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Will Day
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 Posted on: Oct 9, 2014 - 7:56am
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Well Garth says. . .
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Drew Cook |
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Posted on: Oct 9, 2014 - 1:55pm
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Ted,
Think you got me mixed up with someone else...I've never thought the Prescott photos were retouched .
And, as all of us who've spent time in the tropics around boats know, that sun usually fades anything it beats directly down on...
P.S.
As for the PTSIG thing, I don't do Facebook.
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TED WALTHER
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Posted on: Oct 9, 2014 - 6:45pm
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Drew;
OOPS! Sorry, I changed it.
Take care,
TED
P.S. I don't do facebook either.
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Will Day
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Posted on: Oct 9, 2014 - 9:50pm
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Some interesting PT threads on FB.
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Jeff D
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Posted on: Oct 10, 2014 - 4:10am
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I think you guys are misunderstanding my questioning. I've no doubts about the color, I just wanted to be sure I'm posting the original images. I may have saved some from another post somewhere. I have the exact same PT 61 image with 2 different tints... obviously someone was playing with the colors.
Yes Will, Frank posts some nice PT images there for one example. But I think you need to create an account to see FB pages...
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zeusbheld
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Posted on: Oct 13, 2014 - 4:43am
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Even with the original photos in pristine condition, it would be a bit tricky determining exactly what color these boats were. The photos are more than half a century old. Cyan and yellow fade more quickly than other dyes typically, so in theory it might be more blue... or more green.
What I'd really like is some idea what base paints they used to mix these colors, or at least what base colors they had available to them.
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Drew Cook
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Posted on: Oct 13, 2014 - 2:10pm
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Jeff,
I know what you're saying. I've got two of the same Prescott photo of the 61 with the crew on the foredeck saved to my Pictures file, and one is brighter, (or lighter) than the other...
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Will Day
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Posted on: Oct 13, 2014 - 2:56pm
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Time for Frank to go out in his garage and open those two cans of blue and green paint that Ken Prescott gave him. . .
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Frank Andruss
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Posted on: Oct 13, 2014 - 6:36pm
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I guess for our build we are going to try, 4 parts gray, 4 parts white, and one part blue for the 61 boat. Of course Stan always test's these first, and I am usually there to say Yes or No, so we shall see when the time comes. I try not to get to anal over colors because your never going to be dead on, as long as you are close, those that view the boats just really don't care, so no sense knocking yourself out trying to figure it out, I mean come on boys, no two boats were alike, and yes they faded, we already know that. When the time comes for painting we will see how it turns out................Will I tried the cans and I got red, go figure.
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zeusbheld
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Posted on: Oct 18, 2014 - 8:08am
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The photos faded, too, not just the boats. My understanding is that good ol' silver halide photos tend to fade diffeirentially (some colors more than others) so it's never going to be 100 percent accurate.
Still, I would be delighted to know the formula right down to the chemical compositions of the pigments. I'm just ridiculously anal, can't help it.
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