Re: [CBQ] Painting question for a friend

["Michael Woodruff mwoodruff54@gmail.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>]

I have a couple of factory painted CB&Q Stewart F-units.  They apparently used at least two shades of gray in different production runs - one looks fairly close to me, but maybe a little bit too dark and the other is way too dark.

The Model Railroader magazine Paint Shop article that Nelson is probably remembering was in the February 1986 issue.  In it, George Drury used Floquil paints, with a mixture of 9 parts Reefer White and 1 part Reefer Gray, to which he added a few drops of Caboose Red "to warm the color but not enough to turn it pink."  The photo of his completed models that accompanied the article looks pretty good to my eyes, but as we've discussed here before, so much depends on lighting conditions.

msw

largofl

On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 9:57 AM, Nelson Moyer npmoyer@hotmail.com [CBQ] <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 

NO! Model Flex Imitation Aluminum is not even close to the light gray color of CB&Q F units. It's much too dark. I haven't seen the new Tru Color paint for graybacks, so I can't opine about that. A Paint Shop article in Model Railroader many years ago recommended using reefer white with a few drops of black. Among the commercially painted F units, the Intermountain FT units seem to have the best paint color. The Walthers P2K models are yellowish, which is unacceptable. I don't have any Stewart/Bowser F units for comparison. If the Tru Color version is correct, I'll repaint and decal my six P2K F units, they're that bad.

Nelson Moyer

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Subject: Re: [CBQ] Painting question for a friend

The Gray Backs are the F units.
That would be Model Flex 193 CB&Q
Imitation Aluminum or True Color
330 Gray #2 for F units.

Gordon

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> All,
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> A model railroader friend here in
> the Twin Cities asked me if I
> knew which paint would work
> for the CB&Q grey backs. Since we
> haven't done any painting, I
> couldn't help him out. Does
> anyone have any suggestion that I
> could forward on?
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> Thanks for your help.
>
> Scott Stearns - Zumbrota, MN
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