HELP NORTHERN PACIFIC F3/7 PAINT SCHEME

Ray try looking at "Tru Color" paint for the NP dark green. 

Paul, thank you but I wonder if the Tru Color paint, TCP-057 is used on the Loewy scheme. I will check it out as soon as I can get to my hobby shop.

RAY

Ray,

Just remember that Tru Color is an acrylic paint vs an enamel like ScaleCoat II. It takes practice to use acrylics as the paint can dry in the tip of the air brush causing problems.

Dick

If you mean what some people refer to as The Pine Tree Paint Scheme for Passenger service (pre Loewy) the roof, except for a small area over the cab,  is basically black.  I much prefer this scheme over the Loewy.

Jay

Ray, get yourself a set of NP Color Drift Cards from the NPRHA Company Store. It includes the 1947 passenger Pullman Green and Light Green cards you need  

I wish more of the RR historical societies would produce a color reference product like this....

Per The GN Man's suggestion and my interest in NP, I perused the extensive products offered by their store.  Here's a link to the drift cards:

http://store.nprha.org/np-color-drift-card-set/

PS:  Found a neat sign in O scale that fits my current project of painting a couple of NP NCL dome pax cars.

Here's a few pictures of MTH's interpretation of the early scheme. These cars were the first issue I believe of cars painted in this scheme ~ 2004. The roof is black while sides appear more dark brown with hint of green. I don't own any PRR stuff but they don't appear as dark as Brunswick green.

Andrew

From the drift card link in my previous post:

1947 Passenger Pullman Green _ÌÎÌ_ÌÎ_ÌÎÌ_ÌÎÌÕÌÎÌ_ÌÎ_ÌÎå«Ì´å This color was applied to NP passenger equipment from 1947 to 1953. The paint used on this color card is DuPont Centari 5.0 SS.
1947 Passenger Light Green _ÌÎÌ_ÌÎ_ÌÎÌ_ÌÎÌÕÌÎÌ_ÌÎ_ÌÎå«Ì´å This color was applied to NP passenger equipment from 1947 to 1953. The paint used on this color card is DuPont Centari 5.0 SS.

Curious why the DuPont colors seem to be the same???

@The GN Man posted:

Carl, those identical DuPont paint codes have to be a “cut & paste” typo. If you wish, I’ll email Dean O’Neill’s contact info to you. He led the effort to create the drift cards and surely knows the correct info. 

Thanks for the offer, but I'm doing the Lowey livery.