I've been painting my freight car wheels with Floquil RR Tie Brown but I've used it all up. So I bought a bottle of Tru-Color RR Tie Brown and the color is very different from Floquil's. Plus, it doesn't brush on very well at all, too watery.
So, does anyone know another company that makes a matching color to the Floquil RR Tie Brown? A paint that will brush on and cover well?
Thanks,
Jeff
Jeff,
RPM has released the color in their Model Master acrylic paint line:
http://testors.cust.shopatron.com/products/749572
Jim
Modeling BNSF and Milwaukee Road in SW Wisconsin
In the Micro-lux line sold by MicroMark, there is a color which is (supposedly) color-matched to the old PollyScales color. It is an acrylic, though, and it too is a thin consistency more suitable to air brushing.
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If your'e having trouble with matching paint. Go to a good craft store,get a selection of paints that are close to what you want and some black and white , or better unbleached titanium and mix til you get what you want. Keep track of what you've mixed and your in business. Also if you are not sure of what to mix you can get books that show you how to mix hundreds of colors. One example is, 1500 color mixing recipes by William Powell and is published by www.walterfoster.com
Hobbylinc, still has some Floquil, Pollyscale paint in stock, obiviously until they run out. I ordered some Floquil colors and just received them today. Check out their other paints also. Good place to deal with, I order from them a lot:
http://www.hobbylinc.com/htm/flo/flof414329.htm
Take Care!
Frank
I recently obtained some Microlux railroad tie brown and rust to compare colors with Polyscale. The Microlux railroad tie brown is close to Polyscale but is a little lighter and has a little greenish tinge. The Microscale rust is very close to Polyscale and is a trace more orange - like new rust. Both Microlux colors brush reasonably well and cover well.
Joe
You don't really need to match rust colors. just about any rust color will do, just as in real life, every wheel face is a different shade of rust, they are not all the same.
Jay
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I use from years GOLDEN artist acrilycs colors for painting my models.
They offer a brown extremly similar to the rail tie brown, and it's a strong covering acrilycs.
I use this brown to paint my track whith an airbrushsince years, when painted the track is brushed whith an isopropilic-india ink mixture to kill down the color, so I never have any problem to match similar colors.
Vallejo, a fine model acrilycs supplier has sure a matching color in his enormous choice of paints.
Testor offer Railroad Tie Brown in their acrilycs line but reports say it's not a 100% matching color
The track on the picture is paint whith Golden acrilycs color including the model next to the track.
modelmaker51 You don't really need to match rust colors. just about any rust color will do, just as in real life, every wheel face is a different shade of rust, they are not all the same.
I wasn't trying to match rust colors. Just observing that the two manufacturers "rust" were a little different. The OP was interested in a paint that was close to Polyscale railroad tie brown. My limited observation seemed to indicate that Polyscale and Microlux colors are close but not identical.
I agree with modelmaker51: exact color matches are not necessary. I use a line of paints that has enough variety to enable me to get a "close enough" match to any shade from another manufacturer.
If you're the kind of person who shows up with color chips and prototype photos, you're not welcome to visit, thank you very much.
Can't say it matches Floquil RR Tie Brown, but Model Master Roof Brown Flat Acrylic is imo a good color to use. It is available @ Model Train Stuff.
Bob
Don't Ever Give Up
Does it matter if they match? Prototype wheels don't. I use a variety of colors for mine. Rustoleum and Krylon oxide red primers work well, and Rustoleum has a "brown" primer that makes a good rusty wheel color. I spray a small amount into a disposable paper cup and brush paint from that.
Wheels in solid bearing trucks don't have a rusty look on their faces due to the lubrication leaking on them, so I paint them black.
This as yet unweathered UP car's wheels are one of the oxide colors, while I painted the adjacent WP car's with some of the "brown."
Rob Spangler
I suspect we are going to see many questions such as this as the Floquil colors gradually fade away (no pun intended).
There is this color chart which is helpful and in other posts about the same question there have been some other suggestions.
http://www.microscale.com/ResourceCntr_Floquil.html
I ordered this from MB Klein and am very happy with the match. Supposedly Model Master is coming out, or already has, with paint to their line that will match the popular 'basic' colors. They are on the MB Klein web site.
Model Master 4885 Railroad Tie Brown Acrylic
Hope this helps.
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Be very careful using that list that Harold linked to. At least as far as the Vallejo Acrylics are concerned. The second item, Rail Brown, is cross referenced to a color Green Gold, which is a metallic color meant to represent aged gold, and looks nothing like the color swatch on the chart. I suspect they meant Gold Brown, which is very close to the color indicated.