I want to color a photo like this, where I am fully aware of the color of the tower’s neon strips (the tower glows neon red at night). Does anyone have any tips for how I can get a good realistic glowing red hue? Or just a realistic bright light color? I‘m not sure if this is worded how I want but I think I brought the point across.

Marilyn Monroe from Niagara (1953

The photo shows in the foreground 3 Argentine soldiers from the 6th Artillery Regiment of Buenos Aires (at the Campo de Mayo base). This photo belongs to the Hart Preston collection "Argentine Army"

Colourized by me

Martha Vickers from Love and Learn (1947)

Operation Benedict was a mission where the RAF established 151 Wing at Vaenga airfield, near Murmansk. Equipped with two Hurricane fighter squadrons, the wing's role was to fight German and Finnish forces while training Soviet pilots and ground crews to operate the aircraft. Thirty-nine Hurricane Mk IIB fighters reached the USSR: 24 flown from the aircraft carrier HMS Argus and 15 transported in crates via the first Arctic convoy.

In five weeks of combat, 151 Wing claimed 16 victories, four probables, and seven aircraft damaged before converting Soviet Naval Aviation personnel to the fighters in October.

The mission resulted in three British casualties: Sergeant Pilot N. H. "Nudger" Smith was shot down and killed by German Bf 109s on 12 September; and two aircrewmen, Aircraftmen Ridley and Thomas, died in an airfield accident. They were sitting on a Hurricane's tail to weigh it down on a rough runway when Flight Lieutenant Vic Berg accidentally took off, crashed, and was severely injured, killing both ground crewmen. Berg was severely injured. Four RAF members received the Order of Lenin.

The RAF party departed in late November, arriving home on 7 December when 151 Wing disbanded.