Re: 318 Green Jacket?

DWB Wrote:
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> The green here is very close to the color PBL
> paints its models.  Railroad artist Gil Bennett
> once told me that Jimmy Booth was rooting
> around in the C&TS shop when PBL was in
> Chama and came upon a battered old can
> of paint labeled "boiler jacket enamel" in a
> corner of the shop.  There was a bit of green
> paint left in the bottom, hard as a brick, and
> that's the color PBL uses today.


Right, DW -

That's probably the same can of "Boiler Jacket Enamel" that Jeff Ellingson of the D&SNG had spectro-analized when he was creating the green paint used on the coaches, #473, and the RGS engine in the museum four or five years ago (and on #489 in May, 2010).  As noted previously, this new paint has the same pigment color as the original enamel, but - being a modern urethane - it is shinier and reflects the sky even more than a fresh coat of the old enamel and so looks (to me, at least) a tiny bit too blue outdoors but just fine under the incandescent lights inside the museum.

Here's Jeff painting #489 on 05/16/2010:


And #489 at Lava Tank a week later:


Note the slightly bluer sheen of #489's jacket when she is outdoors under a bright high-altitude blue sky versus indoors.

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/19/2015 04:35PM by Russo Loco.