On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 17:00:12 -0800, Richard Karnes wrote > Tom Hawley wrote: > > >Have you seen the new NASG cars? I don't doubt that the cars you have for > >sale look great, but the new NASG CN cars are the wrong color and they do > >NOT look great. > > > Tom et al -- > > Actually, the green color was chosen with the aid of the CNR special > interest group -- a custom shade by Scalecoat. It was OK'd by Andy > Mallette, who furnished a color chip and reviewed a sample painted > carbody last summer. It is a different green than the original AM > 70' cars -- That was too light and too olive. > > However, the yellow is is too pale. I plan to overlay the proper > yellow > (and the missing black pinstripes). > > Several Canadian modelers have nevertheless complained about the green. > > Dick Karnes
Hi All, I did not OK the green that was used for production on the CNR Pullman cars. It is not the custom shade that was made by Scalecoat for the CNR SIG. Instead, it is the green that was shown as a sample at the convention. At the convention, I informed both Dick Karnes and Ron Bashista that it was wrong. I even had Jamie Bothwell drive to Des Plaines Hobbies to borrow an HO Branchline Trains 8-1-2 Pullman that had the correct CNR green. Ron admitted that the green was off. I took a couple of digital photos of it and emailed one for reference. I assumed that the matter was settled and the correct green was substituted; however, somehow the sample green was not changed to the correct Scalecoat CNR Green Number 11 that we had shown/emailed Ron. For the record, the CNR SIG Paint Chip which was submitted to American Models was lost. Unfortunately, although the cars look good when on their own, if you put them beside a correctly painted CNR car or loco, the green colour stands out as being too bluish. Sorry to bash the CNR Pullmans but I felt that I had to clear things up when my name was being used to substantiate something that I did not approve. cheers, Andy Malette The poll results are in....... To REPLY to the list, use REPLY ALL, to reply to the sender, use REPLY. I do NOT know if this works on all e-mail software, but it works on some of the most common ones. For those of you on DIGEST mode, all REPLY messages go to the list. Change your membership, change your message settings, use our CALENDAR, view shared files or photos, view the list archives, GO TO http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
