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Originally Posted by Phantom II
Question would be: what is considered a "correct" color? Even if the exact real deal color would be applied, you'd end up with a wrong looking color in many cases. Most of us only know the real deal from a distance, or even worse: from a picture.
So let's say the color should meet our expectations.
Priorities for me:
1. accurately shaped mould
2. accurately shaped mould
3. accurately shaped mould
4. attention to correctly shaped and scaled printed detail (cockpit, wing inspars, doors etc.)
5. titles, logos and all the rest of the expected candy coating printed in position
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Fair question, and I take your point that camera settings, lighting conditions, monitor settings, etc. etc. can all affect the look of colors, and that simply applying the exact shade while 'shrinking down' 400x is not going to produce the same look. I agree that judging from a picture (especially a single one) vs having the model in hand is not usually a good way to judge whether colors meet expectations.
That said...
It is generally accepted that the Aeroclassics A340 mould is one of the best out there, and the Gemini one of the worst. But would you really keep this Aeroclassics Olympic example on the left, versus the Sovereign (made by Gemini) on the right:
when the 1:1 looks like this, and never wore the clearly much darker blue that is on the Aeroclassics model?
I guess you could argue in this case that the AC is a fantasy model, but I couldn't get past that much of a color miss, no matter how good the mould is.