Caledonian Railways shades of blue

[sncf231e]

 

Regards

Fred

[Caley Jim]

You're opening up a can of worms there!

 

Jim

[sto243]

I find it interesting that scale makes a difference (or at least it does to my eyes):

In real life (1:1 scale) I think the darker blue on 828 looks stunning, whereas the lighter blue on 419 doesn't do it for me, but on the OO gauge models of 828 I chose the lighter blue because I preferred it in every shot I saw.

On your larger scale models I would struggle to chose...

[Tom Burnham]

The two Caley locos currently on hire to the Spa Valley Railway were in the shed when I visited last Wednesday, but I thought they seemed to be different shades of blue.

[Wheatley]

They are. 828 is in the older dark blue, 419 is in the later light blue. 

 

What the 'correct' colour of either is I'm not going to get drawn into ! Suffice it to say that I bought the lighter 812 and when (if) I ever get as far as painting my LRM kit of CR123 it will be in whichever shade currently available looks most like photos of it running in the 1960s !

[33C]

Blue seems to be notorious for pigment fade and weathering. My three Caledonian loco's were all brush painted from the same pot. The Cardean was done first about 8 years ago (approx), the 908, 4 years ago (approx) and the Dunlastair lll, a year later. The last two have a single coat of satin varnish.

[Michael Hodgson]

Well I think all four shades look right to me.

 

Good to see a bit of 3-rail O gauge 😀 and the track looks particularly well made and evenly supported for an elevated garden line.  I think those locos could all manage more than a 2-coach train though.