I went to my box'O paints and found DRGW Orange, DRGW Yellow, Milw Orange and
GN Orange. All good candidates. All Pollyscale waterbased. I switched years ago
and never looked back. It also depends on what color primer you put on the body
before you lay down the final color.
Like Gerald said you'll see variations on the Orange due to weathering factors,
aperature settings, sunny or cloudy day, Kodachrome, Ektachrome and Fuji color
shifts. Not to mention who did the scans for the book, except Loren. He's got a
good eye.
Note that the wood sheeted cars get a real neat pale Orange plus silver gray
boards repelling all traces of paint.
So Jerry, what are you going to paint orange? I just did a NE-10, I think I
used the Rio Grande Orange. I picked the George Speir fodoz in the Spoor
freight Car book.
That's my story and I'm sticking to it..
Rob Manley
Your best modeling pal in the whole world.
----- Original Message -----
From: Gerald A. Edgar
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2007 6:14 PM
Subject: [CBQ] re: Q MOW paint
I've used both Floquil & Badger Reefer Orange but lightened with
Reefer yellew. As I've noted when this discussion came up once or
twice before, Q MoW orange faded to all shades of orange to near
yellow. You need to look at some proto pics. I've shown MoW slides
before @ Clinics (a few even this spring @ Creston) and viewers can
attest that MoW paint ranged from bright orange to orangish yellow.
Don't forget too the 'silver' & 'grey' on 250000 series ex-hwts in a
few cases as well as specialized flats in mechanical dept service and
black tank crs, ex-tenders & cranes. Steel cars tended to fade more
quickly to orange-yellow than some wood cars but the range of shades
can be found in every class of MoW equipment. Gerald
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