Al,

If your Ep.II Thunderboxes come without fixed rectangular number boards and DR round eagle badges (or you can paint over them) go to it!

The DR West was largely anonymous in Ep.IIe (?) until the DB was founded in 1949, except on goods wagons (DR Brit.-US Zone, Zone Fr., URSS-Zone, if I remember aright). Secondary line passenger stock didn't get the DB-Keks transfers until the late 1950s (see books of early colour photos). Greens varied between RAL brown green, bottle green and DB's later chrome-oxide green, with vast differences of weathering.

David