School bus yellow

[LN2800]

I seem to recall reading that Chessie yellow on new EMD locomotives  in the late 70's was just a Pantone hue or two away from the Federal Yellow that DuPont was supplying to the bus body companies (Bluebird, Thomas, et al). If you have a **clean** Chessie loco or covered hopper, try to ballpark your paint to that.  Can't remember the exact source, probably in the Chessie locomotives book, or possibly on the hosam website. 

[Mike C]

One other thing about yellow, I find that it's the most transparent color, difficult to get good coverage when airbrushing.  I've screwed up a few paint jobs before I learned to first lay a good base coat of white down before the yellow.

I'm wondering if a different color base coat could make one of these other yellows approximate SBY, if nothing else could be found. Reefer orange base with a yellow over it?  Sounds like too much work, though.

Pro auto painters use this trick all the time. I'm not a painter myself, but, I'm sure there is info somewhere about automobile painting that would explain how to use different base colors.......Mike