@Frank McCabe posted:Rpslt8: We disagree. The dark paint on the CGW model was brown, not maroon and the red was too orange. Thats why we photographed next to an Illinois Central E-unit since it is closer to that than what it should be. See photos below.
I realize that you’re trying to provide constructive criticism, but in your original comments you said the the CGW geep was “too orange” and too “brown”. You compared it to an IC F7 as if it was close to those colors, and I’m sorry it’s not even close. Not even in the same ballpark. I’ve included both sets of pictures from your replies. The picture of the geep at the top is taken under what looks like dimmed tungsten (or maybe halogen) light. The late F3 (I think) at top looks to be taken in shade indoors. Finally, the pic of the prototype looks to be either in full sun or partly cloudy daylight, with Kodachrome or maybe Extachrome, or something similar. That combined with a healthy coating of soot, says to me that the criticism is unfair.
Missing stanchions, wrong wheels, wrong size roof fans… these are demonstrably provable. But no one, and I mean no one, gets colors spot on. And getting paints that were largely observed outdoors and captured with slide film that had various color shifts and development idiosyncrasies to match plastic models with paints 70 years newer is an effort in futility.
Do some models get it totally wrong (Lionel T&P ten wheeler)? Yes.
Some are really bad. But these geeps are are not only in the ballpark, they’re neighbors on a Pantone color guide.
