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Substitute Thinner.
I bought an old collection of planes and paint many years ago. Most of the bottles of pactra namel must be over 50 years old and it is still mostly usable. I've used up the Pactra Thinner. What would be the best substitute thinner that would work on Pactra paint?
Loved them and miss them. They had the BEST Dark Olive Drab around! And my favorite shade of Khaki (a warm yellowed hue) and Flesh in their Military Flats line. I still have a few left in my paint inventory that I use occasionally.
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I still have a few bottles of Pactra paints for plastic models as well as a few jars and cans of their "DOPE" for stick and tissue models. I also have some of Revell's paints from the late 50s or early sixties as well as some of Monogram's paints. Testors is currently owned by RPM, a coatings and chemical company. I think Humbrel also has a new owner, but the paints are still available. Laquers and enamels are going to be a thing of the past sooner than later. Some states only allow water based paints to be used or strictly regulate the sale and use of paints other than water based paints. All of this politically correct BS is simply because some folks think that they are to important to die.
Wow, those bottles were almost as old as this thread....
grandscale Substitute Thinner. I bought an old collection of planes and paint many years ago. Most of the bottles of pactra namel must be over 50 years old and it is still mostly usable. I've used up the Pactra Thinner. What would be the best substitute thinner that would work on Pactra paint?
For clean up with the enamel paints I've always used lacquer thinner. For thinning the paint itself, there isn't much you can do if the paint begins to get too thick. If you want to thin it for airbrushing, I use acetone.
I still have a few bottles of the old Pactra paints from when I was modeling as a kid. Some are still usable. I've been tossing the thickening ones as I find them.
My father was doing model railroading in the 1950s and one brand of paint he used was 410M. They went out of business in the 60s, but he found that if they started to dry out, just adding some solvent (I forget what now) would revive them back like they were new.
I read somewhere that Pactra was a brand name of Testors.
Bill
I used Pactra 'Namels, both in the little square bottles embossed with their logo, and the later water-based colors in larger, round jars. I still have a couple of the water-based paints that I use for my toy soldiers. They had a royal blue that is perfect for Prussian tunics, and a green that was spot-on for Jaeger. And the bottles lasted forever (almost), I never had any of them dry out, like Tamiya acrylics tend to do. It was only when I used up a bottle of the Jaeger green that I went looking for them in a hobby shop, to be informed that Testor had bought out Pactra and discontinued the line.
I also have a square bottle of matte "Suntan", which is still good some 30 years after I bought it.
I have a couple of Testor's enamels in the little bottles, too, that are almost as old-Copper, and Green. Other colors in that line turn to paste almost as soon as they're opened--Black and White, for example, and the browns. Must have to do with the pigments used.
I still have some of the tools I got as a member of the Revell Master Modelers Club, too, and my membership cards:.
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the Baron I also have a square bottle of matte "Suntan", which is still good some 30 years after I bought it. I still have some of the tools I got as a member of the Revell Master Modelers Club, too, and my membership cards:.
Oh the Revell club... good memories
That "suntan" color was the perfect color for US olive green WWII Field Jackets... Wanna sell it?
Oh, yeah, Practa 'Namel (and Testor's, which I still use) were the only model paints I could get in the 60s and early 70's (at the local drugstore, no less)... Loved 'em and miss 'em..
Manstein's revenge Wow, those bottles were almost as old as this thread....
Ya, but 'till they get older 'n you, it don't matter...
Responding to threads that are over 8 years old....
I would never never do that!
(Oops! I just did!)
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jimbot58 Responding to threads that are over 8 years old.... I would never never do that!
No dumber than responding to threads with 229 or more posts
Hans von Hammer Manstein's revenge: Wow, those bottles were almost as old as this thread.... Ya, but 'till they get older 'n you, it don't matter...
Manstein's revenge: Wow, those bottles were almost as old as this thread....
I never liked them, thought they were too thin. But it's funny, when you are young whatever the LHS has is the best, no question. Kinda like Fanta versus Canada Dry.
I do think they made a great series of candy colored, sorry Kandie Kolored spray bombs, back when a ten year old could buy one.
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