Real nice color WW2 aircraft pics

[peter]

Guys, I was sent this link today by email . Some really nice and rare colored aircraft pics from ww2

http://www.flickr.com/photos/8270787@N07/sets/72157605269786717/show/

[The Inspector]

HOLY MOLEY!!! The COMSTOCK LODE, Lost Dutcman found, Sutters Creek!!! What an absolute treasure of WW2 British items, all in color, and so many odd or under reported types,EVERY modeller should see this and tuck it away in 'FAVORITES'
Thank You so much for posting this!!!!

OH yeah, Peter, you ARE the absolute master at understatement

[k5083]

I think I see more colored than color there, though. Most of the real color ones are well known.

August

[Django]

There are some amazing photos there.

[The Inspector]

That's what was referring to, never seen a shiny bare metal Hastings, and it's the details, the chips, dings, streaks, smudges, exhaust stain patterns, hand prints, and ground support stuff is what modellers are looking for. Color or tinted makes no diff because it's all the minitua that matters, like that crusty looking RN H#llcat, or the F4U-1's lined up to be delivered with the spray bomb numbers.

[Mudge]

How long did any of youse guys sit there with your mouths open before you realized that you were drooling?

Mudge the saliva factory

[the330thbg]

I think I see more colored than color there, though. Most of the real color ones are well known.

August

Yah.., I am in total agreement here.

Mostly 'colorized' ones.

Yaaaaaawn

[peter]

Oh please.. some of your supposed"colorized" ones have been confirmed REAL so... engage brain before tongue please

[the330thbg]

Oh please.. some of your supposed"colorized" ones have been confirmed REAL so... engage brain before tongue please

I can spot the colorized ones. They look as bad as when Turner did 'Miracle on 34th Street'.

Only spotted about 7 out of the lot that look authentic. And maybe another handful that were not stills from a movie.

Low quality, yet interesting aircraft.

Nice job, otherwise. I think we were just really had high hopes for more of these...

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[Mudge]

Can we not just enjoy them for what they are instead of nit picking what they aren't?

Mudge the peacemaker

Yeah...yeah...I know...INCOMING!!!

[the330thbg]

Can we not just enjoy them for what they are instead of nit picking what they aren't?

Sort of the way you are treated when you are in your costume?

[The Inspector]

All it would have taken was more access to KODAK KODACHROME which was not in great supply outside the U.S. or it's military uses, and I'm pretty sure the British had other, more critical needs for the chemicals involved in making color film stock just like B&W U.S. photos from WW2 look a bit 'thin' as silver was needed for other things more critical besides Christmas or Birthday party photos.
Stuff people don't think about because they don't know about them.
The pictures stand as a rarely seen candid peek into how our allies military lives went, and how their equipment was used and cared for, as a modeller, I can mine these for years

[bombadier29]

Some of them do look colorized but its still a very nice collection. One thing about British designed airplanes. They are either beautiful or just ugly. There seems to be no middle ground with them.

[the330thbg]

One thing about British designed airplanes. They are either beautiful or just ugly. There seems to be no middle ground with them.

Mister.. you certainly hit the nail on the head with that one!

[Adam Kline]

Colourized, note British spelling, or not, I enjoyed these pictures