[WWI] "Accurate colours"

[Diego Fernetti]

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.  Of course there are many shades of 'chocolate' but 
>few, if any of them, incorporate green.

Stale chocolate?
Too true, to me PC10 is a sort of a brownish colour, and under certain 
lighting conditions can mix to the surrounding drab colours of the terrain, 
like the churned mud of the frontline or the green fields of the back areas. 
Some fileds can look bluish or yellow in the distance, however they're green 
when seen up close. My guess is that the greenish cast of PC10 was an 
atmospheric effect.

>   Incidentally William Fry describes picking up an all white SPAD (a VII I 
>think) at the depot which he flew in that condition until ordered to paint 
>it.

Check Neil Crawford's Spad VII build on Internet modeler
D.

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