QUOTE but Deltic appears to be a tadge on the dark side.
The photo shows the Deltic to be a lighter colour than it appeared to me at the show. I did think it was a bit darker than I remembered from a photo I took at the NRM and which is in the gallery -
here. Peter's photo set included a Deltic built to a much larger scale but the blue looked pretty much the same as the Bachmann model. The publicity photo on the NRM website is much lighter and closer to my "memory" colour.
So the question is, "which one is right?". If you can trust the colour fidelity of my Sony digicam taking a still, then it's the NRM shot since this taken in natural lighting conditions even though it was a really foul day, in fact so foul that few trains were running on the ECML that day due to high winds. But then, surely Bachmann and the NRM will have got the colour right and why is the large scale model also that dark blue colour? The conclusion I have come to is that the two models at the NEC were not being viewed under good lighting conditions so it's not possible to form a final judgement.
David