RE: [Bulk] RE: [CBQ] Variation in the Grays in the Blackbird Scheme

["'Dave Lotz' Dave_Lotz@bellsouth.net [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>]

Doug speaks the truth!  One of the most frustrating things when I was working with Doug at Railway Classics was trying to communicate colors to the Orientals in Korea and China.  Exact matches to what we sent to them was virtually impossible, and we were happy when they got close.  We sent color chips, Pantone colors, photographs of the prototypes, and the results on the models was always surprise - sometimes good, sometimes not...

 

Dave

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Subject: [Bulk] RE: [CBQ] Variation in the Grays in the Blackbird Scheme

 

One of the big issues with paint color on models is that most models are now being painted in China, where the models are manufactured and assembled. In conversations with manufacture reps in the past, they have told me one of the biggest challenges with RTR has been getting the colors “right”, as the “conversation” does not seem to translate to Chinese very easily. Adding to the problem is most Chinese manufactures do not use the model paints that are available to us. They use Chinese paint, which they are mixing themselves. The paint formulas are different, so getting exact matches is difficult. So you can advocate all you want for a certain paint color, but you may get “what ever is mixed and applied by the factory”. Which I know is very frustrating for those attempting to build a large fleet.

Doug Harding

www.iowacentralrr.org

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