I was just about to mention the 165s - Unfortunately some of those are not as well done either. Like the Desiro fitment I have also noticed materials used as packing being the plug socket. Then, and whether or not this is as a result of vandalism I don't know but I've noticed more of the plastic wall panels being either cracked or split as of late emanating from where the plug socket is.
Still, I wonder how Siemens will be coping with the layout changes in the 450s and getting around the window locations. It can't be as bad and as bizarre as GWRs seat swapping in the 2 car "Bristol" turbos, with the oddly and very cheaply done conversion of the former first class section - I had one of the so far converted units yesterday, New carpet, standard class seats. No cleanup of the walls so you could makeout the outline of the old seats in the dirt, The overhead reading lights just had their bulbs removed. Doesn't paint a good impression of First Group!
What I don't get with First and First Group in general is that it's not the first time we've seen this from them. It's like they seem to have an allergy to their own branding. On the bus side it took them many years to finally settle with "Barbie 2". They then went and replaced it with the so called 2012 "Olympia" scheme - which was only supposed to be applied to new or refurbished vehicles only. That message got lost, the whole fleet starts painfully moving over to it and you ended up with situations like SWR and GWR - Think old tatty Olympians/Darts/Presidents turning out in the new livery, with their old scruffy interiors. A few years down the road, Olympia get's modified and now first cant make up it's mind again - does it want to repaint vehicles or not, or come up with a localised version of Olymipa or just do a Kernow and bin it all together.
On the railways it's the same too - I know some didn't like it, but I did. The Lambie-Nairn designed Dynamic Lines. Finally, 2007 Sees First come up with a smart modern and co-hesive brand across it's TOCs. There were some small revisions - TPE and FGW took "Dynamic Lines", FGW Modified it for the West Country with it's "Local Lines" scheme, FCC went for the "City Lights" given it's area of operating, and Hull modified theirs again. As scheme that simply took the First Group colours then ran with it with 4 smart schemes. Just as Stagecoach does with it's TOCs, and to some previous extent so did Arriva. Then in 2015 they decide that they didn't want to appear to be part of First Group and started the, as of 3 years later, messy GWR rebrand - Of course followed by TPE, Hull Trains and now SWR. GWR Seems to have tried to keep its drab livery fairly similar - only changing the location of the silly sash. TPE seems to have been a hit and thankfully hasn't been revised yet, SWR seems to have fallen into the First Group trap.
Hopefully SWR will now find itself a livery it can be happy with. Personally rather than having the silvery stripy diagonals, I'd have just painted the bodyside Silver than light grey (as per 159005) - As per Wessex's Silver 158s or the equally similar Chiltern Railways livery. I won't deny though I'm still not overly keen on the SWR Scheme or the little Ski Chalet style logo. But, after nearly 11 months of First/MTR operation of SWR, the amount of SWT branding that remains across the fleet and network does leave SWR in a poor and confusing light.