[WWI] Scale black

[Andy Bannister]

And Aeromaster annoyed me no end by trying to incorporate scale colour into
their decal sheets, the result being orange hinomarus and British roundels
with "brick pink" centres! Funny, they still seemed to do black codes in
black though...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: wwi-bounces at wwi-models.org 
> [mailto:wwi-bounces at wwi-models.org] On Behalf Of Crawford Neil
> Sent: 20 November 2006 10:04
> To: World War I Modeling Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [WWI] Scale black
> 
> 
> >I'll cite again my examples of a dark gray John Player's 
> Special Lotus
> and a
> >Quantas Airlines 747 in pale red and off-white - how odd would they
> look?
> >And if you take it to the nth degree then 1/700 scale ships would be
> pretty
> >much white overall.
> >All just my very opinionated opinion on the subject of course... Andy
> 
> 
> Andy's right, I've tried scale effect on red, and it just 
> looks silly (pink!). Another silly thing I've seen is a 
> beautifully weathered Boeing 747, but with decals for cockpit 
> windows. When going for realism, it's important to go all the 
> way. (or at least 90% of the way) /Neil
>