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400 shinkansen third "blue" livery?


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I am aware the 400 shinkansen existed in 2 liveries, namely the gray / green livery with "400" on the side (the original livery) and the newer Tsubasa livery with green band and new logo, similar to the "old" livery of the E3 series. However, TOMIX also sells a third livery, identical to the "newer" Tsubasa livery but the green replaced with Blue. Did this livery actually exist? It isn't mentioned on the japanese entry for the 400 shinkansen on Hobbysearch or on the japanese Wikipedia entry for the 400 series.

 

Furthermore, I read that one 400 shinkansen car is preserved. Anyone know if & where it is exhibited?

 

Here is the third livery in question:

https://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10015528

 

and a bit more high resolution picture here:

https://www.amazon.co.jp/Nゲージ車両-400系-山形新幹線-つばさ・新塗装-92733/dp/B0004DMI4Y

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57 minutes ago, Yavianice said:

Furthermore, I read that one 400 shinkansen car is preserved. Anyone know if & where it is exhibited?

In theory it's in the railway museum in Omiya, but i'm not sure if it's exhibited or in storage.

 

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Appearantly this is a relatively old model, from 2001. I found a picture of it in the Tomix 2001 catalogue, however it is too small to be able to read anything:
https://ameblo.jp/108782108782/entry-12118117045.html (5th picture on the page). Maybe someone owns that catalogue and could take a better picture?

The "blue" didn't actually replace the green part, but the gray one (below the green line) and happens to be the same color as the bluish gray on the early E1 Max livery. As I haven't found any pictures of the 400 series with that livery I would assume they made a mistake and accidently painted the model with the E1's color palette.

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