![]() The colors were also much brighter and varied. This gave us a different chemical change due to the elements. Locomotives and freight cars painted starting in the late 60’s were required to use a paint or coating using less or no lead. This type of fade would be simulated with a wipe of PanPastel® 740.3 Burnt Sienna Shade.Įquipment painted in the transition era had a mostly lead composition and took quite a while to fade. I picked a sharp rock and scraped a patch on the side of the car and amazingly the familiar orangey-red color appeared. I couldn’t believe the overall change in its hue when we hiked up to their boxcar purgatory. The cars I saw were in a scrap line at Chicago’s Metron Steel almost 30 years ago with my friend Dave Sarther and his son Davie. This I know because it’s the railroad I model and I have a color chip painted with the exact formula of Dupont ®paint. Soot and dirt will make some colors go much darker, in the case of the Burlington’s 1958 chinese red boxcars that look almost boxcar brown when viewed in the late 70’s. This is the effect of the sun on real prototype paint which causes the color to change to a lighter shade or in some cases “pink out”. We are going to cover a much talked about subject, fading.
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