Your colour scheme can depend a lot on the location and era of your modelled town. An older era would call for the brick to be unpainted, while the iron details could be just about any colour. A modern era could see this building in some pretty garish colours, or sandblasted back to a "clean-as-new appearance". In between those two extremes, it could be unpainted, but dirty, brick, or painted white, grey, beige, or any "phony" brick colour. Another thing to keep in mind is that many areas, at the time this structure would have been built, had their own brick works, so many buildings in a small town might all be built of the same colour brick. In the city where I grew up, the local brick, seen most on older buildings, was very orange: Floquil Reefer Orange would be a close match. Fifty miles north of there, most older brick buildings were a creamy buff colour. If you decide on unpainted brick, the colour you choose for the mortar can drastically alter the appearance of the finished building, too. Mortar could be white, grey, beige, brown, or even black, and every variation in between. Often, the front of a building might be a different colour of brick than the sides and back, or the front might get a coat of paint, while the sides and back just get dirty.
Wayne
