| Jake R | 02 Mar 2014 10:50 a.m. PST |
Hey everyone,
I've recently wanted to branch out in my Naval games. I play AWI, War of 1812, and Napoleonic Wars (using Trafalgar). And now I'm thinking I want to try some "what if" battles in/around the 1807-1812 Anglo-Russian war, but no matter where I seem to look I can't find historical paint schemes on Swedish ships of this era? I've read that the Russian ships where primarily painted almost like the American ships: black and white with the occasional dark green bulwark. But still the question stands of the Swedish ships? |
| devsdoc | 02 Mar 2014 3:09 p.m. PST |
Hi Jake,
This is a hard one. I am doing my Swedish high sea fleet now. It will be 8 SOL and 3 frigates. I thank as most fleets the hulls were yellow. I try and use different shades of yellow for each ship. On page 24 in Rod Langton's "A Guide to Assembly, Painting and Rigging of Napoleonic Models in Scale 1-1200" Illus 6 said, "That a number of Swedish 74 (should be 70 gun) were painted in this fashion. Note the red headrails." As I'm only doing a small number of ships, I have done all of my Swedish ships in this manner. If you look at my thread on Anchorage for photo's. I cannot post photo's here.
Be Safe
Rory |
| David Manley | 02 Mar 2014 3:34 p.m. PST |
Looking at the models at the Swedish Naval Museum at Karlskrona it would suggest that white was also a colour used for frigates at least, as well as yellow paint and heavily varnished natural wood. So plenty of choice :) |
| Jake R | 02 Mar 2014 4:41 p.m. PST |
Thank you Rory and David! As a new member, and only just turned 18, I wasn't exactly expecting many responses on a Swedish naval thread…it's definitely less common, then say, "Nelson's Checkerboard" ships. So I'm looking at white, maybe yellowish/ochre hulls..but what do you guys think about the gun ports and stripes in between gun decks? This is all a very new topic for me when it comes to Napoleonic era.
Thanks again
Jake |
Volunteer  | 02 Mar 2014 6:35 p.m. PST |
Rory right click on your photo on the Anchorage, then select properties. Copy the photo's url address and paste it into this post. Your ship photo will be here….until the Anchorage gets hacked again, then it will dissappear like Nightmoss Jim's photos. |
| BrianW | 02 Mar 2014 6:50 p.m. PST |
There is a painting on the Swedish Naval Museum's website at:
link
that supports the drawing in Langton's book (I have a copy of it as well).
BWW |
| Volunteer | 02 Mar 2014 7:51 p.m. PST |
Good site Brian. Here is a photo I found on the sight of the age of sail Carlskrona and the modern Karlskrona
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| BrianW | 03 Mar 2014 12:00 a.m. PST |
Volunteer: You should thank David Manley for that site, since I went and looked it up after he mentioned it. I'd like to see some of the pictures the other posters mentioned at "the Anchorage." Oh, and btw, love that clamp you have. I'll have to get one of those. Jake R: In one of my sources (I don't remember which one) it is mentioned that the Russian fleet doesn't go to the black/white scheme until after 1801-02. So, if you're doing an earlier war then various colors are still good.
BWW |
| devsdoc | 03 Mar 2014 7:55 p.m. PST |
link Hi it worked vol. I have painted headrails, stern and bulwarks all red. They do look like the picture from the museum. I'm very happy
Be safe |
| 11th ACR | 03 Mar 2014 8:05 p.m. PST |
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