I just recently bought the cutaway Millenium Falcon; the instructions suggest that the two outer pieces of the hull be painted light gray, but when I watch Star Wars it always appears to me that the Falcon is some shade of dirty white. Which is the "true" color to paint the hull?
Ron
on 11/15/2008 7:11 AM Ron said the following:
Testor's Model Master Acryl Light Grey #4765 is almost white.
Same sort of thing with the film models of the starship Enterprise - film models are often painted a light blue-gray, or gray and that photographs as white.
Bottom line for sci-fi and fantasy models IMO is to pain them as you like, seeing as they are creative speculations and not "scale" in the formal sense.
Yeah... I did that when the original Cylon fighter models came out; late '70s I think? Anyway, I was young and careless, and I still regret not going for as much accuracy as I could get. Sigh; I miss those days... But as a certain Admiral would say, "we learn by doing." :-)
Ron
cutaway Millenium Falcon; the instructions
Thanks, Bill.
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