Hi Nelson,
1602-105 is no longer made as this was a limited run color but I believe
there may be some bottles left at Badger, you would have to call or order some
to find out. Also I forgot about two other CB&Q colors that I made, these
also were only available in 4oz bottles and a limited run color. 1602-101
CB&Q Suburban Green and 1602-102 CB&Q Suburban Tan. These colors were
made to go with a CB&Q Suburban Commuter car kit that was made in HO, the
kit manufacture was suppose to put our color info in with the instructions but
that never happen and no one knew about the colors when they bought the kit, we
have lots of this color.
This limited run color line was an idea that I had some years ago, I made
five different railroad colors but at the last minute Badger lost interest in
the project and nothing was ever said to Walthers or hobby shops and I was stuck
trying to sell the paint my self. Dave Lotz sold a lot of the CB&Q gray
through his old company Q Connection and the other colors I sold my self. I
can't remember if Dave bought all the Q gray that was left for Q connection or
not maybe he remembers, Dave? But I can tell you that there is Suburban colors
left!
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, December 21, 2012 5:29
PM
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Re: Color Match -
Grays for diesel hoods
John,
Is 1602-105 still being made? I have never seen it in Walthers or hobby
shops.
Hi Andrew,
Contacting EMD or GE is a waste of time, both companies hate model
railroaders and the CB&Q paint codes are available as I have them
all.
The info that I got was that the NS did not go through EMD or GE
they contacted historical societys and people like me who research
railroad colors. I'm sure some of these codes that the NS
got were Duco or Dulux which are lead base paints that are no longer
used or made so all these codes had to be re done into Imron paint
that is used today. I find it strange that the NS paint crews would as you
say “shoot from the hip” to paint some of these locos as Dupont and I both
have all of the paint codes for these railroads as well as most of the
historical societys.
I made all the CB&Q colors in MODELflex paint, these colors were
matched to my Dupont paint samples and then lighten to scale. Here is a list
of our paints that are available.
16-153 CB&Q
Chinese Red
16-154 CB&Q Gray
(For Red and Gray Locos)
16-193 CB&Q
Imitation Aluminum
16-194 CB&Q
Red
1602-105 CB&Q
Black Bird Gray (Limited run paint color, only available in 4oz
bottle)
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2012
9:34 PM
Subject: [CBQ] Re: Color Match -
Grays for diesel hoods
Wouldn’t the BRHS be able to contact EMD, as they would
have the records for the proper paint codes? Look at the recent NS
“Heritage Fleet”. The NS talked to both EMD and GE for paint codes for
these heritage units, the railroads that actually were customers of EMD
and/or GE. About ½ of the railroads the NS crews had to “shoot from the
hip” as some of the predecessor roads were neither EMD or GE customers. I
am not trying to sound “off topic”, but just making a suggestion
here……
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