Tru-Color Paint is pleased to announce that the survey to choose what initial paint sets (up to 6) should be manufactured for the IPMS Convention to be held on August 1-4, 2018 in Phoenix, AZ. has gone LIVE on our website as of today, 3/22/18.

The website address for survey is :

trucolorpaint.com/trucolor-paint-release-survey/

Please take the time to fill out the survey. The more information we have on what set(s) the modelers want to have, then those sets will be the first produced for the convention and for sales to your local hobby shops or online stores. Thank you in advance for taking this survey and we look forward to your input.

Martin Cohen, PhD
Tru-Color Paint
P.O. Box 74524
Phoenix, AZ 85087-4524

714-488-9779
website: trucolorpaint.com

Very nice response modelers ! After only 2 days of the survey being live on our website we have already received over 50 completed surveys for the most popular military sets YOU want to see manufactured for the IPMS National Convention to be held August 1-4 in Phoenix, AZ.

Keep up the good work ! The survey will remain on the website until May 18th. That is the LAST DAY we will take surveys into account for development of the sets. If you missed the survey website address, here it is again :

The website address for survey is :

trucolorpaint.com/trucolor-paint-release-survey/

Your input matters - we will produce only those first 6 sets which garner the most votes in the survey. How about that, a manufacturer who listens to their customers. After the convention we will add more sets to the product line, but following what is most wanted.

Looking forward to your votes and comments on the survey.

Martin Cohen, PhD
Tru-Color Paint

Just a comment-- I took the survey, but I found it kind of counter-intuitive-- asking to choose a category, like aircraft, then selecting a pre-loaded group like Vietnam era aircraft, in a scroll down menu, is asking for mistakes to be made by the selectee. I know you have a lot of options listed, but it would have been better to have a ranking system for each category. Good luck. I think you'll be getting a lot of votes by accident for the first category that loads, hopefully not. It will be interesting to see the outcome.
VR, Russ

^^^Agreed. I almost missed what was going on.

Thank you for your feedback. We had thought crafting the survey with pre-scored ranks for the different categories. However, considering we are looking for accurate information on what should be an appropriate ranking for the sets to be manufactured, we went with a assortment as shown. In essence, we are asking YOU, the modelers, to rank them for us.

With nearly a 100 surveys already received in the first 3 days of going live the only survey we got that seemed unusual is one that listed set 10701 (Olive Drab Armor set) 6 times. Someone really wants this set badly ! Unfortunately we only counted 1 vote towards the set from this survey sheet since to do otherwise would have messed up the vote count. We can tell you that EVERY set shown in the survey has been chosen by someone; none left out.

The vast majority of the surveys show 6 different choices. As expected (according to all the plastic modeling information from IPMS shows) Air Force and Armor set preferences far exceed those for naval ships.

One other comment that was seen on more than a few survey sheets was that for any sets we manufacture, we should also have available single bottles of all the colors in the set. THAT has ALWAYS been the policy of Tru-Color Paint. Every color that is in the set is either available NOW or just after the first sets are released. We will NEVER make a color for a set that is not available to the modeler in both a 1 oz. (30 ml) or 2 oz. (60 ml) bottle !

Each set that we do will contain 6 1-oz. bottles of paint, an instruction sheet and a sample of our great masking paper.

Trust this helps clarify on how and why the survey was set up on the website. Looking forward to receiving surveys up to our deadline of May 18th.

Martin Cohen, PhD
Tru-Color Paint
P.O. Box 74524
Phoenix, AZ 85087-4524

714-488-9779
website: trucolorpaint.com

On several survey sheets we were asked what would be the finish of the paints in the sets. For all cases the finish would be what was called for in the appearance of the color chips we are matching our paint to, the Federal Standard call outs for more modern colors and the advice of experts in their fields that we are working with on developing our military paint product line.

However, we had a few respondents who stated we should release these sets with only glossy paint, regardless of what the specification, color chips or experts say. This way decals would be much easier to apply and since most modelers seal the decals with clear flat this would eliminate a step on having to Gloss coat the paint for decal application.

Do NOT forget to vote for your favorite sets on the survey - the more info we get, the better we like it !

We would like to have YOUR OPINION on this subject. You can either reply to this thread OR add it to the comments section on the bottom of the set survey.

Martin Cohen, PhD
Tru-Color Paint

Only 2 weeks left to enter your vote for what 6 military sets we should develop for the IPMS National Convention to be held in Phoenix, AZ from August 1-4. So far there have been 703 surveys received - well done modelers ! With that many responses (that we are thrilled with ) we have 4 leading sets way out in front.

TCP-10601 U.S. Air Force SEA Camouflage Colors (Aircraft)
TCP-10604 U.S. Army & Navy ANA WWII set (Aircraft)
TCP-10701 U.S. Army Olive Drab set (Armor)
TCP-10703 U.S. Army - NATO Colors (Armor)

It is too close to call the other 2 sets. There are 5 sets within just 6 votes of each other.

It is NOT TOO LATE for your input ! Here is the survey site again:

The website address for survey is :

trucolorpaint.com/trucolor-paint-release-survey/

Looking forward to meeting with you at the convention.

Martin Cohen, PhD
Tru-Color Paint
P.O. Box 74524
Phoenix, AZ 85087-4524

714-488-9779
email: [email protected]