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Subject: Re: [BRHSlist] Graphite
From: "zephyr9903" <zephyr9903@iowatelecom.net>
Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2003 23:37:25 -0600
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On Sat, 23 Aug 2003 23:48:15 -0500, okt wrote
> Message: 1
>    Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2003 00:31:55 -0000
>    From: "jt23_chitown" <onequiknova@attbi.com>
> Subject: What paint to use for graphite.
> 
>   I'm gonna be painting an HO S-4 for my dad soon and would like to
> know what paint you guys feel matches the graphite paint on the smoke
> box and fire box the best. I know Floquil does or did make a graphite
> colored paint, but it apeard too metalic and too dark to me. I was
> thinking some type of gray.
> 
> Thanks, John.
> 
> I like the look of the Floquil mixed with white until it's gray.
> I can send you some jpgs or you can look at the MKT and Frisco N 
> Mikes I did in that are in the photo files on the N steam list that 
> were done with this method. The two locos took 1st and 2nd in the 
> OKC train show contest the year they were entered. Also, I found 
> some "Oil and Graphite" from Scalecoat, haven't tried it yet though. 
> Terry

This is an eyewitness of working Q steam speaking:  Unless the locomotive in 
question was very dirty and sooty (which was rare on the Q - especially for 
first-line power like the S-4s - , the "Sta-Brite" graphite compound used on 
smokebox and firebox had a definite metallic sheen.  Grey alone doesn't do it.
On the other hand, a couple of the "graphite" pints I've seen have a 
noticeable bluish cast.  This does NOT look right to me -  Sta-brite was 
neutral as to color.

On the other hand, I worked in one art field or another for almost 30 years 
before retirement, and I know from experience that color is extremely 
subjective.  I know what it looked like to me - but if it looked different to 
you, you're right.

Marshall Thayer
Mt. Pleasant, IA

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