When is grey actually yellow.....?

.....when you are our favourite fuckstick 'Ninja' Risu, that's when.

As a follow-on to my previous revelation regarding the colour of Tennant's sonic screwdriver, it seems that the cretin with the deadest optic nerves in Doctor Who fandom seems intent on holding onto the dogma that Tennant's sonic was in fact, yellow, based on Neill Gorton's pics of the prop he allegedly measured.

Here for all and sundry are those pics again:

The original Flickr link is here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mfxreplicas

Writing on the Gallifrey Base, in response to whether he thought the prop in Gorton's pics was yellow, Risu replied:

"I think that it possibly could be. The heritage gold can turn out looking much more muted and more of a faded khaki depending on how you paint it and what kind of clear coat you use. When I used the heritage gold on my CO toy it turned out a very different color from the MFX sonics."

If it isn't apparent from the pics above how wrong he is, he also cites his 'experience' with the paint. Well, let me fill you in on something. I've tried every nuance of using this paint from using it on different surfaces, to different thicknesses of base coat, top coat, primers and clearcoats and whilst there is distinct variation there is no way that 'Heritage Gold' ever loses any of the distinctive yellowness and there is no way, in hell, that you can say that the sonic in the above pic is anywhere near yellow.

So Danny-boy, if you are reading this (unlikely since i didn't write it in braille), I'll stop making a fool of myself and actually heed the words of those who actually are a bit better informed than you are.  In the meantime, here's a song that really is 'Yellow':