Good morning everyone,
Well, along with some other items I ordered a Weaver boxcar and one of the ladders has parts missing to it. I have a replacement ladder but of course not the correct color. If I remember correctly Weaver painted their cars with Scalecoat paint. Would anyone here knows what color would be a correct match? Otherwise this is just a five minute airbrush job. Thanks, Miketg
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Is this a prototype model or a custom run ? Tough looking at internet pictures and especially yellow. Looks like maybe Union Pacific yellow. A Google search. May bring up a color chart. Even if you come up with the color. Trying to find it may be a bit of work. There is no new stock of Scalecoat paint.
You might think of doing what I ended up doing. I purchased a pair of American Models SD 60s that had been dropped and badly damaged. I did the repairs and reconstructed both ends of the engines. I purchased three paints from different manufacturers that supposedly matched the UP yellow but none of them did. At the suggestion of Ed from Gold in Hands l went to the Home Depot store and had them match the color, it was spot on, perfect. I then purchased one of the paint sample jars of the color, which is a latex but, with very careful application it is very difficult to see where the repair was done.
Ray
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