Non-PRO English to French Tech/Engineering

The text I'm translating is about Model Airplanes. It a literary text--the author reminisces about building model airplanes as a child.
Here is the sentence in which my term appears:
"You don't need a set of Pactra enamels, or airbrush equipment, or jewelers' files; not forceps or a pin vise [...] but a simple tube of glue, at the very least, my seem necessary for any appreciation of the plastic model-airplane kit." (Nicholson Baker)