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 Post subject: Re: Alternative Examples of the Reading's Postwar Paint Colo
PostPosted: Wed Dec 07, 2022 11:19 am 

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Most of the time, Seacrest Green looks more like this, at least to me...


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 Post subject: Re: Alternative Examples of the Reading's Postwar Paint Colo
PostPosted: Wed Dec 07, 2022 11:23 am 

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You don't see really good pictures of #905 too often so here's one...


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 Post subject: Re: Alternative Examples of the Reading's Postwar Paint Colo
PostPosted: Wed Dec 07, 2022 1:57 pm 

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Back to #800, that one would appear to be currently painted in a color that greatly resembles the Great Northern's Pullman Green and not the Reading Trainmaster cab display model's Brewster Green, most definitely... LOL


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 Post subject: Re: Alternative Examples of the Reading's Postwar Paint Colo
PostPosted: Thu Dec 08, 2022 10:11 pm 

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Good, now I won't have to pay ten bucks just to look at the cab model again. I can take the NPRHA Pullman Green card along and check #800 again also.

Great Northern Railway Pullman Green is Ditzler/PPG 42094. Great Northern Railroad Orange is 60014...


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 Post subject: Re: Alternative Examples of the Reading's Postwar Paint Colo
PostPosted: Thu Dec 08, 2022 10:25 pm 

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Here you go, Phil. I just found out today James D. Morrissey uses 2015 GMC Brewster Green on their equipment...


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 Post subject: Re: Alternative Examples of the Reading's Postwar Paint Colo
PostPosted: Thu Dec 08, 2022 10:31 pm 

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It'll all come down to what the paint chips say at Strasburg but I'm feeling pretty confident thanks to good ol' #624 here... LOL


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 Post subject: Re: Alternative Examples of the Reading's Postwar Paint Colo
PostPosted: Sun Dec 11, 2022 3:18 pm 

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Okay, this is pretty scary here...

If we put Penn Central's Jade Green on the herald on the door and NYC's 20th Century Green on the rest of the truck, we end up with Southern's Virginia Green on the locomotive.

That would be DuPont 1317 (General Motors WE5646). It can't disguise itself as any of the other medium greens on this one...


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 Post subject: Re: Alternative Examples of the Reading's Postwar Paint Colo
PostPosted: Sun Dec 11, 2022 11:34 pm 

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And then I thought to myself, hey Pete you frickin' moron, maybe the reason 1317 has now become the general all-purpose Reading green is because it was the last green the Reading used. LOL

At the front of the battery boxes, this is darn near a perfect dual match. The chip on the left is 046 GMC Morat Green...


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 Post subject: Re: Alternative Examples of the Reading's Postwar Paint Colo
PostPosted: Wed Dec 28, 2022 11:37 pm 

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Santa brought me a new scanner. Check this out...


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 Post subject: Re: Alternative Examples of the Reading's Postwar Paint Colo
PostPosted: Sat Dec 31, 2022 11:13 am 

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This time, it's #3402 versus the ultimate alternative example of 1317 Green, Southern #4501...


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 Post subject: Re: Alternative Examples of the Reading's Postwar Paint Colo
PostPosted: Sat Dec 31, 2022 11:48 am 

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I'm not sure if I had mentioned it before but DuPont 1317 is also known as Swift Green. LOL WT7081 is a Ford Motor Co. code for this color as applied to the 1968 Shelby GT350 pictured.

Here's the video if anyone wants to watch the color shift...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQ3xmOcoRxE


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 Post subject: Re: Alternative Examples of the Reading's Postwar Paint Colo
PostPosted: Tue Jan 03, 2023 2:55 pm 

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DuPont 5248 remains the best choice for the '73 yellow but only if I can find a decent place on the pictures to put it. LOL The 005 Black chip is a good indicator of just how dirty the locomotive might be. Here again, these are the chips as processed by the new scanner with no color manipulation on my part...


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 Post subject: Re: Alternative Examples of the Reading's Postwar Paint Colo
PostPosted: Tue Jan 03, 2023 3:26 pm 

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This is Lemon Yellow on and around the steps of PRR #7006 at the RRMPA but I still believe it's too light of a color for the Pennsy...


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 Post subject: Re: Alternative Examples of the Reading's Postwar Paint Colo
PostPosted: Tue Jan 03, 2023 3:36 pm 

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Here's a patch job I didn't do yet but now I did. LOL Obviously, adjusting the chip colors was necessary for this one. The 046 sample was used as the base reference...


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 Post subject: Re: Alternative Examples of the Reading's Postwar Paint Colo
PostPosted: Thu Jan 05, 2023 9:52 am 

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Alrighty then, if I'm to overcome 62 pages worth of cognitive dissonance over DuPont 1317, I'm going to need to post a picture of the proper REA truck toy...


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