Oh where oh where can I get a Floquil color chart?

Model Railroader General Discussion (Model Railroader)
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Here in New Zealand, access to certain modelling equipment is - shall we say - limited. I would dearly love to get my hands on a Floquil railroad colour chart, but none are available here. I can’t even seem to find one on the Internet - Walthers, InternetTrains, Discount Trains On-line etc all say the chart is unavailable at the moment. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Or does any kind soul have a spare one that they can pass on to me for good, honest money?

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FLOQUIL used to print them up for their Dealer displays.

I would WRITE them directly. They used to have a 'hands-on President.

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Color chart

http://www.testors.com/brand_category.asp?brandNbr=2

Color chart

http://www.hometown-hobbies.com/floquil_chart

Paint mixing recomendations

http://www.birch.net/~jashaw/rrdata/floqu1.txt

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Thanks for that link, DSchmitt, but I’ve been there before! The dowloadable PDF file is, I believe, quite inaccurate - at least, it becomes inaccurate due to computer colour spaces and colour profile conversion. The “Signal Red” on my monitor looks orange. I can’t even order the chart from the Testors website as it states it is an “invalid item”.

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So what ? Their colors are quite inaccurate.(ever see their CP Rail red???[D)])

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DSchmitt, thanks for the link to the floquil colors. Very helpful.

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The color charts I have seen in hobby shops have all been worse than that .pdf file wakaiti. I don’t believe I have ever seen one that was close even. Always looked at the pigment in the bottom of the bottle.

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I believe Testors but and end to that. There just seems to be a big PC push to eliminate all solvent based paints anyway. You think they were made with cyonide or surphuric acid. Used properly there’s nothing wrong with them.

I have painted with Floequil, origional Scalecoat and Scalcoat II in the past and have excellent results. I wish I could say the same about Acylics. No matter what airbrush and tip, I cannot get the same results w/ acylic paint as with solvent. Acylics are too transparent and need a much heavier coat for the same pigment coverage to lay down. Sucessive coats of primer, body color, heavy parting lines of 2 tone and striping and miniscus of the paint around protruding details just bothers me. Am I just expecting too much. The solvents do give me satifactory results w/o any of the issues.

Have I not found the proper method or equipment? I have done 1:1 automotive paint and Floequil is the closest to a scale paint job in it’s pigment and coverage.