Hello everyone!
I'm going to start Flyhawk's 1/700 Prince of Wales 12/1941 kit. My intention is to display her during the refitting between May and July in drydock after the battle with the german battleships. In the past days - okay, weeks exactly - I have red this topic and try to gather as much information as I can but I'm sure I have glided over some important issues. As my job is really far from naval history or mechanics and I am newbie in warshipship modelling - due to my lack of aknowledgement I have some questions about my build.
I want to show the ship half repainted to the famous camouflage pattern, something like seen on these picture:
Questions about the painting job:
1:: Is it possible that the shipyard workers only paint the camouflage pattern over the original paint directly or did they scrap it, repaint it with some primer and then paint the new layer?
2.: How worn out could be the part of the ship below waterline? Did the fore and aft part eroded in the same way?
2.: Did they repaint the antifouling on the ship or just leave it as it was?
Questions about the damage:
I have found this two pictures present the german shell impacts.
1.: The two differs slightly (shells maked 1 and 4 in the upper drawing), does somebody know which one is more accurate?
2.: Could somebody give me a hint wether the 5.25" turret was damaged - see on the abovementioned pics - and if yes, was it removed from the ship to repair?
3.: I red that during the battle the Y tower became unusable due to ammunition trasporting machinery malfunction and also two towers struck and was not capable of being rotated, but the source did not mention which two towers struck. Do you have any information on the repairing on those malfunction? Were the turrets been dismantled? I guess not but is's just a guess.
4.: While I went over the topic I think I red somewhere that the 7 oerlikons were added after the recontuction, maybe after the Atlatnic carter. Im not sure... Could it be possibe?
They can be seen on this picure on the aft part of the deck
but I can't recognise them on this picure. Or they were covered?
For now I have these questions on my mind (sure there will be more), hope you can help me with the issues!
Áron