[WWI] Scale black

[Andy Bannister]

>
> From: "Mike Kavanaugh" <mike_kavanaugh at operamail.com>
> Date: 2006/11/23 Thu AM 02:00:11 GMT
> To: wwi at wwi-models.org
> Subject: [WWI] Scale black
>
> Andy and Iban:
>
> Enough already, you two!!  When you're up there getting shot up, eyes
watering, goggles
> and face smeared with castor oil, engine keeps stopping and guns keep
jamming, the smell of leaking fuel worrying you no end, flak all over the
place, the last damn
> thing you are concerned about is how your aircraft would look modelled in
scale black.
> You just hope you can outlast the headwinds to get home, land in one
piece, puke
> your guts out and make it to the outhouse before you mess your pants . . .
. if
> you haven't already.
>
> Really, not to denigrate the topic. . . there certainly are valid points,
but . . .
> You've taken this to outer space, what's next?  Alternate universes?  That
ought to
> really open it up!  ;-)  The foregoing is just to stir the pot and
generate some acrimony.  Things are dull, but not as nitpicking as this is
getting.
>
> I figure if the pilots didn't care, why should I?
>
> Mike

Sorry Mike, I was under the impression that that was exactly my point! See:
"I think we've done this to death and it's getting beyond pedantic" as well
as "I'm not interested in trying to emulate an effect that is so subtle it
isn't consciously noticeable on my models. For those that are, knock
yerselves out and enjoy" Or was that not clear enough? How about "trying to
reproduce the effects of hypothetical atmospheric conditions in model form
is complete folly!!" Better?

Andy