French paint colours

[10800]

Is there a source of railway colours (enamel or acrylic) covering French stock? Or even close equivalent car paint. For now I'm looking for SNCF autorail red and cream.  

 

TIA

[jivebunny]

AMF and Interfer are the first two that spring to mind, although if you're outside France I'm not sure they ship internationally (or that it'll be worth it if you're in the UK, bearing in mind customs and fees).

 

Interfer uses an archaic system with order forms you have to print off etc, but their paints are listed on other suppliers' websites. Not sure about AMF's but at least you can order direct with them.

 

You'll need to run the websites through Google translate if you don't speak French, lots of text to go through !

 

http://interfer-trains.com/index.php

https://www.amf87.fr/prestashop/

 

Interfer paints available here and possibly others:

 

https://micro-modele.fr/en/199-peintures-interfer

 

 

https://www.train-modelisme.com/mag.php?goto=bout.php&cat=Peintures+INTERFER+SNCF&famille=Pièces+et+entretien

 

 

http://www.espacetrain.com/index.php?page=contrib/modelisme/pb1/peinturehttp://www.espacetrain.com/index.php?page=contrib/modelisme/pb1/peinture

 

Alan

 

 

 

Edited February 18, 2021 by jivebunny

[doctor quinn]

AMF certainly shipped to U.K. as of last year although you can’t send paint by post. As an aside their cast white metal wagon buffers are very good.

Edited February 18, 2021 by doctor quinn

[Andy Hayter]

Sadly ordering in the UK from a French supplier may lead to significant extra costs - UK  VAT + potentially Import duty (paint might not be regarded as a model railway item even though we know these particular paints are) + courier handling charges.

 

On the other hand the delivery might just sale through.

[10800]

Responses from the FRS forum pointed me at Precision (I thought someone did European colours) who have some left in their 'clearance' section but not both the ones I need; more promisingly it was suggested that Halford's Hyundai Electric Red and Ford Ivory might be good substitutes - certainly easier to get hold of.

[Gordonwis]

5 hours ago, 10800 said:

Responses from the FRS forum pointed me at Precision (I thought someone did European colours) who have some left in their 'clearance' section but not both the ones I need; more promisingly it was suggested that Halford's Hyundai Electric Red and Ford Ivory might be good substitutes - certainly easier to get hold of.

 

Precision are age old enamels and not worth pursuing IMHO

[Gordonwis]

18 hours ago, Andy Hayter said:

Sadly ordering in the UK from a French supplier may lead to significant extra costs - UK  VAT + potentially Import duty (paint might not be regarded as a model railway item even though we know these particular paints are) + courier handling charges.

 

On the other hand the delivery might just sale through.

 

 

I've had deliveries from Switzerland, France and Japan since Jan 1 with no charges or questions asked  - in fact less than before b***it (sorry I can't type the full word) - I fear my luck will change soon... 

[Gordonwis]

On 18/02/2021 at 13:41, 10800 said:

Is there a source of railway colours (enamel or acrylic) covering French stock? Or even close equivalent car paint. For now I'm looking for SNCF autorail red and cream.  

 

TIA

 

 

AMF 87 has a huge range (including going as far as having  two types of 'steel grey' for clean and dirty overhead masts!)

 

Edited February 19, 2021 by Gordonwis