Hello Brian,
Any shop that sells paint should be able to mix & match a batch for you to touch up your Passenger Cars with. Just show them what color you want them to match & this should help out. P.S....look for a place that sells automotive paint in spray cans. Hope this helps. Take Care.
I have used his paint and find the expense to be worth it--not that it's any more expensive than custom mixes, for they are relatively expensive, too. His paint is, in my experience with it, excellent quality: If you know anything at all about application, you aren't likely to mess up the job.
YMMV
Thank You for the reply's! I have had paint mixed at the auto. store, and it works very well. The problem with the 2400's is that there is not enough "area" to get a match. The parts store needs about a square inch of plain green, which between the windows, lettering, yellow stripes, and paint chips, none of the cars have. Might be able to use the inside of the car, but the color is a little different on the inside than the out.
Sounds like my local guys opinion of the paint is mirrored here. Too bad. Looks like this is niche that someone could fill.
Just my 2 cents.
I wanted to do something similar with a set of tinplate 6442/6443 brown passenger cars. I actually called the gentleman who produces or at least produced paint for this reason (for the life of me I cannot remember his name or the name of the company but he is somewhere in PA, I believe his last name is Henning), anyway, his advice was that unless I was prepared to strip the cars and repaint them using a sprayer my touch-ups would leave the cars looking like they had a case of the chicken pox. He explained that although the paint is an exact match for the original, the 50 - 60 years of dirt and grime now in the pigment would make the fresh paint stick out. I took his advice and am glad I did because the few small areas I did along the roof line are clearly different than the rest of the car.
Mike
While on the subject, has anyone used Charlie's paint from the bottle / airbrush instead of the rattle can?
I bought a bottle of NYC Gunmetal grey to do a resto on a 221 Dreyfuss later this summer. I'd like to airbrush it with a Badger Crescendo double action. Pretty much my first 'real' job with an airbrush.
Any advice thinning, technique, pressure settings, etc?
Regards,
CJ Meyers
SPFan,
Yep that's it, you know, I forgot to check last night but I'm pretty sure the gentleman's last name was Henning. Unfortunately, when I asked him if he had a spray can of the ivory/cream paint for the railings of a post war milk platform he told me he's out of the paint business. Only selling what stock he has left and that was all pint cans. Too bad, he was a wealth of information and very willing and easy to talk with. Asked how I was going to get the old paint off, if I had a glass bead/sand blaster, if not, to boil a gallon of water and once at a boil remove from the heat, mix 2 cups of olf time TIDE powder laundry detergent, mix and soak the piece in it. Let soak for a while and the paint will come off with very little elbow grease.
By the way, I think his name is actually on the can's label.
Great product! I am using his paint to restore a 1688 torpedo.
Alex
Buy some testors model paints and mix it up. Should be close enough. Green, brown, yellow, and black should do it. I would recommend leaving them alone, unless they are the observation and pullman you bought off me on ebay a week or so ago... Anyway i havnt heard much about his stuff except it doesnt match Ives, but then again, nothing does. Good luck.
I can't remember where i shipped the ones i sold. O/W. Any luck with the paint yet?
Our community is FREE to join. To participate you must either login or register for an account.
Get the Classic Toy Trains newsletter delivered to your inbox twice a month