colors for Great Northern Plywood Boxcars
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gary laakso
For the Empire Builder and locomotives, the "Pullman green" had a decided brown hue to it. The plywood sided boxcars were painted before the Empire Builder arrived and with only the diesel FTs in what would become the Empire Builder colors. My impression was the green on the plywood cars did not have the brown hue that the other equipment had. It was closer to the GN green that Tony Thompson referenced. LOL, I have enough kits that i can use a variety of colors and see what i like and then add the Richard Hendrickson "weather" wash.
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gary laakso south of Mike Brock vasa0vasa@...
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From: Jim Betz To: STMFC@... Sent: 9/3/2008 6:22:53 AM Subject: [STMFC] Re: colors for Great Northern . . . Tony, If you ask 10 GN modelers what is the "true" color of GN Green (or Empire Builder Green ... or Pullman Green) you will get 15 different answers ... it's a never ending discussion on GNGoat. The orange isn't any easier. And the question doesn't seem any closer to being resolved than it was at the time you refer to below. My personal answer is "they are -all- correct". Meaning that when I look at any kind of "evidence" I always get a different answer. And each guy (who is willing to take a stand) seems to pick his own special set of "evidence". Yeah, when we are talking the era of the Orange and Green Empire Builder and later you can make pretty strong 'proofs' by using color formulas and what not. But the evidence also seems to be equally strong that not every piece of equipment was painted with paint that was mixed at the same time and to the same specs ... or with the same color(s) underneath it ... or photographed in the same light or with the same film ... or printed with the same 'printer's eye' ... etc., etc., etc. There -is- one point about all of this that is important to be made. And that is that although most color pictures in most books of trains (any road, any day) seem to indicate that the color of the equipment was "very close to each other from car to car" ... it seems that "fact" is heavily influenced by the "printer's art". So even whether or not a given passenger train on a given day looked pretty homogenous if you looked at it from one side is somewhat in question. I know that every time I look at an actual slide taken in the STMFC period I don't see the kind of homogeneity of color that you see in prints of said equipment in a book (which is the primary resource/evidence of most "color cops"). So if you don't mind I'll just not say what shade I prefer to use - whilst dodging the bullets. Aw shucks - why be a wimp? I use Scalecoat and like it (most of the time). - Jim in San Jose (whose moniker on Yahoo Groups is OldRockyGN) P.S. And who is suspecting that Sir Thompson was just "stirring the pot" when he made this post. A real rabble-rouser! --- In STMFC@..., Anthony Thompson <thompson@...> wrote: many disagreements about exactly what the GN green really is: is itPullman green, or dark olive green like the Harriman Lines green, or is it |
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