CSX yellow

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Greetings,

I haven’t been active in model railroading for quite a few years, aside from aquiring a piece of HO rolling stock here and there. But recently I decided to dip my to dip my toe back in by painting some locomotives I have on hand. First I painted an Athern F-M Trainmaster in CNJ green with yellow stripes, using Tru-Scale paint.

That came out quite nice, so next I wanted to do an SD40-2 in CSX Bright Future colors. In the past I really liked using Badger ModelFlex paint, so I found some CSX blue and grey, but then discovered they don’t offer CSX yellow. One shop had an n.o.s. bottle of Poly Scale CSX yellow, so I gave that a try and…well let’s just say it didn’t go so well. So back to Badger. They have a bunch of different yellows in the lineup. Is there a shade of ModelFlex yellow that’s reasonably close to CSX yellow?

I see Tru-Scale offers it, but I’d rather avoid mixing paint types on the same model, and I already have those two jars sitting on the bench.

Thanks,

Tom

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Glad to see some people will still paint their own loco.

I did not find Badger’s webpage helpful for the colors of their paint. I did find this seller that had a Modelflex C&O paint

Midwest Model RR also had it. Whether that color satisifies your needs, I dunno. I always figure that if you are going to model weathered locos, a light gray wash can cover up a lot of sins.

There are several other yellows in my first link.

When I lived near Annapolis, Star Hobby carried a lot of Vallejo and Tamiya paints. I’ve only used Vallejo and found it satisfactory.

I realize this is not the “Bright Future” paint scheme, but why not show off?