I still have some bottles of Scalecoat and Floquil that I bought when Hi-Country Brass in San Diego went out of business in the late ‘80’s! I usually store my paint upside down, and mix in the thinner outside of the bottle. The acrylics go bad much more quickly. Not a scientific study: just an observation.
Roger Nulton From: Thomas Baker Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2012 12:06 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: {S-Scale List} Re: Paints & brushes-air and otherwise I know what people mean in reference to "short shelf life," but sometimes the inexplicable happens. I had a bottle of Floquil Weyerhauser Green--to my knowledge a color no longer available--to paint the ends and roof of an All-Nation M&StL green box car. I purchased the kit and the paint at a hobby shop in Kansas City on Troost Avenue back in the early Seventies. I used the green for that and then just put the bottle away. For many years I did nothing with model railroading, finally in 1986 deciding for S scale. I purchased several AM box car kits back in the early days of AM. I made one box car into an M&StL green car in the 4200-5298 series. A friend painted it for me using the Floquil purchased in KC. By now it was 1990 or so. What do you know? The Floquil was still usable. Perhaps I just was lucky. Tom -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of Roy Meissner [[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2012 11:02 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} Re: Paints & brushes-air and otherwise I have had the same problem with scalecoat. Once you add thinner, it has a very short shelf life. Roy J Meissner ----- Original Message ----- From: Lynn Ray To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2012 6:25 AM Subject: {S-Scale List} Re: Paints & brushes-air and otherwise I have experienced Scalecoat setting up in the bottle after mixing with thinner. A few years ago I painted some How Ordinary scale GP units in the T&P Swamp Holly Orange and Black for a local hobby dealer. After mixing the color I added thinner before spraying. About 10 days later after assembling the locomotives I needed to do some slight touchup with the red sable. When I opened the bottle the paint was gelled. It seemed as though the thinner was a catalyst that had cured the paint. At the time I did not investigate more thoroughly. Lynn Ray
