LGB Red Paint Match
- Thread starter Jim White
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maxi-model
UK/US/ROW steam narrow gauge railways 1:1
Nothing worse than a "near match" Jim. Take your LGB car down to an auto paint specialist, get them to scan it and have them make up a 500 ml rattle can, 1k paint not 2k, or two. May not be cheap but it will match perfectly if you use the correct primer which they should recommend. Alternately head down the auto store, one where they have rows of different car makes of colour matched refinishing spray in racks. Ones where the can cap has the actual colour sprayed on it. Now look for some likely matches, take them outside into the daylight with your LGB car and see which one pleases you most. Again use the correct primer for the paint colour. Never be tempted to try to do it by eyeballing a picture, printed or on a screen, and using that to refference. Too many variables going on there. Max
There is also the theory that a close match is more realistic, just look at a set of coaches that have been painted in the same livery. Mixed in service and out for many months in weather in different places Carriages do achieve a different hue to say nothing of different batches of paint as vehicles get repainted.
The advice from Max is good advice and should help you get a pretty good match but unlikely a perfect factory type match.
The advice from Max is good advice and should help you get a pretty good match but unlikely a perfect factory type match.
JimmyB
Now retired - trains and fishing
That is also my philosophy with coach colours, close, but does not need to match exactly.
playmofire
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Ideally, too, when checking for paint match you want to be facing north and not on a bright sunny day. (Advice from my wife who used to work for a specialist paint works.)