No excuse apart from colour scales as well! (I'll get me coat)
Moved to the models thread- let's keep anything to do with scale modelling in here -Mike
Bluebird & Other Scale Models
Re: 'Bluebird Blue'- The Answer!
Steve Holter, UK and France, and sometimes reality....................
Re: 'Bluebird Blue'- The Answer!
Read both and I don't know if I am any the wiser! Still the one you have is 1:1 so no problem there!
Steve Holter, UK and France, and sometimes reality....................
Re: 'Bluebird Blue'- The Answer!
Thanks Mike - interesting! Naturally a colour that has no direct equivalent in any of the model paint ranges... but it is remarkably close to FS 15050 (Blue Angels Blue) and I think if you combined Humbrol 15 (Midnight Blue) with Humbrol 104 (Oxford Blue), 50:50, you'd get a close match too.
Re: Bluebird Models
Many thanks, Mike and Bill, for the sticky color thread. I really like the comparison photos taken under different lights.
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Re: 'Bluebird Blue'- The Answer!
Damien, I think you need to get out more, mate.but it is remarkably close to FS 15050 (Blue Angels Blue) and I think if you combined Humbrol 15 (Midnight Blue) with Humbrol 104 (Oxford Blue), 50:50, you'd get a close match too.
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Re: 'Bluebird Blue'- The Answer!
Remind me whose diary entry goes on in great detail about the inner workings of a fuel pumpRenegadenemo wrote:Damien, I think you need to get out more, mate.
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Can't argue with that, but then you know I never get out and look what's happened to me. Quick, get away while you still have time!Remind me whose diary entry goes on in great detail about the inner workings of a fuel pump
I'm only a plumber from Cannock...
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'It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.' W.C. Fields.
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Re: Bluebird Models
Opinions on the colour then...
(and yes I know the intakes will need a different shade, and the hull isn't humped and the nose is wrong)
(and yes I know the intakes will need a different shade, and the hull isn't humped and the nose is wrong)
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Re: Bluebird Models
Looks a lovely model you have there (once you have finished it) 
Re: Bluebird Models
Having spent the morning struggling with my Speedline K7, I have to say that I am happy that the rebuild of the real thing has confirmed that she was built lopsided.
At least mine is going to be accurate in one repect, then.
At least mine is going to be accurate in one repect, then.
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