Re: Color Quiz - a "K" for Klinke . . . ?

Russo Loco Wrote:
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> . . . IMHO, this D&S replica "Moffat Green" looks
> about right on the 2-8-0 under artificial light inside
> the D&S museum, and indoors in the C&TS Anton-
> ito shop, but outdoors – being more reflective than
> the original "Moffat Green" enamel – it picks up
> too much color from the sky and appears a bit too
> blue / not olive enough on the locomotive jackets.
>
> . . .  I also agree that the 'Moffat Green Jacket
> Enamel' as re-created on #491 by the CRRM
> appears closer to the original D&RGW color,
> at least outdoors – and on boiler jackets . . .

Fritz Klinke Wrote (on the C&S #60 thread):
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> Look for inspiration from the contractor the D&S
> hired to do the asbestos abatement on the 493
> several years ago in Silverton:
> [www.flickr.com]
> [www.flickr.com]


HHhhhhmmmmmmmm, Fritz -

The caption to the first of the above photos reads in part, "The nice green paint job given to the boiler jacket by the Durango shop crew who volunteered their time to repaint the engine didn't last too long which is unfortunate."   So maybe you have inadvertently stumbled upon the answer . . .

WHEN did the D&S shop crew paint the jacket of #493?   IF prior to 2006 or '07, MAYBE the "Old Can of Boiler Jacket Enamel" found in the shed in Durango wasn't so 'Old' after all, and MAYBE Jeff Ellingson based the paint he developed in 2006 or '07 on some paint that was first created only a couple of years before – according to the specs of his predecessor in the D&S paint shop, NOT by the D&RGW back in the 1920's – THAT could explain why it is definitely more blue / less olive than the replicated 'Moffat Green' used by the CRRM on #491 . . .    

- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 10/01/2017 02:08PM by Russo Loco.