Oops. If another post shows up with this subject heading and is blank, it was
a pre-keyboard problem:>)
Anyway, I thought this might be useful in collecting the A1G cars too.
Generally, the earliest cars from Roco (1966-1967) were painted with a very
flat finish paint. In fact, it wasn't really stable and you could "shine" the
paint just by handling the car. I know this from first hand experience (my
Blatz car has evidence of this). Of course, as usual, there are exceptions. I have
a fairly early Shell 3 dome tanker and the orange paint on it is more like
the later satin finish. Anybody have one with the flat paint?
I also have two of the Great Northern 40' boxcars, one very early and the
other a little newer. On the oldest one, both the orange and green are flat
finish whereas on the newer one, the green is flat but the orange is satin. The
orange is more red on the newer car too. In both cases, the lettering is pretty
shiny.
As I stated above, later on they seem to have generally swtched to a more
satin finish paint and you could rub this without changing the appearance.
The paint on the Rivarossi made cars seems to have been fairly consistent.
Some colors were flatter than others but you rub the paint and the appearance
wouldn't change.
Of course, maybe I'm all wet here because I just went and looked at my two
blue bulkhead log flat cars, which were made later, and they have the flat paint
which gets shiny with handling.
Still, I think what I have stated here is generally true.
Regards,
Doug
