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Mind you, my cousins call me Timmy, and that drives me mad (which is probably why they do it)…..he was the bloody dog in the famous five!Comment
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Oh God What Have I Unleashed .....?Comment
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The problem with miniatures is that the respective surface areas are, of course, much smaller than the real thing. Now when you look at a 1:1 object the light reflects off the object and creates varying hues of colour due to the size of the surface you are looking at. At miniatures scale this variation in reflected light is much less evident and therefore to create a realistic full size effect you have to create color variations across the surface by artificially varying the colour hue. Note that colours all have three qualities, hue, tone and temperature. If you do not provide variations across a surface then the model will look like a toy.
The second phenomenon that affects models is the perception of EDGES. 1:1 objects have readily observable edges due to their size. In models the edges of planes are less noticeable because they are smaller. To create realism at small scale it is often necessary to exaggerate the edges of surfaces, by altering the colour hue or tone, so that the overall form can be perceived.
I think the above two facts argue for a specific treatment of small scale models in order to make them look real.
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