How about This!
Years ago I went to an auction of an old five and dime type store. This was approximately 2001. Well, anyway I had bought a box of paint. Yes friends, all the Model paint they had on Display and in the Back storage area of the store. Yup! There was TESTORS! Yes! Square Bottles (Enough to sink My R.C.–V.L.C.C. tanker model. (She could sail carrying 125 lbs.) and Yes! a lot of Modelmaster!
Trouble is, the Modelmaster was kinda picked through. So Most was Thankfully colors I could use on ships. No Aircraft or Armor colors to speak of. But plenty of Sea Grey, Rust and Waterline Red and Pure White(All Flats)(Pure White’s equivelant in Square Bottles? Flat Insignia White!)
The Square Bottles? Seven sets(10 Bottle) Car Colors(Metallics and Pearls) and 24 sets of standard eight color Gloss sets and 24 sets of standard eight color Flat Plus five dozen Bottles, Model MasterSized 1/2oz. Bottles(Empties, from their crafts department. But, these were made to hold Model and Craft paints!) Two dozen Craft type paint Brushes, Cheapies, The High Quality ones(Avg.$7.50 a brush) a dozen of those. And twelve bottles )Full-4oz, Testors Thinner! NO Glue!!
I thought at the time I could give them to the R.R. museum. I am glad I kept them. I will be mixing and matching for a while. I have a small thing like a little Binocular type flashlight Thingy, that you look through. I got that from I believe A closing Sherwin/Williams about thirty five years ago. It’s like a Miniature View-Master(Remember those?) Anyway this thing comes with Twenty five color cards. Color number in the other.(Must be a color chip!) Then it shows in dots(Drops?) how much to mix to get each shade for a pint!
So you reduce that down for the Testors. I thought I had actually given that stuff to another Museum in South Texas. Turns Out I didn’t. So Using color chips I made with Model Master (for my use)(And Humbrol shades too) I will be able to just keep modeling and not complaining about the lack of paint. I still have My two beginner sets of both Vallejo and A.K. Interactive, plus my Tamiya beginner bundle(I put those together myself) So, as to Paint I am fixed for a while. NO, I cannot sell any, because I have five R.C.Ships needing painting for friends and two for myself. Plus my client pieces. It just means I won’t have to buy paint for a while!
No, I am NOT CROWING! It may seem like it. Please don’t take it that way. Now you see why I say if you can get stuff jump at it! My health is what put those out of my mind and the Covid scare, and lack of a hobby Store(Reg,Hobby Shop) in New Braunfels,Tx., Made me start checking my shed agin. Be stingy, Be adventurous with a wee bit of Cash, Ya never know when what you find to help ya out!