Tamiya Spray Banned in Canada?

[guggles 340]

@alvinlwh Thats adhesion promoter, which is used to increase the paints bond with flexible materials. I was talking about actual car paint they use for the color. I get it for about $15 for 5oz. Its used to paint cars which can have a lot of plastic pieces that are subject to flex. It seems to hold on the lexan very well, but I am not sure if every color or brand will work as well. 

[svenb 4617]

On 9/27/2024 at 8:27 PM, alvinlwh said:

Which reminded me to make up a shopping list of paint to buy in Asia where these nonsense don't exist. 

Do import or bring it back with you? 

Only ask because I believe you do travel there occasionally, if you do bring back with you is there any problems regarding them.on the plane?

[Ferruz 13530]

The Canadian ban on Tamiya rattlecans is still very real. This morning I realized that I needed some black PS paint for an upcoming project, and therefore started calling pretty much every hobby shop in the province to check for availability. 

All the answers i got were along the lines of "forget about it", more so since I needed black which apparently is always in high demand.

The very last place I called still had quite some stock left, including black so... (sound of screeching tires and car driving away) fast forward 45 minutes and there I was getting my precious PS black can. I was of course tempted to buy a few more off his PS stock, but ended up resisting the urge.

I lucked out, but the situation is really not looking good. Hopefully it'll somehow get sorted out sooner than later.

[SlideWRX 1039]

On 9/27/2024 at 3:00 PM, Superluminal said:

There seems to be a number of threads appearing in the last few months of people with paint issues caused by one layer of paint reactivating and staining the previous layer. I wonder if something in the formulation is being changed that stops the paints curing properly. I never heared of it being an issue before.

Yeah, I just had some Traxxas white mix with my Tamiya paint that had been sprayed ~20 hours prior.  I noticed the Traxxas smelled a lot less than the Tamiya - different formulations seem to be messing with things...

[Sayer 763]

Why is every single thing in life getting progressively worse?

[Wheel_Nut 419]

2 hours ago, Sayer said:

Why is every single thing in life getting progressively worse?

It’s because the general population are losing the ability for independent thought and proper judgement. Really unfortunate.

[DaveBuildsRC 219]

What ps paints from other brands are good in Canada?