[agracier]

Isn't it hard to take the colors from a B/W pic?

Of course ... if it weren't that I knew that many A6M's were colored dark green, then it would have a total stab in the dark ... I made a dark red version for myself as well and that looked quite nice too.

I suppose that somewhere there is software or charts that can give reasonably good suggestions as to colors, but it's still an approximation I'd think. You'd otherwise have to compensate for over exposure either during the photography in the camera, in the darkroom printing or even in the scanning process. 3 areas to have large margins for mistakes. Multiply that by 3 and I guess you can argue for virtually every color ...

There are also official color charts for approved colors per air force and per period and all, but every day use, dirt, bleaching of colors by sun, rain and sand can all effect colors.

That's also why many skinners here often distrust color profiles made by modern artists. The color tones vary quite widely often enough ...

Luckily this is only a game with many components made by amateurs ... so we make allowances ... at least I do ...