That's my build. Back from 1982 , Matchbox's classique range number PK-452.

Construction has started with minor fitting problems.

According to Matchbox, this RR was painted in a 2-colours livery -> gloss black and semi-gloss wine red. Having not found yet any reference pictures of this particular car, i am a bit confused about Matchbox's definition of "wine red". Could have been that colour similar to H43 from Gunze? Or to the much darker red wine used by British railways ?. Does anybody have a clue ?

Does the box art help . . ?

Nick

Box art is the reason i went for gunze's H43. On the other hand, if i had to rely on box art, i should had the wings painted in blue !!

Gunze 43 sounds reasonable to me , but black wings of course

Is that why you don't enter the 'conversations' about interpreting colour photographs!!!?

I have emailed a contact of mine to see if he has any photos of the actual car to help re colours

Wayne

Thanks a lot

The only photo of the original car that I have been able to find so far is top right on this page

http://www.peterkeist.ch/rr/

I know its not much to go by.

My friend has now supplied the following photo, it seems colour photos of the car are not common



Wayne

After a long and forced absence , finally this weekend i was able to stay home and work on my model. Passengers cabin is ready, engine deparment is next. Hopefully, the model wil be finished by July the 4th.

Its looking really good, hope it all goes well

Although the GB has ended, i am still working on my model. I would like to present it when finished, hopefully by the end of week. Shall i continue posting in this section or shall i ask from moderator to move my thread to vehicle's WIP section ??

You might as well carry on here. Look forward to seeing the roller once you're ready