HI Guys;
That's a ditto for me on the SP Lettering Gray.
I have used that for all the Blackbirds, and added it to the Reefer White
for the Graybacks as well.
Mike Mitzelfeld
----- Original Message -----
From: JOHN J. OLSON & DEBBIE NIESS <trains@m...>
To: <BRHSlist@egroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2000 4:00 PM
Subject: Re: [BRHSlist] blackbird gray & decals
>
> 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.
>
> ----------
> >From: Mike Spoor <CBQRR@j...>
> >To: BRHSlist@egroups.com
> >Subject: Re: [BRHSlist] blackbird gray & decals
> >Date: Sun, Sep 10, 2000, 7:23 AM
> >
>
> >
> > 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
> >
> >
> >
> > 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:
> >>
> >><<
> >> 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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