If you use green stained glass paint on a the existing pink windows it will go a murky grayish color of some sort. I have noticed the green Bachmann cars usually have pinkish clerestory windows (not really red) and the red Bachmann cars usually have green clerestory windows. The dusky pink roof does look good on the dull green Bachmann cars like the WP&YR ones.
Andrew
Nice paint job Todd. And i agree with those who say to use a second and maybe a third color to pick the details.
Ken Brunt said:
Or paint the trim board a darker green or black. That’ll make the gold letters stand out.
Ya what Ken said!
Good looking green Todd.
Thanks.
Nice use of crackle glass Dennis that must have been tough stuff to cut.
The shade of green is growing on me and the pink windows too. This weekend I completed the combine and it is back together. There has to be an easier way to paint these pups then stripping them right down. I even had to cut the lighting wires and resolder them and surprisingly the lights still worked when it all went back together.
OH Well 2 down and 3 more to go.
Over the weekend we watched an old Western with James Garner called “Hour of the Gun” it was an OK movie. In it there were several scenes with a passenger train and the cars were green with black roofs and for an accent colour they had red around the window frames.
The jury is still out on painting an accent colour.
I’ve always been partial to “Pennsy Maroon” for my varnish, with gold lettering and striping. Very “ellerghent.”
When I recently added a “short” RPO to the passenger consist, I kept the same coloring but used white lettering. (I’ll be posting more pix of this guy soon.)
There is an essay on this subject entitled “A Century of Passenger Car Coloring” in:
Botkin and Harlow: “A Treasury of Railroad Folklore”, Bonanza Press, NY, 1953, pp 520-524.
Maybe it’s in your library, or backchannel me and I’ll scan you a copy.
Be patient with me. I’ll be away at the invasion until July 25.
By the way, It took me a long, long time to settle on a livery for my own passenger cars.
I finally found just what I had been looking for on a tinplate toy: a fine late 19th Century Lionel Std. Ga. NYC&HRRR Passenger car, of all places!
Wow Jack that first photo looks so real I had to keep lookign and looking to find something that told me it is a model. Finally it was the large bolts and the fact that you must have been hovering at the side of the bridge to get that shot OR do you have one of those drones and it is a real train? Nice custom work.
Jack I see you are new with 6 postings so let me be the first to say WE NEED to SEE MORE OF YOUR RR.
I suppose I should update this thread since John brought it back to the top.
I just finished the 3rd of 5 passenger car paint jobs. It is slow going since I need to take them apart, paint then put them back together and if we have a decent day I would rather be out running trains than in the basement messing with one.
Thanks, Todd,
Actually I’ve been posting stuff for years on “that other website” - MyLargeScale.com - but they recently changed owners and format. That was the tipping point for me to consider a move over here, closer to the East Coast where I already know a lot of you guys. Plus, I went to my first “Drag ‘n’ Brag” in York, PA, last Spring and that clinched it for me.
You’ll be seeing a lot more of my stuff in these pages from now on.
BTW, I’ve got some pix posted now in the Modeling and Motive Power fora (that’s the proper Latin plural of “forum”) if you’d care to take a look. I’ve also got a page on Dean Whipple’s excellent website “4LargeScale” - I’m honored to be included with those first-rate master modelers.