[JasonB]

It's rumoured that KensRedZed keeps his red paint in a box, which is never to be opened in the vicinity of a Ferrari model.

But speaking of colours, while the Master is at work doing the difficult stuff, I've been thinking about hues and tones. Hmmm, it's tough work but somebody's got to do it.

One of the interesting things about the J, was that it was first made in 1948, when I imagine Britain would probably have been a quite austere place, still suffering from the after affects of the war. But it stayed in production until 1961, and the 60s were a very different decade indeed. So the liveries available would be multiduninous, and could range from the basic Post Office van, to the more extravagent, and exuberent ice cream sellers.

There are some quite fancy paint jobs on offer in surviving examples, but to be honest, I think I prefer the more basic examples.

           

I think it maybe looks better as a slightly down in the dumps basic van that's had a hard life, rather than something that's been poshed up with a fancy paintjob, so I kind of imagine it in what I would call railway colours, burgundy, navy, or deep green, possibly with black wheel arches. Obviously it's tempting to play about with the swage lines and two tone body work, but I'm not sure it needs it.

                       

These are definitely the work of some late sixties hippies, which is just not right, but I had to check it out.