Once again, I humbly call on those with knowledge. Thank you.
What color paint would Alco engine paint be ? The kind they spray down the engine block,covers and pipes etc.
Just picked up two Phanton Hobbies 3D PROTON printed Alco 251 18 cylinder engines . This will be a totally new material to work with. Kinda excited about these new engines.
Either flat car loads or emergency power or stuck inside a shell or whatever. The ebay seller also has HO EMD 567 18 cylinders engines. He did have other Alco & EMD engines available but they sold.
Just passing info on.
Fear an Ignorant Man more than a Lion- Turkish proverb
Modeling an ficticious HO scale intergrated Scrap Yard & Steel Mill Melt Shop.
Southland Industrial Railway or S.I.R for short. Enterchanging with Norfolk Southern.
I don't know squat, but weren't engines just the color of the underlying metal?
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
This one isn't in a locomotive but it is nice to look at:
Alco_Nasa by Edmund, on Flickr
American Locomotive Co. had some pretty mechanics back then.
ALCO_251 by Edmund, on Flickr
Unfortunately this is under High Pressure Sodium lighting so it has an orange tint to it.
ALCO_251cc by Edmund, on Flickr
ALCO_251cc_crop by Edmund, on Flickr
IF I were shooting a prime mover I would probably look for D&H Gray or Erie-Lackawanna gray.
My New York Central painting diagrams list the engine room color as "Dupont Duluxe Suede Gray" so that might get you in the right direction.
Good Luck, Ed
dragonriversteel Once again, I humbly call on those with knowledge. Thank you. What color paint would Alco engine paint be ? The kind they spray down the engine block,covers and pipes etc. Just picked up two Phanton Hobbies 3D PROTON printed Alco 251 18 cylinder engines . This will be a totally new material to work with. Kinda excited about these new engines. Either flat car loads or emergency power or stuck inside a shell or whatever. The ebay seller also has HO EMD 567 18 cylinders engines. He did have other Alco & EMD engines available but they sold. Just passing info on.
What are 18 cylinder EMD's and Alco's used for?
Grey looks like the promising color.
Ed
Dunno Ed. Marine engines maybe ?
Phantom hobbies 3D prints other different cylinder Alco & EMD engines. Shoot,they even print N scale GE FDL engines.
I plan on making a back up power generator set with these Alco 251 for my scrap yard. Should they lose power to the EAF. Gonna be a neat scene.
BigDaddy I don't know squat, but weren't engines just the color of the underlying metal?
Hello Henry,
I just learned that at least with Alco. The customer could have a choice of paint colors. Orange,gray or a mint green color. Gonna go with a darker mint green for my power units.
Patrick
Edmund,
Is that the old Alco NASA Marion crawler engines ? Love that machine.
Gonna go with a darker shade of mint green for these 251's . Thank you for the information Edmund.
A few weeks ago I rode the CVSR, in their yard were some engine blocks and the ones I saw were painted green.
Here is a startup video. Looks like a sickly hospital green to me.
dragonriversteelEdmund, Is that the old Alco NASA Marion crawler engines ? Love that machine.
Yep, sure is. I seem to recall watching the crawler-transporter in operation in the movie Apollo 13 and it sure sounded like they dubbed in EMD turbo diesel sounds
dragonriversteelGonna go with a darker shade of mint green for these 251's .
I found a Valspar* color called Flat La Fonda Mirage that makes a pretty good institutional "sea-foam" green color. Great for passenger car interiors, too.
*Rattle-can
EMD_567 by Edmund, on Flickr
Here's some on an EMD 567.
Cheers, Ed
I'm probably a little late to this dance, but I seem to remember both gray and seafoam green on prime movers on the SP. Tamiya makes a reasonable sort of seafoam green spray paint called TS60.
https://peteratkins.com.au/cms/w/reference-form---tamiya-colour-chart-project---web.jpg