SCALECOAT II Caboose Red?

[rogergperkins]

I purchased two B&O wagontop JNJ kits and have become to assemble them.  I ordered the SCALECOAT II Caboose Red aerosol paint from the LHS; today was the first opportunity I had to paint the caboose shells.     Sorry folks, but the paint was not red.  Maroon pehaps[/b], but not red.
What a disappointment!  Now back to the drawing board to find an aerosol hobby paint that is appropriate for B&O cabooses.
Any one else find SCALECOAT II paints to differ from what they expected?

[Sokramiketes]

I purchased two B&O wagontop JNJ kits and have become to assemble them.  I ordered the SCALECOAT II Caboose Red aerosol paint from the LHS; today was the first opportunity I had to paint the caboose shells.     Sorry folks, but the paint was not red.  Maroon pehaps[/b], but not red.
What a disappointment!  Now back to the drawing board to find an aerosol hobby paint that is appropriate for B&O cabooses.
Any one else find SCALECOAT II paints to differ from what they expected?

Sounds like a mislabeled spray can.  Caboose Red in the bottles is certainly a bright red.

[ljudice]

Here's the Scalecoat paint chart:

http://cs.trains.com/TRCCS/forums/p/160982/1777907.aspx

Caboose Red from Scalecoat has always been brown - at least the past 20 years.  Makes a lot of sense, right? Well no, but I hate to say it - but it hasn't changed.  Also pretty dumb they don't put a color chart on their site - even with monitors, lighting, phase of the moon, etc...  it would stop you from wasting $$$ on "caboose red" when it's not red.

I've never heard the other story about rebranding. In fact I know that the Penn Central Historical society (and others) has Scalecoat mix up special paints for them (Weaver Models).   

To their credit - if you paint outside on a warm, DRY day, the Scalecoat II rattle cans do as good a job as anything out there - an amazingly smooth, shiny finish.  But their color selection is really somewhat strange.

- Lou

[ljudice]

Wow! I guess it's not a surprise it's made by someone else....

[mcjaco]

The paper label on the two cans of SCALECOAT II aerosol paint are not attached securely; I peeled off the label and discovered the both are labelled Diversity Brands - A division of Sherwin Williams.   This is not a surprise.  I am not being critical, just reporting what I learned.

That's pretty typical of all paint.  Someone does the work, and they just re-label it.