Green or Brown.

>I'm totally underwhelmed.

It might be wise to go to the hospitals in your local area and start telling the doctors that when a child is born, they should be smacking the other end.


>will anybody come off the fence green or brown!!!

You got two pretty definitive answers that allowed you to make your own opinion within an accurate range. If you are modeling a new PC10 aircraft, spray it (late)Olive Drab and then gloss the hell out of it. If you are modelling a weathered or late 1918 aircraft add brown to Olive Drab or spray it in Dark Earth.

>murdering hun Voss` cowling...Yet no grand
>masters know what clour a WW1 SE5 was...

Despite the child-like grammar which makes me think this was a troll, I dont appreciate this stereotype being used in the derogitory and uninformed manner that it has been posted in the last couple of months or so. I dont care what the pro-PC or anti-PC think of this, but *I* dont like it. I think it is rude and shows immaturity, as well as not being courteous to our friends on this forum from Germany.





cam
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[Ginger.]

Cam,
Nice sermon delivered from your fencepost,get the splinters out of your bum and answer this.If you saw a rigged,weathered and spot on 1/48 SE5 in dark green,would you say excellent work,or shame he got the colour wrong?
You need experts because you can't just form an opinion it has to be right.Every model I build is my humble tribute to a dead Hero British and German.I know I write like a nobhead,but,thats caused by lager fumes not malice.I love the Germans you can't have a proper war without them!!!

Ginger, old cock, you're asking for something that can't be delivered. It's not possible to state once and for all that "SE-5s were green" or "SE-5s were brown". The closest anybody will be able to come to being definitive is that most RFC/RAF aircraft at the front were a muddy, drab, brownish colour.

To be on the safe side, stay away from green. Definitive enough?

[PeterL]

Ginger, I'm fairly sure I said brown. No, I'm no absolutist but it's time to make a stand. No! I'm no absolutist but it's time to make a stand. I definitely did say brown. Of course I could be wrong.

cheers

Peter L

Ginge, come on old chap. We should try to encourage our German friends to participate here, not piss them off.
Regards, Johannes.

Ginger...BROWN,man,BROWN!!I see it this way:
1)C.S.Lewis(or was it A.G.Lee???hmm.) in his memoir states "our planes were chocolate brown"..a direct,contemporary descrip.
2)he flew in them.

Proof enough for me.
BROWN!!!!

Ginger,

>Nice sermon delivered from your fencepost

If you didnt post like a fair dinkum idiot then it wouldnt be necessary to post like i did.

>If you saw a rigged,weathered and spot on 1/48 SE5 in
>dark green,would you say excellent work,or shame he got the colour wrong?

Read the posts above agian, PC10 is a plausible range of colours. IMO anything from medium green to dark earth is fine. If whoever made that SE5a in Dark Green is happy with his choice of colours, and his reasons for choosing Dark Green, then that is fine by me too. It has to sit on his shelf and he is the one that has to look at it all the time.

>You need experts because you can't just form an opinion it has to be right.

That is how myths are perpetuated. Thinking for yourself is a positive virtue.

>I know I write like a nobhead,but,thats caused by lager fumes not malice.

In that case only post when you are sober, it may mean your posts will be more than just throwaway then, and maybe have content worth absorbing.

>I love the Germans you can't have a proper war without them!!!

Xenophobia is the lowest form of ignorance. I hope you get the oppurtunity to be an immigrant in another country one day.



cam
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[Ginger.]

Thanks chaps brown it is.The problem now is wether to lob out £120 for a print, by an artist in whos opinion 56 Squadron SEs were dark green.

Having been born in 1957, I missed the service career of the SE5 by about 39 yearss, so I reported the colors of the 2 (probably not originals at any rate) that I've seen. One was brown, one green. If the Rhinebeck one is an original, it probably was painted green by the US Army Air Service. Almost every account I can find, and the vast majority of illustrations of SE5's, make them brown. As to Jerry bashing, bigotry is the last refuge of the ignorant.

[Ginger.]

Got to agree with Tom,never met a Jerry yet that was'nt better for a bashing!!!