Tony
- I was a die hard Floquil fan for years. I did a lot of custom painting not only for my own railroad equipment, but I also did custom painting for others. Floquil had an excellent selection of railroad colors. I recently got a bug up my a** and wanted to try to build a Northern Pacific North Coast Limited and had no idea of what paint to use. I already had painted everything that I need to paint and didn't even use an air brush for almost 20 years.
I ended up using Tru-Color paint. I went on their web site and there were so many colors I missed the NP light and dark green. I sent them a email and got a very fast response from them saying that they did have the colors I needed. I figures I would give them a try. Excellent results. It is a solvent based paint, but it is ready for the air brush right out of the bottle. No thinning needed as with floquil.
Here are a few photos of the results. I already had an Atharn Genisis F-7 A that was a perfect match and then came up with a Stewart F-3 A, but the colors were not a good match at all plus it didn't even have any road numbers. Then I got a hold of an F-9 B unit, also from Stewart and again not the right colors. After adding some details and decals, the colors matched almost perfectly with not only the Athearn unit, but also the Walthers Norhtern Pacific passenger cars.
The repainted and detailed Stewart unit is on the left and the Athearn unit is on the right.
The next photo is the A-B-A consist with the Athearn unit on the left and the two Stewart units to the right.
Not only is the color match excellent, but clean up is quick and easy. I would recommend Tru-Color to anyone.