Paint standards - or lack thereof

[Phantom726]

Two different tins of X396, both fully stirred but obviously from two different production batches.

[dogsbody]

Mix them together and call it good.

Chris

[CedB]

Just goes to show eh? I noticed that the lids appear to be the same colour - buyer beware!

[Trenton guy]

I always thought that X-396 was way to dark. Perhaps the lighter one is the long needed correction. I would go over to the Hannants website and buy one right away, if I wasn't an American. Apparently, possession of even one tinlet of Xtracolor by an American poses an existential threat to civil aviation and ocean going vessels and so their purchase is absolutely prohibited.

[Steve Noble]

Apparently, possession of even one tinlet of Xtracolor by an American poses an existential threat to civil aviation and ocean going vessels and so their purchase is absolutely prohibited.

Regulations gone mad, can't see the problem myself for a few tins of paint..??

[depressed lemur]

Funny how you can transport caustic, acids, solvents and other nastiest in tankers, IBCs etc. round the world with no problems, but one small tin of paint? How dare we expect to ship such dangerous items, shame on us.

[Graham Boak]

You can ship it, if you do so with the same kind of precautions as other "solvents and other nasties". That would prove a little expensive for a tin of paint. What you can't do is send it by normal mail on an aircraft, and there is no trans-Atlantic surface mail any more. I believe there have been problems on cargo aircraft: not AFAIK with model paints but there were reports on model websites of some tins of metallic paint exploding. These regulations are not aimed at modellers, we've just been caught as a side effect.