Original Colour for the Flying Scotsman 1922 -Doncaste Green

[neaco]

Can anyone Help?
I am in the process of building The Flying Scotsman ('O' Gauge)
And would like to obtain the Correct 1922 Doncaster Green colour
does anyone out there know what the original colour was.

In researching this I have come up with all different shades of Green and it seems to me that it
is a very much debated subject with loads of different opinions on which is the 1922 Doncaster correct shade.

Any help would be much appreciated.


NB:- Also posted in Model Railways section

[mick b]

I presume you are talking about GNR livery? Have a look here

http://www.phoenix-paints.co.uk/enamel.asp?F_Railway=23

and here

http://www.scalefour.org/rathbone/irpics.htm

Mick

[neaco]

Hi Mick
Thank you for your comments and Links you have provided

Yes I do mean the original colour (GNR) 1922 green and have obtained samples from Pheonix Paints
but this green is LNER Doncaster which is not the original colour 1922/3.

I have only just Joined the LNER Encyclopedia and looking through the forums/remarks members seem fed up with this Scotsman Paint debate!! but I though it would be a good place to start and it was not to be so I will be signing off and not to raise the colour issue again with this forum.

Thanks again

Neaco

[manna]

G'Day Gents
Don't worry to much about the correct GN green as the apple green as used by the GNR and LNER was in use for approx, a hundred years! and every batch would have been slightly different, the human eye can pick up 16,000 shades of green, more than any other colour, that can be blamed on our hunter/gatherer forebears, even if colour charts were used a different eye will mix it differently every time.
manna