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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Jim is right as is Bill McClure. The best
that a paint committee can do is provide a model standard color to
manufacturers so, hopefully, the models all have a similar color. It may or
may not be prototypical- and it shouldn’t be due to lighting differences from
sunlight to indoor lighting. Is this what the modeling community is seeking?
What do you think? <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Gary Rolih<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Secretary N&WHS <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>
nw-modeling-list-bounces@nwhs.org [mailto:nw-modeling-list-bounces@nwhs.org] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b><st1:PersonName w:st="on">NW
Modeling List</st1:PersonName><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Thursday, October 15, 2009
6:06 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> '<st1:PersonName w:st="on">NW
Modeling List</st1:PersonName>'<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> RE: DP Passenger Cars</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color="#1f497d" face=Calibri><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:#1F497D'>The alternative, of
course, is for each modeler to paint his own. I do that, but obviously a lot of
people don’t want to or don’t feel competent to do so. We could have a
self-appointed “paint” committee; but my guess is that they wouldn’t be able to
build consensus either. Otherwise, why has this argument gone on for twenty
five years? We just have to live with it, and rejoice when somebody paints a
model in a shade which looks good to us. The color on the DP car could be
better, but I don’t think it is unacceptable. But then, I don’t intend to pay
that high a price for an M1. I will build one with plastic and paint it with my
personal version of N&W Tuscan. BTW, the detail work on the DP model is
excellent. Jim Nichols<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>
nw-modeling-list-bounces@nwhs.org [mailto:nw-modeling-list-bounces@nwhs.org] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b><st1:PersonName w:st="on">NW
Modeling List</st1:PersonName><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Thursday, October 15, 2009
12:51 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> nw-<st1:PersonName w:st="on">modeling-list@nwhs.org</st1:PersonName><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> DP Passenger Cars<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3 face="Arial Black"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black"'>There is no question the
NWHS Modeling Committee should be flogged then fired for not getting the color
"right". Again! </span></font><br>
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But, then, we wouldn't have the cars at all without their efforts...<br>
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<font face="Arial Black"><span style='font-family:"Arial Black"'>What good is
having the cars if they can't get the paint "right"? </span></font><br>
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But they provided the data to the importer....<br>
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<font face="Arial Black"><span style='font-family:"Arial Black"'>Yeah, but what
good is that if the builder ignores it or gets it wrong!<br>
</span></font><br>
Yada, yada, yada.... Boring!<br>
<br>
*****<br>
<br>
Some builders are committed to accuracy and are willing to work with folks;
some are not. Rich Yoder worked tirelessly with a group of members to get his
VGN gons as "right" as possible and should be praised for so doing.
Sunset is doing the same thing for its VGN AE project. But at the end of the
day, the projects belong to the vendors, not to us. We vote with our pocket
books.<br>
<br>
Just a thought: if we can't agree on N&W Tuscan...and I have yet to see a
consensus...then how is a manufacturer to know? (Don't tell me color drift
cards, because there is a big difference between that color...pick a
color...and the same color on an HO model under indoor lighting.) The Pennsy group
has worked for years, without a conclusion, trying to build consensus on scale
mixes for PRR Tuscan, Brunswick Green, and Freight Car Color. At the end of the
day, ya' likes what ya' likes. I'm just thrilled that in 2001 a builder is
willing to tackle something as obscure as a one-off class of N&W RPO!<br>
<br>
Now about those VGN heavyweights....<br>
<br>
Bill McClure<o:p></o:p></p>
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