Mike,
I have had great success with the Floquil SP Lettering Gray for several
years now and use it a lot for painting detail parts. I have also used it to
re-paint the whole gray on the top of several 'Redbird' units so they match
the Kato and Proto 2000 gray better. Before I knew better- I had used
Harbormist Gray (UP) on these and never liked the way they turned out.
John Olson
Jim's Junction
Billings, Mt.
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>From: Mike Spoor <CBQRR@j...>
>To: BRHSlist@egroups.com
>Subject: Re: [BRHSlist] blackbird gray & decals
>Date: Sun, Sep 10, 2000, 7:23 AM
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> Duncan and others:
>
> For the past week I have played with commercially available colors and
> would suggest that the closest "out of the bottle" match for the gray
> used on the Kato NW-2 is Floquil's SP Lettering Gray. I brushed it on
> the horn and bell on a stock Kato NW-2 CB&Q paint job and 4 of us here in
> Houston inspected it. All of us agreed that it is very, very close to
> the paint on the Kato shell. I would recommend that you give it a try.
> I don't think you would be disappointed. Mike Spoor
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>
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> On Mon, 14 Aug 2000 19:54:32 EDT ltjdicki@a... writes:
>>In a message dated 8/2/00 2:23:08 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
>>d.cameron@s... writes:
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>><<
>> Hi list! I was looking at my P2K GP7s again today and wondering how
>>I
>> was going to handle all the different grays now visible in my fleet.
>>
>> There's the SD7 gray. There's the GP7 gray. And there's the Kato
>>NW2
>> gray. Personally, I think Kato came closest to what I've seen in
>>colour
>> photographs. Does anyone know of a match for Kato's colour? A
>>related
>> question: I've got some of Microscale's decals for Q hood units and
>> switchers and the nose stripes they provide seem really dark to me.
>> Kevin Piper used to offer what he called "correct colour" nose
>>stripes.
>> Does anyone know what colour he used? Does anyone have an email
>>address
>> (or snail mail) for Kevin? Any suggestions about trying to bring
>>some
>> uniformity to the fleet would be appreciated. Even suggestions
>>about
>> folks who do custom painting and decaling would be considered. I
>>hate
>> to give up the factory paint quality that PRK has been able to
>>achieve,
>> but all theses grays are too much. If anyone knows somebody who
>>really
>> does top-notch custom jobs I might consider having some or all of my
>> units redone. Thanks. Duncan Cameron.
>> >>
>>
>>Duncan,
>> The snail mail address for Kevin Piper is as follows:
>>
>>Kevin's Decals
>>6387 W. Birch Rd
>>Clatonia, NE 68328-8442
>>
>>Tim
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