Floquill & Poly Scale Paint Lines Now Out Of Production?

On the 2-Rail forum today:

 

https://ogrforum.com/t...-my-local-hobby-shop

 

Rusty

I got an email today that said the same thing. The source is reputable. He referenced a notice from Walthers as the source of his information.

There is a press release and news story about closing down one of the plants and laying off an undisclosed number of employees.  This was last Friday.  

 

BTW, the just started releasing new labeling so this seems to be a rather sudden change!

Wow, if this is true....we better get to our local Hobby Shop ASAP !!

It does appear to be true.  A real shame.  I always liked Floquil paints.

If you use an airbrush , which is what I use , just get the pints of ACE brand oil based Paint , some paint thinner , and lacquer thinner to clean the enamel . you can mix just about any shade and get some small glass bottles from the airbrush company . When done just dump the small amount of leftover and the lacquer thinner will clean up everything. Most pro airbrush guys who are really good only use oil base , much easier to clean up than acrylic.acrylic is a pain to clean , but just spray some straight lacquer thinner though everything and you are good to go. I shoot outside on a sunny day and have had great success, those small bottles are way over priced. The small Humbrols are realgood too. You can even get away with brushing it on .

These folks have it in stock

http://www.hobbylinc.com/cgi-b...;cat_s=RH&mfg_s=

Mike, Thanks for the lead. Just got 6 three-packs of the Floquill pens.

 

Gilly

If true, this is a disaster for the hobby. True, we still have Badger and Scalecoat, but neither has  the extensive product line or the distribution channels of Floquil/Polyscale. One of the few things my LHS has that is useful for an 0 gauger is a very good assortment of paint - I'll be stocking up. But paint doesn't last forever, even in factory sealed jars. 

MICROMARK SELLS FLOQUIL AS OF LAST CATALOG-SMOOTHEST PAINT I EVER USED with a spray gun.sad-floquil was made in Amsterdam,ny.near Albany,ny.

IMO.  There is shelf live to these products, especially the acrylics. I also had issues with acrylics being shipped in winter weather.   So shelf stock items may be issues also.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Testors is in Rockford, Illinois.  The company is now part of RMT, a major coatings company.  Reading the press release it looks like they (RMT) are the source of the re-org and Testors is pulling back into it's own core product line and trimming stuff they picked up like Pactra, Floquil and PolyScale.  

 

Testors just started shipping paint with the new labeling which is weird for a company to go to the expense of designing new "branding" if you are going to shut down production.  They have a much wider distribution channel for their core brand of paints (Testors/Model Masters).  These can be found in craft stores, discount department stores, big box stores while the other lines are strictly hobby shop/mail order.

 

I hope they can/will spin off the other product lines because those were the paints I like/use.  I've had to adapt before and I guess I will again.

Oh no!

 

Dave

Back in the day when I built plastic model kits and won a few local hobby store contests, I used Humbrols and they were superior to all the paints available.  I haven't used them in awhile, but give that brand a try.  They used to come in mini paint cans rather than jars.  Hopefully they didn't mess with the formula from years past.

Floquil had some of the finest grind for pigments available and the colors were pretty good match for the real railroads.  I hope that someone else will pick up the product line just like Testors picked it up in the 80's.

It is strange that the TESTORS website shows the Floquil paints in the Railroad category as limited availability.

 

Why are they not putting the word discontinued on their website?

 

Andrew

Because they are still selling whatever they have left in inventory. They want dealers to know they can still get many of the colors....until they run out of stock.