1 oz bottles:
Feb 2005: $3.39
Feb 2008: $4.25
Sept 2008: $4.60
I checked several different shops. They have ALL gone up by roughly the same amount. That’s a 35% increase in 3 years, or ~10%/year
And they keep changing the color on aged concrete!
Thanks for the heads-up, DG. [tup]
Unfortunatel sign of the times with our impacted economy. That is quite a price jump.
I’m fortunate as I already have a wide selection of colors in my paint rack. I clean the tops and seal the lids snuggly to keep that paint from drying up. Some of my Polly Scale bottles are 4 years old with the paint inside still in good “fluid” condition [;)].
I have some paint from 1976!
As for the Aged Concrete changing colour – shouldn’t it? [;)]
Jeff, I hope the “New Gravel Gray” isn’t like the “New Coke” fiasco from years ago. (JK) Actually I haven’t tried the original Gravel Gray. Come to think of it, I should’ve ordered some D&H Grey with my last order from Walthers. I got some GTW Blue & a few drill bits & the price came to $20 & some odd change fairly quickly. Oh well, I like the paint, & will continue to get it, but only from Walthers from now on as the paint I’ve gotten from my LHS has seemed to clump up fairly quickly as compared to paint I’ve ordered from Walthers. My guess is Walthers has high turnover, & my LHS’s have been sitting on his shelf for years. (he still has Athearn BBs that I remember seeing in his old shop in 1995.)
I seem to remember them being around $4.29 for the 1oz bottles for a couple years now.
http://www.hobbylinc.com/prods/swc_flo.htm
Last month I finished a small jar of Testors cement costing 69 cents. Its replacement cost me $2.29.
Mark
If you have done any grocery shopping lately you will surely realize that EVERYTHING has really shot up in price! Cat food–9-Lives–shot up 50% overnight; it has reached the point where it is cheaper to eat my cats rather than feed them! (That, friends, is meant as a joke!)
As I have said on other occasions I am taking a hiatus from layout work and instead am devoting my energies to writing that Great American Novel which I have been inspiring over for the past thirty years; when I get back active on a layout in four or five years I shudder at what I envision prices are going to be!
The price of paint is of no concern to me. Since things will start to come down in price like scrap metal and oil has in the last two weeks, my money will have more buying power. I am unaffected by any of this so called “crisis” which only seems to affect those that made bad credit investment choices and the banks that let it happen. What worries me is how much I am going to be taxed to pay for other peoples mistakes in the name of “enonomic justice” when the next administration takes over and punishes me for being careful with my funds. It’s like the fable of the ant and grasshopper, only in this version the ant is thrown out of his home and the grasshopper takes over but gets foreclosed on, so a gang of spiders can move in and terrorize the neighborhood.
Price of paint- who cares. I buy what I need and don’t look at the cost.
Paint? Nah, no worries. Gasoline is cheaper in the same fluid measurements.
Now if I ordered 15 gallons of paint…[banghead]
Digital Griffin,
Please tell us specifically what difference did you notice in the concrete color compared to the versions you’ve bought or seen in the past from Pollyscale.
I have used 3 1 oz bottles of aged concrete.
The first was okay
The second had a real slight red tinge to it (Yes I said red)
The third is more yellow-creamy colored as opposed to a tan.
I need to check the old bottles to be sure, but I noticed some of the ingrediants have changed. Was it possibly a move to save money, or to change paint characteristics?
They also got rid of boxcar red.
(This color was really a brown. But it was PERFECT for brick.)