I still have plenty in my old, original recipe bottle too and I still dip the occasional canopy or brush on a clear acrylic here and there. Pledge Floor Care is an excellent product for scale modellers to use instead of other gloss finishes by Tamiya, Gunze and the like. Although the initial outlay is high, the quantity in the bottle is enough to last a very long time. Also really good for clear plastic parts like canopies. I can't even imagine the corporate decision for this. Don't people take care of their floors anymore. Pledge have re-branded their product once more. It’s called Pledge Revive It and has the identical qualities as before. Here was the response when we asked for info regarding the product: Effective on a Variety of Flooring Types So I should be fine using the model varnish that people use to maintain the paint in Gundam models?

The Johnson Future product (or any of its previous incarnations) has not been available in my country at all. After a lot of digging around online and in hardware stores here in New Zealand, I discovered that there were many floor cleaning products but actual floor polish seemed to be absent. Eventually I found one large hardware chain that sold its own brand of floor polish, so I bought some to try. In the bottle it is a milky colour, but it promised a clear shine, so I tentatively tested it on a model I was building. It was great! It dried to a clear hard finish, though not super glossy, and I've used it ever since. I noticed that the old list of ingredients is pretty vague, whereas the new bottle is very specific. It could be that they are the same and the change was required by some new government regulation. I have a very old bottle of Future and it doesn't list any ingredients at all. I just give away my models to anyone in the neighborhood who might want them. I keep a few that I really like on the outer edges of my built-in bookshelf and on one little table I bought to display my larger ships (now hosting my Cutty Sark) but I don't have much room for permanent display so I just add what I like at the moment and give away ones that I've enjoyed long enough. It's the process I enjoy ... learning how to get better at this hobby that keeps me in it. Not that I don't enjoy looking at some of what I've built, I do for those that turn out alright - not so much the one's I've messed up . Our table is solid oak and well used by us and the kids for dinner and homework and crafts. Its also by a window so was a bit sun faded in places.

Ive used Future as my go to gloss since the mid 90s when I started noticing decals solution interaction with Testors rattlecan stuff. I started to see stains/tide marks under the topcoat from where the solutions had been. Light at first, but visible enough to be noticed. So then I tried Micro Gloss and Micro Flat. The gloss worked great, but the flat coat gave me problems and I did not have the patience at the time to work thru the problems, so I ditched the stuff, then switched to Future and various bottled flat/matt and satin/semi gloss coats as needed. Currently my go to flat coats are: Humbrol, Tamiya, or Future with Tamiya Flat base added.

Yes, as you can see from the pictures I posted, my older bottle is exactly that - Pledge Floor Care - and it has served me well for several years. It's the newer version, Pledge Revive It that I'm worried about. I have plenty of Tamiya X-22 on hand so I may shoot that when my older bottle of Pledge runs out in a year or two . For heavy wax buildup present from other products, allow to stand 5 minutes before wiping. Repeat if necessary.Argentina - Español Canada - Français Canada-English Chile - Español Colombia - Español Ecuador - Español Italy - Italiano Mexico - Español Peru- Español Philippines - English Poland - Polski Puerto Rico - Español South Africa - English Spain - Español Turkey - Türkçe United States - English United States – Español All Countries March 10, 2023 BY admin Removing Pledge Floor Care Multi-surface Floor Finish from your wooden floor For those who've been using Future/Revive It for gloss applications on their projects, it's apparently been confirmed that Johnson & Johnson has discontinued the product. A friend on a scale modeler group got this reply from J&J: