As customers are we more demanding ?

by **Cubster** » Sat Jul 21, 2012 9:06 am

Well what about the Caunter camouflage scheme for British WW2 vehicles in the desert war? I have grown up loving th sight of tanks with wedges of sky blue across them, only to be told now I'm not allowed to have them! It's heart-breaking I tells ya.

by **Undave** » Sat Jul 21, 2012 11:52 am

grant wrote:I agree!
Let's not forget the Viking sagas, written about two hundred years after the event, and by Christians monks mostly as "see what you lot did when you were pagans". There couldn't possibly have been as many blue cloaks as there are in the literature!

Blue cloaks were the Burberry of the 10th century.

by **grant** » Sat Jul 21, 2012 2:48 pm

I love Burberry! :mrgreen:

I'm a ... Viking?

Yes, the whole Caunter debacle is quite entertaining. I blame Mike Starmer and Barry Beldam. :bliss

by **mrtn** » Sat Jul 21, 2012 4:26 pm

grant wrote:Yes, the whole Caunter debacle is quite entertaining. I blame Mike Starmer and Barry Beldam.

Anyone feel like educating me? :shrug

(no good hits on google)

by **Victorious Secret** » Sat Jul 21, 2012 5:29 pm

Hi Colonel,

IMHO Yes and we should. I feel my money and time is limited so I want to paint what I enjoy and the best figure my budget allows.

Good brush work can only save an ugly sculpt to a certain extent. Good brush work on good sculpt will make your work 10 times better.

VS

by **grant** » Sat Jul 21, 2012 5:40 pm

mrtn wrote:
grant wrote:Yes, the whole Caunter debacle is quite entertaining. I blame Mike Starmer and Barry Beldam.

Anyone feel like educating me? (no good hits on google)

This is correct Caunter scheme:

And this, at the Bovington Tank Museum no less, is incorrect "sky blue" Caunter:

by **Cubster** » Sat Jul 21, 2012 6:18 pm

For many years us kids playing with our Airfix kits had Stuarts and Matildas proudly doing battle in North Africa in their snazzy blue stripes (to match the oddly blue local rock formations we were told), only to have that stripped away by party-pooping research. It's very hard to let go of something you held to be correct (not to mention something so nostaglic) for so long.

by **grant** » Sat Jul 21, 2012 6:31 pm

My first desert tanks were blue too!

by **mrtn** » Sat Jul 21, 2012 8:47 pm

How ever did it end up like that? Someone saw a black and white photo of a striped tank and thought "oh, it must be sky blue and beige"? :lol:

Thanks grant.

by **Stuart** » Sat Jul 21, 2012 9:06 pm

I think someone must have seen it against the desert horizon and thought, "hang on paint the top parts blue like the sky... now it's invisible!"

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