11a Esso Tanker in absurd orange colour

Diecast · Post by **Diecast** » Fri Mar 21, 2014 2:42 pm

I have metioned the absurd 11a Esso Tanker in orange colour also. It has the same colour as 6a Quarry Truck. I have seen some sunfaded 11a ERF Tanker, but this one is not sunfaded, it has the orange painting!!!
Antonin

SMS88 · Post by **SMS88** » Fri Mar 21, 2014 7:59 pm

Does it have Esso on the rear or is it plain? Not beyond belief that Lesney could have made an orange run for a company whose house colours were orange!

johnboy · Post by **johnboy** » Fri Mar 21, 2014 8:46 pm

Hello Antonin, nice comparison photo. I found it strange that the code 9 moved away from red and retained the Esso decal.

Diecast · Post by **Diecast** » Fri Mar 21, 2014 8:53 pm

It is really very strange. The model has a standard rear red "ESSO" decal. My personal opinion is that one batch of the orange models was created by mistake. That someone made a mistake and put into spray painting lines orange colour instead red one.
Antonin

johnboy · Post by **johnboy** » Fri Mar 21, 2014 9:12 pm

Diecast wrote:It is really very strange. The model has a standard rear red "ESSO" decal. My personal opinion is that one batch of the orange models was created by mistake. That someone made a mistake and put into spray painting lines orange colour instead red one.
Antonin

That seems very possible, the paint has another blip with the flat red finish also.

Diecast · Post by **Diecast** » Fri Mar 21, 2014 9:28 pm

It's even more stranger than I thought. I had cleaned the model because it was dirty. When cleaning, I noticed that in some places I can see the red painting, the model is repainted by Lesney!!!!!!!
Antonin

Brad Pittiful · Post by **Brad Pittiful** » Fri Mar 21, 2014 9:59 pm

maybe they made a bad mix of red and it became orange...pretty cool though!

SMS88 · Post by **SMS88** » Fri Mar 21, 2014 11:14 pm

Kids of the 1960s were often very talented with paint,this could be a home made repaint particularly because of the frilly edges of the Esso decal suggesting it has been removed and refitted

Post by **Tinman** » Sat Mar 22, 2014 3:50 am

SMS88 wrote:Kids of the 1960s were often very talented with paint,this could be a home made repaint particularly because of the frilly edges of the Esso decal suggesting it has been removed and refitted

Lesney sent all these through the paint line twice, they obviously added the wrong paint into the mix. Decal edges look quite normal.

I had one just like it.

Post by **Tinman** » Sat Mar 22, 2014 3:51 am

Diecast wrote:I have metioned the absurd 11a Esso Tanker in orange colour also.

I'm curious as to why you call it "absurd?"

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