Over the years I have heard and read several mentions of "scale color". The basic idea, as I remember, is that hyper-accurate colors from military vehicles, when applied to small scale models, appear too dark. For example, Gunship Gray or Olive Drab paint look much darker on a 1/48 aircraft than on the real thing. Same thing goes for armor, ships, or whatever you build.
My question is: Do you lighten your colors to make your work "visually" more accurate or do you use the pure colors for the sake of "technical" accuracy?
-Mark