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  • January 22, 2016 at 3:20 pm #5690
    mopac
    Keymaster

    Not sure where to post this but I am in S scale so this seems as good a place as any. I have 2 questions.

    1) What acrylic model paint comes closest to Jenks blue?

    2) My limited reading to date suggests that the Jenks blue paint scheme was not well liked. Why is that? As a modeler I like it because it is easy for someone with my limited painting skills to do. It is much easier than, shall we say, a Santa Fe warbonnet, right?

    Ed OBrien
    Manchester CT

    January 23, 2016 at 12:30 am #7748
    alexortiz25
    Participant

    Ed,

    Badger’s Model-flex 16-86 MoPac Blue. I have a MoPac Color Drift Control card for Diesel Locomotives and Passenger Train Cars dated April1974. The Badger MoPac blue matches.

    Don’t know why Jenk’s blue gets a bad rap. Probably because it replaced the Eagle blue and gray. Having been born around the time of the change I do not recall ever seeing blue and gray equipment. I always liked the simple elegant understated Jenk’s paint scheme.

    Agreed as a modeler it is simple to paint. Almost as easy as Penn Central black. ;)

    René

    January 23, 2016 at 1:36 am #7750
    benjamintickell53
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    At the time, Jenks blue was seen as somewhat symbolic of Mr. Jenks himself. It was a time when there was massive change underway in the industry and in Mopac itself. D.B. Jenks had no problem cutting jobs or passenger trains, etc. and at the time when the trains were turning all blue, many other familiar traditions of the Missouri Pacific were being trashed.

    In hindsight, the Jenks management team ran a tight ship, somewhat of a dictatorial or autocratic management style reminiscent of the Southern Railway during that era. Their operations compare quite favorably versus the maintenance and operating practices later put into place by the yellow railroad that succeeded them. I wasn’t much of a fan of Jenks blue in the 60s and 70s… but it definitely looks pretty good now, and it is surely easier to apply on a model than the (impossible for me) classic Eagle scheme.

    Bill Pollard

    January 23, 2016 at 11:03 am #7751
    mopac
    Keymaster

    In answer to Jenks Blue Pant. Trucolor paint has it already mixed as TCP120. This paint is very nice to use–dries fast and goes on smooth. You have to use their thinner and it is expensive. About 40.00 per quart. It lasts forever, though.

    http://trucolorpaint.com/products/

    Bill Basden

    January 23, 2016 at 10:15 pm #7752
    mopac
    Keymaster

    Thank you, gentlemen.

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