Do you use Prototype colors or Company colors?
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Do you use Prototype colors or Company colors?
MB's new trainsets come in two versions. The default version has the trains in the original colors that were used by their prototypes in the real world. The alternate version makes the trains be painted in your company color like the original TT trains always are. Which version do you prefer?
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Interestingly, I thought I would want to use my company colors, but once I actually started playing with the trains I found that the prototype colors look much better. Many of the company colors look just ugly on the real trains. Telling them apart is not so hard even with competitors because my tracks usually go in something resembling a straight line most of the time...
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real ones please
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I'm talking about all MB's sets. Both the DB set and the older temperate set have the graphic alternatives.
I also thought it might be nice to have just one stripe of the company color, and otherwise stay with the original colors, but that doesn't work well either.
I also thought it might be nice to have just one stripe of the company color, and otherwise stay with the original colors, but that doesn't work well either.
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hmmm, my planes will have original livery's too, alltough there are a lot off livery's
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Hmm. I wouldn't vote for using original liveries for the airplanes, because as you said, for every airplane there are a ton of liveries.
I'd lean more towards making the airplanes mostly metallic and shiny, with a stripe of the company color and a teeny logo like a carat ^ on the tail in the company color. Maybe some of the planes could have the whole underside of the plane in the company color, or the whole top of the fuselage, for variety. I think the metallic look can be improved and look more realistic, also maybe more mechanical detail and reshaping, that sort of thing which you are good at, Dinges.
Original liveries would be confusing because, unlike trains, the planes just go around every which way and you cannot tell whose they are by whose tracks they are on.
I'd lean more towards making the airplanes mostly metallic and shiny, with a stripe of the company color and a teeny logo like a carat ^ on the tail in the company color. Maybe some of the planes could have the whole underside of the plane in the company color, or the whole top of the fuselage, for variety. I think the metallic look can be improved and look more realistic, also maybe more mechanical detail and reshaping, that sort of thing which you are good at, Dinges.
Original liveries would be confusing because, unlike trains, the planes just go around every which way and you cannot tell whose they are by whose tracks they are on.
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I like the idea, too, of having real colors but with a small pinstripe of company colors. However, in practice, it doesn't work so well. Depending on your company color, sometimes it will work, sometimes it won't be visible, and sometimes you'll get a terrible clash.
Also, some of the trains, particularly from the 1930s, were very stylishly designed as to shape and color. The "Flying Hamburger" railcar set from MB's DB set, looks very sharp in its real colors. Somewhere in these forums is a screenshot with that train in a pale green - YUK! And it would be even worse with a pale green pinstripe.
But anyway, that's why there are two versions. Choose the one you like. It looks like my poll is running about 2/3 - 1/3 in favor of real colors, which means that there is a significant minority that likes company colors. Probably future versions will support both options, MB's latest work has and Dinges said his planeset would work both ways also.
Also, some of the trains, particularly from the 1930s, were very stylishly designed as to shape and color. The "Flying Hamburger" railcar set from MB's DB set, looks very sharp in its real colors. Somewhere in these forums is a screenshot with that train in a pale green - YUK! And it would be even worse with a pale green pinstripe.
But anyway, that's why there are two versions. Choose the one you like. It looks like my poll is running about 2/3 - 1/3 in favor of real colors, which means that there is a significant minority that likes company colors. Probably future versions will support both options, MB's latest work has and Dinges said his planeset would work both ways also.
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I guess you're right.krtaylor wrote:I like the idea, too, of having real colors but with a small pinstripe of company colors. However, in practice, it doesn't work so well. Depending on your company color, sometimes it will work, sometimes it won't be visible, and sometimes you'll get a terrible clash.
Maybe you'll have to adjust your color to the trains.
Or maybe we can have total real colors.
Total real colors is what I've wound up using, as a practical matter. With the trains it's easy enough to tell whose are whose.
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