Norfolk and Western passenger train color

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When it comes to color, I always go back to my photographs of a string of B&M box cars fresh from the paint shop.  Not one of the 12 cars is the same color and they were all photographed under the same lighting conditions and the cars had just been painted.  If the prototype can not keep to one shade, how can a modeler?

Pick what looks good to you and do not worry about it, I use Tuscan.

Kurt S. Kramke MMR
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  Subject: Norfolk and Western passenger train color


  Whether or not the color chosen by Rapido is correct, it's evident from Jason's response that they tried to select the best. Color choices are highly subjective.

  The response from a society member was discourteous and not at all constructive. Jason didn't claim to be an "expert"; he merely offered to share what he'd learned. 

  Perhaps the society could be more involved with model manufacturers. But, really, what good does it do to demand that others, every one of them a hobbyist volunteer, drop what they're doing to serve the urgent needs of one member? If there's a color issue, then perhaps our critical colleague could lend his time,and expertise to the society and help to resolve it. 

  Over the years, model railroading seems to have acquired a cadre of very critical, unpleasant adherents who forget that this is, after all, a hobby. Believe it or not, there are more important matters in this world in need of resolution than the absolute precise-to-the-exact-Kelvin-degree shade of N&W passenger red.

  Ivan Abrams



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