Yes! thats exactly what it is. Its almost like if you added an olive green tint to the MUD color, which is more of a mustard yellowish thing anyway.
You don’t think having sprayed with an airbrush would matter, do you? i mean i was kind of sketchy at first because the color in the bottle didn’t match the picture at all.
My problem, though, is that i bought some used turnouts from ebay that are pretty much an exact match for the picture in the article (does nobody else remember this article?) and you can tell that it was applied with an airbrush, or a spray bottle at least.
do you guys ever notice, also, that the color sticker on all of the paint racks at the stores pretty much never match what they actually look like when dry?
It shouldn’t matter if you painted it with an airbrush or brush unless you added something funky when you thinned it. Maybe some substance on the rails could change the color but that would be rare. Try painting a two or three coats on a white index card and see what the results are. Does the color of the paint in the jar match the dried paint you sprayed? Some paints will dry a touch darker. I use rail brown for a skin color when I paint figures and never had it come out with a greenish tint. I still think you got a bad batch or didn’t mix it completely.
I never trust the color tags. When I look for a paint color, I only use the tags as a rough guess only. Shaking the bottle and predicting it being a slight bit darker is the way I make my paint choice. The Testors Model Master paint tags are the closest of any, IMO. The color chart I looked at on line was one of the worst. It reminded me of the first Modeflex charts.