Trenitalia in HO: Addio Adriatica E402B Frecciabianca / Goodbye Adriatic coast E402B Frecciabianca

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For some time, Trenitalia have been running express Frecciabianca services on the Adriatic Coast using loco hauded stock top 'n tailed using E402b electric locos- classic superpower. However, from the December 2021 timetable, these services went over to ETR460 Pendolinos. I think that there are now only one or two loco halued Frecciabianca services left running on Mainland Italy. However, there are five coach mini-Frecciabianca expresses running in Sicily (top and tailed by E464s), which have just started running.
I was a bit sad that these formations were stopping, as there was something quite exciting about the double powered rakes, the classic loco hauled stock, and the stylish FB livery. Luckily- they can live on if you have the right rolling stock. I put together this video using my stock.
Firstly, the inaccuracies- my Frecciabianca coaches don't have the red doors (the livery was adapted like this in the last couple of years). I don't really want to repaint the doors, as I prefer the original livery. Secondly, the FB livery uses XMPR grey as a base (note white as Intercity Sun). There is a bit of a disagreement amongst the model makers as to which is correct. Acme settle on a creamier shade. The Puravest XMPR grey I use for repaints matches this (though is slightly more cream). Lima prefer a greyer version for their Gran Confort coaches, but their recent UIC-Z FB coaches are in a duller shade of grey still. Unfortunately, you can definately spot the difference, but I don't really fancy correcting it!
The rake requires two E402bs that are very well matched, otherwise you end up with an . pile of coaches! My best matched locos are HR2768- Rivarossi E402.135 in InterCity sun colours, paired with a bit of a "mashup"- it is a Rivarossi XMPR liveried E402.133 display sample body I picked up. It came with only one end! I found a replacement end (after years of searching on Ebay) and paired it with a chassis from an original Rivarossi E402b release (non digital, with traditional bulb lighting). The XMPR livery has been modified with the green / red logo, the body repainted in Puravest XMPR grey and green under the window adjusted to XMPR green. It is still missing a few detail from the roof, but is not mostly complete.
The rake is: Lima Expert Gran Confort 1st class; Roco Eurofima 2nd class repainted by me (this should be a UIC-Z, but I didn't have quite enough coaches); UIC-Z BHR (there was at least one of these operational on the route); 2x ACME UIC-Z (one ex 1st class- there were a couple of these still around); 3x Rivarossi/Lima UIC-Z coaches (1x repainted by me and 2x new coaches in the dull grey).

To accompany this, I ran another classic loco hauled Adriatic express (from approx July 2020). It is hauled by my Frecciabianca liveried Riva E402b. This unfortunately runs faster all my other E402bs, so couldn't be used for the main rake. The only inaccuracy here is that the loco shouldn't have the Frecciabianca logos.
Here is a rake close to the one I am representing    • INTERCITY GIORNO TARANTO-MILANO EFFET...   There was a video of the exact rake, but I lost track of it.
The rake is: 1x Lima UIC-Z 1st class repainted in InterCity Sun Colours (a handful of unrefitted coaches have been repainted for these services); classic 1st series Gran Confort saloon in XMPR colours; ACME UIC-Z BH in XMPR colours; 4x Lima UIC-Z coaches in IC Sun colours (1is ex-first class, whilst another still has the Frecciabianca roof paint- this variant seemed to be around until approx the end of 2021).

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