I’m wondering if anyone would know what paint would most accurately match the typical orange tones (2 tones-one called “maroon”) seen on the EMD F units that pulled the Hiawathas in the late 40s and early 50s. I can always try to match paint swatches but figured I would ask first.
Walthers Proto just released Hiawatha sets in the last year and I love the color of the “modified” diesels (from about 1950), both with the MilwRd “tilted” herald and the “running Hiawatha” herald.
Scalecoat makes a Milwaukee orange spray paint. I believe other companies made this color but dropped our of the business. For a while it was tough to find an alternative, but Scalecoat did produce a matching paint.
Great! I will investigate that, thanks.
You’ve got to remember when using photos and paint swatches - because they rarely match what we see. The number of times I’ve read or heard, “I matched my paint exactly to the drift card-paint chip-negative-etc and it still doesn’t look right”
Paint fades when exposed to sunlight and weather
How we percieve color depends on time of day, season, amount of overcast, distance from the object
Film shifts over time (yer talking about exposures taken around seventy years ago here)
Reproduction such as in books can affect color
The difference between sunlight and artificial lighting in our train rooms and workshops has a huge effect on how we see color
Bottom line, shoot some test shots with various mixtures, compare in your layout room and choose what looks “right” to you
Well a search under Paint and Paint Supplies for “Milwaukee” on the Walthers website came up with several companies who make Milwaukee Road paints. I guess you’d have to check each out to see which comes closest to matching what you need.
I just started work on Milwaukee Road sw7 #623 and I’m using scale coat paint, I love it!