Testors paints

Tools, Techniques, and Reference Materials Painting and airbrushing
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When I was in Australia a couple years back, I bought some paints at a LHS in Sydney. The line I bought was Testors Model Masters Acryl but instead of coming in a 1/4 oz. glass jar, they were 20mL plastic squeeze pouches.[:)] It had a nozzle at one end and an orange plastic valve to control the amount being put into a pallet/cup. I stocked up on a few and hoped to find some in the U.S., but no joy. [:(] Does Testors only sell these overseas? The back of the pouch shows that they are made in the U.S. Have anyone seen these in the U.S. or Canada? Thanks!

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I use these paints but have never seen them in that kind of container. Sounds real handy. Did you contact Testor? You could go to their web site and ask.

John

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No luck yet from Testors directly, due to the weekend. Hopefully Monday/Tuesday.

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Dragonfire, that would be convenient and a great idea! No need to use a medicine dropper to transfer paint, no mess, no fuss. I wonder too why Testors doesn’t sell those squeeze pouch paints here. Just curious, though: how do you mix it thoroughly before use? Do you just shake the pouch briskly?

Cheers,
onyan

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Are there any difference between the TESTOR brand paint (those you see at Wal Mart) and the MODELMASTER brand paint? I know they are made by the same company. But different packaging. I forgot if the price is different too.

Is the Modelmaster a more expensive version in the Testor’s paint line?

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I’ll take a pic of the paint and post it ASAP. For mixing, it’s simple, just rub back and forth for mixing them pour out what you need.

As for the Model Master’s line, it focuses more on military paint hues vice just the “basic” testors line seen in Wal-Marts, Michael’s, etc… Your LHS usually has a rack of Model Masters and may also carry a “Marine” colors rack. Cost is usually the same for the line in the LHS.

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The Testors Model Master line features an extensive range of over 150 specific military *Federal Standard colors, for US, British, Russian, German WWII, Japanese, etc… guaranteed to match colors on the real thing, in almost any given era. The Testors 1/4 oz. colors are, simply, your stndard blue, green, yellow, etc; including a few specific colors, such as Yellow Zinc Cromate and Breret Green, and a few others. All Testors enamels are high quality hobby paint, with excellent performance, for airbrushing and paint brushing. Testors MM Acryl line is fairly new, and are high quality, although IMHO, trickier to use. I depend on the enamels, others have their preferences.

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Here are a couple of pics of what I was referring to. Sorry it took so long…

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a83/dragonfire76/Models/TestorsAcrylreverse.jpg[img][/img]

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a83/dragonfire76/Models/TestorsAcryl1.jpg[img][/img]

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Thats cool. I guess there is no reason why model paints can’t come in tubes. I wonder if they have these for the enamels too.

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I-Beam: Only Acryl was in the tube/pouch. Enamels were in regular jars (1/4 and 1/2 oz.) and I only found them in Australia. I haven’t seen them anywhere since.

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My local model store had these paints the other day. There is a valve to turn of/stop the flow coming from the sachet. I believe they were 25ml sachets. Also was a airbrush attachment that attaches to the sachet then u connect the air. Wasnt expensive £2.99 or something.
Yea weird paints…gordon J