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Lake State paint color
Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2022 9:36 am
by rdenman62
I emailed Lake State Railway to ask what color blue they paint their locomotives. I received a very nice reply from Trista. She told me it’s called BFI Blue. I just cannot locate that color anywhere. Wondering if someone here can recommend a substitute that closely matches that or where I might purchase BFI Blue…
Re: Lake State paint color
Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2022 11:03 am
by DaveO
Well I suspect that BFI stands for the former Browning-Ferris Industries whose corporate color was blue.
Not sure that will however be of any help.
Re: Lake State paint color
Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2022 3:07 pm
by GreatLakesRailfan
Try searching for BFI blue using a search engine. It's an automotive paint color. Lawson Products has it in a spray can:
https://www.lawsonproducts.com/Lawson/High-Solids-Paints-BFI-Blue/1509197.lp It looks like the Lawson page has the color in stock, but I'm not sure that it'll be compatible with a plastic(?) model.
From what a couple quick searches showed, it looks like it's a fairly common automotive color, you may be able to pick up a small can of it from an automotive parts supplier.