B&O Baggage 627 was painted inside with a mix of artist's acrylic colors to get to 'golden tan,' a brownish deep yellow. The exterior was done in Scale Coat I 'B&O Royal Blue.' I added a few drops of SC I Locomotive black to it. That helps darken the hue a bit, as I think SC B&O Blue is a bit too bright. The gray is Scale Coat I D&H gray, to which a few drops of Pullman Green are added. B&O gray had a slightly greenish hue, not easy to catch in model paints but this helps give it a deeper hue as well.
The decals are Champion. Micro Scale's O scale B&O set is more accurate but I was unable to get them when building this car. The difference is basically in how the letters "E" and "T" are shaped. The B&O design (railroads had their draftsmen design lettering and numbers, so there really was no standard 'font' as such at the time). The B&O "E" has a droopy middle finger, the "T" is fully arched underneath. B&O lettering and numbers are available at the B&O RR HS website. Striping was done with Champ decals as well. The black is Floquil, as I still had a sizable stash of it then. The underbody has brake piping, but no fully detailed brake rigging (yet). I do super-detailing of past models to avoid building too many new ones!
A light coat of Testors Gloss goes over the decals first, to blend them evenly into the paint. A light spray of Dull Coat follows day or two later, just enough to somewhat kill the high shine, yet not completely dull the finish.
Here are two American Standard heavy-weight cars I built. The RPO car was a rebuild of a car sent to me in pieces. The Pullman "Amsterdam" is from a kit I bought. Pullman assigned it to the B&O in the late 1940's into the 50's, wearing original Pullman Green. It was an early kit, with a full wood roof (no pre-shaped ends, which came later) and real glass for the window glazing.
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This Golden Gate Depot car bought new. It needed work to get the striping over the doors to line up with whose on the body and hang at a better depth. Also, to put window shades in, to get rid of it's wide-eyed 'bombed out' appearance. I also changed the trucks to Lobaugh, adding outside brackets for the side bearings to them in order to model Pullman type 242 trucks the prototype St. Angele had. The original Golden Gate trucks went under the B&O dining car I mentioned earlier i this thread. St. Angele here, wears its factory paint.
(Sigh....) another Walthers car here: the 'executive observation' which actually models a Canadian Pacific prototype. It was first built it when I was 15. It was rebuilt in the 1980's to become a B&O 'division level' 930 series office car. These were often older, wood body steel framed cars that had been updated with steel side sheathing and AC for use by division officials. B&O 935 wears side sill truss rods, betraying its up-dated appearance.
It carries marks showing was originally a Baltimore & New York car, in the upper right end of the letter board. This is how B&O designated cars that came in through mergers. The model has a detailed underbody, interior detail with some figures and lighting. It rides on Grace Line sprung trucks from the 1950's.
The rear makers and track inspection lights are battery powered, with a switch for them hidden in the water tank under the car. The batteries in turn, are hidden under the beds in each stateroom. When displayed on a table top with the roof off but the markers and track inspection lights lit, it creates a mystery for observant on lookers! S. Islander