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Post by Ian Warren on Sept 15, 2015 16:10:34 GMT 12
I'll keep my eyeballs out for these Silver Corsairs, like the photos many peoples memory's fade, course we are not going to get more recent information so I guess 40 year old books are all we have to go on, what we needed was a digital camera and a step back in time, don't spose you have a time machine you need a Guinea Pig for in your back shed by any chance .. I have the camera
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Post by Dave Homewood on May 16, 2018 21:56:34 GMT 12
Mike Powell posted this to the Kiwi Model Builders Facebook page, with the following words: He's given permission for me to post it here. NZ5531 was based at Wigram in 1945-46 with the Central Flying School of the RNZAF.
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Post by Bruce on May 17, 2018 10:17:58 GMT 12
Colourised photo... by someone who wasn't aware of RNZAF roundel colours!
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on May 17, 2018 12:12:27 GMT 12
Yep.....that was exactly my thought when I saw that photograph.
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Post by Dave Homewood on May 17, 2018 20:02:03 GMT 12
It is an original handcolouring, of the old way, not digital. And yes they have mixed the red and the blue up on the roundel.
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raymic
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Post by raymic on May 18, 2018 10:04:01 GMT 12
Hi Dave Ref the Roundel colors, Im not so sure now that the Photo is incorrectly colorised. In the B/W photo of the plane at disposal in Rukuhia and also your own photo of it when it first arrived at Rukuhia ( thread 1/72 academy corsair NZ5531) the small centre is very dark corresponding to the Color photo? If it was RED centre and DARK blue outside wouldn't the BW photo look different even allowing for Sun fade? ps I'm no Photography expert....... Maybe the CFA had different colors? The plot thickens.......
Mike
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Post by camtech on May 18, 2018 11:24:09 GMT 12
The CFA? would not be permitted different colours on national insignia and would be very quickly sorted if they tried.
Different depths of colour often occur with the older types of film (can't recall but orthographic rings a bell) which changed the hue of colours when processed for black and white. This issue has been the bane of historians and modellers for years as we argue as to what colour it "actually" was. Also remember that colours fade and change their appearance on film.
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Post by saratoga on May 18, 2018 17:51:39 GMT 12
Maybe they were going for a Belgium look?.
Note they didn't have a go at the fin flash.
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Post by Dave Homewood on May 18, 2018 19:14:59 GMT 12
Exactly Saratoga, and the red of the fin flash is darker than the blue, so the colourist has mixed up the colours. CFS would not have had French or Belgian roundels.
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