Hi James,
thanks, this is a good piece to my puzzle.
I do not have this book.
I have Maskelyne's "locomotives I have known" and found a description in the second book.
I also odered: Edward Talbot- A history of LNWR Engines.
Hotspur also offer parts like the slotted splashers (a nightmare to machine from scratch), cab and smokebox parts,....
There is also a nice Teutonic class loco for sale now in 3.5" gauge.
I already habe the Problem class as a project but maybe......
Copied verbatim from my copy of Carter's 'Britain's Railway Liveries':
The engine 'Lady of the Lake' No.531 (2-2-2 tender), when built and running on the Northern Division, was painted (6) [note in back of book there's a swatch or colour chart- 6 is a sort of bluish emerald green sort of a colour- JH], described in sources as bluish-green. Boiler-banding was in black, as also was the colour of the smoke-box and upper half of the cylinders. Buffer beams were red (vermilion), panelled with black; but their tops and ends were green. The plates between the buffers and the beam were black, and the shanks were green; whilst the actual end ring of the shanks was black.
The fender sides were green, but the top plates of the fender sides were vermilion red, the sanding-lever being also this colour. The dome was green. Number-plates were of cast brass with black figures, and wheels were green with black tyres. The front wheel splashers were green with black casings and heavily-lined fronts. The cylinder lubricator cocks were bright brass. The rail round the top of the cab sides as well as the vertical supporting stanchions were of bright steel. The top of the chimney was of polished brass, and the safety-valve lever of bright steel. The tender-sides and back were green, panelled out with a black outside line and a white inner, both with incurved corners. The tender-springs and axleboxes were green, but the spring-buckles were black. Brakeshoes were black, as were the brake-hangers and track guard-irons, together with the axle-box tie-rods. The transverse brake-rodding was vermillion red.
The main-frame of the tender was green, lined ot finely with black, and the rear buffer-beam was vermillion red between the guard-iron attachments, but green between the latter an the end of the beams. The buffers were painted in the same style as those on the engine. The tender water-scoop handle was painted vermillion red.
The inside of the cab front was painted vermillion red in its top half, and black below; whereas the insides of the cab sides were painted vermillion red all over.
The shape of the number-plates was rectangular, with incurved corners, and the lines of rivets down the sides of the tender hornplates were painted black.
When first built the engine had a polished brass beading round the cab end of the fire-box, and the spectacle-plate rms and safety-valve casings were also of polished brass. The tender axle-boxes also had brass lids.
