Case BER Plow Pictures

Here is some eye candy for you. I just rebuilt this Case BER plow. Also, I know that the pictured tractor will not pull this plow (maybe in first gear and set shallow). Comments are welcome.
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Use an extra set of wheel weights and try her out , it may just surprise you, there maybe a DC engine under the hood! LOL. Awesome plow pics .
 
That JD green with yellow wheel kinda hurts the eyes.
I don't recall the BER plows being painted any other color than Case Imp. Green (more Oliver color), and the gauge wheel was probably Case Wheel Green, which resembles Euclid green.
Loren
 
The colors are a very close match to the originals. I was very careful and scientific about how I mixed my paints. I mixed and tinted the paint with pipettes to create a series of paint chips. I then let them dry and compared the color to the original paint that I found in places which were not exposed to the elements. I did the comparison in several different light conditions to determine the best match. The hue of that yellow/green gauge wheel is exact to the original, though it could have used a small amount more tint. In low light conditions it actually looks more green than yellow. The green was much harder to match, as I have found a wide variation of hue in that color on different implements (there seemed to be two different colors on some NOS parts that I have seen for sale). I tried to choose a green in the middle of the range, but it came out a little brighter than planned. It is darker (more blue) than the green on the cultivator mounts on the VAC, but is lighter (more yellow) than the green on the cultivator mounts on the SC that I have. I suspect that Racine and Rock Island used different paint suppliers. Also, the all green BE plow that I have (that is, that I have parts of) seems to have a lighter green which faded to white. The green on this plow and the other older samples seem to fade to black for some reason. I think that the pigment, and probably the paint formula, mush have changed sometime in the mid 50's. Also, the paint that I used is gloss, which makes all of the colors seem lighter in most light conditions. Scuffing them makes them seem darker. However, scuffing the original darker green makes it seem much lighter. I should note that I compared the paint chips and original samples both in scuffed condition and in scuffed condition wetted with water to help eliminate the "gloss effect".
 

Maybe it's the camera you used or my computer that makes it look so "new JD green". All my older case green is much closer to Oliver green, but who knows if all the green was the same over the years.
 
Apparently, Case wasn't super careful about maintaining the exact color of "Case Implement Green". However, I have found that they were extremely careful about getting Flambeau Red right. I have compared many samples of Flambeau, taken from machines from the mid 40's through the early 50's. They were all a dead match after I removed the outer layer of oxidized and faded paint.
 

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