Tuscan color

Thu Jul 3 17:30:21 EDT 2014

The best advice is choose a color that looks good to you and go with it, if someone complains show them the door it is your railroad.  I painted my cars long before the Internet was common and every book and article had different advice, I choose a color and all my cars are painted with it.  My lighting has changed over the years so the color has shifted but the color is the same shade and looks fine to me.  Arguing about color takes too much time away from modeling and running trains.

Kurt S. Kramke

On 07/03/14, NW Modeling List wrote:

Lee;

What both Frank and Ed are talking about occurs in most every society. Having lived in Milwaukee, WI for several years, I watched an argument between a pair of Milw. Rd. HS members about the correct color orange on their passenger cars and other equipment. One member argued that the second was wrong in that they were all painted the same color & shade of orange. The second while partially agreed, he stated that they were not all the same color orange, as he had seen them come out of the paint shops is different shades of orange, with the paint being ordered at the same time from the same paint mfgr., which at the time was being delivered in 55 gal drums. The first individual continued to tell the second he was wrong but finally realized he had to quit arguing when the second told him that he was one of a half dozen employees of the Milw. Road who painted their equipment fleet for a living.....

That being said, the N&W Red from Scalecoat color works well, however it has a bit of a metallic flake to it. There are several colors I have seen work fairly well, including WC Maroon. Another color that has just come onto the market is from TruColor paints, which is very similar in nature to the old line of Accu-Paint. They are now offering part # TCP-276 - PRR 1948+ Passenger Car Tuscan.

I am sure that somewhere in the archives there is a Paint ID # for the non-metallic red, that can be shared and closely matched with current commercial paints from a PPG or ICI paint dealer. I would suggest obtaining a small amount of said color and try to best match that color by primering a piece of styrene and top coating the commercial grade paint, and then doing the same with several colors of model rr paint and seeing which works best for you and you lighting situation. Keep in mind that some clear coats will slightly shift the tone of the color of the paint. Also, the color primer will yield different finish colors as well. Tamyia offers both a white and mild grey primer paint for example. Darker colors tend to pop more on a lighter base color.

Hope this helps.

Regards,
Russ Goodwin
Buford, GA

Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2014 23:16:58 -0400
Subject: Re: Tuscan color
To: nw-modeling-list at nwhs.org
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Lee; what Ed is referring to is a "color flame war" that happens every time N&W Tuscan Red or Pevlar Blue shows up on this list. FWIW, this also happens on the C&O list with Enchantment Blue, the C&O list and the NYC list with shades of gray, and probably just about every other model railroad list. 

Hopefully someone who does a lot of painting, and is pleased with the result, will tell you what mix works for them, and will nicely mention that with lighting, etc. (the etc. is half a clinic)you may have to make adjustments. With that I can't help; tuff enough for us Virginian modelers to settle on workable yellows and black. One thing I can tell you, is that Dr. Jim EuDaly (he's an eye doc, so this isn't fantasy)actually told us in a clinic (at a C&O meet)that color actually varies a bit with scale, and (I hope I got this right)you probably need a tad lighter mix than an HO modeler would. I can also tell you that your room lighting is probably one of the most important factors. I guess there's one other thing I should mention because the more experienced painters consider it so obvious they don't mention it: make sure the light where you paint is the same as the light on the layout. 

Frank Bongiovanni

On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 5:48 PM, NW Modeling List <nw-modeling-list at nwhs.org> wrote:

My favorite modeling list topic!

Ed Painter Narrows,VA living in Dahlonega,GA

On Jul 2, 2014, at 3:21 PM, NW Modeling List <nw-modeling-list at nwhs.org> wrote:

I am new member to the modeling list. I
am painting an N scale passenger car set and wondered what color you folks
recommend to match the Tuscan red. 

Thank you, 

Lee Burns

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