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| Subject: | Re: Panzer Gray? |  |
| Date: | Nov 10, 2005 |
| From: | Christopher C. Tew | |
Mike -
A word of caution: several "color" photos, perticularly ones appearing in Signal, were actually colorized, B&W photos that were" analogily" painted in color to enhance their propaganda value or just to make the mag more visually appealing. You can sometimes tell by the uniform appearance of skin and vehicle tones between multiple examples in the same shot.
Some Panzer Grau paints are too light, at least to my eyes, like the old Aeromaster color. Your Tiger I seems pretty close to this, but as other say, it could have been in summer combat too long without time to refresh its paint scheme ;-)>!
Tony Greenland has a formula for improving the Tamiya color that includes adding some blue - sorry but all my books are packed away just now, but maybe someone else can find it for you. Both the Tamiya original and TG's are darker without approaching the exaggerated blue/black end. If my memory serves, the old Humbrol colo(u)r was nearer to that very dark shade.
Best,
CTew |
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 | Panzer Gray? - Mike Tittel - Nov 9, 2005 |
| . . . Re: Panzer Gray? - Roy Chow - Nov 9, 2005 |
| . . . Re: Panzer Gray? - Paul A. Owen - Nov 9, 2005 |
| . . . . . . Re: Panzer Gray? - Mike Tittel - Nov 9, 2005 |
| . . . . . . . . . Don't sweat the Panzer Grey - Nemanja Pavlovic - Nov 9, 2005 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . Agreed - the exact shade varies - Michael Withington - Nov 10, 2005 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . More info - Michael Withington - Nov 10, 2005 |
| . . . Re: Panzer Gray? - Christopher C. Tew - Nov 10, 2005 |
| . . . . . . Re: Panzer Gray? - Mike Tittel - Nov 10, 2005 |
| . . . . . . . . . Human perception - Roy Chow - Nov 10, 2005 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Human perception - Mike Tittel - Nov 10, 2005 |
| . . . Re: Panzer Gray? - Glenn Bartolotti - Nov 10, 2005 |
| . . . . . . Re: Panzer Gray? - mike Tittel - Nov 10, 2005 |
| . . . Re: Panzer Gray? - Mark Austen - Nov 12, 2005 |
| . . . . . . Re: Panzer Gray? - Mike Tittel - Nov 12, 2005 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: Panzer Gray? - Mark Austen - Nov 12, 2005 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Panzer Gray? - Mike - Nov 13, 2005 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Panzer Gray? [IMG] - Mark Austen - Nov 13, 2005 |
| . . . Re: Panzer Gray? - Marc Brandes - Nov 13, 2005 |
| . . . . . . Re: Panzer Gray? - Mike Tittel - Nov 13, 2005 |
| . . . Re: Panzer Gray? - Mike Gregory - Nov 17, 2005 |
| . . . . . . Re: Panzer Gray? - mike Tittel - Nov 17, 2005 |
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