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9 hours ago, 1930fordpickup said:

A nice history of brand, price and bottle design.

If you enjoy that kind of stuff: I have an extensive research page, showing the evolution of Humbrol tins:

https://robdebie.home.xs4all.nl/models/humbrol.htm

Since the design changed so often, it can also be used to establish the approximate age of your old tins. I'm often amazed how old the paint is. Like when I painted this 3D printed object: the tins are from (approximately) 1993, 2000 and 1979. I must have been in primary school when I bought the oldest tin.

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Rob

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How many of us can remember when you could buy a kit for under a dollar?  Check out the prices on these two kits.  The price is located right after the kit number - .79 and .98 cents.  If I remember correctly, back in the mid 60's, I was buying car kits for around $1.29 or so.  Those were the good old days!

These rifles are the two oldest kits that I have in my stash.

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1 hour ago, junkyardjeff said:

The last one I bought there was around 2.69.

Time to go to the big box hardware store paint sections. Many have a good rack of small Testors bottles for under $2.

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Here are some old crusted up bottles I found in my stash. A couple of very interesting Patrica bottles. And some old testors the black one that cost 30c is definitely newer.20240407_102716.thumb.jpg.c21118dd177528c11ec9f43aeac6b01a.jpg20240407_102808.thumb.jpg.2852317262cb43e9bed2258a9802a55c.jpg

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Today I needed some black paint to do a bit of touch up work on a model.  The first bottle of black I found was an old round bottle of Pactra enamel that has probably not been opened in over 25 years.  It sounded OK when I shook it so I opened it and stirred it for a minute.  It mixed well so I went ahead and used it.  It worked like new, fresh paint.  Probably better.

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On 4/12/2024 at 5:21 PM, Oldriginal86 said:

My LHS sells Testors bottles for $3.99. I have $12 in the paint job on the Nova I’m building.

From .19 to 3.99 for a little 1/4 Oz bottle of Testors????... This is insane!....😬😠😖😡🤬

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