Minitrix Warship Collection

[Humby]

Hi All,

I've been collecting all the different Minitrix warships over the last few years, and with the exception of D838 Rapid in Maroon (there was one on eBay last year but it went for over £100) I now have all the ones listed in Ramsey's guide. This has now thrown up a question regarding the Green with Yellow ends models. The examples listed in the guide are D805,D815,D816 and D866 of these I have two versions of D805 and D816 one with red backed nameplates and one with black. These are not listed individually in Ramsey's so my question is does anyone know if the models of the other two D815 and D866 were ever released with the differing nameplate colours as well?

I've also just found a Blue Hermes with a different nameplate font to any of the others Ive seen before, the font on this matches all the other releases I have i.e. Great Western style, the usual Hermes that seems to be widely available has a standard capital font.

Would anyone be able to shed any light on the above

Regards

Marc

[AJB]

I recently purchased a Minitrix Warship from the U States named 'Zebra'.
As I have never seen this loco before, can any one enlighten me on when this loco was produced and in what quantity and for which market UK/US?

[Geoff]

I recently purchased a Minitrix Warship from the U States named 'Zebra'.
As I have never seen this loco before, can any one enlighten me on when this loco was produced and in what quantity and for which market UK/US?

There is plenty of info here on the actual Class 42 and Zebra is listed.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_42

As for the minitrix models that I do not know.

[BramptonBranch]

Zebra in maroon on Ebay £72 with ages to go!!

[ntpntpntp]

Zebra in maroon on Ebay £72 with ages to go!!

Those yellow ends look like they've had a repaint (not particularly well)

I had a maroon Zebra, still regret selling it in the early 80s.  I have a couple of blurry old photos from the 70s which show it, and yes it did have full yellow ends.

[Dr Al]

These are not listed individually in Ramsey's

Ramsey's is riddled with errors in the Farish section, so I wouldn't assume anything in it is gospel!

Cheers,
Alan