Well, I don't want to sound negative, but like some other products that have come out, I'm sure that there probably won't be any fix offered for these like some others. Does it represent the prototype, well, not quite. This is similar to one of the Consolidation models they did a couple of years back. The prototype had the bell in a different spot, and there was some other difference that was also noted(I think a Southern engine). There was no fix in that case. People did state that they should have moved the bell to where it should be.
These, well, it should have been something easy because of it not being something that is difficult to do. It's not a cast in problem, it's not something that would need a big amount of work to make it correctly, so we have what we got. Still scratching my head a bit on this as it just seems simpler than a color problem to me.