Can any one help me.
Can you give me any help re the beat match paint wise to the Colonel Stephens era Green livery and Victorian livery the use today.
Thank you
Hi John
The paint shade on the FR coaches varies with the age of the paint!
Coaches that are newly painted tend to be a darker shade that those that were painted some time ago. It is very unusually, if not unknown for an entire train to be the same shade of red or green. Very few have a shiny finish, most have what could be described as a satin finish, but many have weathered to a matt finish.
In model form this inconsistency allows for some licence in the precise choice of colour for the FR coaches. But surprisingly modelling them accurately with different shades in the same train just looks wrong!
Others will be able to give you the original 'as new' paint colour but in my opinion you can just pick a colour that is a near match and use that as no one can say you have the wrong colour!
Brian Meldon
Thank you for this information
John
I'm still looking for a decent match for the green, I'm currently trying humbrol 3 Brunswick Green mixed with their RC409 Malachite Green. As for the red I've found that Humbrol 153 Insignia Red. This gives a mix of satin and gloss finish, but a spray of varnish should even it out somewhat.
I'm not saying this is 100% but doesn't look too bad tp me, depending on the mix of the two greens.
Hope this helps,
Cheers
J
Thanks I will try it.
John
Victorian purple - I use LNWR coach plum. Cl Stephens; BR EMU green (which is a bit too dark) & a humbrol brick red (which is a bit too orange!) but the overall effect works OK. I suppose what we see in use today can only, in any case, be an interpretation of what was originally used, which in turn may have been mixed locally & different every time! ???