epic paint fail!
I have two passenger cars I have been building from old MDC plastic full length wooden passenger car kits. I had started the first one , the combine, maybe 20 years ago, but never finished, the second, I started a year or two ago. they both started off as a mail car, with several windows, and two baggage doors on each side. I cut out one of the doors and shortened the car to make the combine. To built the coach I cut out both of the sets of baggage doors, taking care to get the car the same length as the first car.
I intended these cars to be for the Standard gauge portion of the Marietta and North Georgia, where it interchanges with my Dead Grass, Crooked Creek & Western, at State Line Georgia. I had painted the first car with spray paint years ago, and that can was no longer available, nor did I have any appropriate spray paint, so I sprayed both of them brown to get the interior color I wanted, and tested my supply of acrylics. I found a bottle labeled Manganese blue, and did some test spots on some card board, and even on a piece of plastic painted the same brown as the cars got.
The test spots all looked really good, a deep royal blue, close to the B&O's old passenger colors so I painted the cars. It took two coats, as it did not cover well. The results are ok under some lights, and appear to be a dark blue, but under some lighting, the cars look purple, which won't do at all.
So the cars will go back to the paint shop eventually. I'm posting this on the Club thread, rather than my home layout thread, as these cars may get leased to the possum Hollow railroad for a while. If I do the big rebuild for my home layout, these cars could be tagged onto the DG, CC & W RR passenger train, allowing M & M G passengers to ride from the north side of Atlanta all the way to Harlow Tennessee without changing cars. Right now, the Georgia staging @ State Line is a construction zone, and I struggle to patch in a return loop on the M & N G Narrow gauge just inches below the bottom of the shelf for Geogkayoosa, I'm going to tote them to the club tonight to see what Bob thinks about them.
I have enough Pike stuff seats to add seats to the cars.
Nelson