The Atlantic and Southern Build, Part 1

[ACL1504]

I have many new updates but only have time to show this one for now.

The Judge and I started to paint the rails on the second level track this morning. Yesterday I surveyed my Floquil paint stash for Rail Brown. I found one bottle of Floquil Rail Brown but realized I'd certainly need more than one bottle.

I then made a visit to my secret Floquil paint stash and found several more bottles of the Floquil Rail Brown.




In the photo above, the bottle on the left is the original Floquil Rail Brown. Notice the bottle is taller than the other two.

The bottle in the middle is the second run of Rail Brown and the one on the right is the first run of Floquil Rail Brown after Floquil paints were purchased by Testors.

In the photo below you can see the paints are all different colors. The Rail Brown in the middle is more green than brown. The one on the left is more Rust than Rail Brown.



Continued in a few.

[ACL1504]

After being discouraged by the difference in the colors, I went to my Top Secret Floquil Paint vault and found four more bottles of Floquil Rail Brown.


I've added two of the bottles to the other three for your viewing. These are a second run of the Testors Floquil Rail Brown.



Yep, you guys are smart and quessed correctly,  I now have not three, but four different colors of Floquil Rail Brown.



What is so difficult about keeping the color formula the same for all runs of paint?


C'MON MAN!

[BandOGuy]

After being discouraged by the difference in the colors, I went to my Top Secret Floquil Paint vault and found four more bottles of Floquil Rail Brown.


I've added two of the bottles to the other three for your viewing. These are a second run of the Testors Floquil Rail Brown.



Yep, you guys are smart and quessed correctly,  I now have not three, but four different colors of Floquil Rail Brown.



What is so difficult about keeping the color formula the same for all runs of paint?
C'MON MAN!

Progress, mon ami. Progress.

[Zephyrus52246]

The last two are ROOF brown.  I think the one on the left is closest to the "real" rail brown.  The green one is for moldy rails in the humid bayou.   

Jeff

[S&S RR]

Tom


For what it's worth - I had the same problem and ended up throwing the last 3 bottles of floquil rail brown in the trash.  Actually had to repaint half of the yard because the color was  off.  The judge will understand that I blamed Wayne Olson for grabbing the wrong paint before I realized how bad the color match was between bottles.


Here is what I'm using now - I have probably gone through a dozen bottles so far with no color change.  Just a word of warning it doesn't cover as fast - may take two coats

[donatode]

Would mixing all the bottles together into one big batch help?

[deemery]

Would mixing all the bottles together into one big batch help?

Can you safely intermix old Floquil and new Floquil together?


Also, the Badger/MicroMark battery operated paint stirrer is one of the great cheap painting/finishing tools!


dave

[ACL1504]

The last two are ROOF brown.  I think the one on the left is closest to the "real" rail brown.  The green one is for moldy rails in the humid bayou.   

Jeff

Dr. Jeff,

The two on the right are very close to roof brown; however, the Floquil roof Brown is just a little bit darker. I do believe the original rail brown was more of a rust color and the humid bayou color will be used somewhere else on the layout.

Tom

[ACL1504]

Tom


For what it's worth - I had the same problem and ended up throwing the last 3 bottles of floquil rail brown in the trash.  Actually had to repaint half of the yard because the color was  off.  The judge will understand that I blamed Wayne Olson for grabbing the wrong paint before I realized how bad the color match was between bottles.


Here is what I'm using now - I have probably gone through a dozen bottles so far with no color change.  Just a word of warning it doesn't cover as fast - may take two coats

John,

Hey, the next time you decide to "trash" any more Floquil paint check with me first. I'll gladly be your "trash" receptacle for Floquil.

As far as using the Microlux paint, it is a good alternative but I don't have the time to apply two coats.

Tom

[ACL1504]

Amazing, were each of the rail bottles mixed up extremely well? I have seen settling of the pigments.

Martin,

Yes, all the paints were extremely well mixed prior to the photos being taken. The green color actually got lighter after the vigorous shaking.

Tom

[ACL1504]

Would mixing all the bottles together into one big batch help?

Donato,

Mixing all the bottles can certainly be done. I have an update and will discuss it in my nest A&S post.

Tom

[ACL1504]

Would mixing all the bottles together into one big batch help?

Can you safely intermix old Floquil and new Floquil together?


Also, the Badger/MicroMark battery operated paint stirrer is one of the great cheap painting/finishing tools!


dave

Dave,

Yes, old and new Floquil can be mixed as I've done it in the past.

The MicroMark battery powered mixer is a very handy tool.

Tom

[ACL1504]

Floquil Rail Brown update:

In my first post on the four different Rail Brown colors, I've found four additional bottles of the color shown in the middle of the photo. I've posted it here for your convenience.



Since I had an abundance of this color, I used it on the rails.

Two of the newly discovered bottles were unused and the other two were partially used. I added a little thinner to both the used paints, mixed thoroughly and combined the paints into a slightly larger bottle. This will answer the questions of combining Floquil new and old paints.

The paints were brushed onto the rail and covered in one coat.

Now to find the Flouil Railroad Tie Brown paint. What do you think the possibility is I'll have the same issue with that color?

Tom

[jimmillho]

about 25.9854 percent.

Jim

[Zephyrus52246]

What I meant was on my screen at least, the two on the right are labeled Roof Brown.  In three languages.   


Jeff