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QuoteFirst, as delivered C424 scheme:Well, ALCO designers would have liked it.
First, as delivered C424 scheme:
It's funny, that definitely looks more taupe than gray to me. I KNOW it's gray, based on the data in Photoshop, but man... it looks almost tan on the monitor.
Speaking of gray... the Green Bay & Western used a center light gray stripe early on...
Anyway, this is not the color you seek... Forget what you see on your monitor and think tarnished silver, that's the color I am going for.
Something like Accu Paint Imitation Aluminum?
But more tarnished. The grey used on the Milwaukee Road's Hiawatha Hudsons is probably the closest I've seen to it on another train. But even then, if you look it up you'll get different varieties of it, from whitish to near charcoal, depending on your monitor, age and condition of photo, model v prototype, etc. But in my mind's eye its a light to medium warm grey.
I happen to still have an ink book, but you might try this site for matching model paint using the Pantone systemhttp://scalemodeldb.com/paintcharts/pantoneThe beauty of using the pantone system is that it keeps you using a common lanuage no matter what manufacturere of paint you choose. Additionally, in the future, you can go back and use the same shade elsewhere.Just thinking about consistency.
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