I don't know if this is the proper place to post this, but... I have a general question regarding HO-buildings and their colors, specifically about train stations. I was wondering if anyone knows what color/shade of blue freight doors are for CN stations. ("sky blue" for example) Thank you.
Can't give you an exact answer, not sure there ever is such a thing.
Freshly painted (anything) is one color. Sun, smoke and other reasons cause fading and discoloration.
Best advise I have seen is to find a color photo and get a "close" color and it usually looks OK. Having the same problem with the station color I wanted to use.
Have fun,
Richard
I hunted through a bunch of photos, but found only one of a CN station with a blue freight door, but the photo is post-2000 and the blue is VIA blue. I also don't recall ever seeing such a door in light blue, but then there are a lot of things which I can't recall.
As Richard suggests, look for the colour itself, rather than the name of a colour. Paint manufacturers (and especially paint marketers) hang names on colours to attract buyers, not necessarily to accurately describe the colour itself.
Wayne
This is late 70's as things started to change in 76.
I have just been looking at some pic's and if I had to guess..... A freshly painted door looks to be a very "rich" sky blue colour. Blue, like red tends to fade rather quickly and some of the weathered doors I saw had a very dirty blue/green colour. One pic I saw the doors almost looked purple, but I think that was a one off.
I think close enough will do in this case.
Brent
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prairieboy2765 I don't know if this is the proper place to post this, but... I have a general question regarding HO-buildings and their colors, specifically about train stations. I was wondering if anyone knows what color/shade of blue freight doors are for CN stations. ("sky blue" for example) Thank you.
It was the same medium blue as the CN passenger car vestibules when first applied, but faded quickly. This photo from Borden, PEI shows a pretty typical shade:http://public.fotki.com/sbhunterca/steve-hunters-cnr-p/cn20433-borden-octo.html
Remember, blue doors were for employee- only entrances, black or orange were usually for the public (although like any standard, there would be exceptions). Borden had not had any passenger service for many years by the time of my 1985 photo.
Hope this helps!
Steve Hunter
Yes, Steve, that helps a lot. Thank you very much, and thank you to EVERYONE else who offered thir advice/suggestions.
I have another suggestion - if you post questions in the future, maybe make the subject of your post more to the point.
"HO-scale model buildings" could be anyone of hundreds of questions.
If you had titled your post "Color of CN station blue doors" it would have been much more to the point of what you are looking for.
Bob Boudreau
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