Αυτό πάντως,σίγουρα δεν είναι καφέ,αλλά olive green,πρός το olive drab μάλλον
Εδώ δές πόσο κοντά πλησιάζει το χρώμ της παραλλαγής με αυτό της φόρμας που φοράνε,που σίγουρα δεν ήταν καφέ
Και στο πολύ καλό άρθρο του HS σου λέει ξεκάθαρα....
a very interesting camouflage of GREEN and OFF-WHITE was specified for the upper surfaces. It was considered that this scheme would be effective against the snow covered Andes. The lower surfaces were painted LIGHT GREY. It is very interesting to note that the wheel well interiors and legs were finished in LIGHT BLUE.
The A-4Cs and other Argentine Air Force aircraft caught the world attention because of the Malvinas/Falklands war. Previous to that time photos were very hard to come by and the aircraft were very hard to access, so first hand information was very difficult to obtain, but many photos started showing up then which came from many different sources and were of varying quality. Some of the photos I have seen were very poorly printed, were copies of the originals or even copies from slides and all of that combined to degrade color rendition to appalling levels. Most particularly, many of the photos I have seen were saturated with red, yellow or magenta and I have included one of such to the right for you to compare with a somewhat corrected original using the Adobe Photoshop, although it appears to look better than the original I have....
It is amazing just how little it took to improve it to acceptable levels by a kind friend of mine, but the original led me in the past to believe that the aircraft was actually painted BROWN/SAND!!! Nothing could be farther from the truth, and for what I see I was not the only one to be fooled by a poor picture because such a profile was painted by Mr. Caruana in the Sept. '99 issue on Scale Aviation Modeller International magazine based on the somewhat poor and misleading information provided to him. The reviewer of the Hobbycraft A-4C seems to be somewhat confused on the colors and also misled by the above mentioned article in SAMI. Please note I tried to include good quality photos from the early years and from after the war to show that the colors did not vary with time and that they were always simply speaking GREEN/WHITE....
before them I must emphasize that the dark upper color I always saw was GREEN (with a brownish or olive hue) and that the lighter color was always VERY LIGHT GREY (almost white) and I mention this because I have noticed that when the aircraft were hit by strong direct sunlight they LOOKED lighter and browner from a distance.
