or you'll be in Bat Country in no time.

I liked painting more before needing SDS for everything.

Acrylic resin particulates aren't toxic? What about all the N-Butyldiamine in Tamiya Paint Retarder and X-20 thinner? It's no lacquer thinner, but I'm sure it's not isopropyl alcohol, either in terms of toxicity or carcinogenic or teratogenic effects, either. I bet Mr. Rocket Thinner and Mr. Tool Cleaner aren't very healthy, either...

I need your OSHA opinion on Lacquer Acrylic hybrids such as Tamiya and GSI Creos Mr. Hobby.

Your Shelves of Shame remind me of my own.