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I buy 99% IPA in a gallon-size can at my local hardware store (in the paint thinners isle).

I'm curious just how people dig up 13-year-old threads. What was it Tom that made you find such an old thread?

It might work for simple molds. Heck, some people use PlayDoh for molds. But going by its original use, that rubber is not very stretchy. If you want to mold more complex shapes the mold material needs to be quite stretchy so the hardened parts can be removed.

How about mixing alcohol and Windex together for a super-cleaning fluid?

Maybe at the time of the acquisition Testors was a leader in hobby paints market, and growing. It made sense for RPM to swallow the "small fish" hoping to grow it even further. Then few decades later, the hobby market has shrunk, and the paint sales were declining, so RPM decided to slowly get out of the hobby paint market? We will likely never know the reasons RPM acquired, then slowly killed of Testors line of hobby paints. We will also never know where Testors would be if RPM left them alone. But going by my life experience, like I said, it seems like consumers suffer because of all those acquisitions and takeovers.

Gee, thanks Scott! I thought there was another current discussion in another section of the forum. I followed your instructions, and that search produced 211 pages of matches. The top 2 point to this thread, the other ones (I scrolled through couple pages of results) are unrelated to the current discussion. Very helpful - not!

There is? Where?

Yeah, back when they called them Datsuns.

My first question would be: What is it used for in the machine shop? I also say that if you want to resin-cast some stuff, it would make sense to use the materials specifically designed for casting.

To me the naming convention used by the forum's software makes no sense. It is confusing. It calls each section of the forum website a "forum", and the whole thing is called "site". To me it makes more sense to call the entire site a "forum", and each separate section (like this one) a "section" . But that is just how the developers of the forum's software chose to name things and we just have get used to it.

Probably because their marketing people (in some agency which gets paid lots of money to come up with those ideas) think that giving the old stuff new name will make it more marketable (and increase their profits). It is silly to people like you and me, but they think it makes sense. It is the new generation of marketing people doing this. Take a plain old Oreo cookie., For many decades, it stayed the same, in the same packaging. Then they came up with small changes (like double stuff), Not very different from the original. Then the variety of Oreos exploded, and even got seasonal. We now probably have way over a dozen varieties of Oreo cookies. While this is not a direct comparison to the Future's name changes, to point is that in the last few decades, marketing efforts for for most products has expanded exponentially. I guess in the end we should be glad that they haven't discontinued it. There are many products that I liked and used, which have been discontinued.

LOL Casey, in that thread you linked to the same video, back in 2016!

Ok, here is the scoop on that model. It is the 2003-08 Toyota Crown from TomyTec Car Collection 10. I think the builder probably picked that car because it is larger than most of the TomyTec 1:150 scale automobiles. Here a comparison photo of the TomyTec Nissan Teana (blue) from Car Collection 10, a 1:160 Wiking VW Passat (red), and the TomyTec Toyota Crown from Car Collection 10. So yes, that model is quite bit larger than a typical 1:160 passenger car, but I believe it is still correctly scaled model, in 1:150 scale.

Yeah, I also learned some things from that video. ConCor you say? That's funny, there is Con-Cor company that makes and sells model trains, but I don't think they ever had an injection-molding facility. They subcontracted other companies to make their models.

I ran into this video while looking for other things on YouTube. Excellent presentation and it also shows the proper terminology which are often misused by modelers. The related videos mentioned at the end of this video are also worth watching.

I believe the model is a standard 1:150 Japanese passenger car, probably from Tomix (Tomytec). Person in the video might just have small hands. If I did some Google searches I could likely find that exact model, but I don't feel it is that important.

Most grocery stores, in the cleaning supplies section, sell bottled ammonia (plain and lemon scented). That could be used for stripping Future too.

Yes, 1984 is the date in an industrial journal referenced in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Testor_Corporation As far as Floquil /Polly-S paints go, I have some old bottles (probably from the '70s), still with their Amsterdam, NY address with RPM logo on the labels. So RPM was in the hobby paint business for quite some time. I'm not sure about the history and status of Pactra paints. As I see it, all those corporate mergers and acquisitions don't serve consumers very well.

Ah, the "new normal". Hey, even sports mascots are "wearing" masks. We are living in interesting times.

I doubt it - see my earlier post in this thread.

Thank you for this Jonahtan! I don't know why people seem to think that Rustoleum is a company that owned Testors name. Was the Rustoleum name mentioned on the labels in recent runs of Testors paints? Like you said, all those brands are part of the RPM corp. The old Floquil, Polly-S and Polly-Scale paint lines were also owned by RPM. And none of this was recent. RPM owned those brands for decades. It was the RPM "mothership" which decided to end those paint lines. If someone is looking for alternatives for the old-fashion "stinky" paints (other than ones already mentioned), I recommend Tru-Color paint, and Scalecoat II paints. While these are mainly geared towards model railroad hobby, paint is paint - they can be used on any models.

Yes, heat increases potency of all the stripping solutions. We are talking about 90-110 deg. F (not much hotter than that). In the summer months I don't have to do anything, but in the winter, when my house is at 64 degrees, I warm up the stripping solution.

There goes the neighborhood! Sorry to hear that Jim. It did seem like a really nice place. I feel sorry for the poor landlord too. It is no fun being a "slumlord" nowadays.

Jim, what part of New York did you live in? Your forum profile shows you location as New York, NY. That can't be New York CIty? Too pleasant looking, and small-town-like. Looks more like a typical Smalltown, USA, in the '50s.

Another gorgeous Caddy from Jean-Philippe! I love it!