The title says it all. I hear conflicting rumors but clearly lots of colors that used to be available are not now - not just railroad but military, large scale, figures and so on.
I ask here because we seem to have members with good industry info.
Dave Nelson
I heard something about this when I was in Hobbytown USA in Brandon, Florida last weekend. I aksed why there were so many empty slots in the Model Master display.
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They said that a lot of the colors were being discontinued.
It was the military colours I was asking about. I use British Crimson for my locomotive roofs and tender decks.
This is not such a bad thing. They have dozens of colours that all look exactly the same to me. Reducing some of the SKU proliferation should be OK.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
There was a post making the rounds on social media of late saying RustOLeum would discontinue the entire Testors product line. I think the screenshoted email letter shown in those posts was later proven to be a fake.
SeeYou190 This is not such a bad thing. They have dozens of colours that all look exactly the same to me. Reducing some of the SKU proliferation should be OK. -Kevin .
Yeah, I am partially shade blind, and I argue with my family about blues and greens.
Harrison
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xboxtravis7992 There was a post making the rounds on social media of late saying RustOLeum would discontinue the entire Testors product line. I think the screenshoted email letter shown in those posts was later proven to be a fake.
I found the screen shot of a supposed message to distributors that all hobby and craft paint lines would be discontinued by Testors/RustOleum, posted on a website and forum for model cars. It was denounced as a fake in that forum because the announcement was from "The Testor Corporation" not "Testors." The problem with that analysis is that it is the Testor (singular) Corporation.
The communication may well be a fake but at least on that site, the reasoning for declaring it to be fake is flawed.
HarrisonYeah, I am partially shade blind, and I argue with my family about blues and greens.
I also have problems with heraldic green and blues. The green and blue Sorry pieces look identical to me. However, sky blue and olive green I have no problems with.
I'm in the window covering business and color it an important part of it. With this connection, I picked up an interesting statistic that, if accurate, explains a lot.
43.2% of the males in the world have some sort of color perception issue. Some barely, some severe. The percentage for females is .5% (that's 1/2 of 1%).
Yeah, my wife would agree with that!
Deane Johnson43.2% of the males in the world have some sort of color perception issue.
No, this is not true. The only reason that number is so high is because, when asked, we respond with:
a. whatever you want, dear
b. what's the matter with what we have now?
or
c. I don't care because it all looks the same to me.
To be honest looking at the Testors website you can see that it is done by someone who has no clue of how you use model paint. The natural divisions would be car military railroad and general colors. The other division would be flat and gloss. Instead they throw everything together like they would for rustolium sprays. Search train or railroad and the railroad colors do not come up. Absolutely clueless.