It's amazing what a bit of paint can do. The paintwork is still in Southern Region colours. I remember the Southern Region green paintwork quite well and it never looked like what we see on preserved railways for very long, but took on a dusty copper oxide colour (Humbrol 120). The cream or more correctly 'stone', again I always remember this as a pale shade which is nothing like the custard colour often seen, for this I used Humbrol 148.