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Re: jade green
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lugnet.general
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Wed, 25 Oct 2000 07:05:53 GMT
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Well then, look at http://www.vfaq.com/LEGO/Legoland/Statue-of-Lib.jpg
You can tweak the color in any graphics program until the green cap matches a
real one, and there's your verdigris next to it. It's REAL close as is.
"Mark D. McKean" wrote:
> In article <G2y82t.7r@lugnet.com>, "kai brodersen"
> <cbrodersen@mediaone.net> wrote:
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> > just got the lego catolog and it has jade green peices for a statue of
> > liberty
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> It's not jade, it's called "verdigris". It's supposed to approximate the
> patina of aged copper. Unfortunately, I have yet to see a picture of it
> anywhere that looks like the actual color...I guess it's just one of
> those greens that doesn't print well. (Green is the most limited area of
> the CMYK color gamut.)
>
> --
> Mark D. McKean - The Quantum Panda - qpanda@iwaynet.net
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| It's a great colour for military vehicles!!! Sort of a gunmetal green. -- Paul Davidson Tom Stangl, VFAQman <talonts@vfaq.com> wrote in message news:39F68651.79910C...faq.com... (...) matches a (...) of (...) (26 years ago, 25-Oct-00, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) It's not jade, it's called "verdigris". It's supposed to approximate the patina of aged copper. Unfortunately, I have yet to see a picture of it anywhere that looks like the actual color...I guess it's just one of those greens that doesn't (...) (26 years ago, 25-Oct-00, to lugnet.general)
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