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The Bachman 7F in Prussian Blue is the correct colour for a model. Bachman matched to the paint the SDRT have used on First Class Coach No: 4 and their 0-4-0 Peckett 1788. This Prussian Blue was supplied by T&R Williamson railway paint manufacturers who supplied the S&DJR and other companies who built loco's and coaches for them with the original paint from the 1880's to the 1920's and they had details in their archive. They found it was an exact match to original paint from S&DJR coach 98 last painted in 1928. They were even able to check the correct undercoat colour and supply the same colour. The undercoat is very important and it is a mid blue colour two coats and then two top coats and then 2 coats of varnish. The undercoat is very important as a slightly darker undercoat produces a different final colour, much darker. Prussian Blue looks black in dull lighting conditions but in the sun it is the most beautiful deep dark blue, in evening sunlight you even see the crimson that is used in it's mixing coming through. Find a match for the 7F or the Bachman S&DJR Jinty in blue and you are there.