60523 Tudor Minstrel: Green Nameplates?

[S.A.C. Martin]

Evening all,

Just bought issue 292 of "Steam World" (October 2011 edition). Terrific photograph on front cover of 60523 Tudor Minstrel, Dundee Shed, 1965. Several things draw the eye:

1. white smokebox straps and dart
2. white buffers
3. unlined plain green running plate

...and lastly 4) the nameplates on the deflectors have a green background which matches the running plate.

I have never seen green backed nameplates before on an A1 Pacific, least of all in colour, so does anyone know why they were painted as such? My first impression was that it was faded blue, but closer inspection shows it really is painted green.

Definitely a locomotive in a particular form I'd like to model one day, so many variables a very unusual contrast between the nameplates, the running plate and the darker green of the boiler and tender!

[manna]

G'Day Gents

Probably a local job, to 'Tart' it up a bit, the 'painter' probably thought to himself after painting the running plate, "the nameplates looking a wee bit tatty, an' I still 'ave 'arf a tin a paint left"

Just go's to show there's a prototype for everything

manna