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Apache TADS lens color
mauserman
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Maryland, United States
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Posted: Tuesday, July 19, 2016 - 11:44 PM UTC
I'm building the Hasegawa 1/48 Apache and would like to know the colors to use for the TADS assembly lenses. From what I've seen in a Google search it looks like the two on the right are purple and the left one is black. The one on the bottom right looks silver. The one on the top looks to be silver as well. What complicates matters is that I'm partially color blind so I can never trust what I think I see!

Thanks for your help!
Jessie_C
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Posted: Wednesday, July 20, 2016 - 06:03 AM UTC
They're coated with a special partially reflective coating and as such don't really have a colour. It's like trying to determine the colour of an oil slick in a parking pot puddle; every time the angle of the light changes, so does the colour.

This means that whichever colour you like best is the right one to use
mauserman
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Maryland, United States
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Posted: Wednesday, July 20, 2016 - 07:55 PM UTC
I thought that might be the case because they looked similar to AFV vision blocks. Thanks a lot.
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