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Colours, hues, contrast etc. are very difficult. In architectural training you were taught about the how you can be totally deceived. Choose a colour from a swatch place that colour on a complete wall & it looks totally different from your perception from the swatch. Wow that says a lot from what has been mentioned before about scale.
Colours & contrast change remarkably through out the day depending on the white & black light. Black will look blacker or slightly grey at certain times & white will look whiter or grey.
In artificial lights then yellow lights or blue lights will totally change the result.
In colour & black & white photography the result will be different due to the above & subjects in some instances look totally different. A lot will also depend on the state of the print. Poorly developed & fixed. Fade due to age. Reproduced it will not look the same as the print or as the print was when developed originally.
If you look in your living room into the meeting of two walls. The same colour will look different one wall to the other. Depending on conditions they may even look a totally different colour.
In essence a Lancaster in the summer compared to the winter will have a different black complicated by if it is sunny or dull. Also when the Lancaster came out of the factory black would have looked very black. But give it 3 months in the sun & it will look drab & grey. Driving through the air at near 300 mph then its coat would have become worn & dull with black looking more grey. Recoat your living room 3 years after with the same colour & paint, result you think have I got the right colour.
All that no help at all except it seems it is up to every modeler to make up his own mind as to his preference & who is to say who is right or wrong.
My Lancaster certainly looks very much too black. !!???!!. But then it is brand new out of the factory.
Laurie
Colours & contrast change remarkably through out the day depending on the white & black light. Black will look blacker or slightly grey at certain times & white will look whiter or grey.
In artificial lights then yellow lights or blue lights will totally change the result.
In colour & black & white photography the result will be different due to the above & subjects in some instances look totally different. A lot will also depend on the state of the print. Poorly developed & fixed. Fade due to age. Reproduced it will not look the same as the print or as the print was when developed originally.
If you look in your living room into the meeting of two walls. The same colour will look different one wall to the other. Depending on conditions they may even look a totally different colour.
In essence a Lancaster in the summer compared to the winter will have a different black complicated by if it is sunny or dull. Also when the Lancaster came out of the factory black would have looked very black. But give it 3 months in the sun & it will look drab & grey. Driving through the air at near 300 mph then its coat would have become worn & dull with black looking more grey. Recoat your living room 3 years after with the same colour & paint, result you think have I got the right colour.
All that no help at all except it seems it is up to every modeler to make up his own mind as to his preference & who is to say who is right or wrong.
My Lancaster certainly looks very much too black. !!???!!. But then it is brand new out of the factory.
Laurie
