QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
McCloud RR all-door colors
Q.
I'm looking to paint and decal some custom boxcars I'm
building. Can someone point me to the right color or color
combination of model paints? I prefer Scalecoat II, but will use
whatever works. The kind of car I'm working on is a rebuilt for-
mer all-door car which is nothing like the plate B Atlas car. The
era my car will be painted for is early 1980s when the car had
fresh paint, which looked much darker than it eventually faded
out to be in the late '90s.
– Mike Lozensky
A.
“Stottman” suggests a dark “roof brown” as a close match,
and posted a sample photo (1) of a McCloud River box car.
Rick Uhlenkott adds: “The all-door cars were not box cars, but
fully enclosed bulkhead flat cars. They fell out of favor with
Questions, Answers & Tips -
MRH-Oct 2013
