Re: [CBQ] Rapido SW1200

["mikethomasson24" <mthomasson@austin.rr.com>]

I find this subject very interesting. I've always wondered when the subject of correct color comes up how any one knows what the "correct" color is. If there's a survivor for any railroad still in as painted livery the"original" colors must have changed due to ultraviolet, weather, etc. Maybe it's spent the last 50+ years locked up in a windowless room.

I'm not being flippent. I primarily model the T&P and most of my stable are what they called Swamp Holly Orange and Black. Of the dozen or more period color photos I've been able to check, there's a variation in the Orange because of type film used, lighting, etc. There's a fair consistency amongst the group, but I can see some  not so subtle variations. If I have to explain it to myself or anyone else, it's simply fading due to age or whatever.

Please accept my comment as not meant to criticize. 

To paraphrase the 70s rock group Chicago, 'Does anybody really know what color it is?'

On Sep 7, 2021 3:19 PM, james miller <jimbro67@gmail.com> wrote:

There are two grey's on Q engines. The black bird scheme and the lighter for the red. Also the grey tended to fade over the years.

True scale makes the two grey's that I find satisfactory

On Tue, Sep 7, 2021, 3:05 PM Nelson Moyer <npmoyer@hotmail.com> wrote:

I just took my new Rapido SW1200 in the blackbird scheme out of the box, and my first reaction was, “Oh %#*&, they botched the gray”. Has anyone else had that reaction? The gray is so dark it reminds me of the early Walthers P2K GP7s, only the Rapido gray may be even darker. I can’t compare because I immediately repainted the gray on the Walthers model with Model Flex CB&Q Gray. If I had seen this model in a hobby shop, I would never have bought it, no matter how good the tooling might be. I HATE preorders! This makes the fifth or sixth shade of CB&Q blackbird gray on my roster, an no manufacturer is consistent between runs, so without a standard, they’re all shooting in the dark. Most are missing the mark.

 

This is a plea for BRHS to develop and issue a color standard for model manufacturers to match as they plan models to be painted in the blackbird scheme. I shouldn’t have to repaint brand new models because the manufacturers didn’t do their homework. Are you listening, Rapido!

 

Nelson Moyer

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