Matador Posted April 13, 2011 Share Posted April 13, 2011 Just painted a Class 45 Peak in Green/Yellow what colour should the stripe down the side and round the grill be. David Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRman Posted April 14, 2011 Share Posted April 14, 2011 Off-white would probably look best. When new it may have had a creamy tinge (ivory?) but faded to off-white very quickly. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluex5 Posted April 14, 2011 Share Posted April 14, 2011 In some shots it looks blue - ish, like a very pale duck egg blue, last time I did one I just did the stripe and grille frame white though. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRman Posted April 14, 2011 Share Posted April 14, 2011 The very early ones (especially class 44) may well have had duck egg blue as that was the initial standard from the 1950s but somewhere in the early sixties it was changed to the off-white colour - Brush type 2s (later classes 30 and 31) illustrate this change well. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
coachmann Posted April 14, 2011 Share Posted April 14, 2011 It looks as if bluish-grey was the norm for all the Peaks. Whether it changed to grey in later years is hard to tell from colour photos, but the above bluish shade would at least be accurate for most of the time. Some Peaks went all-over green before the adoption of corporate blue. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karhedron Posted April 14, 2011 Share Posted April 14, 2011 I think that Fox do some lining transfers in this colour. I used it on my green D600 (similar vintage) and it looked about right. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poor Old Bruce Posted April 14, 2011 Share Posted April 14, 2011 'British Rail Main-Line Diesels' compiled by S.W.Stevens-Stratton with drawings by R.S.Carter (revised and enlarged edition published by Ian Allan in 1975) gives the colour as 'Light Grey' BSS 2660-5-058. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matador Posted April 14, 2011 Author Share Posted April 14, 2011 That is what I decided to go with , I found a picture of D123 on Railpictures.net looks freshly painted with a Santa Special sign on its front and it is light grey. Many thanks David Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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