I found one site claiming it will be back in stock in the 17th of March. I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of people bought it up for falcon models. Especially considering one can will not be enough for this build

I looked up their AS paints on their web store. About 75% of the AS line is listed as "temporarily out of stock" not a single one is listed as discontinued.

Also it's my understanding the the reason that Tamyia paints are the ones being listed in the instructions is because DeAg worked a deal with them. I don't think I they would list paints as official colors if they were being discontinued

I find that odd because they paint has been available in the US before. I even believe I saw it on the shelf at my friends hobby store. Gonna ask him to check it out. I wonder if they changed something and had to get the paint retested.

Well, if the standards changed and their products fail the new tests, they will need to change the product slightly and retest until they pass. I believe these are the same as a series of ASTM changes over the past 5-10 years to try to get rid of different kinds of aerosols, freons, etc. All we can do is wait and hope that it becomes available soon.

http://www.astmnewsroom....efault.aspx?pageid=3742

All this article talks about is whether the products need warning labels or not and if child safety caps need to be put on them. If that's the case we will never paint another model with Tamiya rattle cans because none of us will be able to get the cap off.

Ron

I would actually like to see a properly photographed comparison between the DOA hull color and insignia white. Has anyone done a comparison? I've not seen one.

You could become a very rich man by setting up a proxy model store

Hope its soon, I was only able to score two cans of the paint I want. One, because my buddy bought an extra can and didn't use it. Two, because same buddy went back to his hobby store and bought the last can they had. That paint along with AS20 is on back order everywhere.

I hope so. According to my LHS they are due in mid-march, but he can't say definitively if they'll actually be available then or not which is why he's not taking special orders on them.

I told him I wanted 5 cans when they became available. He seemed shocked and asked why so many. I told him I was doing the "big" Millennium Falcon model and he automatically assumed I was talking about the Revell/Finemolds re-release and informed me that 2 cans or so would do fine for it. I laughed and told him no, the Deagostini Falcon - it's nearly twice as big as that one! He didn't know anything about it. I told him that the DeAgo bird is probably why all of the AS-20 cans sold out so quickly to begin with.

Ugh...now they're saying mid to late April for AS-20.