N&W model paints

Tue May 31 23:49:50 EDT 2016

I use Pullman green on the trucks. It is close.(My father referred to the truck color as "olive drab.") I mix the roof color. Time was, I mixed Floquil's "roof brown" with black, but the later Floquil was not as brown as before. At any rate, I don't know where you would start with the paints available in today's market. Maybe boxcar red and black. I made the brown fairly dark because cinders and the lack of washing (of the roofs) made the roof color tend toward black over time. But a freshly painted roof was definitely dark brown. BTW: the lube data stenciled on the trucks was yellow (not white).
Jim Nichols 

    On Tuesday, May 31, 2016 8:30 PM, NW Modeling List <nw-modeling-list at nwhs.org> wrote:

Been following the discussion about the N&W's Dynamometer car with great interest and as most know the subject of brown roofs and green trucks arose as a part of it.  Now that it has been established that the cars were these colors up until the mid-50s can anyone recommend a specific paint to match these colors?  Will need to paint some N&W cars (eventually) so I want to get them right.

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