The Proverbial "Black Cat in a Coal Mine at Midnight" Challenge... [PIC]

The 1938 Phantom Corsair aka "the Flying Wombat" (from the movie) is sleek and sinister... and ALL BLACK! Well, 'black' is actually the absence of color and it can't wait to assimilate any spurious colors available in the environment, while most other finishes mute or reject reflections. You need a bright, wide spectrum of light to pick out even gross details that would otherwise be lost (see title) so minute motes of dust or pollen show up like hailstones. When you actually hold the model in your hands, your eye and brain compensate easily for this effect by the movement of your eyes and the model itself. This model was the most daunting for me when I did the photography for Automodello and I wound up weighing and editing through well over 100 photos to find ones that were presentable and I could work with and I'd still rather look at the model in its case than look at these photos.