Differences between Testors/Model Master bottled paint

[Speedfreak]

Yesterday I was at my local HL and they had Testors FL. White in the 1/4oz. bottles and Model Master in the larger 1/2oz. bottles. Besides size and price is there any difference between the two brands of paint given they are both Testors products?

[Casey]

Not really if they are both oil-based enamels. The Model Master line has more specific colors (including FS-military colors), while the 1/4 ounce bottles are more general.

[LoneWolf15]

The 1/4 ounce bottled paint tends to be a bit thicker than the 1/2 ounce and requires a bit more thinner when airbrushed .

[Skip]

Not a paint expert but, normally a manufacturer's higher end paint product has more and better pigment in it than it's lower end product. Could mean superior coverage, sheen, flatness, deeper or richer colors.

That's the big difference between those lower priced acrylic paints in the squirt bottle and the higher priced ones in the same sized bottle. Most paint manufacturers have multiple lines of product which though they look similar do not produce exactly the same results as the other. In today's world of "environmentally friendly" paint formulas it's difficult to know which one to choose, when the lead got taken out of enamels (model paints had lead too) some of the richness and coverage went away with it.

[Speedfreak]

Thanks for the info you guys. I'll pick-up some Model Master.

[Nxr]

The Smaller bottles provide great cheap, bright enamel paint jobs. The Model Master line includes some great colors but testors brand has also added many new colors in the last 2 years.

[Chillyb1]

I don't know about all the colors and I stopped using enamels several years ago, but there are definitely some paints in the Model Master line that are vast improvements over the regular line. I'm thinking in particular of a couple of the gloss blacks (Classic Black, Black Chrome Trim) a some others that I know from my experience were just better paints.