I've been pleased with the positive response I've received to my plan to finish it in the BR blue livery it's wearing in 2018, complete with the 'arrows of indecision'.
I suppose this might be because narrow gauge modellers are by definition rather deviant from the mainstream, and perhaps a lot of you share my affection for quirky items.
However I'd also like to think that perhaps my generation - the children of the '70s - are beginning to reclaim their own heritage which has decried and denied for too long in my humble opinion.
On the big railway diesel preservation came of age a long time ago and so many of them are now being proudly displayed in rail blue livery.
In fact, nostalgia for the '80s is creeping in with more of the machines sporting the large logo livery again.
I'd like to think that one day the Vale of Rheidol might be brave enough to explore its own unique heritage as the last outpost of BR steam, but sadly, for me, they seem determined to present it as a 1930's 'chocolate box' GWR branchline.
It's perhaps not the most original offering in UK railway preservation, but they have a business to run and they must do what they feel they need to do.
They're not the only ones apparently determined to forget the '70s, alas....
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