P-38 Lightning(s)

[Otterkins2]

Zamex does quite fine on his own. It's pretty awsome to see a bunch of guys get together for a collaberative effort though. Good on you guys for showing what a community effort can accomplish. I'd like to see more of this. Nice to see people pooling their efforts together to good effect.

[pkassak]

Thanks...Zamex is an excellent blueprint drawing entity Gammary, System-M or some others, including me can confirm. But he is getting better and better in preparing lines to be ready for painting...we call it modular system
Thanks Zamex!

[gamary]

Zamex and I started this thread, so we request to maintain it here is our progress...

Fair enough

I like your drawing. I find the colours a tad too dark, though?

I love Glacier Girl. Now there's a plane with a story to it!

[pkassak]

I find the colours a tad too dark, though?

I use color definitions from the color swatches on this site...to have it all the time the same...do you have some better RGB or CMYK definition tables??

UPDATE:

[gamary]

Not really, no.

[pkassak]

so what
I know that the new reconstructed planes have lighter olive drab color, but when you check original photos, it is darker...
Personally I think USAAF colors were not so "strictly" defined as RLM Colors...and also different weather conditions made it look different..

[JMSmith]

hi guys,

olive drab was one of the worst colours used, it was about as stable as nitroglyceryne.

by the way i ain't stopped, it's all Zamex fault, i thought he had drawn the front windscreen wrong! wasted most of last night checking, just to find out he was right, my own fault, i have known him long enough to know better

[JMSmith]

moved on a little,

not sure if i like this canopy!

[Zamex]

John, you heretic! How dare you checking after me!
Just joking, keep checking, more eyes see more. This just might help you a bit..

[gamary]

That wasn't a criticism, BTW, Peter. I generally (but not always) use the Chandelle guide to colours. But as you point out OD is not stable. And especially, colours are very subjective.

I've never really been interested in getting the colours exactly right, because I know it's impossible. Therefore, if I have to have colours which are not perfectly accurate, I might as well have ones that I like. I trade (unreachable IMO ) historical accuracy for (hopefully) aesthetic qualities... up to a certain point of course.