Paint prices

[mrindy77]

I pretty much use automotive laquers to paint with. I buy them in pints and they last me a long time. I went to the paint shop yesterday to buy some Viking and Guardsman blue. $85 per pint. The last time I purchased a pint it was $40. A quart of Ditzler primer was $76. I should be set to paint Cobras from now until the zombie apocalypse.

[pharoah]

I can remember when the little Testor's spray cans were about a dollar. Oil based house paint goes up every time I buy it too.

[johnbuzzed]

Testors little square bottles once cost 10 cents; then, "they" had the nerve to jack that up to TWELVE cents!!! Of course, most kits cost less than two bucks back then, too.

[mrindy77]

I always have sticker shock when I buy paint. If you add up all the stuff(tools, paints, etc) it's no wonder kids are not interested in the hobby. You could easily drop $60 to build a model about the price of video game. Then all they have is a dust collector that has very little play value.

[johnbuzzed]

Yeah, but when I was a kid, I used to play the hell out of my models (and my Dad's, too)! Inside or outside. Demolition derbies, emergency landings, alien laser death ray attacks, fire and explosions, battle damage... ah, the good old days

[mrindy77]

Sounds like my childhood. I was always really careful with dad models. I raced them on an oval shaped rug we had. Even though there were some "bad" crashes I never busted them up. I was always fascinated by military dioramas...as kid I thought my dream job would be building dioramas for museums. Dreams are cheap.

[Zarana-X]

I still have a few coagulated bottles of Testors with 10 cent, 50 cent markings on the lid. I got an antique Pactra bulk pack of od green about 20 years ago, forgot what those were marked.

The spray cans now are rediculous. I usually buy Krylon spray paint, unless I need a metallic or some thing odd, which isn't often.

[slusher]

I play with mine but I didn't break them. I use to remember the paint prices in the good days but have long forgot now..

[Greg Cullinan]

I've been thinking the little tamiya sprays are getting expensive too,about $7.

[Harry P.]

I pretty much use automotive laquers to paint with. I buy them in pints and they last me a long time. I went to the paint shop yesterday to buy some Viking and Guardsman blue. $85 per pint. The last time I purchased a pint it was $40. A quart of Ditzler primer was $76. I should be set to paint Cobras from now until the zombie apocalypse.

As long as you paint them all the same color!

[2002p51]

A couple of weeks ago I bought one of those 1/2 ounce bottles of Testors Model Master and did the math. (because I have no life!)

At the price they charge for a 1/2 ounce of paint, that works out to $600/gallon!

[ranma]

I have found Dupli color spray paints For under $ 2.00 at OLLIES BARGAN OUTLET stores which is great cause I like to use that kind of paints

[Harry P.]

A 12 ounce can of Rustoleum costs $3.49 at the local home center around here. Kind of hard to justify paying twice that much for 1/4 the paint for a can of "model paint" at the hobby shop!

Rustoleum spray: 29¢ per ounce.

Testors/Tamiya spray: $2.30 per ounce

[martinfan5]

Good ole days are long gone

Edited February 1, 2014 by martinfan5

[pharoah]

Yeah it's all relative I guess. When models were $1.50 to $2.00,I had trouble coming up with that too.

Now that they're $20 to $25,that's half a bag of groceries! (sad to say)

[CJ1971]

Speaking of spray paints, I was in my local art-supply store browsing around yesterday & came across this brand, Liquitex. I enquired about it & ended up buying a can. They are water based acrylics & odourless! It cost me $19.95au & can size is 400ml/12oz. If it's available in the US I'd say it'd be half that price.

When I got home I gave it a very quick test on 1 of my plastic testing spoons. I'm impressed, not only with the odourlessness but the pressure the paint comes out at is lower than regular spray cans such as Testors/Tamiya. Coverage is great. It dries quite quickly & goes on flat, so clear coating would be necessary. The quality & lay-down smoothness reminds me of Zero-Paints range.

Mind you there's no primer/clear on this spoon... Just the Liquitex paint....

Edited February 1, 2014 by CJ1971

[Tom Geiger]

I have found Dupli color spray paints For under $ 2.00 at OLLIES BARGAN OUTLET stores which is great cause I like to use that kind of paints

When I first moved to PA about 3 years ago I found Ollies because they were blowing out Lindberg kits. I went and didn't find any kits I needed but they had the Duplicolor large can Truck Colors paint for a dollar a can! So I bought every can I deemed useful... EVERY can of black, flat black, white, clear, primer... etc. And then every can in any color I could possibly think I would use someday. I think it came to 30 cans. I did go through all the primer, but I still have an ample inventory of everything else. I can only figure that this was the last blow out of that Duplicolor line since it's no longer available in stores nor at Ollies. Last I checked all the had was Duplicolor temporary spray paint for painting up cars for graduations and sports events.

I like to use automotive paints, mainly Duplicolor on my models. Pep Boys has coupons all the time for $5 off a $25 order, and equal discounts on greater purchases at increments. So occasionally I'll stock up and use the coupon. Also when you belong to their rewards program, every so often you get a dividend of $10 or so that instantly gets converted into paint.

I do buy a few Testors cans, mainly flat black and dullcote. I just discovered that I like the Wet Coat lacquers too. They have those at Michaels and I'll use the 40% and occasional 50% off coupon on those. I usually only need one can at a time, so it works for me.

[slusher]

Good ole days are long gone

I hate to say it also but the good days are gone. When Walmart put Duplicolor on clearance a few years ago it did not last a week. That also was the smaller cans to. I have been using some Rustolium and Krylon colors but still use Tamiya and Model master sprays most but I am using paint I have bought up so I have enough to last a while. All my bottle paint lasts for years...

[niteowl7710]

When I first moved to PA about 3 years ago I found Ollies because they were blowing out Lindberg kits. I went and didn't find any kits I needed but they had the Duplicolor large can Truck Colors paint for a dollar a can! So I bought every can I deemed useful... EVERY can of black, flat black, white, clear, primer... etc. And then every can in any color I could possibly think I would use someday. I think it came to 30 cans. I did go through all the primer, but I still have an ample inventory of everything else. I can only figure that this was the last blow out of that Duplicolor line since it's no longer available in stores nor at Ollies. Last I checked all the had was Duplicolor temporary spray paint for painting up cars for graduations and sports events.

I like to use automotive paints, mainly Duplicolor on my models. Pep Boys has coupons all the time for $5 off a $25 order, and equal discounts on greater purchases at increments. So occasionally I'll stock up and use the coupon. Also when you belong to their rewards program, every so often you get a dividend of $10 or so that instantly gets converted into paint.

I do buy a few Testors cans, mainly flat black and dullcote. I just discovered that I like the Wet Coat lacquers too. They have those at Michaels and I'll use the 40% and occasional 50% off coupon on those. I usually only need one can at a time, so it works for me.

Ollies will blow out the 1/4 cans (the ones the same size of the Temporary Paint) usually a couple of times a year for 59 cents a can, the larger ones are $1.59. It happens at random whenever the NAPA Warehouses (the last big batch came out of Denver) wholesale out the previous year's paint lines. Sometimes you go in and there's nothing, other times it's a bonanza, I have something like 130 of those quarter cans. Pretty much 2 cans of every single color I could find, I have more shades of silver and champagne than you can shake a stick at! I tend to break the cash registers when they sell the 1/4 cans because technically you're only allowed to buy something like 15 or 20 of the same item. I pointed out it might be 50 cans, but it's not 25 of the same item, it's 2x each item, and there's still like 15 flats of paints back there waiting for everyone else.

[RodneyBad]

Nice paint stash, I don't feel soo bad now..

And Yaa, The older ya get, the prices will follow..

Nothing will be as cheap as it use to be...

[niteowl7710]

Nice paint stash, I don't feel soo bad now..

And Yaa, The older ya get, the prices will follow..

Nothing will be as cheap as it use to be...

That's only part of it...that box in the background is full of cans, although most of them I paid full price for at Advanced Auto.

You'd look at it and go "WOW! That's a LOT of paint!"...and yet it'd only paint about 2/3rds of my stash.

[Guest]

I always have sticker shock when I buy paint. If you add up all the stuff(tools, paints, etc) it's no wonder kids are not interested in the hobby. You could easily drop $60 to build a model about the price of video game. Then all they have is a dust collector that has very little play value.

And nothing to show for it, except a fat butt. At least dropping the $ on a model, you have something you can be proud of, something to sit back, look at, and say, I built that! A work of art, if you will.

[johnbuzzed]

Good ole days are long gone

"These are the good old days". Anyway, they will be.

[bbowser]

"These are the good old days". Anyway, they will be.

LOL, it's true. We have an embarrassment of riches right now with newly tooled kits, re-issues, eBay, the internet, and many more choices of paint colors! I for one do not miss the days of 8 colors of Testors $0.10 bottles.

[jaydar]

Testors, health care, and college tuition all from some other planet where salaries go up BEFORE costs.

Edited February 1, 2014 by jaydar