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That looks really good, Al. The storage room is excellent, it transforms the whole structure.
 
Just to celebrate those storage rooms a bit more, here's the one at Bewdley:
 

Thanks, Mikkel - that's an excellent picture.

 

It does give one pause for thought about the correct representation of light and dark stone. Those look closer to the Phoenix shades, whereas I prefer the Railmatch ones. According to Stephen Williams' books, you make light stone by adding white to dark stone, but the hues in that picture look quite different, to my eye at least, with the lighter shade being quite yellowy/mustardy. Interestingly the distant objects, the water tank and signal box, look about right!

Hi Al, I was on a work visit in Birmingham earlier this year and made a rush visit to the SVR.

 

I was wondering about the livery too. I rather like the SVR variant but strictly speaking your version and rationale is probably correct. It is also more elegant. The distant objects have the same scheme up close, although some a re worn.

 

I use Vallejo colours and have gone for something in-between, which is probably the worst solution as it is neither one nor the other!

Layout lighting also has a bearing as well, as well as the vagaries of camera settings. Those two pictures were taken at the same time, using the same camera, but as you can probably see, the rendition of the colours on the bridge is a bit more vibrant in the wide shot. One was done with aperture priority on a tripod, the other hand-held on "auto" mode. I say go for whatever looks right to your own eye, and just as importantly, what you can achieve with readily available paints!