A bit off topic maybe but a little concerning for one model hobby

Well  generally and as a rule, I don't normally eat my cars, so I think I should be ok !

If a silly rule can be regulated or enforced, some governmental body somewhere will be involved. It reminds me of a terrible warning issued by some bureaucrat that we read about at the old Diecast Pub that indicated that if you ate your diecast cars, you might run the risk of eventually hurting yourself if you had a certain diecast car in a particular yellow color !  

Call me over-cautious, but I have always used paint stripper on yellow-painted models then rinsed them thoroughly before eating them. For anyone with a sensitive digestion, it seems a wise precaution.

Mamod is a famous name in model steam engines.  I am surprised they still have 8 employees and can sell so many engines a year and have not downsized like other small British model firms....   Good luck to them.  I assume they have looked at alternate solid fuel sources...   See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexamine_fuel_tablet   It's a real engineering issue - both from a chemical and metallurgical stand-point.

When bureaucracies are involved, common sense often goes out the window. A lawyer's dream.

Posted by: @graeme-ogg

Call me over-cautious, but I have always used paint stripper on yellow-painted models then rinsed them thoroughly before eating them. For anyone with a sensitive digestion, it seems a wise precaution.

Good call Graeme; I shudder to think of the medical crisis that would be created a if say, a 1:43 pink and green station wagon were eaten.

Posted by: @jack-dodds

Posted by: @graeme-ogg

Call me over-cautious, but I have always used paint stripper on yellow-painted models then rinsed them thoroughly before eating them. For anyone with a sensitive digestion, it seems a wise precaution.

Good call Graeme; I shudder to think of the medical crisis that would be created a if say, a 1:43 pink and green station wagon were eaten.

I doubt if that would ever happen. Just too hard to swallow.

And if you did somehow manage it, it would have such a strong emetic effect the body would reject it before any harm was done. No, it's those little yellow 1:64 cars you have to worry about.

Personally, I can't imagine anyone wanting to eat a yellow model. They taste awful! They're an unappealing combination of mustard and pineapple flavors and exceptionally hard to swallow. Now, for the pink and green ones...I have only one word...water melon!

Just when I think I have seen the dumbest things in my advanced years along comes something to top it. Winning this race becomes more difficult as the competition  gets better each year. There was a time when dumb came naturally but now it's a challenge.

Posted by: @graeme-ogg

Call me over-cautious, but I have always used paint stripper on yellow-painted models then rinsed them thoroughly before eating them. For anyone with a sensitive digestion, it seems a wise precaution.

I too have used paint stripper on models but never considered eating them afterward.   I am carefully conserving my remaining pint can of paint stripper (which contains methylene chioride) as it has been banned from sale as harmful.   Someone lacking common sense used huge quantities of it it with no ventilation in an enclosed space and asphyxiated themselves thus the ban on that substance.

I realize everyone is quick to blame bureaucrats, lawyers, red-tape agencies, "bloated departments,"  etc...  but I can tell you, being on the "other side"  for many years, it's not them.  It's the "masses."   The "masses are as."   Without fail, eventually an individual will "ingest a model"  or snow-blow their roof, or believe lies despite zero evidence, or operate a hair dryer in the shower, or use gasoline to clean their over, etc., etc...

Remember the McD "hot coffee lawsuit"  that resulted in WARNING labels on cups?   This is liability protection, plain & simple that STILL won't (and could never ) cover everything.

Trust me, when you think you've mandated regs.  for every possible scenario (when you think you have no problems...you have problems! ).... someone will come along and do something ridiculously stupid despite being deemed highly improbable or impossible.... and NOW another paragraph (or 2 or 3 ) needs to be amended or added.

The motivation of those for whom "stupididy"  has no bounds should never be ignored.  Folks: "The masses are as!"

Posted by: @jkuvakas

Personally, I can't imagine anyone wanting to eat a yellow model. They taste awful! They're an unappealing combination of mustard and pineapple flavors and exceptionally hard to swallow. Now, for the pink and green ones...I have only one word...water melon!

That's two words, JK. We must maintain our high standards of literacy here.

Actually I find yellow models rather lacking in taste (but much less so than pink and green ones, obviously).

@graeme-ogg, would it help if I called them "waters melons?"