Slight changes you would make to liveries to make them nicer

[Doomotron]

The "light" blue in the bottom one needs to be quite a bit lighter to match the doors.

Yep... Just there were too many reflections to get the right colours.

 

[K.o.R]

I like the idea of using something other than yellow, black, and the body colour for the front of the train. However, I'd put a black window 'illusion' on the gangway door, like this...

Original work produced by flickr user train_photos, edited under the terms of the Creative Commons 2.0 Share-alike license.

That is rather nice, and that's coming from Mr Yellow here.

Now I wish it had the later Electrostar lamp clusters.

 

[Peter Mugridge]

My "slight change" to the new livery applied to 221 101 would be to obscure the whole thing with a cloud of fog.

 

[whhistle]

My "slight change" to the new livery applied to 221 101 would be to obscure the whole thing with a cloud of fog.

A waste of a post and a poor attempt at humour.

 

[LOL The Irony]

A waste of a post and a poor attempt at humour.

It's not a bad idea. The Voyager's are Marmite and the new Virgin livery is crap. The window band is botched fix and if Virgin win the WCP, hopefully they remove the flowing silk livery.

 

[mushroomchow]

LNWR or WMR liveries - just drop the yellow ends on the door panels. They look absolutely ridiculous.

My "slight change" to the new livery applied to 221 101 would be to obscure the whole thing with a cloud of fog.

At present I respectfully disagree, but that's because they haven't yet applied the frankly crap ribbon branding which, on the Pendos, has ruined a previously sleek design.

It never looked as good on the Voyagers, so I'm willing to wait and give it the benefit of the doubt, though you'd still have to drag me kicking and screaming to get me on-board one of those favelas on wheels for more than 10 minutes.

 

[E_Reeves]

LNWR or WMR liveries - just drop the yellow ends on the door panels. They look absolutely ridiculous.



At present I respectfully disagree, but that's because they haven't yet applied the frankly crap ribbon branding which, on the Pendos, has ruined a previously sleek design.

It never looked as good on the Voyagers, so I'm willing to wait and give it the benefit of the doubt, though you'd still have to drag me kicking and screaming to get me on-board one of those favelas on wheels for more than 10 minutes.

Or drop the green and have the whole front yellow?

 

[61653 HTAFC]

A waste of a post and a poor attempt at humour.

It raised a chuckle here, actually. Your post is more of a waste, I think.

To avoid the hypocrisy demonstrated above, the Northern livery would be classier if the white was replaced with black, as well as being easier to keep clean!

What do you mean that's not a slight change? It's only changing one colour!

 

[LOL The Irony]

To avoid the hypocrisy demonstrated above, the Northern livery would be classier if the white was replaced with black, as well as being easier to keep clean!

I think silver or gunmetal grey would be better.

 

[61653 HTAFC]

I think silver or gunmetal grey would be better.

Silver and grey trains are ten-a-penny, black would be a bit more exclusive... silver or grey with blue ends would be a bit too similar to TPE too.

 

[Peter Mugridge]

None of you have seen the new livery on 221 101 have you...?

It's got a 100% black front with a grey body.

 

[E_Reeves]

None of you have seen the new livery on 221 101 have you...?

It's got a 100% black front with a grey body.

But the black will be yellow soon... for a bit

 

[Sprinter156]

Inverting the ScotRail livery would be cool for Halloween. I like it

 

[broadgage]

A minor change that IMO would be an improvement would be use of a slightly brighter green for the new GWR livery.
It looks attractive in sunlight, but in dull conditions or under artificial light it looks very dull and dark.

(for reasons stated elsewhere, I don't think much of the interior of the 800s, but that is unrelated to the livery)

Any photoshop experts fancy a go at modifying an actual photo of an 800, or an HST, with a brighter green ?

 

[fowler9]

Inverting the ScotRail livery would be cool for Halloween. I like itView attachment 53443

Looks like a Predator sequal filmed in Scotland.

 

[class387]

Tried a Vivarail front on an LU D Stock yesterday:



EDIT: Added emergency exit door.

 

[K.o.R]

Tried a Vivarail front on an LU D Stock yesterday:

View attachment 53759

Very nice. I had to go and check to shake the "isn't that what they normally look like?" feeling.

Alas, it'd never pass without the front emergency door.

 

[class387]

Very nice. I had to go and check to shake the "isn't that what they normally look like?" feeling.

Alas, it'd never pass without the front emergency door.

Thank you!

Might have to try and put in the door tonight.

 

[class387]

Very nice. I had to go and check to shake the "isn't that what they normally look like?" feeling.

Alas, it'd never pass without the front emergency door.

Did the door, but it doesn't seem to look right with my Paint skills...

 

[K.o.R]

Honestly, if it wasn't for the... flat-ness of the colours giving it away, I wouldn't have noticed. Black lines is about all you can really see at a glance anyway

 

[jayiscupid]

For me there's something incomplete with the front of the Transport for Wales livery on the 175.

3 mins in paint and I think a red border under the lights improves the look.

 

[K.o.R]

In keeping with the Welsh flag, I think a thin green (probably slightly darker than the one on the flag) stripe along the bottom edge would look nice. Or a red one.

In any case the new livery is miles better than any of the ATW ones. Blech.

 

[RichmondCommu]

I would paint the whole blinkin lot blue and grey.

 

[superalbs]

I edited an Italian 'New Pendolino' into the Virgin Trains livery. This is more than a slight change I think though... :P

 

[AlexNL]

It suits the New Pendolino really, really well.

 

[class387]

I edited an Italian 'New Pendolino' into the Virgin Trains livery. This is more than a slight change I think though... :P
View attachment 54874

Very nice!

 

[K.o.R]

I edited an Italian 'New Pendolino' into the Virgin Trains livery. This is more than a slight change I think though... :P
View attachment 54874

Oh, I like that.

 

[Whistler40145]

So as the thread title suggests, what small tweaks to a livery would you do to a livery to make them look nicer?

A couple of mine:View attachment 39762
(185 with a more 360-based front end)
View attachment 39763
(Class 170 with no yellow above orange line)
(also, excuse the poor painting)

The 360 frontage would look good on a 185

 

[Whistler40145]

Here is what a 185 would look like without the yellow front (like on the TPE livery 68). I personally think it looks better without a yellow front (though I suspect I'm probably in the minority here)

That's quite effective

 

[Whistler40145]

I'm not a fan of predominantly white liveries, so I've been thinking of this livery for a while but after seeing this thread I decided to try and mock it up. As I said, I'm not the strongest in photoshop, and we're probably out of the realms of 'slight changes' here, but how about an inverted Azuma....

That would be great if Virgin West Coast didn't have Pendolinos