57a Wolseley shade or sun fade?

[numi]

The specimen in question might not be a sunfade.
numi

[nickjones]

What I can see of it it does look like it is in the colour that Lesney painted it. But the base pictures should confirm it.

[Kiwi78]

I take my own pictures on Sunday when I have the time but I have asked another collector to chime in because those "yellow-ish" models seem to be more common than one might think. This is his photo which I'm only sharing at this stage but he might join this thread himself:



Seems to be consistent with the second picture that George showed on page 1...

[Kiwi78]

I'm amazed. Even in hand the colour changes according to the light. Very odd. But in normal daylight it's pale green so that's that. Here's a quick shot with the iPad camera to show what I mean. Close ups don't seem to be necessary now.

[Taniwha]

This casting seems to have quite a variety of paint finishes - I think there could be different paint mixes involved, sunfade or other environmental factors - sun isn't the only environmental factor that might cause changes in the tints of certain paints. Here are my only two examples - I got both in London, so they haven't had much exposure to the deadly ozone-depleted sunlight here in NZ being stored in the dark normally:



Jan, your model is very nice in any case. Not sure if we'll ever have a conclusive answer as to why it is this shade, but sunfade should be easiest to rule out.

Cheers,
Gavin