The future of Model Master

wow Pactra,floquil,Snj spray metal now model masters oh well I guess we still have testors gloss paints wait and see. Thanks for the up date.

Enamel users still have Humbrol, Xtracolor, Colourcoats, North Star, and Tru-Color, none of them owned by Testors. 

Thoughtful of you to share that, thanks.

I use Model Master Metalizer rattle can paints a lot. There is no substitute. Not happy. I'll need to search the Internet and see if I can stock up.

And here I understood that the Aztek airbrush has a lifetime warranty(?). 

Ben

Revell Germany is supposed to be exporting their enamel and acrylic paint lines to North America in the near future. That will help make up for the loss of Model Master. 

Thanks for the heads up Aaron. I don't swallow the reason they gave otherwise these paints would sit on the display racks gathering dust. 

Plenty of competition coming out like the AK Real Colors, Mr. Color and MRP lacquers that perform like enamels.

That lifetime warranty on Aztek airbrushes apparently means "until we decide to kill them."

I own two Aztek airbrushes and will continue to use them until they break. But I'm never again buying anything from Testors.

Sounds like there is no future for them.

Space Ranger

That lifetime warranty on Aztek airbrushes apparently means "until we decide to kill them."

Yes, but "lifetime warranty" is meaningless marketing babble in most if not all cases anyway.

Greg

 

 

Space Ranger

That lifetime warranty on Aztek airbrushes apparently means "until we decide to kill them."

 

 

Yes, but "lifetime warranty" is meaningless marketing babble in most if not all cases anyway.

 

Reminds me of some car dealerships offering "lifetime oil changes" only to be bought out by another a couple of years later and so ends the free oil changes.

Mr Ranger:

 I don't mean to criticise you sir: Maybe you have access to all that including Humbrol. I have NEVER even heard of the other brands. At least around here!

DRUMS01

And here I understood that the Aztek airbrush has a lifetime warranty(?). 

 

Ben

 

If the company is not gone, and the warranty is in writing, they have a legal obligation to honor the warranty. Of course once spare parts run out that becomes a problem...

Space Ranger

That lifetime warranty on Aztek airbrushes apparently means "until we decide to kill them."

I own two Aztek airbrushes and will continue to use them until they break. But I'm never again buying anything from Testors.

Does Testors even exist any more beyond a brand name owned by Rustoleum?

Meh.

For me, the only surprise in this story is learning that Pactra was still a brand.  I thought it was discontinued years ago.

crown r n7

wow Pactra,floquil,Snj spray metal now model masters oh well I guess we still have testors gloss paints wait and see. Thanks for the up date.

 

I don't believe the Testors brand will be all gloss.  They have come out with new flats, as well as semi-gloss.

Tanker-Builder

Mr Ranger:

 I don't mean to criticise you sir: Maybe you have access to all that including Humbrol. I have NEVER even heard of the other brands. At least around here!

 

I am glad I stocked up on the black bottle liquid cement with the needle.  I only use it for certain tasks, but I really like this product.

WigWag Workshop

I am glad I stocked up on the black bottle liquid cement with the needle.  I only use it for certain tasks, but I really like this product. 

I wonder if the Model Master liquid cement is the same formula as the liquid cement sold in the same bottle but with the Testors label:

I use this, though I use Tamiya's extra-fine, too.  I think it flows better.

I think that one has a plastic tip, not the thin metal needle type tip.

the Baron

 

 

WigWag Workshop

I am glad I stocked up on the black bottle liquid cement with the needle.  I only use it for certain tasks, but I really like this product. 

 

 

 

I wonder if the Model Master liquid cement is the same formula as the liquid cement sold in the same bottle but with the Testors label:

I use this, though I use Tamiya's extra-fine, too.  I think it flows better.

 

Tanker-Builder

Mr Ranger:

 I don't mean to criticise you sir: Maybe you have access to all that including Humbrol. I have NEVER even heard of the other brands. At least around here!

 

Sprue Brothers carries a pretty good assortment of paints as well: https://store.spruebrothers.com/

WigWag Workshop

I think that one has a plastic tip, not the thin metal needle type tip...

Yeah, it's a different package; this one has a plastic nozzle, with a fine wire to plug the tip or re-open it if it gets gunked up.  But I wonder if the glue is the same?

After 25 years using Model Master. I finally "mastered" how to use their paint.  Now I need to find a new enamel, which so far, has been Colourcoats that I seem to like best.  

I never trusted the small bottle suff for being flat, it always dried glossy on me and thickness always varied between bottles. 

scottrc

After 25 years using Model Master. I finally "mastered" how to use their paint.  Now I need to find a new enamel, which so far, has been Colourcoats that I seem to like best.  

I never trusted the small bottle suff for being flat, it always dried glossy on me and thickness always varied between bottles. 

 

 

Try Humbrol enamels. When they are thoroughly stirred they produce a superb finish. Don’t shake them in the tins, just stir them.

Hi Stick,

You are right, I have a few Humbrol tins I got when I couldn't get WEM.  Both seem to be the same as far as mixing and airbrushing, which I really like, I have had no surprises.  So many of these new brands are hit and miss.  I started to really like AV until recently both AV and Tamiya have made me feel like a chemist with trying to get the mix right and the surface prepared using a collection of there special thinners, primers, and reducers with mixed results.  

Being raised on Model Masters, I felt it was a convience paint, since everyone in the neighborhood had it in stock.  

Correction/update: Reports are that Rustoleum ceased all production of all Testors products today, May 7, 2020. R.I.P.

For 10+ years, I have ONLY used the Model Master glue with the thin metal tube applictor.  This is highly problematic!

I wonder what the shelf life is, I will have start buying a bottle every time I can find one.

Glamdring

For 10+ years, I have ONLY used the Model Master glue with the thin metal tube applictor.  This is highly problematic!

I wonder what the shelf life is, I will have start buying a bottle every time I can find one.

 

If you see some, buy it. The new bottle has the cruddy plastic tube. And it comes with a plunger wire that is too short. They are getting way too chinsy on their stuff. My last bottle of the Model Master stuff was quite a few years old, but as good as day one... until I left it on a hot sunny windowsill too long and it split at the seams due to heat expansion...