Is this true? Maybe I'm a bit behind, but I just heard about this and I noticed that some colors are a bit scarce. How could they do this to us?

conrailmike Wrote:Is this true? Maybe I'm a bit behind, but I just heard about this and I noticed that some colors are a bit scarce. How could they do this to us?

I havent heard anything; but an LHS near me has been scarce on paint colors for years. That is due to the LHS owner thinking he makes no money selling paint and supplies, so he never restocks. If it is true, then it doesn't entirely surprise me. Testor's has owned Floquil for awhile now, and they also sell the model master line of acrylic paints. The railroad colors of Polly Scale are unique, so perhaps they will just re-label those and add them to their Model Master line. We have several LHS owners on this forum; perhaps one of them will chime in.

Typical! What better way to eliminate the competition than to purchase the competing company, and then slowly eliminate their product line from your catalogue!

First, Floquil Model Railroad Paint with the super-fine ground pigment. argueably the best model railroad paint ever, gets "re-formulated" and then ...
Then Polly-S gets re-formulated into Polly Scale ... and now that will be discontinued?

We should have seen that coming when Testors made their weak attempt at adding a handful of "railroad colors" to their regular model paints line. Did they get a government bailout? Is this Testors working towards a "single-supplier" model paint industry?

This is depressing news!

I would not panic. From what I have seen and read on other forums Testors has stated it is only the military line of Polly Scale paints that will no longer be made as they have the same colors in another line of paints. The railroad colors have no such duplicates so they will still be made. I also seen a post some where that had a copy of an email someone had received from Testors stating it was just the military colors.
I hope it is true as I use Polly Scale paints a lot. I also use Badger Modelflex but after receiving a few dried out jars in my last couple of orders I have not used it as much. Lately for my locomotives and rolling stock I use the True Line Trains line of acrylic paints as they have the Canadian colors I need. The True Line Trains paints also are rumored to be produced by Testors. I can believe it as the bottle look like Polly Scale bottles and the paint gives the same great results I get from Polly Scale. The TLT paints are also nice as they are supposed to be airbrush ready straight from the bottle but I still add a few drops of water to each bottle. All but one of my brass locomotives were painted with the TLT paints ( my CNR 2-8-0 was done with Polly Scale ) and I got a great finish.


Wayne Reid

P5se Camelback Wrote:Floquil Model Railroad Paint with the super-fine ground pigment. argueably the best model railroad paint ever

I will definitely agree with this statement. I brush painted many a locomotive with Floquil with excellent results.

I still use Floquil! And I swear by it!

Back in the '70's and '80's when I was custom painting brass (and the occasional plastic shell, yeah, I'll admit it,) d.b.a. "The Brass Backshop," I kept "stocking up" on the colors that I used most often as well as keeping at least two bottles of any other colors that I would only use on occasion, "just in case." [I had a "couple bucks" invested in Floquil!]

When I moved this last time, I counted six 9"x9"x14" Rubbermaid® tubs full of Floquil, much of it the original formula! I had two one gallon cans of Diosol, but they have mysteriously disappeared ... hmmmmmmm! Luckily, it seens that regular old lacquer thinner works just fine for atomizing pigment by airbrush and for "cleaning up."

Thanks for the tip, doctorwayne!

But the threat of losing Polly Scale, just as I'm starting to be comfortable with it, annoys me more than a wasp up my pant leg! :evil:

biL,
If you ever feel like "disposing of" your Floquil CONRAIL BLUE please let me know!

I switched to Scale Coat and model flex...much better consistancy and more bang for the buck.

Wayne R Wrote:I would not panic. From what I have seen and read on other forums Testors has stated it is only the military line of Polly Scale paints that will no longer be made as they have the same colors in another line of paints. The railroad colors have no such duplicates so they will still be made. I also seen a post some where that had a copy of an email someone had received from Testors stating it was just the military colors.
I hope it is true as I use Polly Scale paints a lot. I also use Badger Modelflex but after receiving a few dried out jars in my last couple of orders I have not used it as much. Lately for my locomotives and rolling stock I use the True Line Trains line of acrylic paints as they have the Canadian colors I need. The True Line Trains paints also are rumored to be produced by Testors. I can believe it as the bottle look like Polly Scale bottles and the paint gives the same great results I get from Polly Scale. The TLT paints are also nice as they are supposed to be airbrush ready straight from the bottle but I still add a few drops of water to each bottle. All but one of my brass locomotives were painted with the TLT paints ( my CNR 2-8-0 was done with Polly Scale ) and I got a great finish.


Wayne Reid

Denatured alcohol may dissolve most water based acrylic paints. You might try it with the dried out Model Flex.