Loss of Paint Brands - Or What Now? Not just paints though.

 A Tree-Hugger Dave, Kick The Bucket?

     Somehow that doesn't compute. Yer only as old as ya tink ya are!

Hi Joe:

       I got some of that for a shut in friend. I had to get acrylics because he is in a Re-Hab center learning how to walk on his Diabetes Ravaged foot. The paint was the Testors Aircraft paint. It covered nicely from the tests we did AND that was even with the Cheap assed brushes they included in the kit. The old Shorter bristle Plastic handles( White ) nylon type .

      You know, the ones that even leave heavy brush marks in water! Thing is, they even gave you a One Piece Color Palette, Mixing Container, Brush Cleaning Tool? in the kit. It was Black. I flipped it over and painted the bottom with the lightest color( The Tan) Boy! did it cover nice and flowed great! Brushability Great!

That's what's funny about Testors acrylics. Model Master Acryl hand brushed poorly in most cases, it was too thin. But those little Testors acrylics from paint sets, both the square bottle and little plastic pot type, hand brush quite nicely. Much better coverage due to their thicker formulation. Superior to the much vaunted Vallejo Model Color for hand brushing over bare plastic in both adhesion and wear handling.

treehuggerdave

I build model cars. I like to use an automotive line of lacquer primers and paints, including a spray clear-coat that started disappearing several years ago, so I bought several cases where I could find them, mostly on Amazon.

The colors started disappearing too, but I have a nice collection of those I've collected over the last 20 years and they still spray, and for a last resort, I have Automotive urethane primers and paints that are far superior to anything in a hobby store.

When Tamiya and the other hobby brands are forced out, I will either still have my urethanes or be dead. I'm a dinosaur in the hobby and could kick the bucket anytime.

In the meantime I wear my 3M Respirator when spraying.

 

Last time I was in HL they had a lot of their new spray lacquers aimed at model cars.  I found a new can of the dullcoat in the back of my paint cabinet, so did not buy the dullcoat, but they had it on the rack.

New rack, though.  The larger MM bottles are now gone- all that are left are the small square bottles and the spray cans.  But the square bottle rack was full.

I know the square botles are more expensive per cc, but it is still in line with a lot of the new paint brands.

And my objections have been that people are saying ALL Testors enamels are gone.  Yes, the MM brand is gone, but that does not make all enamels are gone.  I have had no trouble finding it.  I now have to do mixing for some of the old MM colors.  But I am old school- when I started modeling all the model paints were primary colors and gloss.  In addition to mixing colors, we added talcum powder to get flats.

Hey Stik;

 That's a FER Sure!