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Can anyone point me in the direction of some matches for the Blue Streak colours. From the photos I have access to the roof looks white, the body a midblue with a very pale blue strip through the windows and centrally where the three stripes were originally. On the nose the stripes look white. Whats best for the mid blue?
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Here’s a picture from Keith Cullen @Wade Hunkin – as I understand it this is one of the first runs of the Blue Streak when it was on the Hamilton – Auckland run.
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Thanks for the photo Lewis, its a good clear one. Interested if any of the Humbrol/Tamyia/southdock colours match the main blue. Figure I will just blend the pale blue from white.
What have people done?
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I love colour discussions. Nothing quite like them for generating heat on a cold day.
There are those with colour chips they’ll claim are definitive, but that (while useful) is not the whole story. Paint colour generally changes over time, and colour perception is not simple. There are also interesting arguments for ‘scale’ colour as perception changes with distance (tending blue, and lower saturation). If you are viewing a model from 1-2m distance, this might be 100m scale where such effects start to be relevant. Colour is also dependent on the light used to view the result. No point in getting something that looks great in daylight if your layout is lit with incandescent.
Then there’s the effects of weathering.
So these days I don’t get too hung up on the ex-works, as new, colour unless I want to simulate that condition. You can estimate a useful model colour match with the method here: https://nzfinescale.com/what-colour/. It’s not perfect but has it’s uses. There are apps that do similar things too. I find it’s not bad to produce a starting point and I can always mix a bit of something else to adjust if I feel the need.
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Here’s more pics.
Note that the roof is not white in service!
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Agree. You can see the difference between Keith Cullens picture at Orakei and the later pictures Lawrence posted – Keith’s picture shows the colour’s as being much brighter (I’d argue also due to sunlight) and of course not as work-stained…
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The roof looks almost dark blue under the work stains.. Will be easier paint like that. Intersecting that the sides look much cleaner. Perhaps thats as far as the cleaning crews could reach.
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Also as an aside, did Dailyfreight load containers on the passenger platform at New Plymouth?
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