Correct color for Woodland Scenics Phillips 66 station

[Anonymous]

I have a Woodland Scenics Phillips 66 mini scene and need to know what the correct colors are for this old time structure. Thanks for any help.

[orsonroy]

White building, red trim.

[Anonymous]

The WS model is based on the Phillips 66 station that used to sit on Route 66 near Red Oak, Missouri. There was an article in the 10/09/91 L.A. Times which had a photo of it.

I would say that it's a soft jade green... like a NYC or PC boxcar green. The roof, door, and window trim are all tomato soup red (to match the hanging sign out front). So are the pumps and misc accessories. The chimney is grey stone - and there is a dark stovepipe protruding from it. The sign post appears to be black or very dark gray, as are the tops of the pumps.

I never finished building mine.... but one nice touch I added was removing the metal area where the "glass" on the pump tops would be... and substituting the clear protector material that is on a new 0 paint brush. I cut them to fit, and filled it half full with a wood varni***hat "yellows". Looks like liquid gasoline. Then glue the metal tops back on.

Mike

[orsonroy]

Actually, much like basically every other chain store in existance, the model is of a "stock" Philips 66 station from the 1920s/1930s. You still see these buildings standing derelict all over the midwest.

The building in MO might be green now, but it was red & white when it was an operating branch of P66. If you dig around hard enough (especially through traction books) you can see color photos of these stations.

[Anonymous]

Phillips 66 logos used to be an orange like color. And the "66" was not level, it looked like it was running downhill. They squared up the letters and went to red and while sometime after the mid 1960s.