Means a pure, clean model with no moral deficiencies.
You will be accepted into the company of saints. You may be able to use your halo as a building lamp.
Or not, if you are one of those sort of people who just weather every surface in the house.
There are advantages to using pure colours straight out of the bottle:
a. You can mix up more paint if you run out of the stuff in the airbrush cup without having to worry about shade matching.
b. You can go out to the shop and buy more…usually. Unless everyone else in town has run out at the same time.
c. You can refer doubting Thomases to the colour call-out sheet when they query your paint. If the kit maker says it, it must be right. Right?
By the same token, there are arguments for mixing up custom, blended, and off- colours:
a. Few items in real life have one true colour. Time, weather, and manufacturing variance mean that things differ.
b. Makers of kits may not bother to pick the right shades. Neither their box artists nor their instruction printers are chromatic gods.
c. Some makers just pick the closest thing in the range of shades they already manufacture and call it done. They might be nationalistic and only stock shades for their own prototypes.
I have decided to use out-of-the-bottle shades when they are within the ball park, but not break my heart if I need to pour some in from one bottle and some from another. If I do this, I take care to mix more paint than may be strictly necessary. This avoids run-outs and gives some for trimming.
Near enough is, quite frankly, good enough for many applications.
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