Just saw a listing for " Frisco Orange" paint by Badger. It was at Wholesale Trains. Anyone ever try this? Dan
To All: I have had a bottle of this for years and use it all of the time to touch up the handrails of my Atlas locos where the orange paint chips off and the white shows through. After applying it with a Micro Brush and allowing it dry, I can't tell where I applied it. Having said that, I have never sprayed it on a large surface and would love some feedback from someone who has.
The Badger Modelflex Frisco Orange paint is pretty good. I've used it for several years. It's a good color match - not exact, but close enough for Atlas. It depends on what you are using it on as to the color match, since the orange color on different models is different. Like Bob - I have never sprayed it, but I use it with great success with MicroBrushes, toothpics, and even small regular brushes. The Badger paint system is pretty good. The Testors ModelMaster enamel and acryl, both in Chevrolet Engine Red, are also pretty good, and very easy to use. Slightly different shade or orange from the Badger, but darn close. Ken
I'm an old head so I still use Floquil paint, so to get mandriun Orange which is what the Frisco orange is called use SP daylight Red. You will probalaly have to look at several bottles becuase you are looking for a red/orange paint color. The orange color was very prevelent on a freashly painted unit, but as it aged, it became more RED. The Model Masters line of paint has a dead on match because the Frisco used Chevrolet Engine Red for the mandriun orange paint, and that is exactly what Model Masters calls it. Be sure and look at a color picture of the unit you want to paint to see if the color still has the orange tint to it. Richard
Also - some of the O/W units became very faded/chalky as they aged. Others (GE's) got very dirty. Some (GP40-2's), when new, showed up with a deeper shade of orange (more red) than other types. The GE shade of red/orange was different than the EMD shade, and, the Frisco's repaints were often slightly different shades. Go figure! Bottom line - get a shade that is close, and live with it! The Badger and ModelMaster paints are as good as any to my eye. Ken
Ken is 100% spot on. When I worked for the C&O, no locomotive matched colors. Some were darker than others. Some were more black than blue. Others had a navy blue appearance while others had the classic C&O. Bottom line, no locomotive would match unless it they were all painted from the same batch of paint at the same time. Throw in the weather and you have a great fading color scheme. Throw some soot, rust, rust rain streaks, shiny spots, etc., and you'll have one dandy of a weathered box car on steroids, steam engine wanna-be's.
