I am restoring a 2613 o gauge blue comet car, and bought charles wood paints at york for it, but the colors all look wrong. I have 312 blue for the body. Looks more like conrail blue! 421 blue comet dark for the roof strips. Not right! And 214 cream for the windows. Too yellow! Can anyone tell me the what the correct colors are. Help would most appreciated! k-liner

All of my restorations are painted using paint from, Charles C. Wood & Co in Hartford, OH (330) 772-5171. All of his colors are a right on matches for Lionel products, prewar and postwar IMHO I buy mine through mikestrainsandhobbies . com They may cost a little more. But in my opinion they are well worth every penny.

George, he said he bought the Charles Wood paints and they are wrong.

Unless there's more than one Charles Wood paints?

Maybe post it over on the tin plate forum? Perhaps someone there can help.
Rob

Vulcan,
My sincere apologies.

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I am restoring a 2613 o gauge blue comet car, and bought charles wood paints at york for it, but the colors all look wrong. I have 312 blue for the body. Looks more like conrail blue! 421 blue comet dark for the roof strips. Not right! And 214 cream for the windows. Too yellow! Can anyone tell me the what the correct colors are. Help would most appreciated! k-liner

The 2613 service sheets shows 420 Blue, not 312. The 421 dark blue and 214 creme are correct. Have you mixed it up and sprayed test panels?

Pete

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You need to determine which version you have. There are two different shades to the light blue. Depending on which one you want you should have purchased 420 or 422 Blue Comet Light Blue, and 421 Blue Comet Dark Blue, and 514R Ivory.

Always keep in mind, Ivory is the off white, and Cream will always be light yellowish in color.

PRRDave

My Restored Set using Charles Woods Toy Train Enamel. (I used the darker light blue):

Thanks to all for your input. I've been trying to match an older restoration. Adding an extra 2613 Pullman. I don't know who restored this set or what color shades were used. If I was doing the whole train it would be no problem. Anyway
I found Krylon "Bahama Sea" today at Wal-Mart. It's a pretty good match when sprayed over dark navy blue, so I'm going with it.It was only 2.97, vs 8 and 8shipping from charles wood. By the way, Wood should color match the caps on his paints like he used to. (They are all white now)This might have saved me about 45 bucks I've spent for paint I can't use. The numbers are helpful, but your eye don't lie. So that's it, thanks again to all who responded-K-Liner

I think you said it yourself. You were trying to match a restoration and you did not know what paint was used.
So what was used the first time to restore the train does not match the CW paint Noe the CW paint does not match your train.
CW makes great paint and is great for doing restorations.