Friday 2010-02-05 Screenshots AND Discussion Thread

[ECV56_LeChuck]

No no... the colour of the pilot socks will be the next discussion ... nothing new on this forum about discussions

[dAMOCLES]

Don't be daft, they didn't wear socks.

Woman's underwear perhaps, but socks absolutely not.

[AndyJWest]

The bridge was painted 'Thames Blue' during the war...

I doubt if the Thames has been blue since the Romans arrived. A muddy brown with the occasional dead dog would be closer...

Originally Posted by AndyJWest

I doubt if the Thames has been blue since the Romans arrived. A muddy brown with the occasional dead dog would be closer...

Now we are back to the whole detail thing again......

[major_setback]

Originally Posted by AndyJWest

I doubt if the Thames has been blue since the Romans arrived. A muddy brown with the occasional dead dog would be closer...

LoL..OK then: it was painted a muddy brown, but they changed it after too many dogs ran straight into the river .

The model looks fine to me, by the way. I think there is absolutely no need to alter it.

[Igo kyu]

Originally Posted by AndyJWest

I doubt if the Thames has been blue since the Romans arrived. A muddy brown with the occasional dead dog would be closer...

Wadda ya mean, Romans? That mud is good natural mud, not pollution (mostly, even now), and it's been like that since long before the Romans.

[jippy13]

Hi Oleg,

Here in Marseille, we also had a bridge destroyed by the Germans in 1944.

Maybe you could use the attached pictures for creating a mission over Marseille ... who knows

[Foo'bar]

Originally Posted by jippy13

Hi Oleg,

Here in Marseille, we also had a bridge destroyed by the Germans in 1944.

Evil dzermanz

[brando]

Water is naturally clear, and the perception of colour is dependant on particles suspended in it and light reflected from it. Therefore it's also dependant on time of day, nature of weather, and state of tide. (The Thames is tidal all the way up to Teddington lock) Thus the river looks browner as the tide goes out and the mudbanks are exposed - with the other extreme being altogether dependant on sunlight, cloud cover, blueness of sky and so on.

I wouldn't want to rely on hand-coloured photos or some of the cine-film which seems to have more garish hues than reality. Suffice to say that at full tide on a sunny day it looks at its best, but it never obtains the Mediterannean blue that the tourist photos suggest.

As far as the models are concerned, they look great! My request is to reproduce the drab result of over fifty years of unremitting coal smoke which polluted all of the buildings in London. Tower Bridge as modelled looks entirely convincing, just too clean and bright.

B