Re: Why paint items in historic liveries?

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From: Terry Flynn
Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 03:48

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> Terry Flynn wrote:
>
> > That's why I am using a colour reproduction as my reference as opposed
> > your nothing Roy. Fred's recollection is consistent with the colour
print.
>
> Terry, a print is all it is. It's hand-tinted. Blind Freddy can see
> that. The bufferbeam is the wrong colour. The carriages are
> psychedelic. The sky and sea look all wierd too. If these are colours
> that Fred recalls, he must of been tripping when he saw them. Sorry,
> Fred. You need to come up with primary evidence, such as your beloved
> paintchips. Not this silly stuff, it won't convince anybody. But then I
> don't think you ever had a real paintchip. If you did you would of put
> it on your website and rubbed everyone's nose in it.
>

There is no point because your monitors colours will be different to mine.
Below follows an earlier post I made on the subject of 38 class paint chips.
I don't need to make up stories like some others here.

The holy relic of the 38 colour samples was on loan to me until recently.
Like many of the holiest relics, it was kept under the alter of a model
railway, in this case Waterfall. From memory no light grey layer was found,
and the most holy of colours, 1950's green is not a big area. To look for
the earlier grey could damage the very holy colours most model builders are
interested in. The holy relic has now been moved to another holy place, the
alter of Bylong. I understand the holy relic will be used for the important
religious ceremony of  matching the colour of the new model.  Amen.

-- 
Terry Flynn

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From: "Terry Flynn" <tgflynn@unsw.edu.au>
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Subject: Re: Why paint items in historic liveries?
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