Here are the four pictures I took last evening of the “blonde” (or cream or ivory or off-white) British infantry sculpt from the original printing of D-Day. It’s the piece in the centre. For colour comparison purposes, I placed it on a white 3x5 index card, with a Global 1940 light beige British infantry piece on the right and a stark white colonial infantry unit from War: Age of Imperialism on the left. The four lighting conditions I used were: direct sunlight (first picture, top), open-shade daylight (first picture, bottom), fluorescent lighting (second picture, top) and electronic flash (second picture, bottom). As you can see, the lighting greatly affects the apparent colour of the pieces. Just in my own opinion, I’d say that the open-shade picture gives the most accurate rendition of the colours, and that the shot taken in fluorescent lighting is the least faithful one.

