BEAUTIFUL JOB!!!!!!
Question: what paint/colors did you use?
Being in auto body repair and refinishing, I have a car/truck color chart book from Dupont called SpectraMster showing every different shade of all solid colors.
There's six pull out thick ring binder charts, blue color shades, red color shades, yellow color shades, green color shades, light color shades and dark color shades.
From decent color pictures I seen when the Blue Goose was new the colors were real close to what Con-Cor used on their Blue Goose releases.
I matched the colors and called my buddy at our auto paint store, gave him the mix code numbers and had him mix me 4oz of both colors.
The light blue is Nason brand and the dark blue is ChromaBase, both auto base-coat paints.
Light blue code #BS1821F, dark blue #BS525K.
Thinned with special base-coat reducers.
The aluminum color I used is Tru-Color #TCP-013. Only problem with Tru-Color is they state "Ready To Spray", not so, too thick. I thin each bottle a 1/4 or more with Advantage #192 Acetone.
Have used this book to match the hard UP color shades and Illinois Central as well as may others.
Advantage using this type paint (same as Tru-Color brand), I can spray one color, let dry 1/2 hour and mask for a second color, etc.
No long waiting period for drying, can have a tri-colored engine painted in just a few hours, ready for clearing, decaling, solvaseting and finish coating.
This is the same paint I use for all my Kato FEF-3 Greyhound paint jobs.
On my UP 49er is all Tru-Color paints which works the same way.
Only primers I use is SEM brand self-etching primer sold at auto paint stores in large spray cans sprayed into an air brush bottle (no thinning required), PPG automotive light grey and dark red lacquer primer thinned with Dupont #105 lacquer thinner.
Finish coat I use for decling is Auto PPG DCA 468 Hi-Performance Clear thinned with the Dupont #105 lacquer thinner, followed by either the DCA 486 for high gloss, 1/2 mixture of the DCA 486 and Testors Dullcote lacquer for a semi-gloss or straight Testors Dullcote lacquer for the flat finish.