Esso 14t Tank Wagons - Silver

[londonbus]

Another question for the group... I've collected a few Esso tanks over the years and have started to personalise and weather them. Most of the wagons have what I consider to be the correct base silver (left) based on the various online and book sources of colour photographs. The Bachmann triple pack 37-668 is not only very badly factory weathered but also the base silver appears to have a distinct blue / green hue. This can be seen in the photo below (although it doesn't appear quite as pronounced on the images). 

 

Is this a Bachmann paint mistake or is this based on a prototype? It's noticeable enough to be annoying (if it's not correct) but the prospect of repainting and replacing the decals is equally annoying! 

 

Opinions & Guidance welcome. Thanks.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[cctransuk]

Another question for the group... I've collected a few Esso tanks over the years and have started to personalise and weather them. Most of the wagons have what I consider to be the correct base silver (left) based on the various online and book sources of colour photographs. The Bachmann triple pack 37-668 is not only very badly factory weathered but also the base silver appears to have a distinct blue / green hue. This can be seen in the photo below (although it doesn't appear quite as pronounced on the images). 

 

Is this a Bachmann paint mistake or is this based on a prototype? It's noticeable enough to be annoying (if it's not correct) but the prospect of repainting and replacing the decals is equally annoying! 

 

Opinions & Guidance welcome. Thanks.

 

 

 

Another question for the group... I've collected a few Esso tanks over the years and have started to personalise and weather them. Most of the wagons have what I consider to be the correct base silver (left) based on the various online and book sources of colour photographs. The Bachmann triple pack 37-668 is not only very badly factory weathered but also the base silver appears to have a distinct blue / green hue. This can be seen in the photo below (although it doesn't appear quite as pronounced on the images). 

 

Is this a Bachmann paint mistake or is this based on a prototype? It's noticeable enough to be annoying (if it's not correct) but the prospect of repainting and replacing the decals is equally annoying! 

 

Opinions & Guidance welcome. Thanks.

 

 

 

You might want to remove the duplicate thread.

 

The rarest livery for a class A tank wagon would be pristine silver - most would have been varying shades of filthy.

 

The odd tint to the 'weathered' tank wagons is entirely due to the overspray; it may be poor weathering but it is perfectly OK as a base for 'personalising'.

 

A rake of uniformly silver tank wagons would look far less authentic than a rake where no two wagons were weathered in exactly the same way.

 

Regards,

John Isherwood.

[londonbus]

Thanks for the reply John, a test batch of the blue / green tint wagons now dismantled and i'll use them to try different approaches, but the easiest will probably be as you suggest, spraying liberal filth.