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NeilE · 6 February 2003, 04:03 AM

Hello All;

According to Revellus of Padua, Modeler's Putty was first invented by that greatly feared leader of the Golden Horde, Tam-Iya Khan during the long days of the Great Siege of Bolgograd in 1173. Frustrated that his model of the Great Wall of China was exhibiting unsightly cracks and seams, the Great Tam-Iya Khan executed 1243 burhgers of Bolgograd in one afternoon.

The Great Khan was determined to solve this problem and first tried stuffing pony poo into the cracks...this worked quite well once the poo had dried but the smell was unbearable - even for the Great Khan who reputedly only ever washed at the Festival of the Yak every five years. Eventually The Great Tam-Iya Khan hit upon the idea of mixing the poo with captured Chinese aromatic spices which solved the problem as far as The Great Khan was concerned.

This practice spread throughout the known world and was widely used until Eugenius Korpak of Bohemia (1455) mixed a variety of slow setting plasters of paris left over from a fresco together with a small amount of water and the notion of a slow setting yet workable filing substance was born. This did not help Eugenius Korpak however, whose innovative ways earnt him the wrath of the Inquisition. He was burnt as a warlock in Magdeburg in 1459.

From: Modellus Modellisium,
Revellus of Padua 1523.
(translated by M.O.D.E.L.)

6 February 2003, 04:03 AM	#3 (permalink)
NeilE Forum Ace Contributor Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Reservoir, Melbourne, Aust Posts: 932	Hello All; According to Revellus of Padua, Modeler's Putty was first invented by that greatly feared leader of the Golden Horde, Tam-Iya Khan during the long days of the Great Siege of Bolgograd in 1173. Frustrated that his model of the Great Wall of China was exhibiting unsightly cracks and seams, the Great Tam-Iya Khan executed 1243 burhgers of Bolgograd in one afternoon. The Great Khan was determined to solve this problem and first tried stuffing pony poo into the cracks...this worked quite well once the poo had dried but the smell was unbearable - even for the Great Khan who reputedly only ever washed at the Festival of the Yak every five years. Eventually The Great Tam-Iya Khan hit upon the idea of mixing the poo with captured Chinese aromatic spices which solved the problem as far as The Great Khan was concerned. This practice spread throughout the known world and was widely used until Eugenius Korpak of Bohemia (1455) mixed a variety of slow setting plasters of paris left over from a fresco together with a small amount of water and the notion of a slow setting yet workable filing substance was born. This did not help Eugenius Korpak however, whose innovative ways earnt him the wrath of the Inquisition. He was burnt as a warlock in Magdeburg in 1459. From: Modellus Modellisium, Revellus of Padua 1523. (translated by M.O.D.E.L.) __________________ "There's something wrong with our bloody ships today." - Adm. Beatty, Jutland, 1916.