WWII Ships

Started by fsn, 16 April 2017, 09:59:30 AM

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fsn

What ho chaps!

Does anyone have a go-to book or website on the colours of WWII ships?

I know - Grey.

I'm looking for the Med, 1940. Did all Italian ships have those nice red and white stripes? Were British ships almost white?

Any help appreciated. 
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Err no not so much grey as everything but!

Italian grey was lighter than British generally - the red/white barber poles didn't appear until 41 IIRC and were on everything for a time and then disappeared.

No too many go-to books, Mal Wright's "Hiding in the Open" series is well worth looking for, available as PDFs and there's this https://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/British-and-Commonwealth-Warship-Camouflage-of-WW-II-Hardback/p/6818 which is the more complete non-PDF version.

Aksu

I have some books on this somewhere, in the meantime this has some info Painter's Guide to WW2 Naval Camouflage
https://www.scribd.com/book/244709982
Cheers,
Aksu

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This site is brilliant
https://www.whiteensignmodels.com/page/Camouflage+Schemes+Colours/20/#.WPNFMFTTWhA

All the Airfix and Revell painting guides are online too
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One problem is that ships changed schemes on a regular basis, so you do need to take a date....have found quite a few with web searches, but it's a few years since I did them.

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