Paints

Central Hobbies stocks many lines of paints. See below for current status of in production and discontinued paint lines.

Importing paint into Canada

Government regulations are making it difficult to import paint into Canada as few of the non-acrylic paint products meet Canadian labelling and packaging Standards.

This impacts Humbrol, Scalecoat, SolvaSet, various paint pens and various glues.

There are three issues: Labeling as to hazardous contents, Labeling as to French, and Packaging. Having obtained a set of the relevant regulations we are working through them to determine what needs to be done.
All paints with hazardous contents need to be labeled with the appropriate symbols. Warnings need to be in English and French. Packaging needs to be child proof.

TrueColor

The TrueColor paint line is a direct replacement for Accupaint. We stock some colours. A list of what we stock, including the Accupaint colors will be posted when time permits.

PolyScale

Production of the PolyScale Railroad colour paint line was discontinued in 2014. We have a shrinking supply of Poly Scale paint. Some colours (16) were released in the Model Master Line. We have those colours in stock.

TrueLine Trains Paints

When Testors RPM discontinued their line of Ploy Scale paints it also affected the True Trains Railroad paint colours. We have a shrinking stock of these paints.

Vallejo

We have the Vallejo Model Color paint rack in the store. .

We now have the Vallejo Model Air Color paint rack in the store.

We now have the Vallejo Spray paints, Metal Colors, Diorama Effects, Surfaceprimers, Pigments, Model Wash and Weathering Effects paint racks in the store. We stock the Vallejo Earth & Oxide Pigments and the Vallejo Model Washes and Weathering Effects.

Rapido Proto-Paint

Rapido Proto-Paint is being discontinued by us. No tolerence to freezing. Questional colour fidelity.

ModelFlex

As ModelFlex has nor been selling well, we repurposed the space occupied by that rack.
We can obtain any Model Flex paint colour in a week to ten days. Please contact us for stock status.

ScaleCoat

ScaleCoat has a new owner. They are looking into the label issue to make this product legally saleable in Canada. They are adding the CN-Sig paints to the ScaleCoat product line.

CN-Sig Paint

CN-Sig discontinued this product last year. We have a shrinking supply of this product. These colours will be added to the ScaleCoat product line.

Tamiya Acrylics

The Tamiya Acrylics are very nice paint to work with. While they are not specifically railroad colours (actually Military Colours) there are many useable colours including translucent colours. Supply is good.

We now have the Tamiya Spray Paint rack in the store. Still missing a few colours.
We have a selection of Tamiya Lacquers.
We now have the Tamiya Enamel rack.

Testors

We have the basic Testors paint rack. Since their takeover by Rustoleom, Testors has become hard to get.

Humbrol

As Humbrol has become impossible to get we have given up on this product line and no longer stock it.

Revell

Revell has a flat finish that replaces the Testors Dull Cote.

Weathering Products

As well as the Monroe Models Weathering Powders, we stock the PanPastels in singles and kits.

We reserve the right to correct errors and change prices without prior notice.
Please note that all prices are in Canadian Dollars.

Price list as of . . . Updated: August 16, 2022.