Murvihill | 16 Aug 2012 1:51 p.m. PST |
How accurate is the paint schemes on the Airfix cover art? Did the Ark Royal have a green flight deck? I'm not a looking for perfection but that seems odd to me. Thanks in advance
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20thmaine | 16 Aug 2012 2:23 p.m. PST |
This chap suggests grey : link |
epturner | 16 Aug 2012 4:30 p.m. PST |
Don't care, I need one of them
Eric |
Dave Jackson | 16 Aug 2012 4:46 p.m. PST |
Dear God!!! I agree with epturner!!! |
taskforce58 | 16 Aug 2012 5:32 p.m. PST |
Yikes, another thing on my WANT list! Especially since I finished a Revell 1/1200 KGV last year! |
Virtualscratchbuilder | 16 Aug 2012 5:45 p.m. PST |
I painted mine green anyway. The Airfix models are a lot better than those from Revell. |
Pontius | 17 Aug 2012 3:48 a.m. PST |
I have painted my carriers' decks a dark greenish grey. It was many years ago so I can't remember the exact receipe but I think it was a dark green added to slate grey. This was based on the colour of the non-slip paint applied to the flight deck of HMS Fearless in the late 70s. It may not be right but it looks right. As far as I can remember from my youth Airfix paint schemes often included green for steel decks, especially for destroyers. As Mal's research has shown this was erroneous. I don't know from when green was regularly used, but it certainly continued until the Falklands conflict when grey became the norm. |
paul liddle | 17 Aug 2012 12:36 p.m. PST |
I painted mine green, weathered it and was about to apply the decals when I discovered on a model ship forum that the deck was dark grey with a single white line. A quick repaint soon followed. |
hindsTMP | 17 Aug 2012 3:33 p.m. PST |
Yes; all my sources say the British CV decks were dark gray, with minimal flight deck markings, especially after they were weathered a bit. MH |
Mal Wright | 17 Aug 2012 5:48 p.m. PST |
Dark grey decks. White lines initially. Changed to a kind of dull yellow lines during the war. I think they probably got misled by the pre-war idea of painting many upper surfaces on RN ships in Brunwick Green. It may have been applied to Ark Royal before the war, but I cant imagine it having remained that way for long. Brunswick green, dark red, white trim, are all the things of a 'fiddly ship' when prepared for an inspection pre-war. None if it lasted once hostilities broke out. However the stocks of paint in the lockers was very handy when thinking out the early war camouflage schemes as I have pointed out in my camouflage book 'HIDING IN THE OPEN'. What a ship might have looked like when prepared to have someone important come aboard for a peace time visit, was quite different to a wartime look. Somewhere Lord Montbatten is quoted as saying that before the war captains tried to impress visitors by making his crew look neat and clean; the ship smart, and well painted. During the war they tried to impress visitors by making the ship look deadly and the crew like armed cut throats. |
Murvihill | 18 Aug 2012 4:55 a.m. PST |
I remember the Penn Central railroad painted their engines Brunswick Green. Someone described it as "toss a bucket of green paint in a tank car full of black paint." What do you think of the cruiser camouflage? |
paul liddle | 18 Aug 2012 12:02 p.m. PST |
I painted the cruiser, HMS Suffolk, as the painting guide which I believe to be accurate for all of the ships except for the Ark Royal.The example on the box looks a little different though. I bought this set and some Revell models less than a month ago and have thoroughly enjoyed wargaming with them, I've been using rules based upon Games Workshops spaceship game Battle Fleet Gothic. link |
paul liddle | 26 Aug 2012 11:37 a.m. PST |
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Jake1945 | 05 Sep 2012 12:52 p.m. PST |
Ark's deck was painted AP 507A Dark Admiralty Grey. |