Hi Peter and all -- As I recall, and don’t quote me on this because my memory is not that good from so long ago and I could not verify this by a quick google search, but Testors bought Pactra back in the 1980s. Pactra became the producer of Testors paints as well as their own brand. I believe Pactra is/was located in California, and the state’s environmental stance has probably forced Testors to close Pactra, IF it is as I remember.
Testors is also part of a conglomerate – RPM. Testors does not make Rustoleum as far as I know. If you look up RPM, there are probably 20 different lines of products they control, including DAP. Testors is the small fish in the pond. Lastly, as someone else has stated, this might just be a streamlining of the whole model paint spectrum where the same color was marketed to different audiences with different labeling, and we might still see a wide range of model paints, but all carrying the same label, so boxcar red might actually be named something else, but still be the same color. Personally, I like Polyscale and Acryl for brush painting and I hope that type of paint will continue to exist. Have fun! Bill Winans ------------------------------- If you are a member of the Sn3 Yahoo Group, you will have already read that Testors is getting out of the Floquil/PollyScale/Pactra paint business. I just found the official notice posted on the MRH web site: http://model-railroad-hobbyist.com/node/13972 - Peter Vanvliet
