Quick caboose painting question: Old Roundhouse wood caboose models. Should the roof be black? I've seen cabooses modeled all same oxide red, and some with black roofs.
Depends on the prototype you’re modeling. Frisco wood cabeese had black roofs. They used a type of tar paper material called mule hide or something like that I think.
Hold on now - as that famous saying goes ..... it depends. I have three Overland wooden cabs painted expertly for me years back by Don Wirth. None have black roofs. If they should have had black roofs, I'm sure Don would have painted them that way. Probably depends on the age of the cab - when being shopped, if the roof needed work, they likely received the tar paper covering and got the black roof treatment from then on. As long as it shows that neat coonskin on the sides, I don't care! K
