Humbrol or Revell?

[Nick Pedley]

I was in the RAF museum at Hendon the other day (Very nice aircraft and its
free!) and in their shop there's a large central display of Revell paints,
brushes, spraycans etc. A close but brief glance (site was just closing,
still haven't seen it all :o( ) gave me the impression Revell were using
the old Humbrol tins/paints with different labels.

Can anyone confirm or deny this?

Nick

[William Banaszak]

Perhaps they use the same supplier? I used to work for a tin can
manufacturer and we used to make the same cans in the same tooling for
many customers. The difference was in the paint applied in the litho
dept.

Bill Banaszak, MFE

[neil briggs]

While the tins may appear to be the same shape and size,the contents are
different.Revell has a much more limited range of colours,hence a lot of
paint mixing in its kit instructions.
Hannants (just down the road from the museum) own range of
paint,Xtracolor,also uses the same type of tin.

Neil.

[Jonathan Smith]

Paint is Humbrol's main business along with adhesives, fillers, etc. They
happen to own Airfix and Heller too. It's possible they make Rvell's paint
I suppose.

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[Eric Verschuur]

Nick,

Once upon a time long long ago when Revell still had a production
facility for kits in the UK, the Revell paint used to be made by
Humbrol (the old white and yellow tins have a small Humbrol sign
on the label).

Nowadays Revell enamel paint is made by a different manufacturer.
The old Revell enamel paint used to be inferior to Humbrol, but the
new formula paint in the dark blue tinlets is great stuff. It uses
a slightly hotter thinner than Humbrol does and the flat colours
are resisting handling a bit better than the new Humbrol Super Enamels.
BTW not even the tinlets are the same, the edges of the lids on
Humbrol tins are level, whilst those on the Revell tinlets are curves
downwards, so the edge doesn't deform when you pry it open.

HTH,
-- Eric.

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[tim brimelow]

I have found the Revell paint thin and difficult to apply. The gloss blue
in particular requires several coats even before you can see the blue. I
will be sticking to Humbrol in the future.

Tim Brimelow

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[Mat Irvine]

In article <b8cd0db8.02081...@posting.google.com>, Eric
Verschuur <erix7...@yahoo.com> writes

>Nick,
>
>Once upon a time long long ago when Revell still had a production
>facility for kits in the UK, the Revell paint used to be made by
>Humbrol (the old white and yellow tins have a small Humbrol sign
>on the label).

Ah - came from a time when there WAS a Revell GB and it arguably
rivalled Airfix in production in the UK. (I vaguely recall both had
about the same number of injection machines? Revell's in Potters Bar
was close to where I then lived.)
>
Now Revell in the UK is a subsidiary of Revell AG - everything is
sourced through Germany.

mat

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