[WWI] CDL .. again

[rob]

Hi,

here's my 10c/tuppence worth  (NB: not at today's exchange rate)

when I'm doing CDL  I first go here:
http://www.misterkitusa.com/86cef806-4e13-436b-8b39-3245d47a6020-9.html

and get a JPG of the brand of CDL I want, Frence, British, German....

I then take that into Paint Shop Pro (can't afford Photoshop).

I then average it down to 1 colour, by reducing the jpg to 1x1 pixel then 
resizing it up to fill the whole screen.

I then select the right half of the screen and lighten it by a percentage based 
on the scale of the kit I'm building, to account for scale effect.  I work in 
48th scale, so I lighten by 15%.

I have the gamma set on my monitor (already done for you if you have a mac) to 
give true colours, so I mix the paint to suit the colour on the screen.  An 
alternative to this step is to make sure your printer is full of ink and 
calibrated properly then print the image  (0r just the lightened portion) on 
good photo quality paper and use that as your reference.

The printer option might be better if you are painting in a room wher your 
computer isn't, so you can judege the colour with the available light in that room.

This is worth doing every time, since the printed colour will fade a little over 
time.


Rob



Tom Mason wrote:
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> I only read it at one source which makes question its validity, reason I 
> asked.
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> T.O.M.
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Diego Fernetti" 
> <dfernet0 at rosario.gov.ar>
> To: "World War I Modeling Mailing List" <wwi at wwi-models.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 10:52 AM
> Subject: Re: [WWI] CDL .. again
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>>> All this about CDL brings a question to mind. I read somewhere that 
>>> some Fokker E. III looked grey because the fabric they used had tiny 
>>> black dots on it like  news print pictures. Any truth to this?
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>> First time I know of that. "Offset" camouflage! What I did read is 
>> that some early Tauben were covered in what was called "balloon 
>> fabric" which was a rubberized cloth, greyish in colour and very prone 
>> to catch dust and grime, giving the airframe an untidy appearance. I 
>> guess it must have been sticky?
>> D.
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