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Re: What colour should a Supermarine Spitfire be?
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lugnet.build, lugnet.general
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Thu, 2 Aug 2001 21:13:49 GMT
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Geordan,
Most Wartime Spitfires were of a brown, and 2 shade green color, while Photo
recon spits were a pale blue shade. Some USAAF and RAF spitfires as well as
RN seafires were in a pale grey color that the light grey lego shade
approximates very closely. I will see if I can find you some color profiles.
BT a Spit in legos sounds very cool
Mike Broam out
In lugnet.build, Geordan Hankinson writes:
> Right now it is green overall with the underside of the wings and fuselage
> in light grey. It also has D-day invasion markings on the bottom as well (
> black and white stripes on the bottom rear part of the fuselage)
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> At this point lego doesn't make a camo-green colour or a light olive drab,
> so making the spitfire in all green is about as close as I figure I can get.
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> There is also the option of making the entire plane light grey, but largeish
> camo decals to go over top. I know most people hate large decals on lego
> models and so do I, so want to clear this with everyone before I order the
> parts off of brickbay. Large decals would also raise the price a little more
> (not much) because of the cost of printing. Would people prefer having an
> all grey plane with little bits of green mixed in? There are tons of colour
> options so let me know what you want! The only set coulors are the white and
> black stripes, and the grey underside of the fuselage and wings.
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> This kit should be availabe within three weeks, maybe a little more/less.
> Hopefully I will have my site up and a picture of the finished kit within
> two weeks.
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> Thanks in advance,
>
> -Geordan-
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