Hello
Does anyone use Pactra acrylic paints?
Are they good?
I got information that they imported from USA (maybe in US you use different name).

I did not think they were still being made

I haven't seen Pactra since 1983... I too think they are no longer made... they're history

We have them now in Poland!
I bought few bottles for wheathering but salesman told me that i can forget about color chart and fs numbers on bottles because paints are hardly ever the same color they supose to be.

Thanks. so far I had no problems with them. as i sad i use them for weathering and minor works but now i want to paint my me 109.

I have a lot of them still. They are over ten years old. I got them from a friend that used to do figures. I have a couple of the chocolate brown ones too

sorry been fond of Tamiya paints lately!
Ron

i used to have pactra steel. it was a great color for drybrushing metal wear. I would kill for another bottle,,,I still have a pactra olive drab i still use.it is still going strong. You cannot compare these new testors paints to the old ones.. They dont cover well at all. I believe the new paints dont contain lead which seems to be a key ingrediant for coverage n spreadability. It is the same thing with humbrol "super enamals" . which i believe suffer the same problems for the identical reason, no lead.. Old humbrol was the best. Believe the new acrylics cover better also.rgds jim

Marcin,

As far I know Pactra is localy bottled Testors. Probably little dilluted They're not bad but far worse than Tamiya, Valleyo or Lifecolor. Some colours like white or yellow don't cover well. Note that Pactra is cheap but sold in very small bottles so it isn't very economic for base colors like OD.

Pozdro
Piotr