Thursday, July 7, 2022

 


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  1. As someone who was quite fond of constructing model aircraft when I was very young, I can attest that the third option is absolutely 100% dead-on-balls accurate!

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    1. We all did and we all know.

      Didja know the mil spec for olive drab allows for black, near every shade of brown, tan, green from forest green to yellow green?

      I owned a WWII liason aircraft plus worked at a military museum. I learned such arcane facts.
      Another is light blue was the original color of insignia on WWII US Army vehicles.

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  2. Hadn't seen this one before.

    The version of that that I *have* seen before has the woman on the left side of the left-hand palette (with all the multitudes of color names) and a man on the right (with the sane number of color names). No second palette at all.

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  3. Tell me about it. Building models has become a real pain because a person can't find the colors they need to be accurate, and if he can, it's too friggin' expensive.

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  4. As the wife of a lifelong model-builder, this is correct.

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  5. Judging by the current TV adverts it must be an old graphic since there's no African-American pointing at a Black is Beautiful chart or Gay pointing at a rainbow flag.

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  6. I’d like to see a representation of the difference between what women and men see. It’s been documented that women see more colors than men. Due to having more “cones” than “rods” compared to men.

    -Frank

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  7. Pfffttt... check out the variations & discussions about the "correct" shade of Dunkelgelb. The German dark yellow used as an armor color from 1943-45.

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  8. US NAVY ships are painted in "Measures", as in Measure 32 Haze Gray.

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