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Re: Colony started on Mars
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Date: 
Mon, 16 Dec 2002 22:30:44 GMT
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In lugnet.space, Kevin Loch writes:
In lugnet.space, Aaron M. Sneary writes:
Secondary Systems is proud to announce the beginning of Martian
colonization.

This is really neat but is bright orange the best color to
use for the Martian landscape?

Actually... in this case I think the bright orange works very well. It
provides a nice contrast to the other colors that were used in the module
itself.  But then I have a soft spot in my heart for bright orange.  :)

It's closer to Tan
than orange.

Perhaps the tan if the model were photographed in low light conditions.
Otherwise I think it might be too yellow/beige to be the 'red planet'.

However, in some cases the surface can appear to be a dark yellow/brown,
such as in this pic:

http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/martianterrain/PIA02405.html

In other shots, it takes on the true 'red' of the red planet.  This is still
one of my all-time favorite shots of Mars:

http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/martianterrain/PIA00563.html

There's something creepy and foreboding about that pic.

Too bad they don't make something between
Tan and Brown.

What about the dark orange/burnt orange color that shows up in the front of
Yoda.... presumably a small cloak under his other tan cloak.  That's a very
soft brown orange color.  It's still really not red enough to be the rust
color of Mars, but it's getting there.

No matter what color it's done in I love all the activity in this model.  It
looks like there's a lot going on in just the space of that one baseplate.
Well done!

All the best,
Allan B.



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(...) I agree. But if someone gave me a ticket, I'd move there tomorrow. (...) I was planning on using the burnt orange in Yoda for shadows and boulders when I get around to building Olympus Mons, the largest volcano in the solar system. (...) Thank (...) (22 years ago, 17-Dec-02, to lugnet.space)

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(...) This is really neat but is bright orange the best color to use for the Martian landscape? It's closer to Tan than orange. Too bad they don't make something between Tan and Brown. KL (22 years ago, 16-Dec-02, to lugnet.space)

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