Cheap Lacquer Spray Paint!

[bisc63]

If you're lucky enough to have an "Ollie's" near you, they have in stock this week an assortment of Dupli-color "Perfect Match" automotive touch-up paints in 8oz. spray cans for 99 cents per can! I found seven colors and clear I can easily use in modeling.

These are acrylic lacquer and spray very nicely. Ollie's price stickers cover the OEM matching numbers, but I was just looking at them as close-enough sort of usage. You can make out some labeling; my dark burgundy-ish color turned out to be GM's Dark Garnet Red Metallic, and my silver is from Honda!

[Sledsel]

Thanks!!! Gonna head towards ours!

[Tonioseven]

Nice. I may have to make that drive!!

[Tom Geiger]

Nice. I may have to make that drive!!

Note that Ollies is a close out store and not all stores get every deal.

Maybe 4 years ago, I discovered the Ollies in Pottstown, PA when people posted the big Lindberg blow out on the boards. My store just had the least desirable of the Lindberg kits, so I didn't buy any. What I discovered was the Duplicolor closeout on the Truck Colors line. Those were the tall cans at 99 cents each. I knew it was a one time thing so I bought over 50 cans. I bought every color I liked, in quantity. And all their primer and clear.

Then we entered a dry spell. Note that this store is a bit too far to go there for no reason, so I'd pop in if I was passing by. For years they had nothing Duplicolor except the temporary decoration sprays (used for decorating graduation cars, etc).

Recently, actually on my way home from NNL East, I stopped in and they had a mess of primer, a few other auto colors and engine color paints. Note that primer at $1 a can is gold!

So it's hit or miss.

[jbwelda]

you guys better buy that stuff up, last time I went looking for some specific duplicolor spray, all I could find were those little mascara dispenser wand things. I thought it was just in California but even looking for out of state sources, I came up empty. so I am assuming they are all dead stock out at the outlets at this point.

does anyone know where one can mail order duplicolor spray cans?

jb

[426-Hemi]

-Last time I was at Ollie's in Maryland, (couple years ago now) they had it. at 33 cents a CAN! OR 5 for $1.00. you bet $10 or $15 was spent right then an there!

[mikemodeler]

I was in an Ollie's today and they had a lot of blues and reds with some silver and gray. They have a sale through tomorrow that gives you 15% off EVERYTHING in the store, so those cans of paint are now just $.85!

I did notice that they had some Rustoleum automotive primer in a large can for $3.99, might have to go back for a couple!

[horsepower]

you guys better buy that stuff up, last time I went looking for some specific duplicolor spray, all I could find were those little mascara dispenser wand things. I thought it was just in California but even looking for out of state sources, I came up empty. so I am assuming they are all dead stock out at the outlets at this point.

does anyone know where one can mail order duplicolor spray cans?

jb

Our largest O'Reilly parts store carries the dupli-color line, even the quart size premixed colors for doing full size cars, and if you go in with a couple of buddies you can get some pretty good colors that are pre thinned and ready to spray, and a pretty good clear too.

And I live in northern California.

[jbwelda]

Del thanks for the tip maybe I will swing by an OReillys, but it sounds like you are talking about non-aerosol paint? I would more like spray cans (and at the prices mentioned above, but yeah, dream on). I remember they used to line a wall at pep boys but they had zero at the one I went to.

jb