Paul Willis
A group of us modellers in the Great Eastern Railway Society have been discussing these.
The general consensus is that Rapido is launching a massive leap back to the 1970s, when you could have the Flying Scotsman it LNER green, GWR green and LMS red…
There are a large range of prototypical kits available covering a wide number of pre-Grouping companies. For the GER, that is through D&S primarily.
Why would we want to have something that is less accurate?
Best,
Paul