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I am not really good at handling Photoshop, so I will have to rely on "real" photographs for my comments. I am having difficulties in developing a taste for non-real paint schemes at steam locomotives. While I like those mainly maroon or green paint jobs on British steamers, i find the looks of them applied to a German steam locomotive odd. Again, I grew up with those black and red standard Deutsche Bundesbahn liveries. The DR 18 201Pacific sported a number of different colors over recent years. 18 201 was rebuilt from a streamlined 4-6-4 T loco built to haul the "high speed" train from Berlin to Dresden in the 1930´s. With a speed in excess of 160 kph, it was the fastest loco on post-war Reichsbahn tracks, maintained for testing passengers cars to be exported. I am not sure, but the originally had the usual black & red livery. At a later date, the loco received a green and red paint job: <img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/18201_Hersbruck_30062007_Wasser.JPG/800px-18201_Hersbruck_30062007_Wasser.JPG" style="max-width: 550px;" border="0" /> For some time, she sported a red color: <img src="http://www.wagener-web.de/bilder/bergfrueh/bgf_frueh_dampflok_br18_01.jpg" style="max-width: 550px;" border="0" /> I can´t explain why, but I don´t like either one. I feel fine with this paint job, applied to the ex Royal Bavarian State Railway class S3/6, because it closely matches the original coloring: <img src="http://www.zeigedeinebilder.de/bilder/dampflok-s-36-auf-drehscheibe-bayerischen-eisenbahnmuseum-bem-noerdlingen-2010-1558.jpg" style="max-width: 550px;" border="0" /> Marklin once sponsored a paint job in "royal blue", making the loco look like this: <img src="http://www.kurrer.de/fundampf/s36_4.jpg" style="max-width: 550px;" border="0" /> Guess which one I don´t like! A coke red, non, streamlined steamer - I have doubts I´d fancy that!
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