(02 Mar 2020, 6:37 pm)Dan wrote The blue bumper looks a lot cleaner, but seems to deviate away from the standard set by UK Bus? There's another bus in Cumbria with 'panda eyes'. Placement of the Stagecoach logo on the O/S, and indeed the fleet number font/colour on the front, also seems to differ between the two repainted Enviro400s in the Newcastle fleet. Even the wheelchair logos on the front destination are different.

Whilst these details won't be noticed by an ordinary customer, and the point about the vinyl placement is being extremely nitpicky, I'm very surprised UK Bus haven't set specific guidelines on this kind of thing, given it's a major re-brand and a big step-change in their corporate identity (whether we like it or not!) I do recall seeing something of a guideline sheet when the new identity was first revealed, so perhaps (even more surprisingly) local regions aren't sticking to the set guidelines?

What many enthusiasts have seen, is all that the paint shops have seen. 

There's currently only "official spec" for the Enviro400MMC and Enviro300. The E400 repaints that North East have done are taken from the branding magazine interpretation, and was never supposed to be used... and with that, was why Carlisle painted 15698 the way it is - with a bit of additional experimentation, plus was done prior to the official specs landing - so may be the last bad panda, depending on the MD. 

A kick up the proverbial and some ironing out of repaint execution is ongoing at Group level, so hopefully developments provide more guidance. When Best Impressions commissioned 'swoops' there were specs produced for every bus in the UK Bus fleet done for the brand rollout, so quite frustrating that hasn't happened yet.

There's been plenty plowed into The Case for Change programme, material and staff roadshows commercially and at Group level, but on the face of it has only produced a couple of speculative paint specs for further down the chain at division level. It's all still in its early days of the rollout I suppose, touchwood it's ironed out....