Mysterious coaches

Thanks GGF. It'll be interesting to see what this one looks like.

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The mystery continues, I love a good mystery

I think I have an explanation for this 'mystery'. Since this is all from one seller, I think that he just keeps the coaches in an area where there is a lot of sunlight. Evidence to support this is that I saw some of his other items are also sun damaged. I'd say that's just about it really.

The seller in question is a long-standing and prolific buying / re-selling merchant who doesn't specifically keep stuff for any longer than it takes him to list it and sell it, and doesn't waste time on details such as cleaning, etc.

I will repeat what I wrote above:

"If the paint was changing from green to blue as a result of prolonged exposure to strong sunlight, we'd expect to see marked yellowing of the unpainted plastic, but there is no evidence of yellowing in these examples."

Just my opinion of course. I will also post pictures of this latest acquisition sometime in the next day or two.

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In my uneducated guess: I just can't see a uniform color change all around the model as being due to UV rays. I would expect to see different shades of color change. The sides that face the sun for long periods of time being a different shade of change than the side that doesn't. This would really be evident in any white or light colored areas. These coaches all seem to be an even color all the way around. I long for the day we get some kind of confirmation as to what these are but until them, for me, the mystery continues.

It will be interesting to see what these three new acquisitions look like when they arrive. One of them appears to be the motorised Mighty Mac version, the other two are probably Freddie's.

   

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Even that Tender seems to be an odd color blue.