This Is Just A Test

[Austin T]

Hey man bring the results of that to the meeting tomorrow. I want to see some of this stuff in person.

[jrherald420]

Ok.

[53Suburban]

This is what the Rust-oleum looks like:

[misterNNL]

Another tip for the plastimaniacs to help make our models look even better on display.Thanks Tom,every hint helps someone out.

[jrherald420]

Here's a spray out of what i bought. Im going to do a light misting of primer grey then a light wash to make it more driveway looking.

It dries with not a whole lot of texture to it. Some but not like others i have seen.

Untitled by jrherald420, on Flickr

Untitled by jrherald420, on Flickr

Edited January 6, 2014 by jrherald420

[charlie8575]

  On 12/29/2013 at 2:35 AM, Brett Barrow said:

That's pretty cool! If I ever finish anything I might have to make one of those!

Note that as existing stocks of the Floquil-branded paint is sold off, these textured diorama paints will eventually become part of the Testors "Create FX" line.

Good to know, Brett.

Any word on what will become of the railroad paint? That's my main concern.

Tom- very nice job on this.

Charlie Larkin

[jrherald420]

Floquil railroad paints and washes are still being sold at Hobby Lobby but they do have some colors being changed over to the Testors F/X name, still looks the same but different name.

[Brett Barrow]

  On 1/17/2014 at 7:35 AM, charlie8575 said:

Good to know, Brett.

Any word on what will become of the railroad paint? That's my main concern.

Tom- very nice job on this.

Charlie Larkin

Regular Floquil enamel RR paint is gone once existing stocks are sold out. The CreateFX enamel line is just basic colors, none of the specialized RR colors . About a dozen or so of the Polly Scale RR acrylics are transferring to the 1/2 oz Acryl lineup, they're all generic colors like Grimy Black, RR Tie Brown, Concrete, etc...

CreateFX enamel line:

http://www.testors.com/category/667588/Enamel_Paints

Edited January 17, 2014 by Brett Barrow

[Danno]

Interesting info, Brett.

Still, sad to see the railroad line killed off.

[Brett Barrow]

Yeah, you can blame the ready-to-run RR stuff getting better and better to the point where most RR'ers don't need to detail-up and repaint their stuff nowadays. The ones that do that I know are mostly using Scalecoat paint now.

I'm really surprised RPM let it live as long as they did. I don't think it ever really recovered sales-wise from the Dio-Sol reformulation in the 90's. The only folks happy about that were the plastic modelers (since it was now styrene-safe) who weren't the target audience anyway. By then both Testors and Floquil were part of RPM and it was no use having two brands compete for the same market.