FINE CRAFT KITS

PACTRA PAINT CONVERSION CHART

MATCHING PACTRA PAINT WITH FLOQUIL RAILROAD COLORS

Many of our instruction sheets refer to PACTRA acrylic enamel paints. Unfortunately, like many other good things, they are no longer available. In the table below we attempt to cross reference them as best we can with Floquil colors. As with all such creative efforts, you'll have to mix in a little of your own good judgment and taste to come up with your desired effect. Whether you use Floquil, Polly Scale, acrylic or solvent base of another brand is up to you. This reference will at least get you close as Floquil color samples are available in the Walthers catalog. Discontinuing Pactra paints was certainly not our idea!

To rub salt in the wound, TESTORS Corp. has now discontinued the FLOQUIL RR colors. Many of us has squirrled way a few years supply of our favorite RR colors, and Testor's continues it's generic enamels, as well as others like PBL's Star brand.

MATCHING FLOQUIL FLO-STAINS

Some of our instruction sheets refer to Floquil Flo-Stains. Unfortunately, these too have also been discontinued. We have had some success mimic them by adding a 50/50 mix of Floquil Hi-Gloss with Testor's Dullcote to small amounts (10-20%) of regular Floquil paint. You'll have to fish around for the colors you like, but try gray, brown, tan and so on. Even Reefer Orange mixed with White and then diluted yeilds some interesting results. Floquil does offer similar stains under generic names.