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Modellbau-wiki list of the S2/6 RTR models http://www.modellbau-wiki.de/wiki/BR_15

Well, if it's in the 1969 timeframe that's the colour to go for. Accurascale likey have colour photos of it. Did this ever exist, or was someone at Wrenn colour blind?

Well the variable is time. If I painted fresh grapes the shade would be different than when they are older. For me, the Accurascale D6703 should be as it left the Vulcan Foundary in 1959. The original paint maker would have been using a Munsell colour chart so it's not an impossible task these days to get a good match.

The front end shape and chocolate colour remind me of the German H 45 024 high pressure steamer. Made in Communist East Germany it was a complete failure... The model made by Trix is better than the real thing!

This is Bill Wright's Kodachrome transparency of an English Electric 1000HP Type 1 Bo-Bo no. D8123 on Polmadie Shed taken in 15th July 1965. It contains all the info required to colour match this loco IMHO. I dare say there are photos of the early class 37s just as good.

This paint must be close https://www.phoenix-paints.co.uk/products/p101 but... on my colour corrected monitor it's too green. You need to use a Munsell Chart. The NRM one looks decent

You can if the photo contains white skin tones, grass, sky blue, gray and other known tones. I used to work as a cameraman in the film industry grading negative stock in post. The photo shown might be a Kodachrome transparency though which is generally accurate for green. See WWII Kodachromes here https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2017/apr/19/the-second-world-war-in-colour-in-pictures

Fran, how are you getting the right shade of green on the early ones. Looking at this colour photo when the loco had just left the works, it's Army khaki green like old Land Rovers ? https://www.rail-online.co.uk/p251491321/hD7521453#heff2f88

Rails of Sheffield had a brass built Deutsche Reichsbahn DR05 by Mircometakit up for sale a while back. The lower skirts are removed. I'm not sure if they are detachable or not?

Followed the link and bought a new one of these for £99...hope it turns up

If you have 9500 euros handy this may be of interest: a new Lemaco guage 1 BR06 monster... https://www.ebay.de/itm/Lemaco-1-Gauge-Steam-Locomotive-Br-06-Messingmodell-Esu-Sound-Optional/173479530478?_trkparms=aid%3D111001%26algo%3DREC.SEED%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20170511121231%26meid%3Db6323e02fdf64126b6d9fd8472fec37e%26pid%3D100675%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D15%26mehot%3Dnone%26sd%3D173479530478%26itm%3D173479530478%26pmt%3D0%26noa%3D1%26pg%3D2380057&_trksid=p2380057.c100675.m4236&_trkparms=pageci%3Ac80501cc-41ec-11ea-bdc0-74dbd18085ac|parentrq%3Aed05d93d16f0ac3c5e052574fff9331a|iid%3A1

Yes, that's it thanks! I came across this FlickR account with highly detailed photogrphy that is great https://www.flickr.com/photos/sarion0427/with/39265165805/ Also this dealer gallery https://brassdepartment.com/gallery/ Micro-Feinmechanik: German BR 03 005 used by Allied Forces

Watch the Roco video above. You can see all sort of things being made in-house including motors and windings.

Roller shutters on the real thing although modified over the years

If a loco is a failure or only one was made doesn't mean it wont be modelled of course. For example, the cab forward version of the streamline BR05 wasn't a success and was converted back to conventional postwar. Marklin-Trix have make it in maroon and black. At the cheaper end Lilliput from 2010 on. At the high end Micrometakit and Micro-Feinmechanik . So although somewhat of a niche product all bases are covered.... The conventional BR05 Lilliput in photographic gray looks rather good...

I had a look at my 2019 Trix catalogue and there are 5 different coaches from the German State Railroad era in N scale like this https://www.trix.de/produkte/details/article/15803 I have the Ho Markin versions (fitted with DC wheels) which cover the Swiss and German era I model. The streamlined BR01.1 has been produced by just about everyone through the years and clearly sells. Bellow is the 2014 Roco 2004 Fleischmann (the red version was on the market for years) 2006 Lilliput

A while back I was looking at a German site with hundreds of detailed photos of expensive makes. Can someone remind me of it's name, I've been unable to find it.

The big boys Marklin-Trix have produced locos in WW2 camo. The BR 53 in Winter...not sure about the U-boat though !

I think the Brawa BR06 was probably a slow but steady seller from 2001 to 2011. Six different liveries were eventually made. Currently Brawa make the experimental BR 19.01 loco made in 1941 by Henschel with advanced drive train. It saw limited service but the potenial was clear, running at 186 kmh within the restrictions of wartime. The Americans shipped it to the US and scrapped it postwar. Lemaco have also made it.

Era II is (1925-1945) is certainly very popular. The German eagle predates WW1 of course, the 2018-19 Trix E19 model shows how the small Third Reich bit is removed. https://www.trix.de/en/products/details/article/22919/ Still present in the preserved museum loco though

I guess you need to take the Lemaco front lower panels off to run it around corners?

Well somebody bought one for £51 today... https://offer.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBidsLogin&item=253778348224&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2564 At least in theory...

I think the WR hydraulics would still have been in service longer like the 1956 V200 they were based on, and which a few are still trundling around outside Germany. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DB_Class_V_200

In WW2 the German Wehrmacht photographers used Agfacolor right up until the end at the battle of Seelow heights just outside Berlin. British Army in Italy having a rather better time of it. When did the habit of painting new locos in photographic gray end? It certainly showed shape and detail well shooting large format B&W

In the meantime this German diesel loco had a service life of over 50 years 1962-2016 http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fde.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FHenschel_DH_4000