Need help with paint color!!

[Anonymous]

I am looking to paint a Westside Brass 2-8-8-4 DM&IR Yellowstone, and i want the boiler to be Grey. Does anyone know the Scalecoat color that would be the correct shade of Grey?

Thanks for the help!

[jimrice4449]

This probably won't help much, but I wrote to the pr dept of the DM&IR years ago about this very topic. They sent me a copy of the co. magazine that had a color picture of one of the engines they gussied up for a fan trip. The boiler and cylinder jackets were a shade of grey that looked slightly lighter than UP Harbor Mist grey but with a bit of a greenish cast to it. I no longer have the magazine but , for a guess, I'd start with a mix of 4 or 5 parts EL grey and one part Southern green and see what it looks like.

[bikerraypa]

I have the following list for mixing Floquil paint for the Missabe:

Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range
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Missabe Maroon 10 parts R-88 D&H Caboose Red
1 part R-10 Engine Black
3 parts R-51 Light Blue

(found on the Emblem) Green 10 parts R-35 Burlington No. Green
2 parts R-174 Southern Green

(found on the Emblem) Red 5 parts R-20 Caboose Red
4 parts R-65 Signal Red
3 parts R-11 Reefer White

Yellow 5 parts R-31 Reefer Yellow
2 parts R-20 Caboose Red
1 part R-33 Railbox Yellow

Black 5 parts R-10 Engine Black
3 parts R-74 Boxcar Red


These are from "Bill Havrilla's Railroad Colors" You can find all the prototype paint mix listings at this url:

http://www.birch.net/~jashaw/

Go to the bottom of the page, and in the section labeled "Useful Model Railroad Files for Downloading" you will see links to the color mixing pages.

Hope this helps.


Ray out