[WWI] Scale black

[Andy Bannister]

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> [mailto:wwi-bounces at wwi-models.org] On Behalf Of iban
> Sent: 19 November 2006 02:57
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> Subject: Re: [WWI] Scale black
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to compare it to your example, you have to have at least 50 miles 
between you and mountains before they fade to a really nice blue.  at 
1:700 scale, you'd have to be standing 360 feet away from your ship 
model for the equivalent "fade to blue" effect you were extrapolating 
out to the nth degree.  clearly nobody's talking about anything anywhere 
near that extreme, but rather, a colour effect about 1/360th that intense.

iban.

Without getting into meterology and the science of atmospherics (which I
have only a layman's knowledge of anyway), the colour of our atmosphere is
due to, amongst other things, the particles in it, not the air itself.
Therefore to say that things always fade to blue isn't necessarily true. If
there is haze or smog present things may fade with a gray or brown hue. On
an overcast day your mountains would have a gray tint rather than blue. On a
bright blue winter day (which is pretty rare in the UK!) you may get a fade
to blue but a hot summer day would often have an increased level of haze.
And as you say, it takes a lot of distance to create a noticeable effect
anyway.
Andy