I don’t want to get in trouble but I would like to know were I can order paint? See I have no local hobby shop so any thing I do with my trains I have to mail order. I would like to try my had at weathering a few cars and engines but would like to order from some place that has good prices and a good supply
A good place to start would be to tell us approximately where on the planet you are. If it is Baghdad, that could have unique problems of its own.[^o)] When I got back to the hobby I found PWRS just down the road from me. I was in heaven.[tup]
Two problems here with mail-order paint.
Solvent-based paint and spray cans of any kind are prohibited in the mail, so you won’t find anyone willing to ship that stuff.
Other paints are in liquid form. These aren’t prohibited AFAIK but many shops won’t ship them to avoid the possibility that the pinat could open during transit and “pre-paint” the rest of your order.
Can anone recommend a shop or dealer who will ship non-flammable paints by mail?
Mike,I order acrylic paints from M.B.Klein and Walthers with no issues…I had also order Flo-Quil when it was readily available.
Go to Walmart or Hobby Lobby, they got zillions of colors in little 2 oz plastic bottles.
For weathering you do not need specific colors. For painting buildings, waysides and people, you do not need specific colors.
Guess what… You do not need specific railroad colors for your rolling stock either. That stuff fades, is weathered, comes to teh railroad in different batchesm and doesn’t match anything anyway.
Use ANY paint, thus spake the LION
ROAR
If you want to use solvent based paints. Scalecoat (Weaver Models) does ship those paints within the US lower 48…except Texas. But outside the US…if that be the case. Go after acrylics.
Mark H
Badger sells their Modelflex paints direct: http://www.modelflexpaint.com/
MicroMark sells a pretty good selection of the Vallejo paints: http://www.micromark.com/paint-for-brush-and-spray-application.html
Larry,
I was assuming the issue was shipping paint to Baghdad or thereabouts. The PO does ship non-flammable, water-based paints. It allows shipment of solvent-based paint in ORM-D (consumer) packaging but only by ground, so that pretty much limits things to the lower 48 (I don’t think they do ground service to AK and HI.) Internationally, there really is no option for solvent-based paint. AFAIK, all express services – which use air exclusively, because they’re in a hurry – don’t permit solvent-based paint. But if one does, that would be useful here.
For the low-down: https://www.usps.com/ship/shipping-restrictions.htm
Now about Texas rejecting paint, must be something special going on there.
I get my paint from here:
http://www.hobbylinc.com/hobby-and-model-acrylic-paint
No problem with having it shipped to Virginia.
I was just looking at Model Master paints in Hobby Lobby and they had a good selection of colors including the small spray cans (if you use that kind of paint). The prices are OK but with a 40% off coupon the prices are reasonable. They are solvent based paints and made by Testor’s. They also carry a zillion of the acrylic paints in the small plastic bottles as does Walmart.
-Bob
Elmer,
I use them all the time…solvents, acrylic’s, also great prices on most anything. [Y]
Take Care! [:D]
Frank