Thank you, Mike and Tony!

John

John Golden
Bloomington, IN

--- In STMFC@..., "Mike Brock" <brockm@...> wrote:

In reply to John Golden's message regarding a good color for

Daylight

Orange, Tony Thompson writes:

It's "Daylight Orange," John, and most of the commercial ones are
pretty decent matches.

True. In fact, since every PFE orange painted on a real car

differed after

one or two months in service, I try to use every Daylight Orange I

can find.

I also plan to paint my next Tichy R-40-4 in reefer white to start

with.

Then I'll probably over paint that with black and then add some

dirt color.

Only then will I apply UP Armor Yellow. I figure that should give

me a good

starting place from where to start weathering. No idea what it

will look

like but I know it will match at least one car in a 1950 train of

PFE

reefers. No idea what to paint the wheels however. I mean...a sand

color

from all the...well...sand blowing across WY [ which I still have

in some

clothes from a 3985 chase in '85...can't bring myself to wash

them ] or a

grungy black/brown from sitting in a frt yard in Pittsburgh.

So...take your

pick...there's all kinds of choices.

Mike Brock