[PRCo] Cleveland PCC colors

[richard allman]

I want this to get to Herb Brannon-I am helping out George Huckaby of Customtraxx and he in turn is working w/ Bowser Manufacturing to build an HO model of the Cleveland PCC's-the ex-Louisville St Louis series, which per Bill Vigrass were the best cars CTS ever had. I don't mean to stir that dispute, but what we need are the exact colors of the cars in that very busy two tone tan-or was it two tone yellow-or was it two tone orange?! Bob Dietrich and I have been matching paint stirrers w/ model paint to the photo in the CERA book Remember When on page 53 and to color prints of the St. Petersburg model of the Pullman cars  w/  that presumably had the same paint colors but coming close is a challenge. And then assuming that the colors St. Petersburg Collection got-presumably they are correct, but... Then matching colors to photographs is tough, since photo reproduction is not consistent, so you see the dilemma. What we want to give George is a good faith likeness of the colors, preferably close to what the real colors were that would satisfy the purists among the modelers and not be outrageously off the mark, and preferably be close to an available model paint -either solvent based or acrylic. The cream from the roof we got, but the others-such a to-do! Model manufacturing per George is not what it was-now the manufacturer makes a computer-generated 3-D rendering, applies the colors, sends the image to China, and presto-chango, a few months later a painted shell prototype arrives. Thanks Herb and apologies to all for a somewhat off-message message. I simply dould not find Herb's email in my address book, but Bob D. suggested you and it seems a good idea!
RICH