RMweb Gold TravisM Posted May 21, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 21, 2021 I’m thinking of getting several of the recently released BR banana vans and I’m trying to find out when the they were repainted from Fyffes yellow to BR bauxite with a Fyffes logo? Also when was the logo removed and they became just plain bauxite? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium brushman47544 Posted May 21, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 21, 2021 (edited) The issue of banana vans has come up before, such as this topic: Basically, there is no evidence that they were ever yellow and as they were all BR owned they were in bauxite from new. It really is about time one of the RTR manufacturers produced an accurate BR era banana van as an alternative to this Dapol abomination. Edited May 21, 2021 by brushman47544 typos 1 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tallpaul69 Posted May 21, 2021 Share Posted May 21, 2021 I think you need to be very careful about yellow banana vans! I suggest they were, by and large, dreamed up by model manufacturers to interest young modellers? Certainly any such vans would have been dull yellow rather than the bright yellow of a lot of van models made. This topic has been the subject of threads on this site before, but the details escape me at present. Happy Modelling!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted May 21, 2021 Share Posted May 21, 2021 If there were any yellow, it would be the painted disc on the side, and any trader's labels that were carried. The only time I've seen a yellow van, it was a German one, photographed in Germany. With the replacement of the underframe by one from Red Panda, the Dapol ones aren't too bad. Certainly, if you buy the unpainted bodies, they work out at a fairly reasonable price. 2 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickham Green too Posted May 23, 2021 Share Posted May 23, 2021 On 21/05/2021 at 15:34, Tallpaul69 said: ....... any such vans would have been dull yellow rather than the bright yellow ....... They would have been Fyffes corporate colour - whatever exact, eye-catching, shade that was .................... though that's purely hypothetical as they weren't yellow at all. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted May 29, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 29, 2021 I concur; I spent a good bit of my spotting and railway careers in the 60s and 70s familiar with banana vans, which were a common sight at Cardiff on workings from the Geest terminal at Barry Docks and as fitted head on the Llanharry-East Moors iron ore workings. I never saw any that were not BR bauxite; Geest stickyback labels and the yellow circle circuit working stickers, but the vans were always in BR bauxite livery. They were also used as fitted heads on imported iron ore trains originating at Barry Docks and going to Corby or Scunthorpe; I worked a few of these to Gloucester for relief, but they were specials not in the WTT. Hymeks were the usual motive power, and Halls in late steam days. Yellow is an RTR 'pretty colour' marketing exercise, and not prototypical (cue deluge of photos of yellow banana vans everywhere!). 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRAILRAGE Posted May 30, 2021 Share Posted May 30, 2021 (edited) The Bodies come up real nice when fitted to the correct Chassis. In this case a Red Panda Vacum fitted 10 ft wb 8 Shoe Clasp Brake chassis kit. Cheers Trailrage Edited May 30, 2021 by TRAILRAGE 10 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted May 31, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 31, 2021 The Parkside chassis is OK too. Mike. 7 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pteremy Posted March 16 Share Posted March 16 On 31/05/2021 at 06:15, Enterprisingwestern said: The Parkside chassis is OK too. Mike. With excellent Banana vans appearing from Accurascale and Rapido recently I thought I would have a go at a couple of Dapol/Red Panda conversions, for added variety. Am I right in thinking that you did not attempt removal of the spurious body side panels? Instead you seem to have camouflaged them by adding the large chalk board that these van had, plus it looks like you have scored a line to represent the correct pattern corner support? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted March 16 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 16 The spurious side panels have been removed, you can tell by the presence of the step underneath the number, and although it's not the best picture I have replaced the missing corner support coach bolt heads with rivet transfers. Mike. 1 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pteremy Posted March 17 Share Posted March 17 On 16/03/2024 at 09:30, Enterprisingwestern said: you can tell by the presence of the step underneath the number Yes, I can see that now. I think I was fooled by an optical illusion, an apparent 'step' at the base of the yellow dot, which is just where the panel is kept cleaner, around the letters and numbers. Indeed, looking at pictures of the real thing it looks as if the shape of spurious panel is intended to 'represent' this feature, which seems to persist even when vans were subsequently in Departmental service - e.g. p25 of Gamble's British Railway Vans v2 in the Cheona series 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miss Prism Posted March 17 Share Posted March 17 Red Panda stuff is absurdly good - is it still manufactured? (I suspect not.) 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold phil_sutters Posted March 17 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 17 2 minutes ago, Miss Prism said: Red Panda stuff is absurdly good - is it still manufactured? (I suspect not.) This seems to be a current ad. https://www.hamodels.net/red-panda-4mm-wagon-kits.html 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold TheSignalEngineer Posted March 17 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 17 3 hours ago, phil_sutters said: This seems to be a current ad. https://www.hamodels.net/red-panda-4mm-wagon-kits.html I believe that Red Panda are now owned by Phoenix Precision Paints. I bought a Red Panda wagon from the H&A stand at a show about 12 months ago so hopefully they are still be available as I need another chassis for a conversion job. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold gwrrob Posted March 17 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 17 14 minutes ago, TheSignalEngineer said: I believe that Red Panda are now owned by Phoenix Precision Paints. A limited selection shewn here https://www.phoenix-paints.co.uk/products/search/red panda Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cctransuk Posted March 17 Share Posted March 17 18 minutes ago, gwrrob said: A limited selection shewn here https://www.phoenix-paints.co.uk/products/search/red panda That was all that Red Panda ever produced - to the best of my knowledge. CJI. 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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