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I feel need adjusting. The tone is too light in the blue and there is too much pink, giving the blue a near indigo/purple hue. The red I feel is closer but would be easier to interpret if contrasted against the correct blue.

DCS default Mosquito scheme:

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Original colour photographs (NOT COLOURISED):

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Would just like to add my support for this,as DD Fenrir has pointed out those colours used in the roundel and the tail marking are way too light....and the pics supplied by Ala13 ManOWar confirm this.

Well done guys,this does require an adjustment,I totally agree here,here.


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12 hours ago, NineLine said:

I dont know if those pictures are good examples, most if not all are very dark, I can check and see if we are using the official color, I am sure Nick has directed this if not I will see if we can. 

Yep, Kodachrome negatives were known to need a hell of a lot of light to impress the negative good enough, but they're the best pictures, crispiest (more expensive either) and colourful at the time though. You can't find better wartime pictures in colour than that. In my screen though they don't look that dark at all, they have a normal contrast and look just good, as taken yesterday as most good Kodachrome pictures do look like indeed when the picture was taken in good enough light conditions. People in there don't look posing by chance, they probably had to wait a while standing still for the photo to be taken. Whatever anyway, those are the reference as you can imagine, what the real thing did look like back in the day.

I think those are the best pictures of the subject, but there are some more of course if needed, just tell 😉 . I just save them for my own reference in model making (rivet counter nitpicking at it's best, yeah 😅) but here they come in handy. No editing from me, hope the source (IWM for those I believe) didn't edit either, or at least they didn't too much.


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I would rather not try and go by pictures as they can be affected by many things, generally any official color has an official mix, and that mix has a name, and generally that has been converted somewhere to a break down we can use on a computer. As I said I will ask.

If you look here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Air_Force_roundels

It shows the history, just by those it looks light, so I will see what our artist says. 

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