[WWI] "Scale Effect"

[Shane Weier]

Joe says

 

> Moral of the story is who the heck cares what shade of this or shade of that 
> they were, no matter what we do our color will never trueley be correct 
> unless we mix and paint the aircraft at the same place the photo was taken 
> and at the same time of day. so why do people argue over something noone has 
> control over anyways its silly.

 

Absolutely.

 

Let's abandon any attempt to make replicas of the original, and just whip out a can of emerald green every time we need a green, cream house paint for CDL, chocolate brown for all those brown shades and so on.

 

Heaven help anyone enjoying trying to pin down *what* shade some of these colours were. 

Apparently the only way to enjoy the hobby is to agree that *nothing* matters.

 

Sorry, this is a bullshit attitude. People argue over colours because they enjoy the discussion, or simply enjoy the chase after information that may well no longer exist but certainly won't be found if no-one looks. 

 

There are people enjoying this hobby who do no more than glue together a kit, paint it with the manufacturer's recommended paint (or whatever they have that is close enough) and enjoy every minute.

 

There are people who build one model a year, or less, because they *enjoy* tracking down and confirming every detail to whatever level of certainty is possible.

 

In between are people like me, who enjoy the chase for one subject, and can't give a damn about another, so build to whatever standards they set themselves on their own internal and sometimes random basis.

 

The moral of the story is that "who the heck cares" may well be almost everyone on the list, or almost no one, but they are listees too, and not to be discouraged from their enjoyment.

 

IMHO of course.

 

Shane
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