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@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.
