Adrian Butler

Hi Nidge, I've trawled all the books for the livery details and the detail variation of this one and found the BSS no. for the yellow hidden away in one of Adrian Curtis' books. We'll obviously restrict any renames to the Swindon examples. Why Invader? - although not in this livery, Pathfinder, Talisman and Venturer have, or are being done recently - Harrier sounds like an aircraft and Stalwart a bit well.. warty. Besides, I just liked the name!

Hi, If you'll excuse the plug - readers of this thread may be interested to know that I've just firmed up my order for a limited edition of the Dapol Western for Lord and Butler Cardiff. This will be D1009 Western Invader in the original maroon with pale yellow buffer beams and stocks. There will be a run of 200 although we will be renaming a few with appropriate names. I don't think there has been a rtr model of a western in this guise since the Lima one of Pathfinder so hopefully there should be plenty of interest despite the brief lifespan of this livery.