Bluebird Models

[Mike Bull]

No excuse apart from colour scales as well! (I'll get me coat)

Or does it?

Argument for-

http://www.009.cd2.com/members/how_to/colour.htm

Argument against-

http://www.warpedplastic.co.uk/aircraft/articles-reviews/scalecolour-rant.htm

[f1steveuk]

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!

[DamienB]

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.

[Antoine]

Many thanks, Mike and Bill, for the sticky color thread. I really like the comparison photos taken under different lights.

[Renegadenemo]

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.

Damien, I think you need to get out more, mate.

[Mike Bull]

Many thanks, Mike and Bill, for the sticky color thread. I really like the comparison photos taken under different lights.

No worries- it's nice to put the definitive answer out there at last. I've left the actual colour posting on the top of the forum as a locked sticky thread, seeing as it's THE faq, and any discussion of the colour in modelling terms etc can run on in here.

[Mike Bull]

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.

...or you could remove any doubt, wander into any auto factors and just get as many cans of RAL 5009 made up as required!

[DamienB]

Damien, I think you need to get out more, mate.

Remind me whose diary entry goes on in great detail about the inner workings of a fuel pump

[Renegadenemo]

Remind me whose diary entry goes on in great detail about the inner workings of a fuel pump

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!

[DamienB]

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)