[WWI] Masking Spads

[John Biskupski]

You are forgetting that you have color vision, which wasn't invented until, I believe, the 1940's or '50's (depending on which side of the international date line you were on). In black and white, all WWI aircraft were nearly invisible.
   
  John Biskupski

Jim Landon <thegreatlandoni at hotmail.com> wrote:
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<<why not 4 colour camo? Gee, even 2 colours would have hidden the plane 
pretty well. But no, they had to use five bleedin' colours. Tonerres!>>
 
I've always been dumbfounded by the whole camo thing. Seems to me as soon as they added the big bright roundels, insignias, numbers and stripes it defeated the whole camo job. In every photo I've ever seen of WWI planes in flight or on the ground I CAN STILL SEE THEM CLEARLY.
 
Jim
 

> From: dfernet0 at rosario.gov.ar
> To: wwi at wwi-models.org
> Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 09:01:04 -0300
> Subject: Re: [WWI] Masking Spads
> 
> N!
> > I use alternative 2, and I use Tamiya tape which I cut to shape. I've hand 
> > painted,
> > but found it difficult to get a good cover, and nice edges at the same 
> > time, Diego
> > has done it succesfully, but then he's a nutter.
> 
> What else, in this land of sauvages?
> Et barbares aussi.
> Things is that the real Spads were brush painted. If you use good brushes, 
> well thinned enamel paint and a good measure of patience to paint as many 
> coats as required, chances are that you'll end with a decent camo scheme.
> You'll end cursing whoever devised a 5 colour camouflage, but that's 
> entirely a different matter.
> D.
> why not 4 colour camo? Gee, even 2 colours would have hidden the plane 
> pretty well. But no, they had to use five bleedin' colours. Tonerres! 
> 


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