OK, I'm in nit picking mode

[Bealman]

Yes, it does look like that in the crappy photo. Could be the lighting, but it has an M for Midland on the side!

[Newportnobby]

On the right is what I'd call crimson & cream while the left one I'd call blood & custard (I've also heard it referred to as plum & custard)



On the left, Farish blood & custard - on the right, Farish Thompson



The Saphos take on it



I was not keen on my old Farish crimson & cream stuff so sold it all. The worst, IMHO, are the Dapol Collett crimson & cream as they're blindingly bright but maybe that was correct

[Bealman]

Well that is blindly bright in that last photo, but they're ain't Mk1s, are they 

[Malc]

They are Pullman coaches and as they are private owners, they can paint them whatever colours they like.

[PLD]

Re Dapol getting their colours wrong, I do find it odd that no one mentions just how wrong the cream colour is they use on the Crimson & Cream stock, on the Autocoaches I have it's almost orange.  Is it because of the anything is better than nothing mentality we often see attached to complaints about Dapol.

Hey coat door 

The cream is fine, the CRIMSON was orangey... but the crimson was notoriously bad for weathering, and did go towards orange. Dapol's colour is certainly wrong for 'ex-works' condition, but about right for a coach that's been stood outside and not painted in a decade!

[N_GaugeModeller]

Unfortunatly I no longer have or can find the pictures I took before the repaint Cream but my 2 Autocoaches were very much on the Orange side of things.

[joe cassidy]

Has anyone compared Farish/Dapol crimson & cream with Railmatch Crimson & Cream ?

[Bealman]

Nice new avatar, Malc