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Article #113Re: Why paint items in historic liveries?
From: Roy Wilke
Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 03:50
Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 03:50
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Terry Flynn wrote: > > "Roy Wilke" <noidontwantanyspamthankyouverymuch@thisisp.com> wrote in > message news:4282e96f$0$10304$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au... > >> >>Fred Morley wrote: >> >> >>>I will throw my 6 penneth worth the colour of the 38's were battle ship > > grey > >>>,we used to go and look at them during lunch break at Broadmeadow high >>>school, (student there 1945-1948 )which was just over the fence if you >>>could find it. >>>FredMorley >> >>Phht! You should know that having actually seen the locomotives in the >>correct colour scheme when the paint was still fresh doesn't compare to >>the accurate knowledge to be gained from looking at a 50-year-old and >>out-of-focus B&W picture taken with the trusty Box Brownie camera. ;) >> > > > That's why I am using a colour reproduction as my reference as opposed to > your nothing Roy. Fred's recollection is consistent with the colour print. > > It's now on my web page. Congratulations. You do know that colour prints and colour transparencies deteriorate over time, don't you? As for my "nothing" -- well, life is too short and magnificent IMO to be wasted on devoting my time to finding out the exact shade of green that NSW Railways used in the 1940s.
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