I was looking at Walthers for a bottle of “box car red” to do a Conrail box car, only to find that Scalecoat actually makes three different colors all called box car red. Has anybody used these paints before, and can you recomend the “correct” shade for painting a Conrail boxcar? Thanks.
Probably different roads had different ideas of what ‘Box car red’ was, plus the SAME ROAD switches paint brands from time to time, plus …When things sit out in the sun day to day, they fade, so what is ''correct" varies greatly…
The ONLY time colors will actually match is when they come out of the same paint shop on the same day - Sort of like the “All men are created equal” tag.
Give Scalcoat credit for a choice. Far more important is a matter of paint TYPE and sheen. Scalecoat II dries to a gloss for accepting decals, and wants a dull-coat cover. Floquil dries dull but needs a gloss to take decals. Your choice. Take a painted model car down to a CONRAIL freight yard sometime to match colors. You’ll be all day. Different boxcar reds will be “correct”.
The above is very true. You may also want to take a look at the Polly Scale boxcar red.
Are you referring to “Tuscan Red”? What some of the older cars were painted?
True, given the weathering I’m going to apply it probably won’t matter much. I should just go down to the show room so I can see the color chips and just pick the one I like. Do you prefer one or the other for an airbrush? Up to this point I’ve only use Badger Modelflex in order to avoid having to thin the paint, but I don’t think I can work that way forever.