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Man, the arguments I've had over correct colors!
I've seen good friends not talk to one another for a year after an argument about US Navy Sea Blue ( used on WWII carriers ).
The only thing you can rely on is a color chip from the best source you can find. How good are those? Use your best judgement, it's equal part fanaticism and art.
Color photos are no good and paintings are certainly no good for real accuracy. Add 'scale factor' ( the fact that colors look different on different size models ) and you've got a real mess!
Look at the paining of the 'Normandie-Niemen' -9T earlier in the thread. It comes from a model kit. Look at the rivets. Hm, no rivets on the real airplane, tail or wings. Accurate? Nope. Colors? Good question! Look at the VVS site at the really strange Yak-7 with the 3-color looping pattern and tell me definitively that this scheme is not possible. Ha!
For instance, the airplane below is drawn from the color chips I got from the VVS web site I recommended.
This is a documented camo scheme. Looks wierd, eh?
How about this one for wierd:
Also a documented scheme with colors accurate from the chips...
Do your best research, go with your best guess and make one you like. I'm a fanatic model-builder with a predjudice for accuracy, but I can still appreciate good effort on the part of others.
Keep up the good work! Document well enough to get HTC to accept it, I'll guarantee I'll fly it...
Sometime in the next couple of days I'll scan some 3-view drawings to give you a guide, but I've got 3 sets of those that don't agree. I ultimately looked at photographs for a guide ( and to get a accurate count of rivets and Dzus fittings - the thingies that hold the cowlings on ). Accurate counts of rivets!?!? I *told* you I was a fanatic!
