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January 24, 2016 at 9:52 pm #5693peggyrothschildParticipant
I’m putting a Plano stainless steel roof walk on the Atlas covered hopper and was wondering if there was a good match out there for the paint they used on the model. This is the MP 710200-710399 group.
Thanks for any leads.
[attachment=0:28ifplcc]image.jpeg[/attachment:28ifplcc]January 25, 2016 at 8:42 pm #7759John GaravagliaParticipantHave you tried the Tru Color MP gray?
January 25, 2016 at 8:46 pm #7760peggyrothschildParticipant@JoppaSub wrote:
Have you tried the Tru Color MP gray?
Yes, I sprayed a P2K covered hopper with it and it’s a cooler gray (some blue in it) whereas the Atlas covered hopper is a warmer gray. I’m going to see if Tru-Color Eagle gray might be close and let you know.
January 26, 2016 at 3:41 am #7767John GaravagliaParticipantOk.
January 26, 2016 at 1:05 pm #7768peggyrothschildParticipant@JoppaSub wrote:
Ok.
Tom
The Tru-Color Eagle gray is too dark out of the bottle – do you have John Lee’s email address as Badger? He probably has some suggestions.January 26, 2016 at 10:16 pm #7769alexortiz25ParticipantCharlie,
John’s email is: [email protected]
@cduckworth wrote:
The Tru-Color Eagle gray is too dark out of the bottle – do you have John Lee’s email address as Badger? He probably has some suggestions.
January 27, 2016 at 12:02 am #7771peggyrothschildParticipant@rdlavoise wrote:
Charlie,
John’s email is: [email protected]
Thanks I’ll email him and see if he can help
@cduckworth wrote:
The Tru-Color Eagle gray is too dark out of the bottle – do you have John Lee’s email address as Badger? He probably has some suggestions.
January 27, 2016 at 10:21 am #7774mopacKeymasterThis is a model painted with Tru-Color “MP hopper gray”
Perhaps you can see the light blueish touch.
January 27, 2016 at 2:02 pm #7775peggyrothschildParticipant@IndyCity wrote:
This is a model painted with Tru-Color “MP hopper gray”
Perhaps you can see the light blueish touch.
I agree, I have a P2k covered hopper I painted in the Tru-Color Mopac gray and put it next to the Atlas car for comparison. Even with my color blindness I can see the Tru-Color is slightly blue. Not saying the Tru-Color is wrong as MP’s paint changed over the years but it doesn’t match the Atlas car. There’s a whole range of Testors military colors with several grays I am going to look at for a match too. Since the Atlas car was built in the mid1960’s and I’m modeling in 1979 it will be weathered anyway.
January 28, 2016 at 10:01 pm #7777peggyrothschildParticipantIt hit in the mid-40s today in Omaha so I mixed up a blend of Tru-Color MP covered hopper gray, white and Eagle gray until I got a close match to the Atlas car.
Here is the results ‘close enough for a color blind guy’ results; formula is just like your grandmother’s old recipes “..a pinch of this and a dash of that”.
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January 29, 2016 at 3:12 am #7778John GaravagliaParticipantBeautiful work, Charlie. Man…that roof walk really makes that car POP!!!
January 29, 2016 at 3:25 am #7779peggyrothschildParticipant@JoppaSub wrote:
Beautiful work, Charlie. Man…that roof walk really makes that car POP!!!
Tom
I hadn’t used Plano’s products before but it only took an hour or so to apply the photo etched roof walk fron start to finish. It really helps to bring an older model up to standards we see with Exactrail and Tangent. Atlas did a great job on capturing the MP standard lettering and logo too. The prototype covered hoppers were bought in the mid1960s and I am modeling the branch in 1979 so will have to add 15 years of wear and tear at some point.January 29, 2016 at 6:57 pm #7780John GaravagliaParticipantI like it.
I have a few undecorated 6 bay hoppers…with those roof walks…and two 3 bay undecorated cars…with roof walks for them…and plano’s end cage kit.
I hope to get to them in the next year or so…right now…still laying track.
January 29, 2016 at 9:50 pm #7781peggyrothschildParticipantTom
I weathered the first hopper with some oil paints around the roof and the tops of the sides to denote some light rust starting to appear where snow would collect. I picked up another Atlas car last week off eBay and got it out and set it next to the one with the Plano roof walk. As you can tell from the photos Atlas changed the color of these cars to a bluer gray as the two grays are different. The second one probably matches the Tru-Color Mopac covered hopper gray better but I wont know until I replace the roof walk on it too. When Ed Hawkins was helping out one of the manufacturers years ago with a 1950s MP covered hopper gray he came up with several different drift cards of gray in the AC&F specifications packet so it’s not out of the realm of possibilities these cars too had different shades of gray as they were built.I wasn’t familiar with this model until just recently, did Atlas do a couple different runs?
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January 30, 2016 at 3:47 am #7783Joseph BerryParticipantCharlie,
Thanks for your photo’s…the updated car with the new roof walk looks great.
I know Atlas originally did a run of 4 different MP numbers on the 6 bay cars, and the original run all had NMRA ‘horn hook’ couplers. Did either of the cars you have come with Kadee compatible couplers? I have seen photos of other road names with factory Kadee compatible couplers, just don’t know if they did any MP cars with them.
Either way, the Atlas cars are easy to upgrade to other couplers.
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