Ahh, yes - you have discovered that some LDRAW elements have colors
hard-coded into them. They therefore do not appear with the color
specified, but rather with the colors embedded into the .dat file for them.
:-)
(...) For the non-numeric among us: 0 - Black 1 - Blue 2 - Green 3 - Teal 4 - Red 5 - Dark Pink 6 - Brown 7 - Light Gray 8 - Dark Gray 9 - Light Blue 10 - Bright/Light Green 11 - Turquoise 12 - Scala Salmon (I'm winging it. This color is not a very (...) (24 years ago, 23-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.cad)
