GGD Powhatan Arrow cars

[NW Modeling List]

Jimmy: I agree with you regarding the car designs both interior and exterior. This is the main reason I plan to keep my set.  But mine look so much more brown than yours I am wondering if there were two different paint jobs applied to the sets.  Tomorrow, I am going to Cary, NC to visit my friend Jerry Davis and attend his regular Wednesday operation session. There are usually six to ten "O" scale modelers in attendance. I plan to take my "Arrow" set and get their opinions of the color. We will also be taking several photos of my cars and I will post them on the modeling list to see how they compare with yours.  To get my set to look somewhere near correct I believe that they will have to be repainted and decaled . Having said that I will be looking for "O" scale decal sets.  Harold    

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 Sent: Tuesday, February 9, 2016 1:44 PM
 Subject: Re: GGD Powhatan Arrow cars
   
 
 
 On 2/9/2016 10:11 AM, NW Modeling List wrote:
  
Jimmy: Are you satisfied with the Tuscan Red color?  The pictures you have included look much better than the color on the set I got.  The interiors need a bit of work but I don't see that as a major problem.  Harold Davenport
 Harold,
     I would have preferred the color be a little more red, but, it isn't so bad as another member makes it out to be. Besides, there is nothing that can be done about it. Scott canned the manufacturer. 
 Think of it this way, would you rather have some generic set of cars with the improper number of windows, spaced out in some unknown fashion, interior to fit said windows and with whatever you think is the proper color of red or would you rather have these very nice looking set of cars with the correct windows and interiors, but, a color that may or may not be correct? 
     A couple of things about color. Watch this episode of "Brain Games":  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Fl71zDsDII   It is very educational!!!
 The other is, this N&WHS needs to quit skirting the issue, get off its butt and come up with a shade of "N&W Tuscan Red" and provide it to the paint manufacturers. Only then can we fuss about shades of red! That purple tinted Scalecoat paint doesn't cut for the steam era! Personally, I think that the color Lionel came up with when they made their 18" N&W passenger cars was spot on. I can provide a photo if need be. Sorry, I can't provide a model, as I got rid of them because the windows were stuck on from the outside!
     So, yes, I am very satisfied with my cars and I am glad to have them. I wish we could get GGD to make a run of Pm coaches so that other trains could be modeled.
 
 Jimmy
 
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