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.
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.
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 (https://www.scribd.com/book/244709982)
Cheers,
Aksu
This site is brilliant
https://www.whiteensignmodels.com/page/Camouflage+Schemes+Colours/20/#.WPNFMFTTWhA
All the Airfix and Revell painting guides are online too
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.
IanS