[WWI] "Accurate colours"

[Brad & Merville]

Absolutely!  As always, Dicta Ira.

Brad

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Christopher Malany" <cmm-saj at snet.net>
To: "World War I Modeling Mailing List" <wwi at wwi-models.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 03, 2007 10:10 AM
Subject: Re: [WWI] "Accurate colours"


> Hi, Brad:
>
>> The same thing goes for PC10.  Lately I've been
>> re-reading a lot of the classics, William Fry, Cecil
>> Lewis, Arthur Lee, etc...  I've found at least three
>> accounts of RFC aircraft, SEs, SPADs, in the field,
>> described as "chocolate" in colour.
>
> On the other hand, Hank Burden described the PC10 on
> his S.E.5a as "green."  All of which supports the
> points made by contributors to this thread already:
> If the participants of the Great War had difficulty
> characterising a color they saw for hours daily, any
> modeler faces real challenges in the search for the
> absolute, authentic color - like a quest for the Holy
> Grail, without the killer rabbit.
>
> The important thing is that we continue to be
> interested in these questions, and keep looking for
> what we feel are plausible interpretations of the
> actual colors, even in hardware stores.  For me, this
> is part of the real fun of the hobby!
>
>> This would make an interesting model for the IMPS
>> judges to look at: Von Richthofen's PINK
>> Albatros???!!?? Now all we need to figure out is
>> WHICH colour pink.
>
> That's a no-brainer.  The authentic color is Revlon's
> lacquer nail polish, #MvR 122 - "Rittmeister Coral
> Blush."  Next question?
>
> - Chris Malany
>
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