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Broithe
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Even with colour films, there's often a good variation. And even looking at it directly with your own eyes, it depends on the light you're seeing under - and then you need to consider the light that you will see the model under - and there is a strange aspect of "scale" to colours - even using the exact paint can "look wrong" in the end. Looking 'right' may be more important than being correct. It's a minefield.
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Two (different, unfortunately) Spitfires - note the yellow outer ring on the fuselage roundel and the red (forward) stripe on the fin flash. Ortho- Pan- Also, the blues have quite a difference, too. The fin flash appears to have the colours reversed between the shots, but RAF is always red at the front, blue at the back. Guessing colours from B&W with no reference points is a dodgy game.
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Without a known reference colour in the picture, it can be difficult to be sure - in general, older is ortho- and younger is pan-, but there was a lot of overlap time. Yellow is the most awkward colour - it can be dark or light. As you can see from the two pictures, you have little chance of being sure, unless there's something in the shot that you can be confident of. You could have two B&W pictures of the same yellow stripe and see one as dark and one as light on the final print, yet the engine would look the same grey in each picture.
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Narrow Gauge in the Rockies not quite
Broithe replied to Mayner's topic in US / Canadian Railway Modelling
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If the issue is with B&W pictures, it can be a matter of whether Ortho- or Pan- film was in used. Yellows came out very differently depending on which was used. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panchromatic_film https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthochromasia
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I wouldn't leave you Hyundai.
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I'm tempted to say Velox to it all now.
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Well Said! This thread needs to return to its original Focus.
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As a Moderator, surely you are the Manta put a stop to it?
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Excellent! Ascona say that, as well.
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You should probably stay there until 'they' say you can come out.
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Dangerously political there - twenty minutes in the bin for you!
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Amusingly, Twitter has offered to translate this for me - from Danish.
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Easily done.... (Saturday was the 1st in 1867, I remember it well.)
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Excellent - we have it in the book - http://irishrailwaymodeller.com/showthread.php/5891-Sleaford-Exhibition-Lincolnshire?highlight=sleaford - but for the 3rd of June...
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A bit of discussion from the past - http://irishrailwaymodeller.yuku.com/topic/50/Track-inspection-vehicles?page=1#.WL13q4Hyhpg
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The Dapol device is quite good, especially if you're running DCC, when you can run the cleaner at full power whilst propelling it slowly around the track via a separately controlled loco - with DC, getting a suitable compromise of speed of the cleaning disc and time spent on each part of the track is difficult.
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Indeed, but not to hard to bodge up something similar enough... There may be something to be said for two pads - the leading one wet and the trailing one drying.
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Behold the CMX track cleaner - a brass tank for holding the fluid and providing the weight.
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I quite like the sound from metal wheels - it sounds 'right' - to me. Any train will have metal wheels somewhere, if only just those on the loco, and so, if you have shorting issues at points, etc., then that will probably happen anyway and it would be better to sort that out. The dirt aspect does seem to be exacerbated by plastic wheels.
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And a rather more dramatic one on the big island. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-39144133
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Merrion Gates again this morning.
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And another.
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I hope it wasn't this realistic... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-39124787
