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LIRR

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Shamrock coal train green paint match?
« on: September 25, 2012, 05:52:37 PM »
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Shamrock coal ran their own equipment over the L&N in the late 70s.  Anyone have a recommendation to match the green paint?
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Re: Shamrock coal train green paint match?
« Reply #1 on: September 25, 2012, 06:14:43 PM »
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I found this to show the colors:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/hunter1828/5565582910/



Hmm... the poor man's
Northern Pacific...

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Re: Shamrock coal train green paint match?
« Reply #2 on: September 25, 2012, 06:58:35 PM »
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To my eye, you could use signal green.  Darken it slightly for the dark green and add it to white for the light green.  I don't really see any hue issues like shifts to yellow or blue.

FWIW

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Re: Shamrock coal train green paint match?
« Reply #3 on: September 26, 2012, 08:31:48 AM »
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The light green is Machine Tool light green.
The best match I've found is Testors Model Master Light Green.
They also duplicate the shade in thier little bottle acrylic line if you prefer water based.
As for the dark green, the old Testors dark green (FS34079) was good for the Onedia & Western decal set from HK.
Testors also duplicates this in their acrylic Model master line, thought I havn't used it yet to verify the colors.
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LIRR

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Re: Shamrock coal train green paint match?
« Reply #4 on: September 26, 2012, 11:00:54 AM »
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Thanks Fred...I will give it a try
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Re: Shamrock coal train green paint match?
« Reply #5 on: September 30, 2012, 07:34:27 PM »
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I got lucky with this...first I bought some Polly Scale Glacier Green. But by the time I got it home....i decided it wasn't even close - to bright and gaudy. Then I posted here...I went with Fred's suggestion...I found Testors Pale Green. I thought it was pretty close, but it looked better in the bottle. I tested it on an undecorated hopper...but it was too dark and not 'minty' enough. So on a what-the-hell I, took a bottle of Polly Aged White I had on the shelf and transferred about 3/4 of a bottle to a larger bottle. Then I poured in some Glacier Green and mixed. I think it's perfect, an exact match. I'll find out when I paint an undecorated SD35 I am using for my green train. The bad new is....I didn't measure it out, I just eyeballed it....so I can't reproduce it to make another batch.

Photos to come....
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Re: Shamrock coal train green paint match?
« Reply #6 on: October 01, 2012, 09:54:55 AM »
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Sorry to hear the pale green wasn't good.
Of course, I was going by the photo Kisatche posted.
May I ask what color primer your using, I usually used Testors MM white primer in the rattle can when I paint light colors.
As a Ann Arbor / DTI modeler, painting orange has it's own issues.
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Re: Shamrock coal train green paint match?
« Reply #7 on: October 01, 2012, 02:08:08 PM »
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rustoleum white primer in the 'rattle can'
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