Scalecoat Paints

[rodsup9000]

 Walthers has bought the Scalecoat line of paints and it's listed on their website.
I called and it was confirmed. I was told that they bought the color formulas and rights. 

[Ted Thorson]

I hope that's true, Scalecoat was good stuff.

[Jbub]

Will it be available in n-scale colors?   

[C855B]

I'm a skeptic. I've pontificated at length about Scalecoat's VOC problems, including not to be shipped into Texas and (possibly) California. If the line is reintroduced by somebody major like Walthers, it's going to be with considerable adjustments to the formula.

IOW, good for them, but I have a Benjamin here saying that it won't be the same Scalecoat as is sitting on our workbenches.

[Tristan Ashcroft]

Will it be available in n-scale colors?   

Colors, yes.  The tricky part is getting the N scale airbrush.

[nkalanaga]

I've heard (but can't confirm) that the reason they won't ship to Texas is laws, at some level, requiring ID to buy spray paints.

I tried to look it up, but all I could find were laws against using it for graffiti - nothing about buying or selling it!

[ATSF_Ron]

Nkalanaga, yeah don't get me started on the "laws" designed to "protect us."  Here in Commiefornia it's out of control!

[mu26aeh]

Update on Scalecoat.  My boss at Mainline informed me that we have an order coming in with new old stock.  They are hoping to be back in production by mid to late summer

[Bruce Archer]

Now they need to do the latest LV Cornell Red in the Spray can.....

Bruce

[robert3985]

THIS is GREAT NEWS!!!

Scalecoat II is my all-time favorite paint for my UP and SP engines and rolling stock, and my hoard of it is getting smaller and smaller (like no more "Oxide Red" on my paint shelf).

I never used the original Scalecoat because it ate plastics, just like original Floquil did/does, but Scalecoat II, being thinned and cleaned up with plain ol' "paint thinner" and producing a very durable gloss finish on brass models when baked in my toaster oven without the need for a detail-hiding coat of primer, was by far, in my estimation, the best model railroad paint on the market.

I remember way back in the Eighties, taking several different brands of model railroad paints' Armour Yellow and Harbor Mist Grey versions and making color chips by spraying the colors on Styrene squares...letting them dry for a few days, then taking them to the UP Riverdale Yard, asking for permission at the yard office to compare them with the real UP engines on the tracks...with Scalecoat II being the decisive winner...and Floquil being the winner for severely faded Armour Yellow.

Very happy indeed to see it being revived!

Cheerio!
Bob Gilmore

[peteski]

Here is some additional info (in another thread of course).
https://www.therailwire.net/forum/index.php?topic=56722.msg799354#msg799354

[Altoona]

https://scalecoat.com/
Stripped and thinners ( Both I & II) supposed to be first products.

Judd Barton
PRRTHS #9120

[nickelplate759]

Terrific news!

Strangely, I'm more excited by the return of Wash-Away than the actual paint.

[bman]

Rather than resurrect one of the many threads on Scalecoat paint I figure I'd just leave this here.  So far it looks like Wash Away and Scalecoat I thinner(soldout) atm.

https://scalecoat.com/

[peteski]

Rather than resurrect one of the many threads on Scalecoat paint I figure I'd just leave this here.  So far it looks like Wash Away and Scalecoat I thinner(soldout) atm.

https://scalecoat.com/

There is really no reason to start yet another Scalecoat thread when the latest updated thread is just few down from yours.  Merging.