David,

Why not wait for the ARm 216 in the D-311 "Woerthersee" Set 2 (cat no 46139) that LS Models announced in 2010? That Halbspeisewagen is described as Cobaltblue in the prospectus, even though to my knowledge this is incorrect for the period, it should be blue/red ("Kakadu"). And hopefully LS Models will soon be finished releasing the similar blue/beige models so they can get on with the (more interesting, at least to me) coaches in classic early Ep IV livery.

EDIT: I must correct myself. As reported on the webpage http://www.eisenbahn-harzvorland.de/htm/arm_216_1.htm#farbe only 14 of the 16 ARm 216 on the roster of the DB were repainted in blue/red starting in 1967, the other two were not. So the all-blue model announced by LS Models is not incorrect, it is merely a rarity.

Tom