Painting the Town

Painting the Town is a quest in Fallout 4.

Quick walkthrough

 * 1) Talk to Abbot
 * 2) Go to Hardware Town
 * 3) Fight off Raider ambush
 * 4) Retrieve paint cans
 * 5) (optional) Use paint mixer to create Green paint using Yellow and Blue paint.
 * 6) Return to Abbot to collect reward (Yellow/Blue paint: 100 caps. Green paint: 200 caps)

Detailed walkthrough
Talk to Abbot at The Wall in the far NE part of Diamond City. He will ask you to retrieve a can of paint from Hardware Town. Passing a speech check can get Abbot to pay for the paint up front.

Exit Diamond City and head west to find Hardware Town. Approaching the store, a settler, seemingly in distress, will shout and ask the Sole Survivor for help. Follow them inside where a group of raiders will be waiting in ambush. Once the raiders have been killed, cans of yellow and blue paint can be collected around the warehouse. At the far back of the storage hall, there is a paint mixer which can be used to mix green paint using yellow and blue paint. Various ammo, loot and valuables can be found in machines and locked chests around the warehouse. There is an issue of Picket Fences upstairs in the main office, on the desk.

Return to Diamond City and use paint on The Wall. Painting the wall blue or yellow will result in a reward of 100 caps from Abbot. Painting the wall green will result in a reward of 200 caps.

Bugs
When you get the miscellaneous objective to "See Abbot at the wall" to initiate the quest you sometimes will not be able to talk to him if you cleared Hardware Town of raiders prior to speaking with him. He will just speak his "I'm busy!" lines. If the Green Paint quest item is in your inventory, it can be dropped before speaking with Abbot to enable the dialogue for the quest, though the quest notification will not pop up when started or completed when the Green Paint is picked up again.