Hi,
What kind of Poly S paint can I use for a phase 4 Amtrak engine.
Floquil Polly S has been dicontinued for some time. The current acrylic Floquil paint is Polly Scale. Here is what is available:
Amtrak Blue - 270-414399
Amtrak Red - 270-414400
Jim
Would Santa Fe Silver work?
Floquil used to have Amtrak ‘Platinum Mist’ in their regular solvent based line, but it has discontinued. Amtrak engines are not silver, but more of of a grey/silver paint.
Jim
Platinum Mist is still being made. Great color for Amtrak modeling:
IIRC, the OP wanted ‘non-solvent’ Polly Scale paint…
If he can learn to live with the paint fumes(and spry outside or into a paint hood, the solvent based paint will work fine. Seams strange that Floquil does not have a matching color in their acrylic line…
Jim
This is appropriate to me as well, as I recently came into a CF7 shell I would like to make into an Amtrak unit. I have been in a knundrum of paint as well. I will search down the color suggested. Thank You!!
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/pictures/19186/img612.jpg
One other hand, I have noticed is that many of the Enamel, Lacquer, & other Hard paints, do not seem to have a color match in Acrylics. I have seen this anomally in many Testors/Floquil lines, & even Tamiya paints.
Having worked with paints in the past, I can only think that the differences in the the hard carriers & acrylic carriers must differ, & may not stabilize the pigments correctly. Although that is difficult to accept, as one would think they would be neutral & not carrier specific… But then on the other hand, … explain Alclad, & why it works how it does…
Only the Terminator T-1000 can (literally), wrap his head around that!
Thanks for the input & suggestions!
For an Amtrak CF7, I’d suggest Platinum Mist and Engine Black. I’d also recommend painting both colors with Floquil enamels, since the Platinum Mist is enamel only.
For decals, Microscale set #87-424 should work for most of the numbers and Amtrak lettering. Although I don’t think it includes the small white “F”. You might also need Microscale set #87-675 for the small Amtrak lettering on the nose. And it’s hard to tell, but that set might have the white “F” as well.
Many many years ago a really nice Amtrak engineer let me and my dad ride in the cab of an old CF7 in the Los Angeles coach yard. It looked similar to the pair in that photo. Although I think it was a lot dirtier, and maybe it had more gray paint along the frame. I was pretty young so I can’t remember it all that well. But I remember how loud it was in that cab.
Thank you Matt!
That would have been a real neat Ride!!
Thanks for the tips, yes I do prefer lacquer & enamel paints, they just work for me.
I will track some of that paint down & detail that shell!
Perhaps it may show up in WPF later this winter, (i’m not so very fast) ha hah…
On a side note, there was a sale on the Walthers Trainline GP in Amtrak a while back, & WOW! is that some BRIGHT silver, kind of pretty though, but not right…
Thanks,