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m1ks
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Just another bit on the BRG to explain myself.
I wasn't implying it was the wrong colour for the car and is indeed typical of many modern Astons, the first full side view you show does look paler than the aston colour shown on the race car and accessory sunglass holder though but then a lot of that is down to colour representation on PC monitors, now mines calibrated with a hardware and software device as I do photo related stuff and accurate colour is important as what you print needs to be what you see on screen.
(get a multi varied picture on your screen, print it and see what I mean, without calibration the colours are all over the shop) of course this doesn't fix incorrectly calibrated and profiled images already on the net.
However, I digress.
I merely meant that when I hear BRG, I think brunswick shade solid colour, clearly theres been much poetic license on the shade over the years, anyone whos a fan of 'the prisoner', (the original not the travesty currently airing), will notice that the BRG Lotus 7 n the final episode, fallout, was a slightly paler than the 'of old' BRG, (interestingly most people incorrectly assume the Lotus in the prisoner was BRG / yellow, it was in fact Black / Yellow in all but the last episode as lotus had sold the demonstrator used in every episode prior to the final one hence the quick mock up and another pointless but interesting point is the fella delivering the Lotus in fallout and giving it a quick polish is Graham Nearns of Caterham who'd taken over Lotus' 7 production, he'd driven the car to the studio himself which had been hastily prepared as the demonstrator had been sold abroad).
I'm Planning on doing a prisoner themed 7 on the Tamiya Lotus 7 kit I have waiting and fully expect to be told frequently I have the wrong colour when it's painted Black / Yellow.
But anyway, my comment was merely that I don't particularly like the chosen colour, correct or not, (have to say my favourite Aston colour is the dark gunmetal grey they do but know it's not correct for a racing model)
Ultimately i'll still be following this build with interest as I do like Car and Bike models as said and when alls said and done if you like the colour then that's all the matters.
I wasn't implying it was the wrong colour for the car and is indeed typical of many modern Astons, the first full side view you show does look paler than the aston colour shown on the race car and accessory sunglass holder though but then a lot of that is down to colour representation on PC monitors, now mines calibrated with a hardware and software device as I do photo related stuff and accurate colour is important as what you print needs to be what you see on screen.
(get a multi varied picture on your screen, print it and see what I mean, without calibration the colours are all over the shop) of course this doesn't fix incorrectly calibrated and profiled images already on the net.
However, I digress.
I merely meant that when I hear BRG, I think brunswick shade solid colour, clearly theres been much poetic license on the shade over the years, anyone whos a fan of 'the prisoner', (the original not the travesty currently airing), will notice that the BRG Lotus 7 n the final episode, fallout, was a slightly paler than the 'of old' BRG, (interestingly most people incorrectly assume the Lotus in the prisoner was BRG / yellow, it was in fact Black / Yellow in all but the last episode as lotus had sold the demonstrator used in every episode prior to the final one hence the quick mock up and another pointless but interesting point is the fella delivering the Lotus in fallout and giving it a quick polish is Graham Nearns of Caterham who'd taken over Lotus' 7 production, he'd driven the car to the studio himself which had been hastily prepared as the demonstrator had been sold abroad).
I'm Planning on doing a prisoner themed 7 on the Tamiya Lotus 7 kit I have waiting and fully expect to be told frequently I have the wrong colour when it's painted Black / Yellow.
But anyway, my comment was merely that I don't particularly like the chosen colour, correct or not, (have to say my favourite Aston colour is the dark gunmetal grey they do but know it's not correct for a racing model)
Ultimately i'll still be following this build with interest as I do like Car and Bike models as said and when alls said and done if you like the colour then that's all the matters.
