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**MechaEmperor7000**

So it's an open secret among MTG players that we all love the smell of a freshly opened pack of cards. Just that smell of the printing press preserved in that little bag that sings "NEW RARE CARD" that many of my friends are addicted to. I was painting one of my models and suddenly realized that because I always buy second hand models, I have a similar nostalgic reaction whenever I smell simple green or pinesol (on a tangent, this also makes whenever I gotta clean the floor weirdly addicting and yet also incredibly boring and tedious).

Do you guys have a similar reaction? Are there any other weird things that you have come to associate with 40k that you love to just indulge in?

**Verviedi**

The smell of Skull White and Goblin Green, and new book smell.

**Ascalam**

Zipkicker and pva

**Adeptus Doritos**

For years, I associated WH40k with body odor. I am not joking. Every time I was in the FLGS, there was someone there that stunk. There's STILL always someone there that stinks, even though at my FLGS we've flat-out confronted the guy that stinks... someone shows up stinking when that guy got his act together.

Moral of the story: If you're ever wondering if you need to take a shower or change your clothes- you need to take a shower and clean your clothes.

**mightymconeshot**

New book smell, new rule book smell (similar, but not the same), and primer/sealant smell.

Whenever I smell the last one, especially if it wasn't from a model I finished, I always want to get a look to see what they are building/painted.

**GodDamUser**

Mine is slightly opposite..

Use to live in house where I could smoke inside, during 3rd ed 40k when so many plastic Tyranids were now available.. So lots and lots of duder to paint.. and would paint 1 guy or do a layer for 5 (or 1 MC).. have a smoke.. and just kept up that process for the entire army...

And now cant paint.. because I just want to smoke then

**Elbows**

Burned gunpowder. I don't suppose that really goes with hobby gaming though.

I guess the burned edges of MDF terrain fresh from the box?

**chromedog**

I thought this thread would be about the *aromas* emanating from the local FLGS ...

A GW store I used to occasionally play at called their store miasma "the funk of 40,000 years" - in summer, the aircon was less than adequate, especially when full of gamers, where personal hygiene may not have been a high priority.

As for me:
I can't stand the smell of dettol or pinesol, and I generally have a filter mask on when I'm using my preferred stripping agents, so I can't say whether they're pleasant or not.

The smell of a new book is sometimes pleasant (depending on what inks were used. Some are pretty rank, though.

**SagesStone**

Everyone that plays tcgs loves that smell its not just a mtg thing.

**MechaEmperor7000**

It's an open secret for MTG, it's a shameful, shameful thing for other TCGs.

**GodDamUser**

I use to manage a Internet Gaming Café..

And we had 2 guys that had the most distinct body odors..

One would walk into the store.. and I wouldn't have to look away from the screen on the other side of the store to know he had arrived..

The other use to work there.. and about 6 months after he left he popped in for a visit.. after he left a mate rocks up and proclaims.. 'man it hadn't smelt this bad in here since so'n'so left'

**Stormonu**

Testor's plastic cement. I have no idea how many brain cells I've lost to putting together plastic models in closed rooms with little or no ventilation, but that citrus-sweet smell always gets my attention.

**oldzoggy**

Yes GW paints bring me back. The smell has changed over the years. So some I associate with painting my bretonnian army with my school friend others I associate with the new GW store in town. This is something I enjoy, but it always keeps me wondering how bad those smelly parts really are.

**AndrewGPaul**

The smell of a newly-opened game is a thing of beauty (and volatile organic molecules). The most ... memorable-smelling paint was Titillating Pink, but that's not been available for over 20 years.

**Kanluwen**

chromedog wrote:

The smell of a new book is sometimes pleasant (depending on what inks were used. Some are pretty rank, though.

That segues nicely into a weird bit...

When "Death From the Skies" came out, I was the only person at my local shop who ordered a copy.
When I cracked it open...it smelled like pumpkin spices. Weirdest frigging thing ever, and someone was asking who had the pumpkin spice coffee when they came in.

That book became the "Scratch and Sniff" for the day, making the manager buy a copy for himself and open it to see that yes, it seemed like most smelled like pumpkin spices.

**xlDuke**

My copy of Death From the Skies only had the fresh stench of disappointment inside

**G00fySmiley**

The blood of loyalists...

**Trondheim**

Beside the smell of glue, paint and too much coffe i am intantly reminded of 40k when i smell coffe or ham

**Desubot**

Fresh pack of cards smell, new codex smell, the smell of aerosol spray paint, zip kicker and my favorite super toxic lacquer based paints out of an air brush from china.

i can smell the brain damage.

Also remember ultra marine blue spray paint smelled really good.

**hypnoticeris**

The smell of citadel Bronzed Flesh and a couple other old colours.... Goblin green and bestial brown I guess. Plus the smell of superglue.

Also every time i get a drop of glue on my fingers it weirdly throws me back to my first assemblies )

**Dakka Wolf**

Favorite smell is castor oil based nitro petrol after it's been burned - the smell of RC and CL engines.
My nose isn't sharp enough to catch fresh cards or fresh books unless I'm in the printing shop.

**Tactical_Spam**

I associate the smell of 40k to the old Chaos Black primer that was circulating around in 5th edition when I started. And yes, it does have a different odor than the current Chaos Black spray.

**Formerly Wu**

The old black wash- the predecessor to Nuln Oil, I can't recall the name now- had a really distinct odor. Not exactly pleasant, but definitely kind of nostalgic now that the new washes are pretty neutral.

**Jayden63**

I buy resin garage kits. I love the smell of cracking that platic tub open and the initial hit of that smell.

**SagesStone**

MechaEmperor7000 wrote:
It's an open secret for MTG, it's a shameful, shameful thing for other TCGs.

It is?

**Verviedi**

Formerly Wu wrote:
The old black wash- the predecessor to Nuln Oil, I can't recall the name now- had a really distinct odor. Not exactly pleasant, but definitely kind of nostalgic now that the new washes are pretty neutral.

Badab Black. I agree that it was nice.

**Captyn_Bob**

The smell of poly cement when assembling a plastic squad.
Divine satisfaction.

**stroller**

Napalm in the morning.. obviously. (Sorry, had to be said).

Not a smell, but a sound. Opening a new box set and that "Thrup" of a tight lid coming off.

Weird? ME?

**morgoth**

Vallejo Model Air White - it smells like candy.

WTF !

**DragonRaptor**

The plastic clanking sounds of the sprues when opening a new kit