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BR warning panel yellow for post-1984 locomotive and unit ends and for the yellow bands of engineers 'Dutch' livery.
18ml pot of water based acrylic paint.
BR light grey shade used for the window bands on the corporate blue and grey livery 1964-1990, with some blue & grey coaches in charter and heritage railway use today.This shade was also applied to the roof of many large-logo blue livery locomotives and the lower bodysides of the Railfreight triple-grey livery.
18ml water based acrylic pot.
British Rail standard corporate blue as used on locomotives, coaches and many other objects needing painting from 1966 until the mid 1985.
Introduced with a rail freight marketing push in the mid 1980s, the new Rail Freight grey and flame red colour scheme greatly brightened up BR's freight train image. The grey colouring was later utilised on BR's engineering stock, together with a warning yellow stripe.
EWS maroon colour.
EWS gold colour.
British Railways / British Rail diesel locomotive green.18ml pot of water based acrylic paint.
BR locomotive sherwood green, the lighter shade used in two-tone green livery schemes.
BR crimson paint colour as used initially on passenger coaches and luggage vans.
Agreed in 1949, British Railways coach livery until 1957 was crimson and cream (2312) for mainline corridor coaches and all crimson for suburban stock. This shade is also known as carmine, as it wasn't very close to many peoples' concept of crimson!
BR cream paint colour as used with crimson on mainline corridor coaches between 1949 and 1957.
Agreed in 1949, British Railways coach livery until 1957 was crimson (2311) and cream for mainline corridor coaches and all crimson for suburban stock.
18ml acrylic paint in the grey shade used by BR for the rood panels of diesel locomotives, normally used with the green liveries.
The standard colour for BR goods wagons from 1948 was this light grey. This livery was used on the vast majority of the wagon fleet, including the thousands of steel coal wagons built in the 1950s which were equiped only with hand operated brakes.
Light rust shade representing freshly formed surface rust.
Gloss finish varnish for Railmatch acrylic paints.
A gloss finish is recommended as the best surface for the application of decals. A final satin or matt varnish can be applied over the finished model to seal the decals.
Light red brick shade, probably the most common of modern building bricks.
New/fresh stone colour paint for stone-built structures, loads and scenic features.18ml water based acrylic pot.
Weathered stone colour paint for stone-built structures, loads and scenic features.18ml water based acrylic pot.
New/fresh tarmac colour paint for finishing roads, tarmac surfaced platforms, etc.18ml water based acrylic pot.
GWR chocolate brown was used on the lower panels of passenger coaches and for the entire sides of parcels and untility vans.
First used in the Victorian era the GWR changed to crimson lake livery before WW1, but the two-colour chocolate and cream returned after the war and survived until nationalisation. The livery was briefly revived in the late 1950s and is popular with many preserved railways in West of England.
The GWR painted the window bands of their coaches in this pale cream colour, completing the famous 'chocolate & ceam' combination.
Most of the pre-1948 companies used a light grey paint on their goods wagons, the GWR chose a darker shade. All GWR goods wagons were painted in this colour, including both vacuum and non-vacuum fitted wagons. Normally the dark grey was used on all parts of the wagon, including the underframes.
Doncaster works shade of LNER Apple Green.
The LNER standard Apple Green for locomotives was subject to some variations as paint was normally mixed from pigments on the day, not supplied pre-mixed from a factory as it is today. Depending on which works was responsible for repainting Doncaster and Darlington produced noticable differences in their interpretation of Apple Green.
Darlington works shade of LNER Apple Green.
SR light olive green shade. Ideal for painting models to match with Hornbys' excellent Maunsell coaches.
SR dark olive green shade. Ideal for painting models to match with Hornbys' excellent Maunsell coaches.
SR malachite green. Ideal for painting models to match with Hornbys' excellent Maunsell coaches.