Dear sirs! I think that I have to be presented, my name is Sergey Mertens, I am the academic artist and the passionate modeller. When I only started doing models of planes of Great War, indefinitely resolved an issue as it could look actually. Unfortunately the theory of determination of color in the black-and-white photo remains only the theory, I started looking for other way. I think that many of you don't see or don't understand a difference between a pigment, color or a shade. To you I won't give lecture about a chromatics, only I want to pay your attention that the pigment, is a component of the filled composite materials, opacity, the color giving to materials, anticorrosion and other properties. In technology of paints and varnishes pigments call the high-disperse inorganic or organic, insoluble substances in dispersive environments capable to form with filming agents protective, decorative or decorative sheetings. The soluble substances capable to paint other materials are called dyes.
Also, when we speak about a pigment, we speak about the constant and invariable size which looks equally both in Canada, and in Guadalajara or in Cambodia. It is ridiculous to assume that the German or British command ordered paints in China or India. The durability of planes was very short and for their painting cheap and readily available technical paints, typical about a certain geographical area were used. Can surprise nobody that many discoveries were made, only thanks to assumptions. I don't make any discovery, I simply systematize the historic facts, but not in the field of a militariya and in the field of paint and varnish coverings.
Don't forget please that an aviation hangar, it not the art studio, but thus in camouflage paints has to be the general system which will allow each squadron to paint planes equally. When we take together all pigments which were in the field used and had a technological capability of processing, we will receive quite big color scale. From this scale we will clean pigments, which poisonous, combustible and not stable. There is not such wide choice, don't think? It is necessary only to compare a chemical composition of pigments, to the chemical analysis of a canvas of the plane. Naturally to a realistic type of model of it it isn't enough, there is a lot of factors, measuring scale, light, satiety... but it already depends on the modeller. I only offer new, or better to say, old technology of work with paint as it was before hundred years. I think, what my education, me allows to consider itself as the expert in the field of a chromatics, but I don't understand why it is an arogantnost synonym? I am not a businessman, I am an artist... more than two years I am engaged in this research and I want to share with colleagues results. For the artist it is a great honor and prestige. Thanks for attention to my product and if you try it or not, is your good will.
I apologize for the English, I use the electronic translator... unfortunately there isn't enough time for discussion, but surely I will explain to you why the bulldog slobbers...
