Paint color

Model Railroader Prototype information for the modeler
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I need to paint some F units to match the Stewart ATSF FT yellow cream color. Does anybody have any experience with that color or have a formula that might work ?

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True Color Paint has a SF yellow TCP-021.

http://trucolorpaint.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/5-42.pdf

Mel

My Model Railroad
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Bakersfield, California

I’m beginning to realize that aging is not for wimps.

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I never had to try and match the color…but it does not look like a Yellow to My eye. More of a Vanilla cream would be My guess. I’m told that is the correct color though…not pure Yellow:

I got mine back in the early 90’s AB set…with Kadee close coupling…very sweet runners, with the Kato drive train.

Good Luck! [:D]

Frank

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I agree with Frank. I’m not a Santa Fe paint expert but I do recall seeing this great Kodachrome photo by Jack Delano which represents the color very well.

SantaFe_103 by Edmund, on Flickr

The PRR replaced their gold leaf lettering color with a “buff” which looks pretty close to this.

Santa Fe paint schemes can get pretty complex. Take a look:

http://old.atsfrr.org/resources/funits/Santa%20Fe%20Railway%20Historical%20&%20Modeling%20Society%20-%20The%20F-Unit%20Pages.htm

And here:

http://old.atsfrr.org/resources/funits/ftnotes.htm

You don’t mention your paint preference. I have recently (well, in the past five years) gravitated to Scalecoat paint. True-Color paint has a pretty extensive color choice, too. Do you have a prefered brand?

Good Luck, Ed