I've not done any modelling since I was a teenager (I'm now 40), but have just bought a 1/700 kit of ORP Krakowiak which my wife's Polish grandfather served on during the war and that I intend to build for her.
One thing I'm not sure on is the colour scheme, I can't recall seeing this scheme in any of the photos of the ship that I've seen (and I've looked at a lot!).
Here's a photo of the kit which shows the camo pattern:
We do have a book about the Krakowiak which I need to check later, but was wondering if anyone had seen images of this ship with that colour scheme?
We think he served on the ship from mid 1943 as we know he made it to England via Gibraltar (after being rescued from a work camp by German resistance) and the ship was stationed at Gibraltar at that time. He was certainly present at the Normandy landings.
All that's to say that as the model is of the Krakowiak in 1944 then if the colour scheme is correct he would have been serving on the ship at the time.
Actually whilst writing this I just came across this image that I'd not seen before of the Krakowiak in a very similar colour scheme:
Now to source the correct colours of paint.... I always used humbrol in my youth, what's best to use these days?