Idris wrote:Here's a 6a with a grey/blue tipper I've had it since the 1980s. (Not the World's best photograph for which my apologies. If you're struggling, it's the one in the middle!) I don't think it's a sunfade because the cab is still the original bright orange. The colour does remind me of the elusive duck egg blue Y6a Osram lorry. Does anyone else have one?
Hugh, I have found one similar model in my spare models. I have overlooked it for long time.
Antonin
Idris wrote:Here's a 6a with a grey/blue tipper I've had it since the 1980s. (Not the World's best photograph for which my apologies. If you're struggling, it's the one in the middle!) I don't think it's a sunfade because the cab is still the original bright orange. The colour does remind me of the elusive duck egg blue Y6a Osram lorry. Does anyone else have one?
Hugh, I have found one similar model in my spare models. I have overlooked it for long time.
Antonin
How can you overlook something like that!
Anyhow, what do you think? Is it simply a shade of grey, or is it a separate colour?
Looking at the Blue/Grey tipper body in Antonin's picture above, it seems to me (using my 'Yesteryears' experience here), there is a double coating of paint. This suggests the original colour (whatever it may have been or a primer), has been oversprayed with a final colour. The sharpness of the cast ridges on the area above the cab roof, is just not there compared to the model next to it.
Idris wrote:
How can you overlook something like that!
Anyhow, what do you think? Is it simply a shade of grey, or is it a separate colour?
It seems that I am getting old . It could be both, shade of the colour or a separate colour. It depends how "puritan" we are . I agree with Ghosty that it is single painting without any primer. But the colour/shade is different.
Antonin
Have you noticed that the door handle on the left side is much higher than on right side? Sometimes it almost disappears. The left door are larger as the door on the right side.
Antonin
Diecast wrote:I am enclosing a proposal of a new 6a Quarry Truck list. Please comments.
Not listing the bluish-grey tipper as a variation?
Yes Hugh, it should be code 10a (described as darker grey).
I have decided to designate a small shade differences with the index a, b,c ... These differences are sometimes very hard to describe and they are based only on the subjective judgment of the collector. The occurrence of colour shades is fairly frequent, and therefore numerical codes will often have to be changed. When we mark the shades of colour with the alphabetical index, we do not have to change the numerical indexes, just we have to add one new line with a new alpha / numeric index.
Antonin
Diecast wrote:I am enclosing a proposal of a new 6a Quarry Truck list. Please comments.
Not listing the bluish-grey tipper as a variation?
Yes Hugh, it should be code 10a (described as darker grey).
I have decided to designate a small shade differences with the index a, b,c ... These differences are sometimes very hard to describe and they are based only on the subjective judgment of the collector. The occurrence of colour shades is fairly frequent, and therefore numerical codes will often have to be changed. When we mark the shades of colour with the alphabetical index, we do not have to change the numerical indexes, just we have to add one new line with a new alpha / numeric index.
Antonin
. It could be both, shade of the colour or a separate colour. It depends how "puritan" we are 
. I agree with Ghosty that it is single painting without any primer. But the colour/shade is different.