Re: isc. lozenge
ENDYL@delphi.com
Tue, 12 Dec 1995 21:51:45 -0500 (EST)
>In the discussion of scale color it has been said that adding white
>to a color would change it too much, ie. red to pink. In "The
>Official Monogram painting Guide to luftwaffe Aircraft" they have a
>discussion on scale color and discuss this very matter. They state
>that as most camouflage colors are already of a low _chroma_, that is
>already on the gray end of the scale, white can be added without
>changing the hue of the color but only its intensity which is what we
>are trying to do. For brighter colors it would not work but that is
>something airliner and car modellers have to work out.
>
Very good point Doug. Modelers who paint Napoleonic figures and any figure
with lots of color will tell you that adding white to red gives not light-red
but pink. I haven't done any figures in recent years but I do remember having
fits with shading of the brighter colored uniforms.
To each his own.
Len
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